The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-05-01

uaNe Deen organized as knights o.
Labor.
The yardmen of the Southern Pacifi,
Railway at 1Iou toH, Texas. have strucl
because OF the employment of an CD
noNious and incompetent man on tho
force.
The Miners and Laborers Amqlga-
mattel Association paraded and held 9
mass meeting in favor Of the eight hcur
movement at Shamokin, Pa, Monday
when $500 men were in line.
Many bricklayers at Harrisburg. Pa.
were thrown out of work and business
generally suspended Monday by strike
of the Ilod Carriers Association for an
inc ease of wages from SLID to 50.
The strike OF the Brooklyn storemer
was virtually brought to all end Monday
evening. Jeremiah Robinson signed
the agreement prepared by the strikers
and his example was followed by Others
OF the WarehouSemen.
1t is proposed to separate the shoe
trade workers, now in the Knights OF
Labor in Massachusetts, into a district
assembly of their trade. The shoe op.
eratives of Philadelphia, to the number
OF several thousand, are so organized.
There seems no prospect at present Of
settling the bituminOus miners strike
in the Cleariield district of Pennsylvania.
The operators claim h y are willing tc
give mp their store order sys TEN, bu;
that they cannot advance wages.
The Jewett stove works of Buffalo
which closed on Saturday because tho
worNincn were preparing to demand al
increase of - per cent. in wages, re.
opened Monday, arrangement fora com.
romise with the men having been made.
Tho strike of the coal beavers of the
Cons Ii tate Comp my of iIo5o1en S
~ IN progress. The men held ameet.
Il Monday night AMI effected prrma.
neht organization. Applica ton will be
made for admission to the Knights of
Labor.
The General Assembly of the knights
of Labor will at its Cleveland meeting
consider the raising of very large de-
fence fund. One million dollars could
be RAISED in year by per capita tax
OF p or less. Fifteen cents per month
will do IL.
Districts so, 77and IS, comprising the
greater body of the skilled wage laborof
Massachusetts,, and of the shoe ana cot
ton trades in the same State and in New
Halspshire and Maine. are in session.
a boycott OF the Gould traffic is talked
of
The business headquarters of General
Master Workman Powderly have been
removed to Philadelphia. Heretofore.
as a matter of economy in the way of
Office rent, etc, he has conducted the
executive business of the Knights of
Labor a. his home in Scranton.
The cloth NJ trade strike in Mi!wau-
kee, embracing 1900 operatives, has
beer compromised, and the hands will
go to work. Milwaukee obtained great
deal OF clothing manufacturing because
OF It's labor having been cheap and un-
feco%hizel. As the trade increas ell or
ganlzation has followed, and the opera
Iives wanted as much as their confrcres
elsewhere.
General Master Workman Powderh
has called a general assembly of tht
knights of Lobor of the United States
ana the Dominion of Cana la to meet in
Cleveland on May %. This will be a
special meeting TO consider the general
labor troubles throughout the country
an! the proposed legislation with refer.
ehce 10 some system of arbitration in
disputes between employers and EN-.
ployes.
The Callaghan cotton AMI woollen
mills at Ang0ra, Philadelphia, have
been shut down by the firm. Three
hundred hands are idle as a result Six
boys who received SIP per mouth wantef
Sl4. They were refused aud then quil
work. No one could be got at the WAGE.
to till their places. Most of the opcra-
tors being Knights of Labor, their arbi-
trdtion board attempted to settle MAJ
ters. The firm declared that they
wanted no members of the order in their
employ.
Chicago is the centre of the most ac
tive eight hour agitation. The Trade
Assembly of that city has a committee
/ charge of the movement, by whom
an address has been issued advising that
all ira les ivoid making a failure of the
10y refusing. where il l.; de-
manded, a corresponding reduction in
wages, citing the fact that the Brick
layers and SlOnemasons' Union and the
Cigar makers international Union have
already agreed to accept such a reduc-
tion.
The coal and coke miners and oven
men of tie COnrcll'ville pa J distri
have be II agree, bl g a fled by anal
ance I'm wages, To begin Nav |, Tlr
scale Increases coke drawers wages fro II
sixty and siXty-iive to siNty-five an
seventy cents per oven; for loading boz
cars, elghty-llve cents to 81 are to b,
pald, rs against uniform rate of eighty
cents Miners wages are advanced )
per cent, the rate now being ninety
lye cents per hundred bushels. The
price OF coke will be increased from
Sl.35 to Sl.5O per ton, to take effect the
same date. Over 10000 workmen are
affected.
n meeting OF the master carpenters
was held at Industrial Art Hal, Phila-
iclphia, Monday to receive the report of
he committee appointed at the last
meeting to ascertain when the Journey
men carpenters wanted their demands
% go into operation, The committee
that the men demanded thar
'tter the first Monday ia Nav they were 1
o receive SID per day and work from |
10 II y, VI. and from / to 5 l.. NJ. (
ind that non-uniOn men were to be dis
'harged. The master carpenters agreed I
o giant 50. 70 per day of nine hours TO
KILLED labor only and refused TO dis
'harge good non-union workmen, many
v whom, they claimed. had been i'm
heir employ for years. The chairman
taled thar he would as soon ask an
pplieant for work If he was Methodist
Y a Baptist as 10 ask him if he were
nion man.