The Sunday morning news., 1889-11-24
ORGANIZED LABOR.
Active Preparation for a Winter Of
Effective Union Work.


The labor organizations of the county
are starting in for the winters work.
New committees are being appointed in
each union to arrange for open meetings
and missionary work among the unor-
ganized. The members of the various
crafts are turning out in full force at the
regular meetings of their unions, and the
interest and enthusiasm displayed is en-
couraging the officers to renewed efforts.
This activity is especially noticeable
among the carpenters unions.
Carpenters Union No. 4S2 hold open
meetings once month for dissemina ting
the principles and setting forth the bene-
tits of membership in trade organization.
While the chief object sought is the con-
version of the non-union men to IDEAS of
association with their brethren, other
purposes which have tendency to weld
the members closer together and improve
their condition are discussed at these
gatherings.
Tomorrow night Carpenters Union
No. 4S2 will discuss the relation of labor
unions towards the Worlds Fair, and
James McGregor and other speakers will
be present to take part. The meeting
will be held in the hall of the union in
the Bank building at the corner of Pavo-
MIA avenue and Erie street. A cordial in
yitation is given to the workers in other
trades to be present ON this occasion.
Samuel Gompers wrote to No. 4s2 re-
Gently declining an invitation to deliver
ain address until after the annual session
of the Federation of Trades next month.
The Painters unions Of this city and
Bayonne propose stirring up. the trade
this season. A good deal of a boom is ex-
pected from the convention OF National
Assembly No. 80, Painters and Decora-
| tors, in Jersey City, at the opening of the
new year. Preparations on an extensive
scale are being made to welcome the two
hundred delegates, who will come from
all parts of the country.
The printers, too, will take a hand in
trying to create enthusiasm for labor's
cause. Typographical Union No. 81 has
appointed committee to look after those
who are yet outside the ranks, and an
open meeting will be held at an early date,
at which addresses will be made by we'll
known members of the craft. several ac-
cessions to the union are reported from
Hoboken. The union has successfully
raised the wages of some of the job print
ers of the county, and has otherwise inn
proved the condition of those who work
at the cease"
1t was overlooked at the last meeting
of the Central Trades Assembly that the
next regular meeting would fall on
Thanksgiving night. Secretary James A..
Stuart will probably send out notices
postponing the session.
Secretary O'Hara, of Carpenters Union
No. 4S2, thinks there is room for two more
local unions of his trade in the county.
One of these is sorely needed at Green
vile, where carpenters work all sorts of
hours for lower wages than the Brother
hood scale. The other local, Mr. O'Hara
says, might be instituted on the Hill.
Aged and indrm members of carpen-
ters' organizations are exempt from de-
manding full scale of wages.
Unfair workmen are called bats :" by
union carpenters, on the theory that they
are unable to stand the light of day.
In consequence ofthe exertions of the
Carpenters Council of Chicago all the
work connected with the public institu-
tions of that city is done by the eight-hour
plan.
The United Trainers of New York are
very strongly organized. Any member
two weeks in arrears is expelled and
cannot be reinstated for less than ten dol
lars.
There is ts3s stEong q oreanizati0n e Of ship
they will send delegates to the Central
Trades Assembly shortly.
On Thanksgiving Day the Thomas A.
Armstrong monument will be dedicated
IN City Park, Allegheny, Pa. The monu-
ment cost 50, 500, which was raised by the
voluntary contributions of labor organic
ations which appreciated the work Mr..
Armstrong did for them.
The bricklayers have healthy unions in
this vicinity. Members of other crafts
complain that the layers of brick are too
exclusive.
Jersey Knights have come to the front
in the General Assembly at Atlanta.
Henry G.. Gruber, the cigarmaker, has
been appointed to the Committee on In
surance, and Mr.. Dickens to place on
the Cooperative Board.
| The K of L. approves of the proposal
| Of the Federation of Labor to demand
eight hours for oniy such trades as are
well organized and ready for the change.
Meanwhile the Knights set an example
| by getting out the Journal of United
Labor on the eight hour plan.
Single Tax men are elatedat the change
in the land plank of the K. of L. constitu-
tion.
Tomorrow night the local Single Tax
Club will consider the advisabiiity OF
changing the night of meeting, as there
are some objections to the Sunday night