The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-04-19
LABOR MEMS.

THE Rhode Island branch of the New
England Ten Hour Association viii hold
their grand State Convention at the Office
Of the New England Register, l25 Broad
Street, Providence, r. l., on Sunday, Apr.
10Th, at 10 O'Clock, a. m.
Operatives working in Cotton, Wooden,
Thread and Hair Cloth Factories in this
State are particulars requested to send
delegates to the same.
BY order of the Executive Committee.
Simon MORGAN, President
JAMES THORNTON, Gen. Secretary.
LET every reader of the ADVOCATE make
it point to read the letter Of w. j. Jes-
sup In this weeks issue.
From the Lawrence journal, April ~.
On Thursday last the Labor Committee
to whom was referred the several petitions
IN favor of Ten Hour law, reported mex
pedlent to legislate. A minority reported
. bill providing that no minor under Is
years Of age, and no female over that age,
shall be employed in any manufacturing
establishment over Ten Hours day or
sixteen hours q week.
1t is now necessary that petitions from
all our manufacturing towns and cities, be
sent in. Factory agents have been before
the labor committee and testified that the
operatives do not want any change. In
order to show that their statements are
false we must exercise the right Of petit
ton.
The rolling mill at Parkersburg, Ches-
ter County, Pa, has commenced opera
tlOns.
THE Topton Iron Company, Of Reading,
have broken ground for their new furnace
SIX dollars per day is puddlers wages at
Scranton.
The rolling mill at Kittanning, Pa, has
suspended operations, temporarily.
Two new furnaces are in course Of cree
ton at Cornwall, Lebanon county, Pa.
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, offers ten
thousand dollars and exemption from tax
alton for ten years, to any company that
will establish a car factory there, to employ
at least hundred men
The Alabamy Adcance says: ''The great
blasting furnaces Of the Red Mountain
Company, soon to be in operation under
the guidance Of Daniel Pratt f; the compa-
MES lately organized by Burwell Lewis and
others; and one now proposed by Col.
James l.. Tate, our late commissioner on
Industrial Resources, proclaim that Ala
bama is walking to her true interests at
last. Let Montgomery erect furnaces
along the bank Of the river, and bring the
ore to her doors.
JAS. A. PECK, of New Haven, Conn. !,
has been elected to represent Louisville
Typographical Union, No. 10, at the
twenty-frst session Of the international
Typographical Union, which convenes At
Montreal, June 2.
THE Rail Catcher Of Youngstown, Ohio,
are organizing a union to protect them
selves from the growing eReroachment
Of the capitalists This Is move in the
right direction. r.
the Lehigh pa } district has six new
blast furnaces nearly compl eted, and three
more are to be erected the coming summer.
THE Exeter, N. H. manufact uring com
psny are preparing 10 erect an addition to
their factory buildings which when finish
ed will enable them to add III. O00 spin
dies, and double the amount of their pro-
duction. r Lu
faR Union Straw Company Of Foxboro,
Mass, are said 20 be the largest in the
United States. They employ 600 persons.
Both mems and wOmens hats are manu-
factured. Much Of the work II done by
machinery. I"
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