Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06
AMTNERS' EIGHT-HOUR DAY
VIII Be the Principal Bone of Con-
tention at the Big Meeting,
TIE SOCIALISTS HARD AT WORK
To Bring About Another General Strike
Among the Omnibus Drivers.
MANY WEAVERS ARE LIKELY TO GO OUT
rpr CABLE TO TEE p1srArm.j


LONDON, Sept. 8. - Copyrighted - The
Trades Union Congress will open at New
castle Monday, when it is expected 500 dele
gates, representing 100000 workers,
skilled and unskilled, will be present At
the Liverpool congress last year there were
457 delegates, representing million and a
half workers, the increase this year being
due to the formation of new trades unions,
including the bakers and cab drivers. John
Burns will not be present as q delegate, but
his friends will nevertheless endeaver to en-
Tighten the proceedings
Among the proposals which they win ask
the Congress TO accept will be the one for
the estab ishment of municipal workshops,
which, according to Horny Broadhurst,
leader of the old school of trade unionists.
sis about as wild an idea in country like
Great Britain as the proposition to bridge
the Atlantic and run line of tram cars
from London to New York.
MINERS WORKING DAY. .
The moStinteresting discussion will proba-
bly, arise out of the motion in favor of the
bill proposing to limit the miners working
day to eight hours 'from bank to bank |"
The men themselves are sharply divided on
the subject, the Miners Federation, repre-
sented at the congress by % delegates, being
in favor of legislative interference, and the
Miners Union, which includes the Durham
and northumberland men and sends 81 dele
gates to the congress, being opposed to the
bill
A movement is on foot for holding a con-
ference in London at an early date, for the
purpose of finding a basis upon which the
existing societies can cooperate to organ
lie new national labor party in Parlia-
ment. Some agitators, chiefly Socialists
are industriously working to. bring about
fresh strike of the omnibus and tram men.
The companies are charged with breaking
the agreement made at the end of the last
strike and generally with expressing their
men; but as far as can be judged at present
the agitation is artificial and not likely to
lead to a serious struggle. With this ex-
ception, the industrial atmosphere in this
country is singularly clear.
wEAvERs UP IN ARMS
A curious strike is threatened in Lam
cashire, For years past work people have
complained bitterly of excessive steaming
In the weaving sheds, and efforts have been
repeatedly, but vainly, made to put stop
20 practice ruinous to the health of the |
workers, the employers declaring that the |
trade could not be carried on proftably |
without it Encouraged by promises of |
support from saveral large trades unions, the
weavers have now resolved to abolish or
the evil without delay at the cost,
If necessary, of general strike in the trade.
Three Thousand weavers met the other
night in Blackburn Exchange under the
presidency of John Maudesley, a member
Of the Royal Commission on Labor, and |
passed resolutions calling for the total abo-
litiOn of steaming. The speakers told har-
rowing tales Of the horrors ofthe sytem, and |
a proposition enunciated by the Secretary
Of the Blackburn Operatives Society, that |
1t was better to be starved than stewed to |
death, " was enthusiastically cheered. There |
is little doubt that the workers will win.