The evening world., 1893-11-17
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.


John ]. Gcary IL the newly elected secretary OF
Carpenters and Joiucts' Local Union No. "a.
The Williamsburg Framors' Union will have its
annual ball ut the brooklyn Labor Lyceum to-
morrow evening.
About $500 were spent by the Socialists in this
city Tor their election campaign this year.
Hntmakers are on strike In Providence. II. I.
lhelr wages have been reduced 10 and 20 per cent.
Eighteen local unions owe the International
CiEar-Makers' Union 500 each; among them iB
Union No. 10, OF this city.
Bakers Union No. | has made arrangements
Tor q mass. meeting, which viii take place at
$50 West Thirty-ninth street tomorrow at I 7. NJ.
Very little to do Ia what the members Of
the United Carriage and Wagon Makers Union,
OF New York, said at their regular meeting last
night.
The twelfth annual bail Of the Bakers Harmony
Society will take place tomorrow evening at
Macnncrchor Hall.
A. J. Taylor has been elected Secretary ot the
Local Joint Executive BOARD Of the Local Unions
OF the Hotel Restaurant Employees National
Alliance In this city.
The striking %shoemakers in Auburn, Me. have
received substantial aid from the Central Labor
Unions OF Toledo. o.; Newark, n. j.. and Gam
bridge, Mass.
The newly elected Executive Board Of Cloak
and Suit Cutters Union No. 60 is composed Of
Frank Flynn, Max Setback and Albert Sonnet.
Philadelphia boss hlacksmiths will not employ
non-union men. and union journeymen refuse to
work for employers who are not members OF the
bosses union.
Cigar-makers and textile workers in Hudson
.onnty have hardly ANYTHING 70 do The textile
were not more than So per week.
Machine Wood Workers Union No. 90 has
trouble at one OF its shops where the boss refuses
to any longer pay union wages. At several other
shops the Union is gaining members.
one Of the members OF the Hudson County Tex
tile Workers Union. who was charged with
having Incorporated money collected for a
strike fund has been acquitted after due investi-
CATION.
The Bookbindcrs' Advance Association is max.
ing arrangements for a mass meeting Of the book
binders In this city. Their Committee will meet
at 6i East Fourth street next Sunday at $50 A.
1t now looks as II the Knights of Labor brew.
brewery In this city. brooklyn and Newark. The
bosses seem to be determined to break down the
organization.
say that business in their limo is somewhat i'm
proving. This week work was resumed in two
shops; Assessment No. % for the death benefit
fund is now due.
Dispatches say that in twenty-one steel and
Iron works about 1900 men are to have theii
are assembled In Pittsburg and the men will b,
unable to resist. as their organization is rapid.
going to pieces.
t%ectural iron workers at ~Buschmann's shop. 81
Cannon street, having been %frnitless. Walking
Delegate westenberger yesterday DECLARED tn,
are at their headquarters. 1913 Avenue A.
Last month the receipts at the general ono.
Of the Journeymen Bakers and Confectioners'
International Union amounted to 1854. 30. and 1871.
~ were expended. The cost OF printing the ON
cial organ during the last two months was 1915.
90. while the receipts have been *s46.
Standard Engineers Union No. 5.6os is to elect
a delegate to the Chicago Convention OF the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor next week. An agree
ment has been made to cooperate with Firemen'
Union No. l in all trade disputes. Tomorrow
evening the Union will celebrate It's anniversary al
23l East Thirty-third street.
The striking weavers OF New London. Conn.
have written TO the organized textile workers o.
New York and New Jersey to stay away from New
London until the strike is over. The wages o
these men have been reduced about 25 per cent
They also ask for financial aid, all subscriptions
to be sent to Charles Naber, los Chrystal avenue
New London, Conn.
erhood Of Painters and Decorators, warns painter
to stay away from the following places. wher,
workmen: Brooklyn and Buffalo. n. V: Chicago
ILL.,. San Antonio, Tex. Battle Creek, Mich.
Boston, Mass; Reading. Pa. Cincinnati, o.. Sa'
Francisco and Oakland, Cal. Covington. Ky. Tn
receipts at the general Office ot the Brotherhoo'
were 81, 23l. 20 during the last four weeks, AM
81, OSS.3 81 have been expended.
T. ]. Elderkin. General Secretary of the Ma
tional Seamen's Union. says that business is i'm
proving on the Atlantic coast. In Boston unioi
wages are well maintained. an average OF 100 me-
shipping every week, of whom 30 per cent. ar
members Of the Union. Philadelphia is a GOO
second to bos t1 and and other Atlantic ports T ar
requested the Secretary OF the Treasury to invest
gate the reason for the heavy losses Of vessel
and men during the recent gales, 1t being tn
opinion OF the Union that the life-saving servic
is altogether inefficient.
Telephone girls need not apply for membershi,
at the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who's
Convention Is now being held at Cleveland, o., a
in yesterdays session II was resolved to Insert tn
word male In the clause treating OF the quail
~fcations for membership. II was also agreed /
henceforth hold biennial conventions. There was
stormy debate caused by the delegates from Loca
Union M. 3, OF this city, who asserted their RICH
to Jurisdiction over New York and vicinity. whicl
was denied them by the general officers. but tn
end is not yet.