The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-08-12

yards in that city by the Brooklyn so
ciety men.
ERIE RAILWAY.
1t is reported that a general strike Of
the engineers and brakemen on the Erie
railway il imminent, in consequence Of the
non-payment Of their wages.
FRENCH woRKINGMEN.
The Lyons delegation of French Work
ingmen, some thirty-three in number,
have returned TO this city from Philadel-
phia. where they have been for some time
viewing the Exhibition. They are now
visiting the City Hall, new Post Office,
Department Of Charities and Corrections,
and the public institutions of this city and
county. On Friday they will accept the
hospitalities OF the French workingmeu
OF this city, and on Saturday take their
departure for France.
The third delegation Of French work
ingmen appointed by the French govern
ment are expected to arrive in this city on
the steamship Labrador, about the 18th
inst. They number sixty agriculturists
and mechanics. They will be Hospitality
received and entertained at a festival
held at Jones Woods, rendered them by
the wOrkingmen's reception committee, Of
this city.
NEW JERSEY LABOR ITEMS.
For time past the workmen employed
in Bannister & Tichnor's shoe factr.ry al
Newark, N. j., have been on a strike
against reduction Of wages. The filters
and operators of the different shoe facto-
rie' in that city have held meeting and
resolved to assist those on strike in their
efforts to sustain prices.
The employees in j. r. Thompson a
Co. 3 steel works, in Jersey City, have re.
ceived notice that their wages we're to be
reduced from ten to twenty per cent. Oh
and after July 3lst.
The silk weavers employed in Pelgrau
q Mayors silk mill, in Ward street, Pat.
terson, having made demand for an in.
crease of wages, aud their demand not
being complied with, went on strike on
Mondry last The proprietors claim that
their present pay will average two dollar
and fifty cents per day.
A few days ago the Central railroad
company of New Jersey notified their en-
ployes that their pay would be reduced
ten per cent. ON and after August LIST.
The locomotive engineers having assem-
bled III conference to discuss the proposed
reduction, appointed committee to wait
on Superintendent Rucker and protest
against the reduction. The committee,
representing the Engineers Association 81
the Central railroad aud the Lehigh anJ
Susquehanna division, went to Elizabeth
N. j., to confer with the superintendent
but failed to see him. A strike Of the EN-
gineers is imminent unless the matter il
arranged to their satisfaction
The Pennsylvania railroad company OF
August LIST. discharged it is said tempo
rarily-eight hundred men employed OF
the road between Jersey City and Pitts
burg.
The laborers employed at the Bayonne
n. J. coal docks, who have been receIvin.
eighteen cents per hour, have received no
tlce from the superintendent that thei
wages hereafter will be sixteen cents pei
hour. Only think Of it One dollar am
sixty cents for ten hours Of the most labO
rious kind Of work. Well may it be said
God pity the poor" 1t is evident thai
no pity may be expected from coal ant
railroad corporations, who combine MOI
only to Cypress the poor workingman, hu
the entire people of our cities. God gran
that the day may speedily come that vii
crush out these monstrOus mOnopolie
from our land, and the workingman one
more be enabled to receive a fair remu
neration for his labor
VIM. J. JESSUP.