New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-29
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
NO PARADE OF THE PIANOMAKERS.


NO PARADE OF THE PIANOMAKERS.
YEARS THAT THEY WOULD LOSE PUBLIC SYMPATHY
OPPOSING THE CONTRACT sYsTEM-oTHER
mass-mceting of the pianOmakers Of New-York
was held yesterday morning at Wendel's Assembly
Rooms in West Forty-fOurth-st. The Executive
Committee of the Union made report of the events
Of the week, which included an account of the
collapse of the lockout. The statement was made
that Haines Brothers and Grovesteen Fuller
have voluntarily promised their employees an adj
vance of wages. dating from to-day. Robert II.
Bartholomew announced that the Executive Com
nittee had reconsidered the matter of a general
parade of pianomagersrthi morning in honor OF
the victory of the Steinway men, and had decided
tina. no such demonstration should be made. as II
had been hastily determined upon, without CONSIDER
ing that the public sympathy might thereby be
alienated. The SteIuway men, said he, will march
from Turtle Bay Hall to the factory and formally
resume work, after which they Will return TO the
hall and lunch together.
Salvador Lagrasse who has heen prominent
figure at all meetings since the Steinway men
struck said lac was not satisfied, and did not con-
slider that 10 victory had yet been won ne piano,
makers, he said. cannot indulge IN iublauon untl
thev have SUCCEEDED in abOlishing the contract sys
tenn in operation at the factory of T. Hale Whch
enables Mr.. Hale TO undersell other manufacturers
and makes competition impossible for those VINO
pay good wages. In an attack on TINS contract ss-
TEN, he declared. the pian0makers would nave lhe
sympathy of the public and all the other piano hai'
Robert Blssert, of the Tailors' Union, said that
for seven years tie cause of labor had lam upon ire
dissectIng table, under the lance oil the caPllals.
A lockout was one of the most cruelty lnhnlnan
measures ever devised III -. ana the lockout ~
the pianomakers had proved to be tWo,edgtu s"oIu
Speeches were made in German by T. iiar'ung and
Frederic Shll who con graduated the planomakers
upOn the failure of the lockout, and urged them not
TO relax Their organization now that victory HIS
The employees of Henry Hermann, furnitnre man
ufacturer who last week. after strike lasiihg more
than a month. accepted terms offered pX MI. hcII-
manr. will strike again this moruing. The reason
fpr this action the ALE ged failure OF tlef CHI
ployer to keep his word. prlce-ist mas necn pre-
ia red which the say, does not equal the plol-
ised advance of 20 per cent IN some branches Whc
in one no advance ar all is made. Ihey therefore
yo ed at a meeting held on Saturday evening not 10
work until satisfactory list has been guaranteed.
The German TaiiorS Union No | met Yesterday
afternoon at No. as Avenue-A. few OF TIE mem
beers spoke in favor of beginning strike at once Tor
higher wages ard endeavoring to " call out all
the shops in trade, but the idea met with very
little favor A delegate from the Union of custom
talors invited the lourneyman talOTs 10 send COM
mltiee to a meeting To be held on wednesday
next to consult about the best way of etlectlng
grand Union of custom and journeymen tallorS, cut
tiers. etc. before making demand Tor an advance
in pay. A committee was also appointed TO draw
up petition or memorial to the employers on the
subject of wages.
Amoyement has he gun among the tailorcsses en-
plOved on fine custom work III New York to Sc cure
n uniform rate of wages. and to make that rate $40
O week. They receive from 50 10 - Week
number of labor agItatOrs have taken IN interest
i'm this movement and III accordance with thelT adj
vice the women working at the lallOrs Republic,
No 237 Grecne-st., and those employed by William
Strong, No. 100 Broadway VIII strike thI5 morning
for 10 week. In ease they succeed, II IS stated,
the women who work for NcOli aud Brooks Bros.
Will demand the same pay. and III case OF refusal
will strike work.
About fifty woOd-tuTners, representatives, OF the
different shops in the city, met yesterday morning
at No. Ali East Ffth-St., 10 discuss the adVsaDl-
ity of demanding an increase of wages. The wages
pad by the different shops AVERAGE Tl3 week
After some discussion II was decided to hold a
mass-meetug III Melody Hail next sunday, Tor The
purpose OF securing more members. when sum
GENTLY strong, the society intends to demand an
Increase of > per cent There are about 800 wood
turner's III the city. .
A special meeting of LOngshOremens Division No !
9 was held yesterday afternoon at No. 40 Narlck-st
for the purpC-e of forming Mutual Benefit mon
Owing TO a lack Of AIT ndance the meeting adj |
journed, after formally announcing another meet
ing, to take place on April y
The dry goods entry clerks of this city, aggre- |
eating in round numbers about GOO, met on Satur- |
day night to form an Entry Clerks Union" This !
meeting was called to take steps 10 recover the |
wages that the clerks have been deprived of during |
the last four OF FIVE years. After some premary |
point a committee to draw up statement ombodY- |
the wholesale dry goods and iobbng houses of this