The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-13
LABOR INTERESTS.
The Coming Parade---Irish and
Italian Lab0rers.


The united trades and labor organiEH
tions Of Hudson county will parade d
Labor Day
A large number Of organizations were
represented at the conference called 10
last Sunday morning by the Central
Trades Assembly While It was the gen
eral sentiment that there should be as
big q showing Of labor's forces rs could
be mustered. it was thought that Short
march through few central streets In
the city would bring out the numbers
and make q display which would DC
pleasing to both on-lookers and partici-
pants,
Secretary James A. Stuart has been In
strucued by the Central Trades Assembly
to communicate with the Boards of Pub
lie Works and Finance Of this city. and
urge upon them the ACCESSIBILITY OF awar Z
ing contracts for city work only to such
contractors rs guarantee to employ none
but residents of this city. IN the discus
sion upon this matter, it was stated that
Italians came from New Y Ork and Brook
lyn and worked for the city as laborers at
81. % day, crowding out Irishmen whose
labor was considered worth paying SL59.
Some of these Italians, it was said, re-
Gently asked the contractor who hired
them for Sl.50a day, but he told them
they could NOT expect 70 get as much as
IFishmen who ate meat.
Pioneer Association OF Foundrymen is
represented III the Central Trades Assem-
bly, by Delegates Thomas Smith, William
Kalton and William Horahan.
Hudson County Association Of Surface
Railroad employees holds its annual pic
mic on Thursday at Caledonia Park.
There will be n great reunion of the tot lers
in other lines ofindustry on this occasion.
The working cards of the Brotherhood
of Painters are not recognized III New
York ut present by the Operatives and
Progressiyes.
Thomas Flanagan Is the new president
of Painters Union No. 50.
Union Hill Framers' Union has elected
the following ofIicers:--Oscar Schneider,
president; G. Leek. vice president; I'll.
Otto, recording secretary; H.. DujurKen,
financial secretary; J. Appold, treasurer;
j. Dole and G, Vessel, trustees; A Habe-
dank, walking delegates; G. Eicholz. dele
gate TO the Joint Executive Board, and J.
Fisher, sergeant-at-arms.
The new officers of the Jersey City
Framers' Union are:--Fred koepke,
president; William Stern, vice president;
Edward Shredder, recording secretary
A Meikle, financial secretary; John Raft,
treasurer; Harry Geseking, walking
delegates; Charles Emerich and ]. Hart,
trustees: L. Hart and Fred Koepke, dele
gates to Joint Executive Board.
A proposition to connect with the Hud-
son County Central Labor Union has
been rejected by the Union Hill Trainers
Union.
Jersey City Trainers Union gave SIS. 95
to the starving cloakmakeFs. Union Hill
Walters Association sent Sl3.
In aid of the cloakmakerS a baseball
game will be played at the Brotherhood
Park, New York, on July %.
A committee Of working women are
collecting funds for the unfortunate
cloak makers.
Central councils and concerted action
is the ordev of the day with labor.
A new central body is the Garment
Workers.
Bakers unions OF New York and vicin-
ity are to have Joint Executive Board.
A United Trades Council OF the local
unions of the Brotherhood OF Carpenters
and Joiners in New York, Jersey City,
Hoooken and Brooklyn is contemplated
New York's Printing Trades Council
has been revived.
Tin and Sheet Iron Workers in Hudson
county are connected with the council Of
the trade which meets in New York. John
Callahan says that everything runs
smoothly under this new system.
Textile Workers Progressive Union
and the National Union of silk Workers
have agreed upon federation with a
National Executive Board in New York
city.
An international convention of textile
workers is to be held in Switzerland for
the purpose of arranging the introduction
of the eight hour day for the trade
throughout the world.
1t is expected that large numbers Of the
textile workers of SaXony will emigrate
to this country If the Mckinley bill be-
comes law.
Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor
states that the average wages of women
engaged in the textile industry in that
State is So 81 week. He says:-"W Women
worker harder and more hours than men,
and get much less pay Taking all the
mills together. the women compose 80 Z
per cent. of the total number of en-
ployes, leaving the number of men only
49, 8 per cent.
Menlo Park Nationalist Club was or
ganized in the same place where the first
electric light OF America was used.
Charles Vofkmar, proprietor Of the Art
Ceramic Works, is the president.
James L. Furber. general manager OF
the Boston and Maine Railroad, advo-
Gates the naturalization of railroads.
Clubs are being formed IN New York
and Brooklyn for the purpose of joining
the Kaweah Colony OF Nationalist il
Visalia, Cal.