The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-01
UNION LABOR NOTES.
What the Various Crafts Found to
Be Thankful For.

The Thanksgiving festival found the
workers in the various trades in the
county fairly prosperous, and, with the
exception of the union coach drivers, at
peace with their employers. Nor were
the Coach Drivers inclined to sadness in
spite of extra holiday calls upon their en-
durance, for there were rumors going
around that the most stubborn fighters
against their organization were weaken
ing Perhaps the rollicking humor that
would assert itself in Coach Driver
Duffy's plea before the carpenters the
other night had something to do with
this report.
Union Carpenters ate their turkey with
some degree of satisfaction at the thought
that they work less hours than they did a
year ago
Tin and Sheet Iron Workers feel proud
of their steady growth, and Treasurer
John Callahan points with equanimity to
the good round sum to the credit of the
union in the bank.
The Painters are not very laxative just
now, but they are working hard to arouse
the trade, and at the opening of the new
year will attract considerable attention.
At the meeting of the Local Assembly to-
morrow night District Master Workman
Archibald will address the members.
Dissatisfied with what they term the
slow methods of the Building Trades
their delegates from that body.
Local Knights of Labor are pleased
with the work accomplished by the Gen
eral Assembly of the order at Atlanta,
and are gratified at the distinction which
their delegate, Henry G. Gruber, attained.
Ship Carpenters Union held largely
attended business meeting THANKSGIVING
night.
Half a dozen delegates came together
for regular session of the Central AS
sembly on Thursday night. While wait
ing for the representatives of the other
organizations to turn up the delegates
present snapped stories Henry Gruber
told much that was interesting about his
recent visit to Atlanta, and Delegates
Stuart Holler, Fullem, Callahan and
| Dickson participated in q discussion,
| which commenced with labor and its re-
lation to politics and wound up with the
affairs of the union coach drivers. AS no
| more delegates arrived the meeting was
postponed until December IL.
| The knights of Labor were in better
| shape, as regards membership, in Georgia
| than Henry Gruber anticipated. There
are many separate colored local assem-
| blies. Twenty-eight cooperative stores
| flourish in Georgia, with headquarters at
| Atlanta.
After some years spent in negotiations
it is probable that the X. of L. and the
| Farmers Alliance will federate
Typographical Union No. "a will hold a
regular business meeting on Tuesday
night. A special call to the members is
being sent around. as the business to be
| brought forward requires full attend
ance of the members.
While the carpenters, painters and
| other crafts all over the States are agi-
tating for shorter hours of labor the
| printers are doing absolutely nothing in
that direction. Washington Typo
L.. - ~,
| pealed the eight hour law for government
printers. An old employee of the govern
mens printing establishment says that
! the probable effect of this law will be
that the men who formally worked but
eight hours a day will work overtime and
thus keep at least one hundred extra men
out on the street.
c. Osborne Ward, the translator and
librarian of the United States Depart
ment of Labor, has compiled "A History
of the Ancient Working People," from
the earliest known period to the adoption
of Christianity by Constantine.
Steps are being taken to institute q
! branch of the International Sailors and
Firemen's Union in this city. There are
benevolent as well as protective features
in the organization, which has allied it.
| self to the American Federation of Labor
The coopers of Jersey City are looking
| to the slaves of their organizations.
| Cigarmakers' International Union has
nearly $40 900 in its treasury.
Prof. Thorold Rogers, an authority or
the history of the English laborer, says
that the normal working day of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was one
of eight hours
Business agent is the new and correct
term for the occupation of walking dele
gate.
In the presence of 10000 people and t.
| the music of 200 bands the first NOM
ment to labor in the United States wa.
dedicated to Thomas Armstrong OF
Thanksgiving Day.
Sixty knights of Labor clothing cutters
in the employ of Rogers, Peet & Co., have
gone on strike because the firm require.
them to cut more cloth than their unior
allows.