The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-03-28
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TRADES ASSEMBLY has been organized
in Terre Haute, Ind.
The Manchester Manufacturing Com
pany of Gloucester, y. ). have discharged
700 men who asked for higher wages
The employees in Stevens Mill, North
Andover, who struck last week for higher
pay, have not yet gone to work.
LARGE number Of employees Of he p
r. r. shops at Altoona were discharged
Friday last at this end of line it is report
ed quite number will be dish Used before
the end Of the month.
THE Singer sewing machine works at
South Bend, Ind. have commenced run
ming on full time, giving employment to
nearly 700 men, who had been On half time
since November last.
The strike among the heaters, roughers
and pliers at the Glen Mil, Allentown,
still continues, and there IS but little pros
pect that the difficulty viii be settled for
the present. SIX furnaces are i'll full oper
alton, the strike having only stopped two.
THE weavers in the Assabet Wooden
Mills, on receiving their pay. Saturday,
struck for the ten per cent which was taken
off them last month The spinners follow
ed suit on Monday, and the mills were
obliged to shut down.
NEW YORK. March "a The freightmen
Of the Pennsylvania Central railroad, who
struck for an advance Of wages, have re-
turned to work at l7t cents an hour, and
the promise Of an increase should other
companies make an advance.
JERSEY CITY, March 2l-Over 900 la
borers employed in excavating III the new
tunnel Of the DelawN~ Tl-Eawanna q
Great Western railrU. at E.l..n Hill,
went out On strike yesterday for an ad
vance of twenty-five cents day. Their
present wages are Sl.5Oper day. Contrac-
tors refuse to pay the advance.
On the let Tuesday in May the State Elk
ecutive Committee of the Nottingham 5
Labor In On Of Tennessee will meet in
Nashville, for the purpose Of organizing
and determining upon time for State
committee to select a candidate for Govern
or, and make such other arrangements as
they may deem necessary for the success Of
the party in that State.
OF the fifty-seven rail mills in operation
in this country, previous to the panic, there
are but ten running on half and full time.
The fifty mills, when in full operation, EN-
ployed fifty-one thousand and five hundred
hands. thirty Thousand OF whom were who'll
Iy unemployed during the winter, and ten
thousand employed half time, leaving but
a fraction over eleven thousand hands, out
of the fifty one thousand, employed on full
time.
BUFFALO, n. Y, March Pa very
large meeting Of the Ship Carpenters and
Caukers' Union was held al their hall
Tuesday night. The hall was crowded, and
the members continued in secret session
until nearly midnight. Stirring speeches
were made, and the 400 strikers renewed
their pledge to hold ont until the ship
builders conceded their demand, viz 81. 90
instead Of $500 per day. They say that
they can stand strike for six months, If
necessary.
New ORLEANS, March % The Union
printers all struck to-day against a reduc-
ton of wages The proprietors offer 90
cents per ,000-the printers demand 60.
The strike interferes with the PiodyiUte
and Times. Neither Of them will issue to-
morrow. The Bee and Republican will go
on without interruption.
The latest news is that the printers have
been successful, and are at work at their
own price.
AT regular meeting Of the Monroe
county IN Y.,) Workingman's Assembly
held in Rochester on Thursday evening,
March 18th, the following officers were
elected President, Theodore Fitzgerald /;
vice-president, A. p Toilet; recording
secretary, Myles McFadden correspond
ing secretary, Chris. Kane; financial secre-
t. v, b. X. Blazo treasurer, James o.
Hara sergeant-at-ar 5. G. Chare.
The election of trustees was laid over I'M
til next meeting.
Communications from Hon. +. h. Clark,
M. c., and Robert Schilling, president Of
Industrial Congress, were read and accept
ed
James O'Hara was chosen delegate to
the Industrial Congress, which meets in
this city on the l4th of April.