The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-05-29
LABOR ITEMS.

THE prin' strike in Montreal Is pro.
crossing favorably. Eleven Offices have con
ceded tie scale, and three still hold out
About fifty men are out Of employment.
Typographical Union NJ. forwarded sew
eral hundred dollars yesterday to assist Ill cir
Montreal brethren.
GEN, SAM F. CARY, Of Cincinnati, has been
lecturing 10 Illinois on temperance.
THE next session Of the National Typo
graphical Union will commence on the
second Monday 10 June, and will be held in
the A. ambly Chamber, Albany.
TIE Elizabeth bricklayers and plasterers
have not been successful Ia their demand
for "a per day, and large numbers are leay-
Ing the city 10 consequence.
A STRIKE among the female teachers IN
the Ohio female College at College Hill, for
the payment of arrearaees on salaries, says
the Cincinnati Chronicle Of the lltb, il
causing @ siderable talk among the deni-
zens Of the bill and the friends Of the col
lege in The city.
TIE Journeymen BARRIERS of New York in
tend to organic a protective union
GES Banks has been using his influence
with the naval authorities on the eight hour
subject, maintaining, that there present ac-
ton is in direct violation OF the interest OF
the law
The Navy yard. in Brooklyn, gives EN-
ployment to |, 800 workmen. The following
are the wages at present paid these men
Masons, IS per day; painters, 81 IN per
day hod- carriers, g. per day; carpenters,
50 20 per day 7; shipcarpenters, y 80 per
day dock builders s. % per day block
al - 1av l.kararz = a
81 GO.
A SENSIBLE CON,LUsIoN.-The Germen
Workingmtn's Association, Of New YORK,
have cone to the conclusion that 1t 10 use
less for single organizations Or separasv
leaders to attempt to enforce the eigAL-hour
question.
LAST week fifty cOnvicts were sent from
the penitentiary at MIlletgeville, Ca, to
work On the Macon and q Inswick railr cad.
COnvicts are hired out as last as they come
n, at ten dollars per head per ann um.
There are only about fortY-nine convicts
left in the walls Of the Georgia penitentIa-
~.
FIVE weeks ago the masons Of Orange, ~
j.. struck for an advance m ways from
81 60 81 50 per day. The strike was sue
cessful. Ca Saturday night last the men
received notice that hereafter only ST per
day would be paid All hands kl",-ed off
work. The matter is still pending, and all
honorable masOGs are requested TO keep
away from Orange until it Is settled.
In New York, those manufacturers OF
clothing who receive work from the large
shops and employ from three to six bands.
have organized an association to effect an
increase Of their own and their employers
paw To the extent Of twenty five per cent
The present pay of the vorkmen ranges
from IS 70 $l2 per week.
Tue housesmitbs' association Of New
York, numbering 600 members, reports that
to 81 50, for 10 hours labor.
THE strike Of the varnishers and polish
ers Of New York IL FOR an advance Of -
on the present rates OF SIS to SIS per week.
The carpenters Of Newark, N j., who
have struck for an advance from S. TO
50 10 a dav, report that thirty shops
have agreed to the terms demanded, four
teen have refused, and nineteen have given
no answer.
The female union typos Of New York in
tend to ask for a charter at the ensuing ses-
sion of the National Typographical Union.
TINS cooperative movement is making
great progress in England. A few days ago
at Leeds, there was convention Of repre-
sentatives Of 400 associations. The parent
society at Rochdale has 500 members, and
requires a public hall for its meetings. They
carry on milling, baking, butcherIng, all
branches Of clothing, dry goods and groce-
ries. Every member participates 10 the
profits, and every purchaser Is sure OF
good article at an honest price. They have
library snd newsroOm, saving bank add
mutual assurance