The leader., 1889-10-12
THE LABOR WORLD.

The National Journeymen TaiIors' Union
mas 54OO members.
MEMBERSHIP of 2200 is claimed by ohe
unions in Halifax, N S.
ABOUT 400 of our Belgian and English glass
workers go home each summer
IHE Clgarmakers' National Convention
VIII be held at Indianapolis in 1891.
UNION No. 542, Brotherhood of Carpenters
ana Jolners, has been formed in Oklahoma.
A MOVEMENT for higher wages is going ON
IN nearly all the industries of Central Europe.
In 1870 there We're 739, 167 children under
sixteen years of age at work in factories in
the United States.
VENETIAN and other fancy glass work is
now being shipped from Brooklyn to Mexico.
France and Germany
=, 1HE elght-hour movement was indorsed as
Ine recent convention of the National Asso-
clatlon of Saddle and Harnessmakers.
1T is rumored that Mr. Powderly will ten
der his resignation to the General Assembly
OF the knights of Labor, in Atlanta, Ga.
A STRIKE to prevent the abolition of the
elght-hour rule took place at the smelling
works in Pueblo, Col. The strikers won.
SCHEME is announced for the construc-
tlon OF ship canal between Edinburgh and
Glasgow. The capital is placed at S35, OOO,-
900. ~
MR.. TILLETT, one of the leaders of the re-
cent strike in London, went to Rotterdam
TO exercise his influence in behalf of the
strikers.
A STRIKE occurred in Antrim Ireland re-
Gently, where some patternmakers and kim
dred tradesmen went out for an advance of a
half dollar week
ENGLAND allows children of thirteen to
work II they attend s" 'ool half the day No one
under eighteen and 10 women can work over
sixty hours per week.
The Lynn Lasters Protective Union paid
Sl2,G00 for ground for hall to contain
lecture room, library, billiard hall ETC. The
Protective Union has 10 600 members
THERE is talk of reviving the pophn trade
on a large scale in the North of Ireland
Poplins are a mixture of silk and wool, and
were formerly manufactured in large ouanti-
ties in Dublin
THERE is a woman in Manchester Eng
land, who manufactures children's cots.
assisted by her daughter, q pretty girl of
twenty. Both can handle plane as well as
any carpenter.
A LAUNDRYWoMENs union has been estab-
lished in Birmingham, England with mem
bership of thirty The Secretery is Mrs
Elizabeth Solden, and the members meet
weekly III a small hall
THE five tailors' unions in Boston claim a
membership OF 7000 including cutters, con-
tractors, preSsers, tailors and trimmers and
operators. Two thousand are idle, and 500
OF the idle men are said to be cutters
W. T. LEWIS, Secretary of the National
Progressive Miners Union, returned to Colum-
bus Ohio, afteC two months tour abroad.
He went a representative of the coal
miners with the Scripp's League expedition
JOHN MCPHERSON, President of Lodge of
the United Order of American Carpenters
and Joiners has been appointed by Mayor
Grant, of New York city, member of the
Permanent World Fair Exposition Com
mittee.
THE Labor Congress at Paris represented
eighteen nationalities. The Poles were not
allowed to organize openly The meeting
demanded eght hours; no night work;
double pay I, = overtime the same to be not
over four hours per day; no work for EN-
ployes under fourteen years of age; one holi-
day per week; no work on fete days; convict
labor to be e. lployed on great public works:
equal pay foI women and men.