Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-08-30
ORGANIZED LABOR.
WEEKLY MEET ING OF THE
GENITAL LABOR FEDERA-
TON.

Four Additional Tn. ions admitted
STEADY Growth of the Building
Trades Council The Railroad
Strike and the Free Lancers-
ORGANIZED Labor Competent to
Order, Plan and Manage its Own
emOnstMtions "A Committee
Appointed to Ca IL a Mass Meet
ing in Support of the Strikers
and to State Plainly the Rail
road Issue.
At the regular week. y meeting of the
Central Labor Fedora tion on Sunday
attern oOn delegate George II. McVey of
the u nited Pianomaksrs was elected
Chairman and delegate Harry Meisel of
the German Walters Union was Vice
chairman.
Credentials were received from the
following new Unions:
Building Material Ham 5Ol4, Ce-
ment Laborers Union No. g., Italian
MasonS Protective UnE on and the Car
riage and Wagon Makers Union. The
Journe ymen Pie Bakers Union and the
United Coat Operators sent change of
deegates. They we're all admitted
Com IN unications were received as fol-
lows: The Progressiv - Assembly Of
Cigarm a kers objected to - hecigarmakers'
unions representedin in this body discrim-
mating against their menbers in certain
shops and threatened to Eetaliate Dele
gate Adolph Jablinowski ofCigarmakers
Union No. 80 stated that the lnterna-
tonal u nion had been busy organizing
shops Thoroughly and making them
strict union shops, Which meant of
course, that all cigarmakers employed
there IN ust join the lnter1 atonal Union.
1t was fl n ally decided to Eefer the matter
to the Joint Board of the Unions.
The weekly report OF the Building
Trades Council was read and showed
that 20 u MONS were already represented
in it.
The German Painters Union sent a
letter gi " ing notice of their withdrawal
because Paper Hangers Union 1872 had
been adm itted
The Bu Hiding Trades Councilreported
on this case that the Painters Union
had said that they wou : d not be bull
dozed by this body, which. like the Cen
tral Labor Union, was fuI / of boodlers.
The delegates thought tz1at it was best
for the 9. l.. T, that the apters with
drew, and the letter was filed.
The German PAYERS Union wrote
that they would parade wi L h the C. l.. T.
in conjun ction with Be Igan PAYERS
Union No. 1 and would q. Iso next week
affiliate with this body.
Eccentric Engineers N %. 8 reported |
that Distric ct Assembly 40 and Eccentric
Engineers No / had forced member
out of the Ale & Porter Brewery of |
0ReiIly, Skelly & FogarCy, 400 West
l4th st., because he belonged to an |
open union. In the deba- te which fol- |
lowed it was shown that Che leaders of |
of the once powerful d. y. 40 together |
with the o'Connell Protective Associa-
ton had cOnspred to un dermine and |
destroy all the organzatioas of brewery
workmen Represented in Ehe c, L. +. |
The ArbitT Tatlon Committee was emp0w-
cred to act in this MAJ, 2r with mem
Der of Ale & Porter Union No l.
Mr.. Walter Vrooman Presented an
invitation from self-constituted com.
mttee of free lancers KIN own as the
Radical Clint, to participa 1e in a mass
meeting at Union Square on Tuesday
night in favor of the raiIEoad strikers.
As a speci al inducement t ne document
stated that General MasteT Workman
Powderly would be one of ehe speakers,
The follow ing is the text OF the invita-
| tiOn
8 ST. NJ ARKS PLACE. NV YORK,
August 24, 1890
To the Gem tTal Labor Fede<-dtiOn
BRoTHER s. The present. gigantic
struggle bet ween the Van5erbilt roads
and their wage workers, and the con-
spiracy of the brick msnufacturers
against the building trade organiza.
tons, involve principles OF such far
reaching inn portance to Organized Labor
that it has become the duty of all work.
ing people and Of the frien -Js Of liberty |
and equity to raise their Won ces in asser-
ton Of the rights Of the workefs.
Next Tuesday evening az oo'clock a
massmeetir1g, will take pla- -ce at Union |
! Square for the purpose Of expressing |