The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-08-31
LABOR ITEMS

THE MONGoLIAN SLAvEs-A few days
since Hop King commenced SUIT against s.
Wolf in the Fifteenth District Court The
plaintiff alleges that in pursuance If con
tract he furnished sixty -hve a his country
men to the defendant to make shoes. He
complains that MEXICAN man" has kept
back from the pay 81 said workrnsn 1925
wherefore he demands judgment for the
amount
The Knights Of st. Cdspm. at Cincn-
natl, to the number Of 600, are On strike
The grounds Of complaint is partly on &C
count Of q rule Of the manufacturers refus-
ing to employ strikers from other factories,
and partly on account Of the manufactur-
ers violating the rule which forbids the
taking Of apprentices not sons Of the
knights Of st. Crispin.
A Coon MovEAENT.-The st. LOuis
workimgmen have organized an Operative
Building Trades Council, composed Of
stone-cutterS, stone-masons, bricklayers,
carpenters and joiners, and Plasterers. Its
object IA to reduce the hours II lsboF TO
eight per day. They claim that, a. ma
chlRery has To . great extent limited the
amount Of human, labor required, there
fore, TO give employment TO all mechanics,
the hours Of labor should be shortened.
A NINE Hours STRIKE.-The Journey
men bricklsyers Of st. Louis have been On
a strike for nine hours work and ten hours
wages, during the past week, and on Thurs
day the bosses met their committee and
acceeded 70 the terms, with the proyisO
that hereafter work be done by the hour.
The committee we're not instructed upon
this point, and asked time to confer with
the strikers The matter will probably be
satisfactorily arranged.
ALABAMA has IA wooden mills, with "a
sets Of cards Arkansas, 10 and II Cali
fornia, 6and 90 ; Connecticut, lO9 and 500;
Delaware, III and 30 Florida l and
Georgia, "A and IS Illinois, 100 and 254
Indiana, LIS and BAG Iowa, IS and 1876
Kansas, and "a Kentucky, 80 and 81
Louisiana, 8 and IL Maine, LOT and 33l
Maryland, 30 and 90 Massachusetts, 1872
and l4l8 Michigan, "a and lis Mime
sofa, 10 and 10 Mississippi. 3 and l3
Missouri, 156 and 258. New Hampshire,
q and sos New Jersey 20 and 81 New
York, PAS and 834 North Carolina AZ
and 40 Ohio, PIG and 357 Oregon, o and
l6; Pennsylvania, All and 1860 Rhode
Island, "a and 400 South Carolina, ID
and % Tennessee, AZ and l76 Texas,
70 and % Vermont, IS and It's Virgin
ia, 81 and lO9 West Virginia, ~ ana 49,
Wisconsin, "a and 1871 ; New Mckee. ] and
S4l9 sets Of cards
Foreign.
WORKING MEE's CANDIDATE FOR Mon
PETH.-On Tuesday night meeting "
miners was held in Norpeth, at which Mr.
Burt, agent Of the Northumberland
Miners Association, was nominated as a
working man representative Of the
borough.
The OXFoRDsHIRE LABoRERs We
learn from Oxford that there il at present
no chance Of the differences between the
farmers and laborers Of that locality be-
ing amicably settled Three hundred la-I
bOrers on strike pa AIDED the streets of the
city Of Oxford with band on Saturday
market day., and afterwards held large
meeting at the Martyrs, Memorial The
sympathy Of the Oxford public Is generally
with the men.
THE LONDON BAKERS On Saturday
evening a meeting " journeymen and op-
erative bakers was held in the Old Kent
road, at which reports were read from the
OohtEAi DOdFu VI the LNlluOn U mon. pro
posing that twelve masters on an open and
public platform, to decide the question
with respect to the bakers grievances gen
orally. The demands Of the men are-ths
total abolition 81 night work, a slight rise
Of wages, and the abolition 81 Sunday la
Dor upon the last point the feeling Of the
men being very strong. The reports ofthe
Central Beard we're adopted
TRADES MEETING AT W1sHAw On
Monday night a large meeting Of smiths,
joiners, and laborers Of the district was
held in the Public Park 70 hear the dep
utatiOns' reports. Some Of the employers
were willing ~ concede the advance asked
for (3s per week, others were willing %
give y per week OF an advance, and from
some no definite answer had been got.
After long discussion, It was resolved
that the men work another day, and have
meeting with the manager or master;
and In event Of the terms not being grant
ed, it was resolved u cease work The
meeting was Of AT extreamly orderly
character