The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-06
Mr.. CLEVELAND'S SAYINGS.
"reminiscences and Remarks Which
His Union Labor Callers Re-
member with Pleasure.

member Win treasure.
Mayor Cleveland displays pardonable
pride in recalling ths fact that he is the
son Of a mechanic. When the union
labor men were having conference with
His Honor on Tuesday night, one Of them
was introduced as a carpenter.
Il am always glad to meet q carpen-
ter, said Mr.. Cleveland, "for my father
was a carpenter and joiner"
Referring to the fact that though he
had been the choice of the people so many
times, he did not think he could claim
to be a popular man on account OF the
advanced views he held on labor matters,
the Mayor said;-
To show you how have made enemies
Will tell you something. The older
heads among you will remember that
wages advanced during the war. For
ordinary labor in those times paid in my
business S10a week, which was The recog
nized rate. Whenth war was over wages
were reduced by the firms around me,
but as could not see how men with
families of two and three children could
get along with less money, | kept right
along paying $40.
by this course gained the i'll will of
another manufacturer, who said that
spoiled the market price for common
labor"
BI-MONTHLY PAY.
CHANGING at The new order OF things
under which the employees of the Fire
and Police Departments receive their
salaries every two weeks instead of once
month, Mr.. Cleveland regretted that
1t was impossible for the present to ex-
tend this benefit to other departments.
He described the routine which has to be
gone through before the city's laborers
can get their earnings, and it struck the
amused crowd of labor men as being If
anything, rather worse than the circum-
locution Office depicted by Charles Dick
ems in Little Dorrit."
I'm the near future an attempt may be
made,'' said the Mayor, "t0 pay off tiyice
q month in the other departments of the
city When / was in business my clerks
complained that it entailed a lot Of WORK
upon them paying off once week.
Well, them said, we must get anothe r
set of clerks, for | want my men to get
their wages every week, and l kept to
thai"
labor Notes.
The employees in the brewery Of Lem
beck & Betz were organized last night
under the auspices of the Jersey Associa-
ton. Besides local brethren some proni-
nent Knights came over from New York
to assist in the instituting ceremonies.
The Weekly Payment of Wages bill
will have a hearing before the Senate
Committee at Trenton on Monday.
The German labor organizations of
Union Hill are contributing towards the
campaign fund of their recently organ
lied labor political club.
Union Hill trainers have successfully
reduced their hours from ten to nine.
Weihenbach & Olser alone objected to
the reduction and their hands had to
strike.
Tue raw Glib rihho,, xraovaro, ,rninna
were organized last week in Paterson and
they connected themselves with the
National Union.
A general vote upon the eight-hour
question is being taken in all the silk
ribbon weaving shops where the members
belong to the National Union.
The journeymen brewers of Newark
have rejoined the national organization.
which they withdrew from four years
ago.
The National Federation Of Silk Work
ers has paid an assessment to the eight
hour defence fund OF the American
Federation Of Labor on ], 107 members.
The International Cigar Makers Union
has forwarded an assessment on %, 600
members for the eight hour strike fund
of the Federation of Labor.
A section of the Socialistic Labor party
will probably be organized in Camden to-
day.
General Secretary P. ]. Mcclure. of the
United Brotherhood OF Carpenters and
JQiners, will be in New York this week to
AID the preparations for the eight hour
demand on May l.
The carpenters unions of the United
Brotherhood are paying twenty-five per
cent. into the defence fund of their or
ganization for the general strike expected
on May l. No transfer cards will be is
sued during the strike in order to pre-
vent members going from their own cities
TO others where the same trouble is pro-
A big mass meeting Of carpenters and
joiners will be held in Webster Hall,
New York, on Wednesday night, at
which P. ]. Mcclure will speak.
The District Council OF Carpenters in
Chicago has forwarded circulars to all
carpenters unions in New York and
vicinity requesting members to stay
away from The city by the lake until the
strike is over.
A cooperative society will be formed
by the Artificial Stone Masons' Union, OF
New York, to take work directly from
builders and architects without the as
sistance of contractors. This proposition
came from several builders who hope to
avoid interruption of their work through
strikes by this project.
A complimentary invitation has been
forwarded to the officers OF the Printers
Union in this city by Brooklyn Typo
graphical Union No. 9S, TO attend its re.
ception and bali on Easter Tuesday night
hospitality of the Brooklyn typos on this
occasion.
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