New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-21
MEETINGS OF WORKINGMEN.
TIE HoD HOSTING ENGINEERS CHARGE AGAlNS
JUSTICE POWER.

THE uop HOSTING ENGINEERS CHARGE AGAINST
JUSTICE POWER.
John J. Mcguire, of the Unity Labor Club; prs-
sided at the meeting of the Central Labor Union
Yesterday at Odd Fellows Hall. Delegates from
Earnishers' Union, No Is, ana t6 9e Hoa
Hosting Engineers Union were Frci SGs'g Te
ported that on December 6, John Cavanagh, then
walking delegate swore out a summons aga aga Sc
Edelmeyer 81 Morgan for violation OF the act OF
April, 1862, governing steam boilers and ma
engineers. The summons was made returnaDie
on December TO- before Police Justice ;r rG%tr
tion and Cavanagh was referred to the Ponce COM
missioners. From them he was sent TO the Mayor
a letter 70 Justice Power stating that he had uris-
dictiOn Justice Power still refused to act, and the
matter laid before 2 S9 tSSi
Justice Power was a brother OF plasterer VINO had
made bitter fight against the union ana ne
Thought that this had something 70 do with his ac-
ton. He wished TO ascertain If Police JUS
tice had the power TO ignore sworn atnda-
Wit charging misdemeanor A commttee Was Sas
he striking gass-blowers was referred to the var
GUS unions for action. A delegate reported that
Professor Felix Adler had offered to give six free
concerts for the benefit of the Central Labor Union
upder the auspices of the Philharmonic society,
with Theodore Thomas as leader. A comm a1,bH
was appointed to confer with Professor Adler
meeting Of tugboatmen was held yesterday
afternoon in South Brooklyn, 10 consider the sob;
ject of the abandonment OF the Marine ttGpSPllal
dues 1t was the sense of the meeting that the hos
pital was of benefit chiefly to he Dummers OF
the business, who pretended sickness Definite
meeting of bollermakers was held
in Heatbs Hall in Columbia-st. South
Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, for the purpose
of organizing q union. 1t was decided to form q
secret organization to prevent the men from being
back-listed. .
in Fulton-ave on Saturday night TO discuss the
best means of shortening the hours of work and
raising the pay This is part OF general InoVemenU
in tins city, Brooklyn and Jersey City for reduc-
zion i'm the hours of work and advance IN pay on
April l.
WORK OF CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN JAPAN.
At the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church there was 10 sermon yesterday morning,
but the Rev. James VI. King announced that MISS
Snencer of the WOmens Foreign Missionary Society
Wpnld tell them what was done toward the
Christianzing of the people IN Japan MISS
Spencer spoke very SNIP y and with the totai an
ness and forgetfulness of Sc (. She sald mat ten
wears ago there was not a single baptized Japan IN
Schoolmaker. from the Women's Foreign Missionary
Society rented part Of Buddhist temple IRON an Ola
priest Who wanted money, aud tins was the germ
Of the homes witch were aiterwald formed. ana
winch had been so successful. 1t was found IN
practice when schools for japanese women we've
}orm.d tbot the children of wel-tO-do parents were
less desirable han others, because they were re-
moved at the ageOf fifteen and married. EXpeIlShce
led TO a SYSTEM which had worked well. lneV
hired by regular contract girls from seven 10 zen
wears OF age. guaranteeing TO support them ana 10
teach them ineSe literature, Japanese, ana d
thorough course OF EhCllsn IL, was guar dutee3
by the parents that girls should not he removed
n1til ,Ley finished their course of English and
renamed two years aferward as helpers IN the
homes Tie course of English lasted eight years,
and COMPRISED a thorOgh Biblical instruction. The
girls after married { ristian japanese and their
happy homes centres from W lch was dlifused
1, mild light of Christianity. Il teachers never
LEI GO their hold upon the girls affections but bv
correspondence and visits preserved their Influence,
In Illustration ef this she read letters which she
had received from some IF the girls, Oh-lao Sen,
Oh-yebi Sen and Oh-RiO-endO sen, which were
models Of unaffected English, full of tenderness aud
devoid of can't