The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-05-09
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE LABOR WORLD.
The Trades Assembly Of Milwaukee
Aourishes like green bay tres.
The Boston Eight Hour meeting, ON the
18th inst, will be held in FaneuiI Hall
Demonstrations will also he held in New
York, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Mil
yankee and Indianapolis. Our mining
friends throughout the Northwest are also
bes,irring themselves, and are determined
to speak in no uncertain sounds ON that
occasion.
The projected Glass Works at Peoria
have been abandoned. The projectors have
gone home, and will locate somewhere else
A strike has occurred in the. glass works
at Clayton, N. D., ON demand Of the ope-
ratlves that they pay every two weeks, and
they receive $40 cash instead Of company
store orders.
The strike Of the Stonecutters working
on the new capitol at Lansing, Mich, con
tinues. They demand 1915 per day, the
contractors offer 1925.
A MEETING of the delegates from the
several Trades Unions Of lafayette, Ind.
have taken the initiatory steps to organize
a Trades Unions. They write encourag
ingly Of the prospect.
The First Manhattan Cooperative
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer Association,
Of New York, has failed.
The Machinists and Blacksmiths.
new Union has been organized at Belle
vile, ILL.,, and is known as NJ. IL b. Union
No. rs Of Illinois.
Waterloo, Ia, wants Machinists' I'M
ion, and has received the Necessary instruc-
tions to organize.
NEW FEATURE.
new feature has been introduced into
the Machinists and Blacksmiths' Interna-
tional Union, which enables the members
of that organization to purchase the neces-
saries of life on an average of IL per cent.
cheaper than non Union men can purchase
them. Unions that have adopted the com
merclal feature will please report its work
ings, in order to enable us to lay the sub
ject before our readers with view Of
showing them the benefits of our order.
STATE OF TRADE.
Trade has improved somewhat since last
]
men willing to work will want for employ
ment in a few weeks. The business of the
country seems t. be settling down on a
solid basis We can only hope that it may
continue to improve until there is not a
laborer in the land whose family need suf-
fer for the necessaries of life.
The Puddlers and Rollers.
Evansville's good rolling mill is to be
sold and moved away.
The Joliet Iron works have suspended
operations for at least year to come.
The Wyandotte Rolling Mills common
ced operations last week. They are to roll
600 tons Of thirty pound rails for the Den
yer and Rio Grande Railway Company.
The Escanaba furnaces went again int
blast last week, making their first cast on
Friday morning.
The Printers.
The Philadelphia Typographical Union
has appointed committees in every print
ing qtice in the city, to solicit subscrip.
tIons for the Centennial stock among the
journeymen. Some Of the committees have
already met with much success.
TIE newspaper composltors Of London
recently held meeting in that city, the
object being to take into consideration the
advisability of asking an advance of ID.
per 900, and also to discuss and adopt
some measure leading to a remedy of the
many existing evils Of which they com
plain. The meeting was well attended,
and the several questions discussed intelli.
gently and calmly. 1t is expected that the
proprietors will concede the advance to the
compositors when they ask for it.
The Printing business in Dublin con
tinues very dull, and in consequence a
large number of men are out of work Al
though the quantity Of work has greatly
increased III that city the past five years,
! yet the number Of workmen augments in a
greater ratio, leaving a larger number OF
of workmen out of employment than ever
before. The newspaper and book hands
complain Of waiting for copy" during
working hours, without compensation, and
they have issued circular, with a state
ment OF their grievances, to their fellow
workmen, asking them to cooperate in any
Just and honorable measure that will bring
about remedy Of the evils they have SO
long labored under.
AN agitation, which commenced some
months ago, among the Printers of Man
chester, Eng, for an advance in wages, re-
suited in the adoption of the following
terms offered by the proprietors. The men
employed on daily newspapers at night art
to be paid at the rate of 81 Is. per week OF
hfty-one hours, with lid, per hour over.
time. Men employed iii the same offices
by day are to receive 36s. per week Of fifty
three hours, with 10d. per hour overtime
up to O'Clock, p. M, and Is. per hour
after that time casual hands to be paid
Sd. per hour. Men employed in job offices,
and weekly news hands, are to receive 35s.
per week Of ffty-tive hours, with 10d per
hour overtime. These new regulations
went in force March 1.
A New Orleans paper tells Of printer
who, when his fellow wOrkmen went out
to drink beer during working hours, put
into bank the exact amount he would have
spent if he had gone out to drink. He
thus kept his resolution for five years. He
then examined his bank account, and found
that he had on deposit 1921 SO. In the
i've years he had not lost day from i'll
health. Three out Of FIVE Of his fellow
workmen had, in the meantime, become
drunkards, worthless, and were discharged.
The water drinker then bought out the
printing Office, went on enlarging the bus
mess, and in twenty years from the time
ne began to put away his money, was worth
800, 900 Printers Circular.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION No. 6, held an
exciting election on last Tuesday evening
for Delegates to the International Conven-
ton which meets at st. Louis next month.
| There were a numher of candidates. in tho
field. The polls opened at 10 a. m, and
were not closed until the same hour in
the evening. About 1000 votes were