The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-12-25
IAH0R NEWS.

THE cigar-makers ofCincinnati are at
present on strike.
The last issue of the Anthracite |
Monitor contains accounts of a dozen
which have occurred in the
mines of Pennsylvania during the past
week.
Three anti Chinese meetings have
been held in San Francisco. The sum
of $40, 900 is required to carry out the
plans of the committee, to send agents
to Sacramento and Washington to urge
favorable legislation.
Mr.. Jacob Lorillard is about to erect
fifty houses on his estate near the Je-
rome Park race-course, to cost an aver
age Of IS 900 each. These are to be
rented to small families at reasonable
rates. The village thus created is to be
named Fordham Park.
Mr.. AMOS SANFORD, President of
the Kansas State Labor Union, has just
issued strong address to the me-
chanics Of that State.
From a correspondent we learn that
q movement to form a labor union has
been insugerated in Syracuse, N. Y,
that the salt barrel coopers of the same
city numbers 222 members, that its
Trades Assembly is in a flourishing
condition.
The Amalgamated Miners Associa-
ton, of Lancashire, Cheshire, and
North Wales, has addressed a circu-
lar to their employers, to the effect that
unless the wages of the miners are in
creased a specified amount, on or be-
fore the 18th instant, a strike will en-
sue. The number of men likely to be
affected by the circular is twenty thou
sand.
THE German Workingmen's Union,
Of Massachusetts, is rapidly growing in
influence and membership. The Off
GERS are President, A. Jaesorsky !;
vice-president, Mr.. Franger; secretary,
Mr.. Birk treasurer, E. Schroeder.
The members are earnest and enthusiast
tic for Labor Reform.
LARGE numbers of miners, mostly of
the better class, continue to leave Corn
wall for abroad on account of the low
rate of wages. Brazil and Peru are to
have nearly fifty superior workmen sent
out to them from one district alone, and
two or three Of the American and Aus
tralian agents lists are again filed.
Nothing seems to be done tie check this
serious drain of the most intelligent
miners in Cornwall.
ON Thursday, I'd instant, about z
o'clock in the morning, when the min
ers at the Empire Shaft, Wilkesbarre,
went to their work. They were thrown
into a state of excitement from the fol-
lowing cause. One of the main air
doors had been left ohen all night, and
one of the men going in shut the door
behind him. Not thinking ofthe dan
ger that was before them, Immediately
after shutting the door, the gas came
down into the gangway and ignited,
burning Thomas Keer severely, and
blowing James Lewis back several
yards against a car and breaking his
leg A number of others were slightly
injured.
THE workingmen, of New York city
met, Thursday evening oflast week, at
the Stenbar House, and organized a
chamber of cooperative industry, and
elected the following officers :-Presi-
dent, Nelson w. Young; vice-presi-
dents, Robert Blissert and Mr.. Rosen-
stock recording secretary, j. w.
Browning corresponding secretary,
Mr.. W. r. Hill treasurer, John Wood.
Addresses were made by r. Trevel-
lick, President National Union; j. p.
Cumming, of the knights of st. Girls
pin, Mass. and Nelson w. Young,
President Of the Workingmen's Union,
CT this city.
Tom Jones, a telegrapher, who re-
marked, when he joined the telegraph
er's Insurance Association, of New
York city, "That he supposed he
supposed he would be unlucky and out
live them all" has since been trans
ferred to Albany, where, few weeks
ago, a member Of the insurance com
pany died. Tom sent this message
down to New York: " Get out your
dollar-a fellow up here has won the
pot"
The following rates of wages, per
week, converted into legal tender cur
rency, it is asserted, are paid to me-
chanics in England: Puddlers, $l2;
helpers, $3.50; shinglers, $40 rollers,
S@p89; bricklayers, 50; plasterers,
50; carpenters, 1920; painters, $40
masons, 90 furnace filters, s7.4O /; la
borers (graded), $5.49; laborers (com-
mon), S4.2O.
WOMEN IN FACToRIEs.-There is one
practice said to be general in the New
England factories, which should be
widely known. When girls are DIS
charged from service for any reason not
satisfactory to the employers, notice is
sent to all other similar establishments
far and near, warning them not to en-
ploy them. The Cocheco Mills Cor
poration at Dover, N. H., made a re-
duction in the pay Of the operatives a
few weeks ago,amounting to twelve per
cent. This was considered oppressive
by the working women, and three Of
their number drew up paper to be
signed by the rest, in which they ex-
pressed the determination to resist the
reduction. The corporation authorities
thereupon discharged the three opera
tives and notified all the mills in the
state Of the fact, that they might not
find employment in them.
CORRESPONDENTS.