Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-30
ORGANIZED LABOR.
WEEKLY MEETINGS OF THE CENTRAL BODIES.

of Order Finally Settles the Cues tion--The Worlds Fair r- Public EdncatiOn-Trade Matters. A delegate of the Amalgamated Brass Workers presided at last Sundays meet. ing of the
 CENTRAL LABOR FEDERATION,
 while representative of Bakers Union No, acted as Vice chairman. A new delegate was admitted from Bakers Union No. 80. The Building Material Drivers Union requested that the Fra. ternal Association be not admitted to the body if it should seek admission. because it is, as alleged, composed of expelled members of the former organi- zation.
 A committee consisting of delegates of the Cigarmakers', Progressive Tail ors', Bakers, Coopers' and other or ganizations having union labels, was appointed for the purpose of proposing ways and means how to protect those labels.
 The Organization Committee was in- structed to organize the knitting work CTS.
 Upon motion by a delegate of Bakers Union No. 80 resolution was adopted declaring that, inasmuch as several sur face road strikes have been instigated reclzlessly by certain soulless corpora tons for the purpose of enriching them- selves at the cost of the public and their employees, thereby causing deeds of vfv..eAce, bloodshed, and even the loss of human life, the members of the c. L. F. demand of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of New York to deny all corporations applying for the privilege of introducing the cable system such privilege, unless they agree to employ none but Union men the Mayor is also asked, by the same resolution, to introduce bill in the legislature pro- viding that the surface roads iu this city be controlled and administered by the municipality.
 Upon request by committee from the School Conference, whose members are agitating for the extension of our popular educational system a special committee was appointed to attend the meetings of said Conference. A dele gate was also despatched to the Central Labor Union to ask them to also assist in that useful and necessary agitation
 The Arbitration Committe reported in regard to certain differences between the Ale and Porter Brewers Union and the German Ale and Porter Union, as the former refuse to work with the latter. The Secretary was instructed to request the Ale and Porter Protective Union to adhere to it's contract with the German Union; else the Federation would be compelled to take energetic measures against the Protective Union.
 The Organization Committee reported that the ConfectIoners' Unions have amalgamated, and that an attempt was about to be made to affiliate the Pie Bakers Union with the Journeymen Bakers National Union.
 The Harmonizing Committee will meet on Saturday at Clarendon Hall for the purpose of settling the financial ques- tion with the c. l.. U.; the following Unions were directed to submit evidence in regard to their financial standing in the c. L. U.:
 Walters Union No. 1, Brewers Union No. 1, Cigarmakers' Union No. IA, Coopers Union No. 1, Newspaper Prin- ters' Union No. i, Bookkeepers and Clerks, Millwrights' and Millers' Union No 1, Bakers Union No. 1, Urania La Dor Club, Oystermen's Trades Union, Pie Bakers and Drivers Union.
 Bakers Union No reported progress and an increasing membership; also that in the near future a new kind of yeast would be placed upon the market, which would be able to compete with Fleisch- mann's boycotted article.
 Journeymen Brewers Union No. 1 complained of the foreman at the Knickerbocker Brewing Company, who, it is said. has victimized a number of the best Union men during the last eighteen months. The matter was re- ferred to the Arbitration Committee.
 The Walters lodged a complaint against the proprietor of Sanse's Hall in 34th Street, near 3rd Avenue, who wrote an insolent letter to the Walters Union, announcing to them that, in the future, he would act independently of Unions, or organizations of any kind. The Arbitration Committes will take Mr. Sanse in hand.
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