Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-01

AT meeting of the journeymen taiors
at Boston Tuesday evening resolution
to carry on the strike to the bitter end
was adopted.
The masons and bricklayers of MiIwau-
kee, WIS. who We're on strike to the
number of 400, have succeeded in main
! tanning the eight-hour day, and have re-
turned to work.
II is said that the Watson Iron Works
OF bridgeport are paying the best wages
Tor their line of work in the State The
Natsons are fortunate in having organ
lied workmen in their employ.
The strike at the Bridgeport Malleable
Iron Works has ended. The men were
ordered to so back by the Knights of
Labor last Monday, the reason given be-
ing that the strike was not authorized by
the rules.
Many of the cigarmakers' who went to
san Francisco some time ago To take the
place of Chinese, are now walking the
streets, the Chinese having succeeded in
monopoizing the commercial as well ;s
industrial departments of the business.
General b. +. Butler has been secured
as counsel by William B. O'keeie and
Peter McGough, members of the EXecu-
tive Board of District Assembly n.
knights Of Labor, on warrant for CON
splracy in hoycotting Charles Harrington
< Co., the leather manufacturers.
John Il. Squires, the proprietor of u
large pork packing establishment at Cam
bridge, Mass, has locked out about one
thousand workmen and shut down his
shop because they We're knights of La
bor. 1t is believed to be bull doing
game. lie threatens to remove his bust
ness to Kansas
The chimney and pre-, ed glass factories
which have been closed since July for
the summer suspension, will resume OPP
eratlons Monday. Ii is predicted that
tie output for the coming year will be
the largest in the history of the trade
Both the bosses and the workers have
Hin q fa,.al "a: 4.is4.aa.ia
1t is said that the Canadian govern
ment for the last two years has kept two
detectives at Chicago tracing the connec-
tion OF dynamlters with the Riel rebellion
and other lnsurrectionary movements
They have suddenly left town for fear of
being summoned to testify in the anarch-
ist trial.
Governor Hill, of New York, said Tues
day that the delegation appointed to ask
him to release the imprisoned Thesis boy
cotters has not been around since the first
visit during the Albany bi centennial eel
ebration. Their papers were then not in
the proper form and We're not put on
file is the plausible excuse that will give
the Governor more time and delay JUS
tlce.
The drivers and conductors employed
by the Stoneham, Mass, Horse Railroad
Company were informed Tuesday that
they must give up their membership in
the Knights of Labor or consider them
selves discharged. Precisely; and SO the
railroad company mustn't complain If
the workingmen discharge their grocer
and tailor and bank president should they
refuse to quit riding on the company's 3
cars.
The young foreman of Green x Co s
machine works ut GreenpOlnt, N. y,
shook his fist in the face OF gray haired
machinist last Tuesday and threatened to
punch his head" All of the seventy
five employees, who have other complaints
to make about the foreman's tyranny, at
once put once put on their coats and left
the shops. The have notified Green &
Co. that they will not return to work un-
til the foreman is discharged.
The New York Central Labor Union
has issued a proclamation "to the toilers
Of New York city" appointing the first
Monday in September as "Labor's lloli-
day" The union asks the workers 'io
leave factories, fotndries, and mills to
take care of themselves, and to share in
the leisure which belongs TO all men and
women of toll, For three hundred days
out Of the year you are huddled in dingy
factories, mills, and workshops, tortured
by the heat, the dust. the roar and hustle
Of machinery. You have earned the
brief respite from labor which we have
set apart; therefore turn out and enjoy
it..
District 40 is making itself conspicu-
GUS i'll manner worthy of some Eastern
potentate. lt-that is, some of its Off
cefs--titiiiand of the members ot n trades
union who are also members of the n. Of
h., to deliver up their union working
cards to the District. and leave their
unions or be expelled from the Order
This is refreshing in the extreme this hot
weather. The union men refuse, and
the music begins. Cigarmakers, of
course. The agitation will no doubt
have good results for the craft. About
three thousand cigarmakers are locked
out under an arrangement of the bosses
and Knights of Labor. The locked-out
men are all Knights.