The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-03-14

Trades Council, the following officers were
elected: Donald Robertson, president ;
Joseph Bsnlidh, vice-prssident; Thos. +.
Walker, recording secretary; John Linn
mond, corresponding secretary; J. 8. o.
Brirn, financial secretary; William Nc
Evela, treasurer.
A PAINTERS Protective Union has re-
Gently been formed in Toronto, Canada.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
mass meeting of the striking cotton
and wooden wea,ers from the mills of John
Scanhn and Dallas & Co., was held on the
9th inst, in Philadelphia. A motion to
continue ON strike caused some division
among Scan'in's hands, but finally pre-
vailed. The same motion was unanimous
ly carried by the employees Of Dallas
mills
CAMDEN IRON WORKERS.
The condition of the strikers in Cam
den is about the same as one Saturday.
Those employed in Starr Il Sons foundry
held a secret meeting on Saturday evening
TO advance their organization.
The silk weavers and other employees Of
mills in Kensington, held a mass meeting
on the 9th inst 1t was reported that the
crabbers and sergers had resumed work.
II was unanimously resolved TO hold out
until the desired advance is obtained, after
which the meeting adjourned.
The weavers and sPinners, to the num-
Der of upwards 5000. employed in the
mills along Cobb's creek, held mass meet
ing on the 10th, and unanimously resolved
to stand out on q strike till their employ
ers accede to the scale paid before the late
panic.
The manufac' urers in the southwestern
section Of the city will shortly yield the
-. vance desired.
The cotton and WOODEN weavers of Fair
mount and vicinity have refused to accede
to a compromise, and are determined to
carry their point.
The silk weavers, Of whom there are at
least !, 200, have held large meeting, and
are resolved to stand firm.
About 400 walters, working in different
hotels, are on strike. They agreed asst
night at their meeting, to wait upon the
hotel proprietors, and demand an increase.
The superintendent of two of the hotels
are willing to compromise.
The ingram carpet weavers employed by
John Armstrong are also on q strike tor an
advance.
TRADES ASSEMBLY OF OMAHA.
Thirty-four delegates from all the Labor
Unions IN this city assembled in Omaha
on the evening of the 9th, and formed a
Trades Assembly. The object of the
meeting was stated by the Chairman to he
the formation Of brotherhood Of labor.
He said this was the only way to protect
themselves against the non-producers, who
had intrenched themselves between two
oceans.
THE ST. CRIsPINs.
A strike took place on Monday last in
New York city among a number Of the
shoe shops. 1t is reported that the men
left work in eleven shops, demanding the
old rates Of Al, 81, and 81 cents for max
ing first, second and third class shoes.
large number Of cutters, who work by the
day also struck for the enforcement Of the
eight hour rule.
New Unions organized since last month
were No. of Iowa, Creston, by Specia
Deputy President Edw Turley, Of No. 3
of Iowa No. Of West Va, Wheeling
by Dep Pres. Samuel Parker
STOPPED WORK.
The hands employed in the shops at the
Susquehanna depot, on the New York anc
Erie railroad, stopped work on the I'd inst
and fha ahnna r..ur s.loaa1
The employees asked the company I,
comply with four distinct requests. l.
regular pay day on or before the 10th q
each month. ? Restoration Of the ole
system for passes g. Time and half fol
overwork. 4. A proper system of appren
ticeshIp rigidly adhered to.
These requests being refused by the com
pany the men quit WORK. Their list d
grievances is as follows
Many of the best and oldest workmeT
discharged without any assigned cause
wages cut down, and only paid when il
suited the company, having been for tbs
last four months kept two months in ar
rears passes restricted, and men, utterly
unskiilod, placed to work ON the sam'
wages as skilled mechanics.
The Ten Hour Bill still hangs fire in tn,
Massachusetts, Legislature.
The Manchester Manufacturing Compa
ny Of Gloucester, n. j., have discharged
700 men who asked for higher wages. Tn
discharged men, with their wives ant
children, assembled and threatened to fir
the mill
Mr.. j. w. Smith, general manager 0
the Erie and North Shore Line, has re
ceived a dispatch informing him that tn,
strike on the Lehigh Valley Railroad i
ended