The examiner., 1886-08-14

in politics i,rs,ssess
The car mems strike in San Francisco
has ended, the companies conceding the
strikers demands. All the men whose
discharge led to the strike and also the
strikers were renstated. 1t is said the
trouble encountered by the companies
during the strike was the work of out
siders, and not strikers.
DR.. Edward Aveling and wife, son-in-
law and daughter of Karl Marx, Ell. NJ
Hyndman, the we'll known socialistic ora
tor and author, HerrsLiebknecht, the
socialist member of the German Reichstag
and Lawrence Gronland, author of ''The
Cooperative Commonwealth are all
coming to America this fall.
L. NJ. Heery & Co., Versailles, Conn.,,
wooden manufacturers. have announced
that on and after September l, their mill,
which is now run sixty-siX hours per week,
will adopt sixty hours as a weeks work
ten hours per day. Wages will remain as
at present. The mill employs over 325
hands, and all are pleased at the change.
The Empire Foundry Company, Troy,
n. Y, a firm who believe and practice the
principle of olive and let live" has just
advanced the pay of their employees in the
stove-mOunting department.. The advance
for piece work is 10 per cent; for day work,
so cents per day; pattern filers, 25 cents per
day. This firm has generally taken the
lead heretofore in such meritorious move
mentS.
In nut shell the trouble between D. A.
40, K. of L., and the New York Progress
i've cigarmakers is the latter promised the
former that if they would assist the Pro-
gressives in certain matters they would
own organization. The assistance was
rendered and the now the Progressives
want to back down with the result that d.
A. 40 has withdrawn its patronage and
the employees of the Progressives have been
locked out. 1t is expected that the two
cigarmakers' union-the International and
Progressive-will unite with each other
The People:
A delegate convention of the Axe and
Edge Tool Workers Union of the United
States and Canada was held at Philadelphia,
recently. Eight delegates were present,
representing, under instructions, all the
local Unions in seven States and the Prov
ince of Ontario, Canada. New York,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Ohio and Michigan were
represented. Outside of those States there
are said to be comparatively few axe and
edge tool workers. The number of work
ers for whom the delegates spoke and &C
ted is about 1000. The object of the con-
vention was to carry out the local Unions
instructions towards being organized as a
District Assembly of the Knights of Labor.
A Fall River correspondent of Boston
paper suggested last week that mill wor-
kers ought to have couple of weeks va
cation during the heat of summer, and I'M
doubtedly such an arrangement would be
an inestimable boon. Mill workers would
be content with something less than that,
however. 1t is very difficult matter
sometimes to secure leave of absence for
even single day, and cases of real hard
ship occur every week. Here are few
late cases. A weaver is sick and desires to
be let out for the day, but he is told he
must get weaver to work for
him or he can't go. Another desires to
attend a funeral of a deceased friend, and
he receives the same answer Two girls
wish to attend the wedding of their eldest
sister. They are told to procure substi-
tutes to take their places, and not succeed |
ing, they are finally allowed to absent
themselves, one for one hour, and the
other for two hours; but it is intimated |
that failure to return to work will be fol- |
lowed by discharge and the stoppage of three |
days pay. All these cases occurred last |
week in one of our mills where wages are |
very low and the blacklist very long one, |
two facts which makes it difficult for the |
help to procure subs. !