The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-08-21

The operative plasterers Of Brooklyn have
reduced the initiative fee from $40 to $40.
TEE Dry Goods Boys Of Detroit have or
ganised q Protective Association
TIE Pottsr's strike at Trenton has ended.
and the men are ut Work again.
Mn. j. GARRrrY has been elected 4 dele
gate to the Labor Congress from Whining
ton, NC.
TEE workiDgmen Of Jersey City have
taken the initiatory steps towards the form
alton Of Central Labor Union.
SIX colored caulkers were sent to work in
the Navy Yard, Washington, last Thursday,
repairing the steamer Nipsio.
TEE Printers OF Goshen, Middleton and
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Union
the Cooperative Tailor Union Of New
York are fast gaining custom, they being
able to undersell the employers. Give them
encouragement workingmen everywhere.
Mr.. w. III. LUcKER has been elected to
represent the Journeymen Tailor's Union OF
New York, to represent at the evening SEES
sion Of the Labor saving Congress.
The Clerks In the Department at WASH
Ington have formed an association for The
purpose Of purchasing coal at reduced pri-
ces.
TYPOGRAPHICAL Union No. 6, Of New
York City, propose holding picnic the lat
ter part Of August. Extensive arrangements
are being made to make il the most ehjoya-
BILE OF the season.
Mn. WILLIAM X. JKssUP, of the Ship join
ers and Carpenters Union Of New York has
been elected 40 delegate to represent the
Union .of New York in the National Labor
Union.
A POSITION Of the street labOrers OF De-
troit, Michigan are q strike. The cause Of
the strike is the embeEzlememens of bonds
and flight Of John Wuestenberg, the sub
contractor or agent. warrant is out for
bis arrest.
TEE Oil Barrel Coopers in a number Of
the manufactures Of Cleveland are on
strike against q reduction Of wages. The
movement vas inaugurated on Monday last
on which day Prices were cut down i've
cents per barrel
TIE Laboring Mems Cow ention, Virginia
City, Nevada, declare that the importa-
ton Of Asiatics aud their employment in the
mines or other fields OF labor, must be dis
pressible conflict" likely to end in blood
shed and ruin.
We have Just received from the Secretary
Of the House Carpenters Eight Hour League
Of San " aDciscJ. CAL, q letter, warning his
fellow craftsmen IRON believing the stories
al present circulated bY the employers Of
that city, regaI ling the state Of trade, their
object being To break down the eight hour
movement
TEE colored Iaborers at Baltimore, Ind,
held mass meeting few evenings since y,
among other things they determined to issue
a call for q National Labor Convention, to
be held in Washington on the FIRST Monday
in December, to which delegates may be
admitted without distinction Of race or
color. The resolution also provide for the
. holding Of State Convention on the 18th
day Of September, in the city Of Baltimore,
in each year.
FRox what VIC can learn, the admission Of
the delegates to the National Labor Uon-
gress, elected from the Woman's Suffrage
! Association, will be strongly protested
against. Several delegates elected from diff
ferent trades unions 10 New York have been
instructed to that effect They will protest
I on the ground that the representative wo.
men Of that association are not true friend.
10 the workingwomen, or they would pay
those in their employ wages in accordanc,
with what they advocate, and that they ar,
seeking their own ACCOMPLISHMENT on ID,
cry Of woman's rights.
v TIE tailors Of New York on strike mr.
& very sanguine Of success. They held mas
: meeting in front Of the City Hall, on the 9th
u in conjunction with the tailors Of Newark
u Nj, who are also on strike. Addresse
+ were delivered by Mr.. Nelson W. Young
d President Of the Workingmen's Union N
u Henry Luckere now President Of the Ma
q tiOnal Labor Union Mr.. Conrad Kuhn
President of the Arbei:er Union, and others
c All the speeches we're Of harmonising ma
Is ture, erjOining upon the listeners tie neces
Il sity OF n mutual understanding and CO
" operation rs the quickest means Of securn
J. their rights. The men were reminded tha
10 they were in front Of the legislative halls Z
u the city, where SO many corrupt laws wer
ia enacted, which made the burdens Of tn
I'd laborer 80 much harder to bear, and urge
De- upon them the necessity. for the tornado
ia and support of the National Labor Party AN
a. GUST those bad legislators. After the NEE
OF ing procession was formed and marche
| through several streets to the head quarter
v. Of the strikers, where they dsbsnded ami
C. universal enthusiasm.