The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-11-18
LABOR ITEMS.

five bench toundries in New Haven, EN-
plOving over so machine molders and 100
bench molders, nearly go molders all told,
and the Union in that city, although com
posed Of some of the best material in the
country, has a hard struggle for life, the
odds are so much against them.
WE have been making inquiries as to
the extent of the foundry business in Wis
consin, and have learned that in Fond Du
Lac there are from Is to IS molders en-
ployed. In Green Bay, from ~ to Is.
Oshkosh, about a dozen. As soon as we
can learn the names Of some of the molders,
an effort will be made to organize them.
We ought to have Union in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
To those good Union men working in
Bridgeport, Conn. with cards in their
pockets, or without cards, we desire to
give a few words of warning Either de-
post your cards, or be published to the
organization as dirty scabs, trying TO break
up the Union. Any molder from Bridge
port, Conn, without card from No. no.
is Scab," no matter whether he has a
card from another union or not Each
Union will please make note OF this.
WE learn, from the October issue of the
Iron MOlders International Journal, that
Mr.. William HOrsn, who for years had
been a Jealous and warm advocate of the
labor cause, and an hOnOred member of
Union Is, died in Louisville, Ky, on the
9Th Of October Mr.. ii. had held the posi-
ton Of Vice President and Treasurer Of the
/. M. l. u. and was well known to a large
number OF the readers Of the ADVOCATE
Peace to his ashes.
WE acknowledge the receipt Of $500
from Mr.. G. W. Smith, of Water Valley,
Mississippi, for the Syhis monument fund.
The harness, gig, saddle and pad
makers L. b. Association, of Neward, N.
j., is in very fiourishing condition 1t
donated 800 TO the Chicago relief fund,
and still has over $1,000 in its treasury
TIE Labor Reform State Convention OF
New Hampshire, will be held in Concord,
Dec. Z.
JESSE WHITE, q printer on the Fredericks-
burgh (Va.) Stdr, has stood at the case for
sixty-six years, but is still able TO average
about 800 ems an hour; fair work for an
observation-disclosures
The above is strong commentary on a
system, which, after &C years of incessant
toll, compels a man to earn his daily bread.
Why, il he had been a thief or politician,
the chances are, that forty-ive years ago
he would have been independent
THE Locomotive Engineers at their last
session declared that on every road there
are rules with which engineers cannot
comply, and which are intended only as a
screen for the companies in case of acct
| dent
A LABOR REFORM UNION was recently
formed in Portland, Maine at the close OF
Mr.. Trevellicks' speech, when the follow
| ing officers were elected: President, John
b. Thorndike; Vice President, Albert II.
Waite; Recording Secretary, Alonzo 3.
Davis Treasurer, Nathaniel Walker
On Monday last, the firm of A. t. Briggs
coopers, of this city, aud Havemeyer q
Elder. sugar-refiners, of Wiiliamsburgh
undertook to reduce the wages of some Of
the men in their employ. The chiefs Of
the respective unions; on being informed
of the movement, Immediately instructed
all the men employed by the two firms
numbering about 800, to leave work. The
bosses tried to settle the matter with q
| compromise. The men, however, were
| determined not to have their wages re-
duced, and consequently held out. Yes
terday the bosses, finding themselves in an
unpleasant position, and with no chance
of the men returning to work unless at the
original rate of wages gave in, and the
men resumed work again. By the victory
the Coopers l. U. has shown its strength
and manfully sustained their standard
rate Of wages The various Unions are al
present so we'll organized that reduction
Of wages is almost an impossibility. The
only firm &C any consequence at present
employing non-society men, is that Of w
P. Benson & Co., of Washington street
| Nep York Star.
THE workingmen of Hartford are max.
| ing arrangements to have Wendell Phillips
speak in that city some tire in January, on
the subject of Capital and Labor.