The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-12-30
LABOR ITEMS.

The Swiss Workingmen's Societies Of
New York are making arrangements for a
national festival TO be held next Summer.
There are at present two Unions Of Cloth
ing Cutters, in New York, one German and
one English speaking, besides a Grand
Lodge, the business OF all of which is trans
acted with closed doors.
The Carpenters and Joiners' National
Union has ceased to exist as an organiZa-
ton.
The five Crispin Cooperative Boot and
Shoe Manufactures in New York are all
represented AS being in a dourshing con
ditiOn, considering the somewhat dull ma
ture Of the trade at present
The Naumkeag Mills Of Salem have con-
tracted for a large number of Coolie labor
ers who are now GU the way, and will soon
arrive.
The Hope Iron Works, of Providence,
r. l., are to be removed to Fall River,
where they will occupy fifteen acres Of
land.
AT a recent meeting of the Cincinnati
Board of County Commissioners the fol-
lowing resolution was passed
ResolUed, That from and after the first
day of January, 1872, the pay of the Court
house employees be reduced TO the follow
ing prices Carpenters, e18 per week fire.
men, $lS per week; janitOrs, els per
week
The Lynn Crispin Cooperative Company
for the manufacture of boots and shoes has
issued its Constitutions and Bylaws
Meetings to add to the membership, are
knlA A.
trade are eligible. The capital stock is
5000 with leave to increase to $4,000
The shares are IS. and no one is TO hold
more than one hundred of them.
AT the Labor Reform State Convention
in New Hampshire, Hon. W. H. Cove o
Weare presided. One hundred and thirty
seven delegates were reported. Lemuel p.
Cooper OF Croydon, was nominated for
Governor, and Levi B. Tucker, of Plaistow
for Railway Commissioner Councillors
and Senators were nominated in nearly
every district on the same day. First rate
men were put forward in nearly every case
The platform consisted of twelve planks,
the one most directly bearing upon indus
trial affairs being anti Coolie in its nature
The State Committee organized with Lean
der w. Cogswell as Chairman Alonzo J.
FOgg, Secretary; John H. Goodale, Treas
urer.
THE Painters C Boston have at last
rallied their forces and formed an Associa-
ton.
SOME Of the Westfield cigar making CO.
operators have recently been purchasing
house lots and so preparing to establish
homes for themselves.
BRIcKLAYERs pay in New York-e4.O0
$3.50 per day Silver gilders in the same
city average tl6 week.
The NeW York Star says: The tallest
trades unionist in this city IL DAILY, Of the
VSmishners and Polishers; the shortest,
Schaffer, Of the Clothing Cutters; the fat.
test, Tucker, of the Tailon and the lean
eat, Jessup, Of the Carpenters.
TIE Bricklayers Of Greenpoint and
Long Island City intend to demand the
enforcement of the 8 hour system.
TIE Miners Journal, published at Hub |
bardstown Ohio, says;
The long looked for rolling mill ID now
certain to be built in this village. Our
citizens have subscribed about the required
bonus, and the committee have secured the |
company who are 10 build it, but more of |
this at some future time.
THERE is an evident disposition among
the Painters to supply q long needed /
want National Trades Organization.
Ar the machine shops of the N. Y. |
Central Railroad there has been of late .
somewhat curious strike-s strike for ten |
hours labor and ten hours pay. The COM
pany 1t seems had put the men on nine
hours time at reduced rates of pay, upon
the pleas Of slack work and expense of |
lights, but the men were dissatisfied and
turned out
There are at present but two female
trades organizations In N. Y. city-the
Umbrella and Psrasolmakers, numbering
l zoe members, and the Typos. numbering
50 members.
A cooperative carpenters association,
which lately hourished in N Y. city, has
cavef for want of patronage. A simn-
lar fate has fallen upon q cooperative
grocery and provision experiment there |