The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-04-02
TIE Trades-PrOgress of the Labor
Movement.


rKsE INTERNATIONAL woRKTNGMKN's AS
ISOLATION.
meeting of the Council March 8, Mr.
Cbhn in the chair. A letter was received
frfm the velvet weavers Of Lyons, stating
flat at every step they were met by the as
sartiOn that people worked much cheaper
abroad They, therefore, wanted a de-
TITLED account Of their fellow-workers in
london respecting their payment, treatment,
&c, whether they worked in factories or at
b5me. A dePutatiOn was appointed to
wait upon the Velvet Weavers' Society
Nth view Of obtaining the particulars.
Another letter from Lyons announced
t$at great meeting of delegates from vari
CIns parts Of France was to be held on the
18th inst, to make arrangements for the
future progress of the Association. News
ffOm Paris was received that M. Assy, the
1otorious leader Of the Creuzot Iron
Works, had been taken up on suspicion for
the purpose Of examining his papers, but
released after twenty-four hours imprison-
lhent.
LABoRERs' WAGES An official return
9f the average rate of weekly earnings of
Agricultural laborers in England and Wales
has just been published. Dorset stands
lowest, the average rate in one district Of
that county being 9s Sd. A few instances
Of the average weekly wages in other coun-
lies, as shown by the return, are interesting,
hs showing the difference between the maxi
mum and minimum: Gloucester, Us and
lbs; Worcestershire. lbs; Warwicksbire,
Us; Leicestershire, IS (; Derbyshire, Us
cheshire, aud Lancashire, l IS; Yorkshire,
4 IS to 18s; Northumberland, l5s to 1Ss +;
Cumberland, lbs; Westmoreland, lis to
Il8s.
4 THIs movement in London for the
production in the hours of labor in the
building trades, set on foot by the carpen-
tiers, has been taken up by the other
f. branches in the trade, and at a meeting Of
loperatives-painters, bricklayers, masons,
ijoiners, and plasterers-held at the Lord
Palmerston Tavern, Chelsea, a few nights
! ago, society was formed to promote the
! nine hours movement, and the following
resolution was adopted That an invita-
! ton be given to the various societies in the
| building trade to send delegates to the co
ciety for the purpose Of co operating with it,
and making a united effort of both union
lists and non-unionists to obtain the reduc-
ton Of the hours of labor to nine per day,
the present depressed state of trade afford
ing favorable opportunity for the attain
ment of that object.
THE cotton operatives of Bolton, Eng.
land, demand an increase of FIVE per cent
AT a recent meeting of the Operative
Painters of Bradford, the following reso-
luton was unanimously adopted: That
iQ the opinion Of this meeting the establish.
ment of Boards of Arbitration and Con-
Citation are the best means of settling all
trade disputes, and securing the rights Of
employers and employed"
BRISTOL GENERAL UNION OF CARPEN
TIERS AND JoINERs.-From the Monthly
Trade Report for February, it appears
that the trade returns show q very bad
condition Of things. Not one single return
marks the trade as good, - moderate
being the best character given, and very few
with that; bad, and " very bad, " chiefly
prevailing. No less than Tia members are
receiving out of work donations these,
with those on strike, must form about quar-
ter of the whole number in the union.
Mr.. ODGER has declared his determine
ton to stand for Bristol on vacancy, to
refuse any preliminary test ballot, and to
see Tory 60 in rather than a second mid
dle-clssss representative, of whom, be says,
there are too many already. Mr.. Hodgson
and Mr.. Robinson bad agreed to a ballot.
From the Ref rmer.
The masons' strike at Manchester, against
the nine hour system, still continues, and
although the men have been out nearly
twelve months they have decided, at meet
ing held this week, to continue it.
THE miners strike at Thorncliffe still
remains unsettled. The Miners Council
have issued full explanation of the reasons
why the men have not accepted the com
pany's terms offered through the mediators.
The JOiners strike at Glasgow continues,
although several of the most prominent en-
pIoyers have agreed to the schedule adopted
BY the jOurneymen.
THE ioiners of Greenock have succeeded
in establishing the nine hours day in the
house shops. Only one shop employing
about hafa-dozen hands, all Don-union
men), continues the ten-hour system; the
others nave all given way to the demands
Of the men, and there is none on the strike
roll.
Our friend Mr. Alexander Mcdonald
is as busy as ever addressing mass meetings
of miners almost every day of the week.
AT a recent colliery explosion at the
Ashley Deep Pit, Duken6eld (the deepest
mine in the WORLDLY, nine persons we're
killed. The pit is 800 yards deep at the
lowest point, and is worked in two seams
the black mine and the camel seam-and
the explosion occurred in the former, in
what is called the 1900 or l, 900 brows.
LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION AT Vi
ENNa.-On the LIST inst, grand banquet
too place at the engine factory of Messrs.
Sigl, near Vienna, on the occasion of the
completion Of 1000 locomotives at that
establishment. During the fete, Herr Sgl
was presented BY the Mayor of Vienna
with the freedom Of the city. One of the
locomotives named the "Erisebet" Eliza
BETH is destined for the special train which
carries the Empress Of Austria when she
proceeds from Pesth to her country estate
of Godelle.
Signs of the Hands