The evening world., 1893-12-27
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Five new members were enrolled this week BY
the Childreu's Jacket-Masers' Union.
The election OF officers OF the Uphoisterers'
Union VIII take place Tuesday, Jan. 8.
Clothing Cutters Union No. I will be repre-
scented by H., White at the annual Convention OF
the New YORK State Federation OF Labor.
Messrs. Slrla. Hartje and Friedmann were
elected delegates to the Conference for the Relief
of the Unemployed by A~malgamated brass Work.
ers' Union No /.
Carpenters Union No. ola has given John Hal
kett ZIG votes for Walking Delegate 81 tie BiOth-
erhood Carpenters District Council in this city.
and +. Schultze received 40 votes.
j House has been elected President OF
Electrical Workers Union No. ~. Brooklyn. The
Recording Secretary is }. u. Barry, 81? hcrkimer
street. and =. j Dunn Is Financial Secretary.
Mass meetings will be held next Thursday even
Ing by the International C~loakmakers' Union at
New lrTing Hall, on Fast broadway. and by the
shlrfmakets' Union at Walhalla Hall. orchard
street.
At General Secretary George l.. Horns once re-
ceipts rom local unions OF the Bakers and Con-
fectlone.s' International Union amounted to S2ts.6 IS
last week. whit, s,Oi. 76 was expended.
A census Of the unemployed taken by the Trades
Council OF Detroit, Mich, places the number in
ihst city at about rs, 900. Bufralo and lndianapo-
lis each have 20. 01O people out OF work.
The differences between the walters unions OF
payment of dues oxacted by the Iioboken union
from members coming from New York to work In
lioboken. have been amicably settled.
The new officers elected by the National Brother
hood OF Electrical Workers are: X. Jansen. Presi-
dent: n. Dun, II. W. sherman. IL. Miller. Vice
Presidents, j. T.. Kelly, sesreiary- 7 ressarer;
Prickett. Executive Board: II. Miller, Organizer.
The Musical Liberty Protective Union has elected
A. Watman. Business Manager; N. Rosenthal'
rotary; d. wolcnbers, Treasurer; A. Hochdort'
Examiner; u. welsman, Librarian; Messrs. Stein.
Wesheimer and Wolenbcrg. Trustees.
Local Assembly 7c, X. of b.. taiiors, elected l..
schwartz. Master Workman: $, Greenfield. Worthy
Foreman; NJ. Klein. Recording Secretary; J. Gold
berger. Financial Secretary: J. Belapoisky. Treas
urer: II. Deu,sch, statistician; A. Welnberger.
Judge; Nj. Engel. Judge Advocate: 8. Sherman.
Clerk.
The %shoemakers Of st. Louis have been sue
organization, but the c~isar-makers and brewery
workmen are still out. and there is no end to be
seen OF their struggle for their right to protect
their interests by the means OF organization.
Local Assembly 74s. X. OF L., better known a.
the Apollo Musical Club. has secured q permanent
headquarters at los Lawrence street. near Fulton.
Brooklyn, where the regular meetings VIII taks
place every Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The
employment Office is also located there. and the
Secretary is In attendance every day from IL A. NJ
to 3 =. NJ.
Members Of the Hotel and Restaurant Employer
National Alliance are at present taking a vote
upon amendments to the constitution OF ,he,r or
places where local unions do not exist, and aiso
for the disseminating Of the stamp system. the
monthly per capita tar Of 7 12 cents to be PAID
in cash to the National Secretary.
Delegates Shapiro, Weiustein and Cooper will
represent the United Hebrew Trades Unions at the
conference for the relief OF the unemployed at q
Delaney street. next Thursday evening. The dele.
gates to the Joint Executive Board OF the United
Central Labor Federation of New York and Vi
cinity, have been instructed to vote for the ex
pulsion OF the Brooklyn Central Labor Federation
for refusing to withdraw the boycott from ths
Brooklyn Labor Lyceum.
During the last two years the number Of trades
union members In Germany has been reduced from
27S. 029 to 227, 023, owing to the failure OF many
strikes and the lack of employment. The miners
| unions lost over % 600 members through the Inter
ference Of the Government. by whose DEGREES thou.
sands of union men were discharged from the Gov
ernment's coal mines In Westphalia and Rhenania.
Tho following firms In this city are now EN-
ployins union granite-cutters: browne. McAliis'
ter q Co. 43i West Fourteenth street; James
Dolan. One Hundred and Fifth street; James Do
Ian, Sc Milton street, Greenpoint. NJ. McGrath,
Eighty-Hrst street. East River: Orr Bros, Sixty
second street, East River: wills & Dyer, Ninety.
second street and First avenue; Booth Bros. one
Hundred and Thirteenth street and First avenue
Fischer & Bird, Houston street and Bowery; w
Kidney. Sixty-nrst street. East River.
At yesterdays meeting OF Branch 1 OF the United
silk Rib Weavers' Union II was reported thai
the foreman OF steinhardt's factory attempted tt
prevent the strikers who were evicted from Stein
hardt's tenement houses from being received b,
other landlords, but the Strike Committee out
witted. the foreman. and the evicted families wer
procured lodgings at more comfortable quarter
than they occupied before. ,Onlcers VIII be elect
ed by the Branch next Tuesday evening.
T.. v. Powderly has resumed his agitation 1
favor of temperance. He recently said at a TEN
perance meeting In Scranton, Pa: Throw stron
he'll. It t' scars the conscience. i. destroys every
thing It touches. Every dime spent in the run
shop furnishes a paving stone for hell. In on'
Pennsylvania county in a single year 81, 900, 00l
was spent for liquor. and it was estimated tina
81, 900. 900 of the amount came from working
men,
For a long time there has been serious troubl,
in the Central Labor Union at Minneapolis. TIL
body was controlled, as 1t is charged, by a few
men for their own benefit. whereupon most OF tn,
unions withdrew to organize a second central body
which is now stronger than the old one. Mrs
Eva McDonald-Valesh a well-known labor writer
and labor editor OF the Minneapolis Tribune
minated in the formation OF the new centra
organization.