The examiner., 1886-02-27
THE WORKING WORLD.


 The New York street car builders receive S2 9 per day, while caIpen CTS are Tecelv- ing S35O. One body is organized, the other is not.
 At the beginning of this week there was scarcely a shop in Patterson. N. J. engaged in the manufacture of textile fabrics, that were not on strike, or had recently passed through one.
 Northern capitalists are investing in the erection of cotton manufactures in Georgia; and skilled help are hired for 80 cents a day. Organization among the workers is in it's infancy.
 The 2,OOO men employed in the Philadel- phia and Reading Rrilroad Company's shops in Reading are notified that an in- crease of wages in every department be make on March 1. The ratio of the pro- posed increase was not announced.
 The Cigar Manufacturers Association of New York held meeting last week st the Grand Union Hotel, and voted to abolish the system of oftenement-house cigar making. This result has been brought about by ihe boycott against such article, and the firms in any way engaged in the business.
 About 2 o'clock in the morning of Washngton's birthday, the 42 Chinese
 
 by a mob of 40 or 5O white men, who knocked them about, twisted their queues, and dispossessed them of the money found on their persons. They were then placed on the steamer and sent to Portland, their fares being paid out of the money taken from them.
 The strike of breakmen and freight handlers on Morgan's Railroad and Steam ship Company's line, in New Orleans, has boa. f0rilx oli od huf bo Ar.i.i tion Committee of the Commercial Ex- changes, and the men have all resumed work. The breakmen will receive $50 per month instead of $54. The freight hand lers also, who have heretofore received p cents per hour, are to receive 90 cents for day work, and 40 cents for night and Sunday work.
 Fifty thousand socialists and working men of all classes and conditions assem- bled in Hyde Park, London, Sunday in response to the call issued by the Social Democratic Federation. The speeches, compared with those at Trafalgar Square on the day of the riot are said to be models of temperate oratory; but they expressed the sentiment which prevailed the entire | gathering. that the unemployed must have work, and the government must provide it. About 5000 policemen watched the meet ing.
 A call for a special session of the Dis rrict Assembly is anticipated, to levy | tax for tte further sustenance of the Derby | Striking silver workers. There is also l some earnest deliberations as to the prac- | icability of raising sufficient capital, by the organizations and individuals subscrib- ing, to start a Cooperative factory and -et some of the strikers, if not all, at work for themselves. The dollars of some are | already in waiting to embark in the experi- ment. A small factory with three sets of hands, each running eight hours out of the A, has been suggested.
 | There has been big strike and then | settlement on the Southern Pacific railroad, | near New Orleans, the managem. mt ac- ceeding 10 the d. mands of the men, and | promising 8 redress of grievances. A strike was also inaugurated on the Illinois Central,-the southern terminus being | near New Orleans,-aud a rumor was afoat that the strikers were using some cars for headquarters, and were armed. T The Governor was asked to order out troops, but there was no disturbance. | Perishable freight was allowed to pass. An advance from $47.50 per month to S60 was asked.
 General Master Workman Powderly of Scranton, Chairman of the Governing Committee of the Knights of Labor, was in Montreal on an important visit last week. For some time past efforts have beeu made to induce the Roman Catholic Bishop of l ihe diocese of Montl cal to condemn the Knights on the ground that the order was dangerous 10 society and was the cause of labor troubles throughout the continent. The Executive Council of the diocese, it was alleged, had advised the Bishop to abolish the order, and issue mandement 10 that effect. The local order there ac- cordingly sent for MT. Powderly, wko for several days was in consultation with tbe ecclesiastical authorities. MT. Powderly had several interviews with the Bishop, to l whom it was presented that the society was a protective one and not in any way a secret one or at varience with the Roman Catholic Church. The representations were considered satisfactory by the Bishop.