The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-07-31
LABOR ITEMS.

CEN. VIM, President Of the MechaDics'
State Council Of California, leaves San
Francisco. on a visit 20 the Atlantic States,
on Or about the 18th of July. He will be
present at the annual session Of the Labor
Congress.
Ex-JUDsE BRIoas, of Omaha, Nebraska-
has been elected BY the Labor Union Of that
place a delegate to the National Labor Con-
gress.
Mr.. Fl. T. WALKER, of Montgomery, Ala
bama, has been elected q delegate TO the
National Labor Congress, which meets as
Philadelphia, August 10Th.
A LABOR LEAGUE was formed at Mound
City, illinois, on the 18th Of June last, On
the platform Of the National Labor Union.
AT recent meeting Of the Labor Unions
of Detroit, presided over by Mr.. Robt.
Hodgkins, the names of Richard Treveilick,
e. B. Ward and Moses w. Field, were place
10 nomination as delegates to the National
Labor Congress.
The Laborers' Union No. l, Of New York
have given $50 to the collar laundresses Of
Troy.
EIoH. thousand female sik-winders in
Lyons, France, have struck for an increase
Of wages from If. Ace. to IF. per day.
The Marblecutters of Brooklyn have Civ.
en- 500 to the Troy collar Iaundresses.
NGwARK, N. j.. has one hundred iron
fOundries.
A NEW organization Of the German work
ingmen of Boston has recently been per-
fected.
The Albany printers are to.give a grand
excursion on the river about the lst of
August next.
THE recent strike of the shoemakers of
Rochester N. Y, resulted in favor Of the
1urneymen.
A NATIONAL Convention of the Daughters
Of 81. Crispin is to be held in Lynn, Mass,
on the 9th instant. The programme en-
braces, besides the necessary organizing and
general business features, public meetings,
1t which will be present many of the woman
speakers upon labor reform, Miss Phelps,
Miss Collins, and others, a musical and
dramatic entertainment, boat excursion
cts.
The city Of New Haven, Connecticut, is
well up in trades unions. IL bias labor re-
form league, typographical, bricklaye rs,
and organ makers unions.
THERE ia at present a lockout among the
shOemakers in Lafayette, Ind. A strike was
iutimated over two months since, at which
time demand was made for higher pay.
Two-tbirds OF the bosses have acceded to the
demands Of the men.
TIE shoe business in Albany and Troy
is represented as very dull at present, owing
to the strikes and the closing Of shops.
READERs of the WoRKINGMAN's ADVOCATE
Of Wisconsin, will you write..a letter to th q
Office Of the Labor Union, No. l, of Wiscon-
sin, Black River Fall, P. 0. Box 154; you
will receive AN answer promptly.
The Iron Moulders Union No. Is, OF New
York, has donated $500 to the Troy Laund-
~ GiIls, and $500 to The Iron Moulders of
Williamsburg, who are now on strike.
The Iron Moulders' No. 96 Of Brooklyn,
burg brethren. A noble example from a
noble craft.
THE Masons Of Brook rave determined
to raise fund ia and Ie Trenton Pot.
tiers, by assessing eac VI their members SO
cents.
A COMMITTEE of thr Massachusetts, legisls-
ture appointed TO inquire into the propriety
Of changing the laws in regard to the hours
Of labor in manufactures, reported that
such is insdvisable. The committee recon-
mend the organic Ition Of a bureau Of sta
tistics upon the hours Of labor. with chief
and deputy, whose duty it shall be to collect,
assert, systematic and present iu annual
reports 70 the legislature on or before
NJ rrch lst Of each year, statistical details
relating to all departments Of lab,.r in the
Common wealth.
THS--.s~- 90 null bands at Black
River Falls have been reduced 70 per cO-.-
The painters OF Haverhili have taken
steps to organize a union. The plasterers
have already organized. The example Of the
Crispins seems to be contagious upon other
trades there. May they all have like sue
cess.
GERMAN WoRKINGMAN's UNION OF MAssA-
cHUsETTs -A new organization of the Ger
man wprkingmen Of Boston was perfected at
the German schoolhouse, Bennett street, on
June 9th.
The case o. lewis II. Douglas, the colored
printer, employed at the government print
inf Office, has been postponed till the LIST Of
January, 1870.