The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-05-14

STRIKE ENDED.-The strikers of the
Patterson cotton mills have resumed
work at wages 20 per cent. less than be-
fore the strike.
A STRIKE for higher wages occurred
on Wednesday last among the work
men at the Kingsland iron furnace at
Carondelet, and is extending to other
furnaces in the vicinity.
The Bricklayers ofTroy, who struck
sometime since against a reduction of
wages, are still holding out Honor
able mechanics will govern themselves
accordingly. ~
The shipcarpenters of New York
have formed protective. union. About
time they had.
GREENPoINT has a cooperative foun-
dry recently started by the iron mould
ers from Union No. IS.
THE Brooklyn iron and stone cutters
are on strike against a reduction in
pay and increase of hours.
THE chiefs of the international Asso-
citation of Workingmen at Marseilles,
have been arrested. The police also
captured a prominent person there who
escaped from Paris.
THE number Of workingwomen in
Paris is computed at 100000. Thirty
cents day is the average pay they re-
ceive. N"
J.F. ScHLAGLE, President of the St
Joseph Typographical Union, has been
selected by that body to represent them
in the coming session Of the Iuterna-
tional Union, to be held in Cincinnati
next month.
THE following delegates to represent
the New York Typographical Union at
the International Union to be held at
Cincinnati on the lat Monday in June,
have been elected Alfred Burton, JOS.
E. Thornton, John Vincent, and David
Kells
A Mass meeting of workingmen was
held inSanF Francisco on the 28th ult deci-
ded to oppose proposition to vote aid
to a railroad from San Francisco south
ward at the approaching election, unless
the company should agree not to en-
ploy Chinese labor.
THE Massachusetts House Of Rep
resentatives have reported a bill to
incorporate the Grand Lodge of the
Knights of st. Crispin for the promo
ton of the moral and material interests
of its members, with leave to hold not
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AN Emigration Convention COM
posed of delegates from South and
North Carolina and Georgia, has re-
Gently been held in Charleston, S. G.
1t is expected that the movement will
tend to divert the attention Of emigra-
ting from the Western to the Southern
States.
THE New York Union Cigarmakers
recently granted an amnesty of one
week to all non society men who are
willing to leave the anti-union shops,
and make common cause with their
union brethren. From present indica-
tons, the movement will be grand
success, as the wailing of Messrs.
Straiton, Schmitt & Storm, published
in another column, would seem to indi-
cate.
The last issue of the A1.tAracsts
Monitor says: We have received relia-
bic information from Northumberland
county, that four or five of the opera
tors have commenced this week on the
80 basis of wages, and the balance will
undoubtedly commence next week,
Still more, the Burnside Colliery, which
has been working on the blackleg prin-
ciple, has suspended; the men having
determined to work in union with the
W. B. A., and not longer to be used as
tools of the oppressor.
ELECTION OF OFFICFRs.-At the
second annual meeting of the Charles
ton Is. co. Painters Charitable Associ-
alton, No. 2, the following officers were
elected to serve during the ensuing
year Henry G. Hammond, President
Theodore c. Dupee, Vice President
John L. Merchant, Secretary; Benia-
min White, Treasurer. Finance Com