The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-18

A. w. PHELPS, Treasurer of the
National Labor Union, is a candidate
for the Legislature OH the Reform tick.
et-Connecticut.
A New Union Of Carpenters and
Joiners was instituted on the evening
of January 3lst, at Camden, N. J. It
promises to be one of the best under
the jurisdiction of the National Union.
The members of the Iron Moulders'
Union of Toronto, Canada, are at pres
ent on strike.
M. PAPIN, a French gentleman. in
terested especially in cooperation as .
meaps of ameliorsting the condition Of
the working classes, is engaged with
others in organizing co operative
colony to settle, with the consent and
approval Of the government, at point
already chosen, in the Indian Terrific
ry. One purpose of the colony is to
cultivate amicable relations with the
Indians to adopt them as members Of
the colony, to give them practical edu-
cation in agriculture and the branches
of mechanism, and to improve the con-
ditiOn of the white cOlonists from the
East as well. M. Papin's idea is ex-
cellent, and we hope all the good re-
suits he anticipates may be fully real
lied. The regulations and restrictions
intended to govern the affairs Of she
colony are Of most wholesome char
acter.
Our old and respected friend, A. T.
Cavis, formerly Vice-President Of the
National Labor Union, has just
been elected Pre7ident of the Colum-
bia Typographical Union.
The printers Of Oswego, n Y. I;
Jersey City, N. j.; and Savannah, Ga;
have been on strikes. The printers in
Huntsville, Ala, and WiIkesbarre, Pa,
are about forming Typographical
Unions.
THE Typographical Unions OF
Charleston, S. c., and New Haven
Conn, are in very fourishing condi-
ton.
II is estimated that the Savings Banks
Of California have $4,000 depositors
and an aggregate capital of $40, 0Oo, 600
showing a larger proportion Of thrifty
persons according to population thar
the Oldest States of the Union.
A COOPERATIVE iron and steel asso
citation has come into being at DanviIle
Pa. They have their act of iacorpora
ton and are expected to. become an
organization of some consequence.
Mr.. WV. H. Cons, of weare, hae
accepted the Labor Reform nomination
for Congress 10 the Second New Hamp.
shire District.
TIE Austrolion typographical Union
published in Melbourne, contains a
letter from Sydney, under date of Nov
sOth, 1871, which says, Business is all
but ruined, and the occupation Of the
compositor almost gone, because in al.
most every Office you will End feet Of
boys, most of them uniDdentured."
THE I'd of February has been fixed
as the day on which Mr.. Hughes, M.
p, shall arbitrate in the question as to
the proposed reduction Of FIVE per
cent in wages in the North of England
iron trade.
The movement Of the workmen in
the Tyneside factories to obtain chean
trains along the river side has beep
unsuccessful, a note having been re-
ceived by the Secretary to the move
ment from the North Eastern Railroad
Directors, to the effect that they do
not at present see the possibility of
granting the boon.
SHIP building is very dull at Dundee,
Scotland, and nearly all the carpenters
and joiners have been discharged.
The dispute in the Iron Trade in the
neighborhood of Glasgow, still contin-
ues, the men being determined not to
submit to the proposed reduction.
SrRIKE-The shoemakers in the en-
pIoy of the Dumfermline Cooperative
Society came out on the 23d of Janu-
airy. Their places have been filed mp
with other hands. The cause Of the
strike was question of hours