Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
IN TIE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
Items of Interest to Thousands of American

Items of Interest to Thousands Of American
Worlkingmen.
SHoEMAKERs should not 60 to Albany, as
the strike in that city continues.
THE Newark Central Labor Union has taken
steps to drive 'scab" cigars from that city.
TRADE is good for carpenters at Rochester
N. Y, but wages are at rock bottom-sl 20 to
The Brooklyn shoemakers' unions report
that trade is brisk and that their membership
is increasing rapidly.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHENER, of Indi-
ana, has given an opinion that the eight-hour
law Of that State is valid and constitutional.
The different coopers' unions of New York
and Brooklyn are combining in order to jointly
demand of the union breWeries to use none but
union-made barrels.
CHARGES have been made against ex-Presi-
dent Wachsmuth, of the Brooklyn BARRIERS
Union, who, it is alleged, refuses to give up the
property of the union.
T. B. WAkEMAN showed by statistics at the
mass-meeting at Cooper Union, that 1,30O men,
women and children are killed annually in the
factories of New York State.
The workmen of the silk factories of Hoyle,
Harrison & Kaye, of Philadelphia, are on
strike because some of their number were vic
timized for being members of a union.
ONE thousand dollars have been appro-
priated this month by the United Brotherhood
OF Carpenters and Joiners to send out speakers
to arouse the interest of the members Tor the
coming eight-hour struggle.
1T has been reported to the Methodist Con.
ference in session at Carlisle. Pa, that the
Bible must be printed in 20 languages in Penn
sylvania if all The different races In the State
are to be given chance to read it.
NEW YORK Cigarmakers Union, No. 90, ad-
mitted 40 new members this week. The union
gave $40 to the Shirtmakers. In place of J..
Modest, who resigned. w. Hartnagel was
elected delegate to the Central Labor Union.
THE new branch of the Sailors and Fire.
mems Union in Philadelphia Is No. I6. The
officers are John S. kirchner, of the Inter-
national Cigarmakers' Union, President; Ar
thur Vanhold. Secretary; J. Hendrickson,
Treasurer.
SEVERAL singing and dramatic societies of
Brooklyn, composed of members of trades
unions. are making arrangements for singing
festival for the benefit of the Brooklyn Labor
Lyceum Association to enable the latter to add
gymnasium TO its meeting hall.
AS FAR as can be ascertained, there were in
January of this year 81 strikes throughout the
United States, involving 1854 workmen. Most
of these strikes were against reductions of
wages and q great many against attempts on
the part Of bosses to break up trades unions.
.lHE regulations anu bylaws OF tne Oe1enSe
fund for the building trades were adopted by
the delegates of the New York unions contrib
uting to the same. The fund is to be used in
defending union men in cases of arrest when
striking, or other emergencies of similar
nature.
IT is said that within week or ten days half
of the glass factories Of the country will shut
down. as the supply Of soda ash IS practically
shut of by the strike among the dock laborers
at Liverpool. The price of glassware has ad-
vanced within the past month, and still
further advance is expected.
A SERIES Of mass meetings is contemplated
before May l at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum
These meetings are for different trades, and
they are to last all day. The days on which
they are TO be held will be edesignated-after the
respective trades-bricklayers day, carpenters
day, cigarmakers' day, cabinetmakers day,
tailors' day, etc.
On April the workmen of Paterson N J.,
will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the re-
lease from prison of ]. P. Mcdonnell who had
been sentenced to one year for designating GER
tain persons as ''scabs" in the Labor Standard.
When he left the prison several thousand
workmen and working women accompanied
him through the streets of Paterson to his
home.