The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-06-04

THE Mechanics Of Charleston, Is.
C.,) have organized a debating society.
NJ FRoY laborers ask aid to continue
their strike. The numbers OF men idle
In about 200.
TIE La Sale coal miners, who have
been ON a strike since the first of April;
resumed work on the first of June.
FKrxNp Horcy. of Black River Falls,
writes us, that he has been elected q
delegate to the National Labor Con-
gress.
The strike of the Peekskill mOlders
still continues. It has already lasted
over four month";. The men are deter
mined TO triumph.
TIE girls employed by the Paisley
Silk and Thread Company, in Mans
field Hollow, Conn. have struck against
o reduction Of wages.
Tn annual session Of the National
Typographical Union convenes at
Cincinnati; next Monday. The atten-
dance promises to be very large.
y THzt psplders Of Toy, who have
been idle for several months are being
rapidly put towork, aud within week
or two all the foundries will be in full
operation.
The Brooklyn Carpenters Union,
No. Is, have organized an intelligence
ONCE m their society, by which the
members may, more readily procure
employment 4 7''' '' (" -t
THE Bricklayers Of Albany Union
No.e have achieved complete victory.
The Eight. was sharp and decisive. SO
! writes Secretary Burrows. In Troy
Che dispute still continues.
ACCORDING to recent report made al
the General Conncil of the working.
mem Observation-Disclosures of the Goa
region, there are 13,247 miners unem
.ployed. and 1891 employed in Northum
berland, Columbia, and Schuylkil
countiesr In Luzerne county there are
III, $50 miners working on what is called
"the basis of 1862" In theP Pennsylvania
coal regions both the employers ant
! the operative miners are organized into
| Unions, the association of the former
I belng called (" Miners Board Of Trade,
and that, of the latter "The Working
mems Benevolent Association"
4 FROM THE OLD WORLD.
i WoRK is very brisk among The
trades in Dundee, Scotland.
j The masons Of Manchester have
given up their strike against the hour
\ system, which has lasted since Apr
1869. They have been unsuccessful
and the firms being full they consider
it useless to prolong the struggle.
| DELEGATES from the carpet weaver
have had an interview with the Maste
Carpet Viewers Association at Leeds
and the operatives demand for an ad
Vance Of 10 per cent is likely to be &C
tceded to. tf at
Mn. BRUCE, the Secretary OF State 70
the Home Department, has given in
structions for the preparation of som
valuable statistics relating to the variou
trades which are regulated by the Fac
tory Acts. ~
IT may be remembered that man
thousands Of miners in Wales sough
I an advance nf WAGES ThAy were j
= come Instances told 70 continue workin
till better time came 1t has now az
peared that the better time has come
as many Of the men are now workin
on the increased rate.
; THE men of one ofthe collieries nea
to the town of Tredegar, Wales, hav
gone on strike. They say they ar
not advanced according to the lat
advance made elsewhere. Nearly tw
hundred have struck work altogether
The wages question in the spinnin,
, department of the cotton trade is,
appears, to be fully discussed at a re
preventative meeting Of the spinners o
Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire
: to be held in Manchester on an earl,
day. The weavers are also consider
ing what course of action they shoul'
adopt with the view Of obtaining nj
increase of wages.
! AN agitation has been going on dur
ing the past two or three month
amongst the iron workers in the ives
Of Scotland for an advance Of cd. pc
ton puddled iron. Meetings hav,
been held at .Coatbridge, Glasgow
DC, to discuss the question and to de
wise means to obtain the rise. A strik,
has been resorted to at one of the iror
works near Glasgow.