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

ceedings, and the meeting adjourned 10 meet
last evening. What was then done have
not ascertaihed up to the hour Of mailing.
All the plumbers who were On strike have
returned to work, with the exception Of
about dozen, who have gore to neighbor-
ing cities, all 81 whom, % far as heard from,
have secured situations.
The carpenters, as indicated in my letter
Of week before last. are beginning to exhibit
a little life On Friday evening last, they
held mass meeting, over which VIM. Me-
GOwan was called to preside. "A resolution
was offered, pledsing those present 20 da-
mand for 81 IS per day, and eight hours on
Saturday. This resolution was modified by
making the wages S. 30, and dropping the
eight hours. After speeches BY several
present, the meeting adjourned over until
Saturday evening. On that evening the
meeting was called to order by the Presi-
dent al about eight o'clock, several hundred
caTpenters beng IN attendance Reports
were received from a number Of shops, near
| LIZ all Of which declared the several estab-
lshments willing 60 conce1e the demanded
al ance, provided "is was made a general
thing" This proved that there had been
meeting Of the employers, at which they had
seyersily resolved to evade a direct answer
to the demand. During the presentation N
The reports, one gentleman Announced that
he was ignorant VI the existence NJ car
pcnters' union IN this city. and that he be-
/ heved there were hund;eds Of his fellow
Y craftsmen equally benighted whereat an
elderly gentleman expressed bis surprise
that any carpenter should get Up and make
such a confession. lie said There had been
| a carpenters union formed in 1852, and thai
| It bad existed 10 some shape ever since that
Y time. lie said thaG al one time the union
had published a notice, offering 70 admit
members without even the payment oi All
initiation fee, but that even such liberal
offs, was not generally taken advantage ".
I tie spoke very bitterly oi his fellow crafts
men, saying they ha1 themselves 10 blame
I for the great disparity be,1 cen the wages
Y paid here ana In other cities. He sald that
\ ne had been a member Of the union from lts
/ inception. and Gespsiring 81 mpl~hing
anything through union composed vi bare
L ly one-tenth Of their craftsman, h- and a
/ few others mad started a cooperative sht =,
4 and we're ~ ng we'll 5 j. Wallace, VI the
\ National Executive Committee, who Is a
I carpenter, then took the q Dor ana, wv the
course Of his remarks be invited All % JOIN
I The union. President Syyis, vino Was pres
! ent, was then called upon for a speech
That gentlemen took the >taud, and, after
assuring them hat be vas present rather a.,
a lpoker-0n than participant III Their pro-
ceedings, he talked bluntly 10 them 0f the
necessity Of their making more united au1
determined stand than had yet been made.
He recOunted The successes Of the several
cooperative lOundries ID the country, and
Y rxhoTted them To try that plan, prunouucing
Il an antidOte for labOr's MIS-, Ot much citl,a-
cy. Mr. Sy.yis was listened 60 with ait7G
lion ana evident interest. "A resolution vas
adopted, and ordered lo be published M Az
least two daily papers, affirming their fry
yention NOT 10 recede from their demands,
after which the meeting iaurnei.
They again assembled Yesterday morning
4 Seventy five men were reported A. having
discontinued w0rk Tne usual resolutions
we're adopted. TIE city was, on motion,
divided into siX districts, ana committees
appointed to canvass each. A member re-
ported that Mr. jas. s. Stewart had express
"a hHrself willing ~ pay the ~Ishel-flr
advance Speeches from several q The
exb0rUng their fellows I'D be
firm. aad 20 beware a ,haky knees-ciose
,ae proceedings, ara the meeting adiJurne y.
A card, appearing ID this m0ruHg Ledg-
v IN, announces that The shawi-yvavyrs In tne
employ of J. p. Brungr Son, are "a strike
To oppose reduction
The union feeling In this city is hvgi,r
to-day than It has been for years past
V The weather continues pleasant, and VA
ges generally poor, and m, Yours,
e. Ben j.