The evening world., 1893-11-10
IN The WORLD OF LABOR.

New oiicers will be elected BY the International
Union on SUNDAY. Nov. %.
',Srks ana BARRIERS are about to be organized
oy the Socialist Labor Federation In Brooklyn.
Machine Wood Workers Union No. % has fined
a member 500 for working at a strike shop.
1t Ia estimated that about 1000. 900 persons in
ms country live upon wages paid by railroad
companies.
Another regulation Of wages in Homestead
appears to mean a reduction OF about 20 per cent.
The next annual Convention OF the National
l.ongshoremen's Association will be held In San.
dusky' o. About nifty delegates are expected.
About sixty. building trades workmcn arc on
strike on a job Of Contractor Gallagher, at broad,
way and Fourth street, against the employment
OF nOn-unlon men.
a. cordier, a member Of Cigar. Makers Union
NO. .; Patterson n: j., has been Hned 81 by that
organization Tor patronizing a Chinese Laundry.
Cpholsterers' Union No. I is tho on,clal title q,
the downtown union recently organized at IS East
Fourth street. The meeting day is Thursday.
Clgar. Makers Union No. go added ten new
names to Its roll this week. Tho strikes at tho
still progressing.
The entertainment recently given by the Ladies'
Pioneer Aid Society for the workmen's Free
School, 1i2 East Fourth street. Melted about 81, 500.
or.
At Contractor Webb's shop. on Charles street.
near Washington street, a strike against the en-
ploymcnt Of carpenters at ron-union wages was
won by the Elevator Constructors Union, led By
WANING delegate samuel Johnson.
Secretary Kurzenknabe writes from st. Louis
that the boycott against non union beer In extend
Ing, and that the locked-out brewery workmen and
beer drivers expect an early surrender on the part
OF the boss brewers.
Seven new members were initiated by Pro-
grcssive Painters Benevolent Union No. / this
week. The union Joined the Central Labor Union,
at whose meetings 1t will be represented by Walk
ing Delegate David Callahan.
In the 200 button factories OF Massachusetts
about 10, 900 workmen received an aggregate OF
81, 500, 900 in wages last year. or a little more than
about SO cents per day.
There Is reported to be no work for carpenters
at Des Moines. la. Terre Haute, Ind. Vicksburg.
Miss. Pittsburg. Pa; New Orleans. La. Indianap-
Ind. Louisville and Paducah. KY; Augusta, Ga
Tampa, Fla.
Makers Union No. % has fined one of its
members S. for driving a truck and delivering
cigars for his employer. The man appealed to
President Perkins, OF the Cigar-Makers' Interna-
tional Union, who sustained the action OF the
union.
These officers we're elected by the Iourneymen
Plumbers and G%ashtters' Union: Joseph Kane.
President Edward Mccoy, Vice-President Thomas
Devers, Recording Secretary; William sullivan,
Financial Secretary; stephen Devers. Treasurer;
William O'Rourkc, Sergeant-at-Arms NJ. NJ. De-
vine, Walking Delegate.
Twenty years ago there were no organizations
OF women exclusively in Great Britain; there were
unions OF men and women in the textile trades,
Now there are In London unions OF women book
binders, shlrtmakers, upholstresses,
confectioners and ropemakers.
Popkin G. Co. have notified the International
Union that Contractor Greenberg
has reducted wages unnecessarily, as the firm did
not, as represented by Greenberg, reduce the
price paid to their contractors. A special com
mittee was appointed TO once more confer VITA
Greenberg.
In every large city OF Germany the Government
has established labor bureaus. where wagc-workers
may find the names Of bosses seeking help, and
the ofhcials OF the bureau also have judicial pow
ers TO adjust disputes about wages and compel
employers to pay what they owe to their workers.
How to Elevate the Masses was the sub.
ject Of an interesting debate held in the Work.
ngmen's Institute in Paterson, y. j., for a purse
OF 500 offered by Manufacturer Doherty. The
prizes were awarded as follows; Fret Thomas
Tunnell. $50; second, James Moore, $50; third.
J. Armitage. $50.
Some Of the members Of Cabinet Makers Union
No. : who worked on Election Day have been
rebuked by their organization, as there are 30
many men out Of employment at present. and
union men should give them a chance wherever
possible. Next week the delegate to the Con-
vention OF the International Furniture Workers
Union will receive his instructions.
New working cards will be issued by the Archi-
~tectural Iron Workers Union on Dec. 1. 10 those
Those not paying will not be permitted to work
in union shops. The meetings will take place
on Sundays during the Winter season. Walking
Delegate westenberger was instructed to proceed
against Boss Happel. who is charged with dis
eliminating against union men, and against one
OF his clerks, who is said to be an ''informer."
II. Werner is the new President Of Artificial
Union No. /, and r. Scheri has
gate is G. schillinger. From April l the Union
will demand weekly payment OF wages. The
Brooklyn branch was notified that IT will be sus-
pended unless it's delegate attends the meetings
OF the Union. one of the members who worked
,or Wilson e. Dailey, whose Jobs were struck by
tbs Union. has been fined $50.