The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-04-09

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G. BEx J., Reporter Agent
MEcHAMcs LIKEs.-Tle Law amending that
previously on our statute having reference to
mechanics and laborers' liens, reported last
week az having passed the State Legislature,
and received the sanction Of the Governor on
the 18th ult, applies particularly to oil wells,
materials furnis he'd. and work performed on
and about them in the counties Of Venango,
Crawford, and Warren, q section known
throughout the country az the great oil regions
Of Pennsylvania
| TEE TRADRs.-SAILNAKKRe-T i0urneymen
sailmakers again convened in mass meeting at
the Hope Hose House, Pine street, above
Second, on Fridav evening. The meeting was
called to consider the report Of the committee
appointed to confer with the master sail
makers, at q previous meeting. upon the equity
Of the proposed reduction Of wages The
wages heretofore paid are tS per day Of nine
hourA The proposition was to discontinue the
nine hour plan, and pay the men considered
6rst-clsss, IS for day Of similar length. The
committee reported, through its chairman, that
they had consulted with q committee Of master
sailmakers appointed with power to arbitrate
the matter, and had prevailed upon them TO
continue the old scale. Engaged in the max
ing Of sails in this city, there are probably l25,
in the pay of about forty employers. This ami.
cable adjustmant Of the threatened differences
naturally put al present in an excellent humor,
and after listening to remarks from several
members, the meeting adjourned perfectly satis-
fed with the result Of its deliberations.
CHEKKY-lt lie astonishing to hear an Easton
paper say, with reference to a contemplated re.
duction Of the wages paid carpenters in that
city, that I've learn that the boss carpenters
have not a. yet came 70 any conclusion il re-
gard to wages. Their determination in the
premises will be made known In the course Of
few days." Or rather, j: ought to be a mat
ter to legiti9Ately generate establishment, when
We stop to consider that if workingmea would
only use the same weapon with the same una
nimity of sentiment and purpose-combination
that their oppressprs have found 90 etica-
cious, the result would be an infinitely greater
success, seeing that our aggregate strength is
20 much greater. What Is the matter with
Friend McHoes, that he permits such a display
of cheek.
QUARRYNEN.-A disposition s msnifesting it
self among the hands employed in the several
stone quarries throughout the State, to try BY
combination for more equitable compensation.
Those at Greensburg, who have heretofore
been receiving $3.50 and SITS, are already
out" The wages now received are certainly
too little for any honest days work, and We
sincerely hope to see this strike success
CoEvocArIoN on IRoN MoULDERs-A GKxxR-
Gus OurPOUnHG-TKLLMe SPEKcH OF H. J.
WALLS, SEcRErARY OF TRE NATIONAL LABOR
UNION AND OF TIE IRoN MorLDERs hrKRNArroS-
Al UHIoK.-Within the six or seven weeks.last
past, the employing stove and hollow.ware
moulders have reduced the wages OF their
hands to that maximum figure paid at the
breaking out Of the rebellion in 1881. Union
No. Of shat craft are weaker, perhaps proper
tionstely, than any union Of the same craft in
the country, though what they lack in numeri-
cal, they made up in that moral strength which,
in face Of the most portentious difficulties,
never fails to preserve m unbroken front to the
eoemy. They issued a ca II for meeting to
convene, with the purpose Of infusing new
life, a. IL were, into the badly depopulAted Or
ganization. The meeting, in accordance with
Ihis commendable discrimination, convened on
Saturday evening, at Military Hall. At about
Q o'clock, perhaps ESQ moulders had collected,
who organised by calling 10 the chair Mr.. Jas
BarfOrd, and selecting a. Secretary q. J.
Walls, Who is now acting in that capacity for
the International Union of Iron Moulders.
The latter gentleman having been called upon,
proceeded to address the meeting in subeta nee.
AZ follows: Previous to 1868, stove moulders
were better paid in this city than in
any other portion of the country. In those
days it was a rare thing to find a PhiIad elphia
moulder on the tramp" but to-day they may
be found scattered over the country. The ties
Of home associations even found insult
GENTLY potent to restrain the almost universal
desire to get away from place, where there is
such q poor investment for their capital, for his
labor is the workngmsn's, only capital Since
1868, the wages in different parts of the coun-
try had, by successive raises, been increased
in Cincinnati, St Louis, Quincy, Louisville,
and many places East, 100 per cent, in Pitts
burg, 80 per cent, In New York, about sixty
per cent. general average all over the coun-
try of about Sc per cent. Home wages have
only went up 80 per cent. 1t is nov pro-
posed at one. swoop to take the whole of that
of. Mr. W. continued at length, giving the
causes why the advance here was in such dis
proportion to that in other places, the prob
able reasons tor the present reduction, and the
patent remedy for the same. The Chairman
succeeded, Mr.. Walls, saying that even the
slight advance received by: Philadelphia
moulders, had been received in small install
ments, and given grudgingly. He denounced
in unmistakable terms the sweeping reduction
they we're called upon to contest bv every
principle Of manhood. Aessrs Gearhart, and
Epheme next took theHoor, and they attributed
the reduction to two causes, the criminal negIi-
gence Of the men, and Ihe incrdinste greet of
their employers. after further discussion, il
was decided to have shop meetings, and BY
that, and every other means available, to induce
every moulder into the union, all hands agrees
Ing that without the most thorough organiza-
ton, nothing can be accomplished. This mat
ter should be an example to other workingmen.
not to be similarly negligent on pain Of similar
result. We sincerely hope this may not be
another OF the mushroom efforts We heap of so
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