The evening world., 1893-11-25
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

were suspended BY bakers union No. ) last week.
BARRIERS Union No loo is making arrangements
iOr It's annual ball, which occurs on Wednesday
evening. Dec. H.
Cigar.Packers' Union No. c5i ha, taken legal
steps against Manufacturer for using counter.
felt union labels.
A woman walking delegate ordered a strike in
a shoe factory at Midd.sbugo, Mass. The strike
vas lost
Lowell. Mass. cierrymsn will aid the unem;
ployed by selling coal at Wholesale rates and
through other effective agencies.
For the beneht OF its unemployed members Car.
penters Union No. 5l3 will give an entertainment
at 81 East Fourth street. this evening.
Stachelbers Co.'S striking rlssr.makers have
day at 2A Spring street
Carpet Seaycrs will strike at K.nsington, Pa.
as their. bosses propose to regulate prices
downward.
Sicily during the last few months are nearly 500
women. all members Of labor organizations.
Members of the Brotherhood OF Painters and
Decorators now running behind will he rsinststei
in the Spring upon payment Of three months dues
/ In BrrZil II is not customary for servants to
reside in their employers house. They com. IN
work early In the mrning and return home in
| the evening.
The annual reception Of tn. American District
Telegraph Company employees Of New York Will
be held a. Lyric Hall Sixth avenue. near Forty.
| second street, on Dec. 5.
The delegates Of the brotherhood Of Painters
and Decorators to the Convention OF the American
Federation o' Labor will be elected by the Chi
| cago District Council OF the brotherhood.
| The annual hall Of the United Wood Carvcrs
Association Association VIII take place at clarendon Hall on
times a supper will not be served
| Cigar. Makers Union No. 1856 enrolled seven new
members this week. Out OF $50 only two are
still out OF employment Six weeks ago tho num-
Der OF the unemployed was over Nifty.
| When the great shirt. collar and cun industries
OF Troy n. Y, are running full time they en-
| ploy from 1900 to 10000 persons and the pay
roll reaches -, 300. 900 per year.
Members Of the X. OF J.; TlieLayers Helpers
arrears on or before jan !. Walking Delegate
James c. Edwards Is busy looking after the de-
| linquents
Lawrence Gronund. the distinguished author
OF labor literature. will give a course OF lectures
under the auspices of the Commonwealth club
OF Kansas city. Mo. during the first week In
December.
From Dec. / the local organizations afhiated
with the United Garment Trades will be taxed
body. on Sunday. Dec. 10. a mass meeting is
to be held at the Thalia Theatre.
From TUESDAY evening. Nov. u. agitation meet
ings will be held by Federal Union No. 6.5la.
on East Fourth street. for the purpose OF thor
oughly organizing that trade
The Waters Benevolent Association. Of Bos-
ton. received $500 at their thrticth anniversary
from their employers. The Association has dis
bursed '5O.oo0 In sick and death benefits
Grsnitc.cutters' Union No. has elected panel
Edward Green Treasurer; John Sutter, Secretary
John Berke, Shop steward John Brunyes, John
Berke. Daniel Quinlan, Executive Committee.
Ipholsterers' Union No. gained twenty nvt
new members this week. The Union is deter.
mined to resist further reduction. OF wages
which II is rumorcd Is contemplated in several
shops In this city and Brooklyn.
Furniture making was once a nourishinE indus.
try in Melbourne, at which hundreds Of whit,
twenty-fve white men only ar. employed at III,
trade, the Chinese having almost a monopoly.
At Yesterdays meeting Of the BOARD of Walk
ing delegates the details Of the trial of several
members for alleged conspiracy were again dis
cussed hut the result OF the discussion is not
to be made public
A Montana man has Just completed and applied
for patent on an automatic machine that bids
fair to revolutionze the cutting OF precious stones
This machine can do the work OF at least twelve
men.
Mosaic workers and ttlelayers have been ordered
on strike the Jobs OF Contractor Mcleod. Nine
teenth street and Ninth avenue The leaders OF
the strike are Walking Delegates John r. Boyle
and James G, Edwards
recognize Bartenders' Union No. |. and report tho
fact to the Central Labor Federation. which
threatened To suspend the walters for their diner.
ences with the barkeepers.
The question OF organizing a branch composed
OF confectioners and cake-bake will he discussed
at special meeting by Bakers Union No. to-
morrow The annual masquerade ball of the union
Will take place jan -.
This month the receipts for dues at the general
Office OF the Journeymen Brewers National Union
we're 81 fob, among which was $3.50 for arrears
the branch In St Louis.
decreaSe OF The number o. unemployed mem.
bers is reported by Furniture Workers Union No
g. although trade Is still very dull This even.
Ing vote upon the candidates for delegate to the
American Federation OF Labor is to be taken.
The first story OF tn" new corcoran Art Gal
union stone masons. Union bricklayers contracte,
for the next tory. but this contract they csnno
carry out. because union bricklayers will no
work on Jobs begun by non inion men.
In the future unions requesting the Board o.
Delegates OF Building Constructors to coiec
wages from employers must submit the facts stated
members. A molten to that effect was adopted by
the Board yesterday evening,
OF Spain's population OF II OO0, ,00O about T. 900
900 are engaged in agricultural labor. There ar.
also " 900 priests (about one for every 200 nhab
itants, COO doctors and 200 journalists Ioi
J less than may be found in New York Cityl Mer
engaged In buli-fghtlng number at least 800
} about as many as there are theatrical employees.
Labor organizations in st. Paul, Mirn., de
mand that motormen to be employed on elertr
entitled to a license. Most OF the motormen he
long to union represented in the st. Pau
none but competent men.
Iron n-Moudors Union No. s77 has elected thcs'
1fhcers nfhcers Thomas ,nrien. Prssdent; Josepi
bonding seeretary: Joseph Grady, Recording secre
tsry; George Dunlap. Financial Secretary
Jeremiah Shea, treasurer; william Frazer, Con
ductOr; Frank Dolal, Doorlseeper.
; Upon request OF the Industrial Council. OF Kan
sas city, Mo, the municipal authorities of tina
place are considering a plan to build a boule
ward around the city and through its park l.
give work TO the unemployed. None but bona
ndc voters and citizens are 10 be employed an
their wages to be paid in scrip redeemab
In full after hfteen years.
A Newspaper Writer'S Union has been organize,
in Albany y. y. Its charter members are ]. J
; Franklin. jr., G. II, wheener D. w Carver
]. W. Raper, Z. A. Golwey. o. A. Lindsay, &. II
stone, e. A. Prescott J. T, McSaily, T. ". MuI
fort Francis Hoag. ,r II q Gait ]. e. Mul
, aney, ID. $. Taylor, H. W. Cole f. w Hoyt
Howard Graham and q. f.. Graham.
Upon motion Of representatives Daniel De Leoi
and Hugh Greenan Of District Assembly ts tn,
General Assembly OF the Knights Of Labor has re-
solved to assist the striking shirt makers OF th
city. The q. A. also indorsed thn plan OF esab
fishing an International Bureau of Labor Statistic
and Correspondence, as proposed by the Interna
tionsl Labor Congress In Zurich
n OTTO steckhan. President ~ III" National Furn
ture Manufacturer Association. is quoted al
saying Every -, SO, yes SIS chamber suit
Z or $50 lounge, or fl.26 bcistesd, placed NJ
: the market to-day Ia curse 10 the community
not referring to Its poor intrinsic value II mean,
that labor has been degraded and pulled into In,
has beer brouRht IoyaI :. ,,L