The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-01-08
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JOHN NJ RoLsr1S,


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FOREIGN.
THE jOiners Of Blackburn, England,
are still on strike.
TRADE in Sheffield has been brisker
than it has been for some years.
TIE wages Of the millmen and pud-
Iers in the neighborhood Of Rotterdam,
Yorkshire, have been increased 10 per
cent.
THE journeymen painters Of Glas-
gov, are agitating for m increase OF
wages.
THE mechanis of Arlbroth, has sue
ceeded in securing the adoption Of the
nine hour system.
MEssRs. Mahony's large wooden mills
at Barney, near Cork, have been
burned down. The loss is estimated at
e2S,OOO, and two hundred people
thrown out of employment. The cause
is unknown.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAGES
The golfers that were out on strike al
the six pits in connection with East
field, Stonelaw, Farme, and who re-
sumed work last week have all received
IN advance of Sd per day.
The Amalgamated Society of the
Manchester Tallors, whose fund has
increased over $4,000 since the lst o
May last, at which time new regulation:
were adopted, have with view of still
further increasing the number and eff
cheney of the Society, issued cir
cular in which is embodied the fol
lowing proposition: "That all new
branches wishing to join the amalga
nation between now and the confer
ence Of 1870, the members shall pay
the current quarters subscription and
an entrance fee of 2s..Gd. each, prospect
i've of age providing they are in good
health), and shall come into benefit in
six months, as per rules.
A SOCIETY has been formed, under
the name of The WOrkmen's Society
for the Consolidation Of the British EN-
pire,' whose objects are announced tC
be-TO raise funds to assist those who
are still above pauperism to emigrate
to the most desirable colonies to urge
upon the Imperial and Colonial Gov
ernments the duty Of assisting literally
in the work, and apportioning funds
which may be so given; to collect &C.
curate information as to the class of
persons who are really required in the
colonies, SO that those wishing TO emf
CRATE may be sent 10 the most suitable
places to select emigrant ships suitable
for the purposes, and, as far as practi-
cable, to provide every requisite for
those who go, at the lowest possible
charge; and to publish constant infor-
nation from the colonies rs 10 the prices
of commodities, the scale Of wages, and
other useful facts for the guidance Of
emigrants.
WoRKMEN's DEMONSTRATION AT
VIENNA.-The following special tele-
gram, dated Vienna, Dec. IA, has been
sent to the Eastern Budget s." Yes
terday, several thousands of workmen
assembled before the building in which
the ReichSrath holds its sittingS, and
sent deputatlon to Count Taatfe, the
President Of the Council, with a petit
ton asking for the reversal of the order
fOrbidding trade coalitions, and for an
extension Of the liberties granted by
the present electoral and press laws.
Count Taaffe replied that the proceed
ing was illegal. Open-air meetings dur
ing the Parliamentary session being
forbidden by the constitution. He
added that the Government would give
full consideration to the lawful de-
mands Of the working classes, but that
both the Ministry and the Parliament
would firmly resist any illegal pressure.
The meeting then quietly dispersed"