The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-05-22
LABOR ITEMS.

Ara special meeting Of the United Coop
Frs OF Jersey CRY on Saturday evening, d
was resolved that the men continue TO resist
the injustice Of their employers in underlAk-
ing 70 cut down the wsp ).
NEw HAVEN, CoNS, MAY The prin-
ters Of this eily are on a strike, demanding
from forty to forty-tve cents per thousand
ems. Employers refuse to pay the advanced
scale
SCRANTON, Pa, May 2.-Notce vas given
yesterday bv the miners organ zsuon to
the coal op'rators Of this country, that no
coal would be cut OF loaded sater the Slh
INST.
THERE is trouble in the COVE print
ing Office at Washington over the employ
ment Of q son Of Friedrich Douglas This IN
teresting young man belongs to the "rAt"
species ami the union men refuse to work
unless he is discharged While they Do not
object to his color, they are unwilling to
break the rules Of their association to &C
commodate him or any other frat"
THERE has recently been an exciting con-
test IN the New York Typographical Union
Fover the election Of delegates to the Nation
al Union, hich meets in Albany in June
The following is the result Of the vote:
bOlwe...... .... ..... 500 Burton ..... 500
Shsarnan .........,... ...sts Vincent As9
Conkhn ......5oe kells ISL
TBE workingmen at the Washington Navy
Yard have organized q Protective League,
AID agreed to work bur eight-hours per
day, unless the exigencies OF The SCI vice re
quIre more.
MAUcH CHUNK, May lO.-A strike in the
coal regions began to day, and work il en-
Trey suspended in the Lehigh and Schuyl-
kali regions. Nothing has yet been received
from Wiikesbarre. but il is supposed that
the same state Of affairs exists there.
PEEKsKILL, n. Y, May 14-Three hun
bred and twenty -ive brickmakers, employed
: in the brick yards in this vicinity, have
struck for higher wages. A formidable
strike is expected at H,verstraw to-day, the
bosses having reduced their wages, and
state that they will not give way. Promi-
nent brickmakers say brick will be sold to-
day for ltss than ten dollars per thousand
The wages Of common laborers have been
reduced from two dollars and q half to two
dollars per day.
ScRASros, Pa, May 13.-The coal min
ers' strike extended to-day nearly around
Wiikesbarre, and to some in the vicinity d
Pittston. Fully one-half OF the SO, 900 min
ers of the whole anthracite region have now
quit work. No formal demand for an in
crease Of wages, nor any statement Of grew
ances, has been made. The miners don't
seem to have q clear idea why they have
abandoned WORK. The miners Of the large
companies around Scranton and Carb0ndale
have not yet quit work, and the continuance
Of the strike largely depends upon their &C
ton. In-case Of their refusal, the strike will
last but . few days
Serious accidents occurred to-day in the
colIerles near South Wilksbarre aud HYDE
Park, by which nine miners were seriously
injured, some fatally.
FoREIGS
AHALGAxAfED SocIErY OF CARPENTERS AND
JoINKRs The niath annual report of this
Society has jost been issued, and /: con-
tains q mass OF useful information. The
total income Of the society for 1868, ia
4l9 692 A. 4d. Tho expenditure amounts 10
Ell. 665 los Cd, leaving balance in hand
e. 026 A. l0d. Turing the year the society
has opened sixteen new branches, and have
increased the number OF members TIA. TIE
secretary, Mr.. Applegarth, congratulated the
members upon the steady progress which
the society had made during the eight years
OF lie existence. The society was establish
ed in 1860, and at the end Of that year il
had % branches. 6Is members, and f32l in
hand At the end II last year, 1868, the
society had 2ls branches, $3.50 members,
and gl7,l In hand.
THE strike in Lancastsrshire still contin-
aes, and rhe cotton trade generally is in 9
very depressed condition. Thousands OF
the operatives IRE leaving the country for
America, where cotton factories, on large
scale arc BENG erected, which will Of course
bs dangerous rivals 10 those I'm this couatry. !