The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-27
LABOR ITEMS.

CINCINNATI has a contracting Builders
Association.
A LARGE factory is now building at Ken
] nebunk, Me-, for the manufacture of shoe
strings.
TaE Operative Pasterers OF New York
have S. 900 in bank.
\ TIE German Cabinet Makers Union, OF
New York, numbers 2, 500 members in good
standing.
The German cabinet makers Of New York,
and the gas and steam filters are on a strike
for better wages.
] THE silk mills and locomotive factories 81
/ Patereon, n. j., are all in full oper stion,
and some Of them are running over time.
THR Dayton Typographical Union st lts
last regular meeting, with one dissenting
I voice, voted to admit female compositors to
membership.
4 TIE sbcam handso employed in the mo-
rocco factories Of Newark, N. j., are on
strike for M advance Of wages, and an
equal rate to all, which 10 refused by the
proprietors.
TIE members Of the HatterP Associate On
of New York city, at their last meeting re-
solved to donate the sum Of 81 900 in aid
|
and promise more, If needed.
TIE spinners of Fall River have formed
cooperative association, and opened q
store. They began operations With $3.50
the second month, the sum bad advaI ced
70 $500, and this month il has iucrea sed
to $500.
TEE undertakers Of Washington are form
| ing q protective union association. They
propose TO adopt q cash system hereafter,
and have made our ssblack list" Of such
families Is have failed 10 pay their bills to .
| funeral scrvioes.
We are pleased to learn, says the Char
lotte Bsslletsa, that the Woodiawn Cotton
Manufacturing Company, BY L. Linebarger
d Co., is rapidly increasing in popularity
30 much 90 that their extensive machinery
ia taxeI to its utmost capacity to fill orders.
This company produces rs fine shIrting,
sheeting, and yarns, as can be produced 10
| the South, and their prices are extremely
moderate Wilmington Star. 18Th.
A GRAND monster meeting of the working
men Of New York will be held ct Cooper
Institute, on Tuesday, March %. IL is az
pected that at least 1000 or 10000 men
will be present. Two stands are to be
erected in the squsre-one for the Germans
and one for the Englishmen-snd il 10 be-
leved that . general COMMITTEES will be form
ed, with power " pFganize Labor Leagues.
No tax is 70 be Iey.eL upon any trade organ
,Eation, each 10 70 pay what they like.
THE PRIsrER Co-oPERAnyE SocIKrr.
The Journey zen Printers COOPERATIVE As
sociation had o lift on Thursday, uncon-
sclously no doubt, fiom the Common Coun-
cal, and they intend to improve upon 1t. We
have frequently shown 10 the columns Of the
san how CO operation can be made success
iul, but the success Of cooperative printing
establishment 10 80 clearly evident that u
needs no demonstration. We are glad that
the trade is awakening TO the importance Of
cooperation, and thai 800 shares OF the
new company's stock have bean taken. We
understand that some Of the best and most
Trustworthy Workman from the various Of
iSes are engaged in the organization and
that u any persons now holding iuorativs
posi- ions in newspaper Offices and. price
paying book establishments are looking to-
wards It's stock - sSfs and paying invests
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