Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-02-14
LABOR NOTES.

LOCAL.
4 member Of the Stonemasons' Union
who has been i'll for some time was the
recipient of a timely present of 50 from
his Union last week.
The rubber workers of Naugatuck are
agitating for the formation Of a Rubber
Workers Union, and the prospects are
that a convention will be held in this
city early next month for that purpose.
Further information at this office.
In the Candee Rubber shop, recently,
young lady was reading the WORK
MEMS ADVOCATE, when ii foreman
came along and locked her one-half a
set of shoes--eight pairs. He claimed
that the work upon them was not done
right, but he would not show in what
respect. nor could the other operatives
discover it. Evidently the ADVOCATE
had the same effect upon this lOrdly man
that q red cloth has upon bull. lie
will probably become better "educatcd"
as time rolls ON.
DOMESTIC.
1t is reported from Cleveland that
some of the clocks of the early closing
firms are beginning to get sloW-at
night They will be looked after.
The Boycott Committee Of the Chca-
go Trades Assembly is engaged i'll per
fecting plans to bring about general on
slaught upon all kinds Of prisUn-lnade
goods Their first efforts will be directed
against the contractors at the Illinois
State prisons.
The Otis Rolling Mill Company, tleNe-
land, has been pumping its water from
the lake near the mill. Several sewers
empty into the lake in the vicinity, The
men have been drinking the water and
consequently there is an epidemic of ty-
phoid fever among them. \ large num-
her have been attacked.
According to some unofficial accounts
the Knights Of Labor have been asked
to settle the great strike of the coke
workers in Pennsylvania, which contln-
ues. The manufacturers have been
compelled by the strikers to close all
their ovens. Many of the strikers are
actually starving, and desperate deeds
are looked for unless the strike is
ended.
Boycottug is monopolizing the atten-
ton of unionsts through the State of
Illinois. The boycott order against five
of the largest shoe manufacturing firms
in the West is being actively pushed and
has had Il serious effect upon the sales Of
convict-made goods sold by the boycott
ted firms. Knights express a purpose of
running the business Of all manufacturers
who have prison contracts and sell pris.
on-made goods. Yesterday merchant
from Iowa said that in his vicinity the
boycott against an Eastern stove factory
had resulted in general uprising among
the workingmen, who would not buy the
goods made 10y the boycotted firm upon
any terms whatever.
The Bridgeport Farmer Of last evening
says: Representatives Of a big concern
now located at TariiTyilIc, which manu-
features silk thread from the raw Ha-
terial, and employs $50 hands, have ap-
peared here several times lately looking
for suitable situation for locating their
works They have had their eye or the
Patterson organ works, taking into
special contemplation one room, forty
by sixty feet, of that factory. These
movents have attracted attention from
the Board of Trade. and more especially
from Mr.. James Staples who will visit
the managers of the concern at Tariii-
vile. and will try to induce them to