The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-01
In LAB0R'S FIELD.
News Of The Thousands and Their
Efforts Upwards.

At next Thursday nights meeting of
the Central Trades Assembly the ere
dentiRls of delegates from several new
organizations will be presented.
Union Hill Painters Union is repre-
scented In the Hudson County Central
Labor Union by Delegates William Stress
and E. Smith.
A. George will represent Textile W ork-
ers' Union No. %, of Union Hill at the
national convention sof' Textile Workers.
silk ribbon weavers and other textile
workers, many of whom are women and
girls, at a recent meeting in New York
resolved to demand the eight-hour day
A new local union Of brewers has been
organized at Gutenberg with twenty five
charter members.
All members of the Journeymen Brew
ers' Union entitled to naturalization
fore next fall or suffer suspension from
| the union.
Twenty-Five members formed a new
section of the Socialistic Labor party at
! Gutenberg last week,
Trades unions affiliated to the Hudson
County Central Lsbor Union have been
requested to vote upon the proposition 20
cooperate with the Socialists at next
| falls election.
A new local assembly of the K. of L,
will be chartered in Jersey City this
week.
Forty-nine new local assemblies have
| been instituted by the Knights of Labor
during the past four weeks.
Typographical Union No. o., Of Hudson
| County, win have regular meeting on
Tuesday night at STEERS Hall.
The color of No. 94's new membership
cards is q pretty green. Il is Secretary
/ james j. Dowling's favorite color
T0alaoafp .Iof1u IT NfpK qicy cros.fus fo,
! Atlanta. Ga, on Thursday. TO represent
/ No. GAS printers at the International Ty-
! biographical Union, which convenes on
| June 9. Mr.. MeKaig will accompany the
4 jolly crowd OF delegates going from New
4 York and Brooklyn.
The United brotherhood OF Carpenters
and Joinefs will hold its annual eonyen-
4 ton on August in Chicago.
Eight hours has been gained by the car
penters in twenty-seyen cities, affecting
% 355 men in the trade. Nine hours has
] been established in seventy two cities.
with the addition of eight hours on Sat,
urday in many Instances. This conces-
sion affects 1850 carpenters. Increased
wages have been secured by eighteen
other cities, affecting 81 62 men.
Forty-six new unions of carpenters
| have been instituted during the past
month with gain in membership of IL. l..
! 241
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America is now the largest
trade organization in the world 1t mas
1 622 local unions in good standing with q
mem ership of II 200 enrolled carpenters
The American Federation of Labor has
/ gained 40, 900 new members since MAY 1.
| and its aggregate membership is now
750, 600
Ten thousand textile workers on strike
! in Germany are appealing to the organ
lied workmen of America for financial
aid.
! Cloak manufacturers are combining
| for a general lockout of their employees
| in order to break up the Cloakmakers
| Union, Twenty firms are said to have al
ready joined the combination and over
seven thousand men and women may be
1 turned out on the street ii the bosses so
i determine
1t is said that wealthy proprietor Of
real estate in New Jersey has proposed Il
plan TO sell some of his possessions for
the purpose of procuring funds to build a
hall for organized labor in New York
! city.
A monster mass meeting will be held
| In Hyde Park, London, today, to protest
against the importation Of foreign labor
into England.