The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-12-01
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Local labor unions in utca. y. Y. are about
u form Union Label League.
A mass.mectng OF pan'snakcrs is to be held at
ia Cannon STREET tomorrow evening.
The frs: annual ball Of the Dry.Goods Sales
mems Association will take place on Jan. "a
In the lumber and coal trade on the Pacific
coast scamen's wages have come down to IS per
month,
Fty five local unions OF the Journeymen Brew
ers National Union have contributed Slli! to
the strike fund Of the furniture workers in Gin
cinnaiL
Carpenters Union No. 1875 has drapcd It's charter
In mourning to honor the memory 0: William
Cow who died from injuries received by an ac-
rident while at work.
ON Wednesday, Dec 90 Machinery Moulders
Union No. "a viii holu a special meeting to take
measures to relieve Its unemployed members
The Railroad Postal Clerks Association has
elected the following officers President. william
lilakemore. ninth division; Nice-Presdcnt. T. w.
Norris, second division; Treasurer. }. Z. Wallace.
sixth division
In place Of ]. ]. Hassett. who declines to serve.
Rhoady kenehan VIII rertesent the International
Iiors' shoerS Union at the Convention OF the
American Federation Of Labor.
Many meetings being held in the Pennsyl-
vania mining towns looking to the reorgani1a-
ton OF the Miners and l.aborers Amalgamated
Association which was disbanded six years ago.
Thr'y-siS members gained by the Iiar.
lem branch az the Workmcn's General Benefit
Union last month. The receipts amounted to
81 i0s 10, and Si;O.2j were discussed.
Inc wages IHll 10 the NOrklnSNotnen IN west
orn Andausia are so low sometimes so cents u
week. that the political parties Of spain have
agreed TO support measures which Will favor al
Increase.
Associations meetings are well attended. and con
siderable interest is manifested In the proceedings
one Of the few local unions Of the Iron Mould
rrs' Union NJ America whose members are opposed
TO the movement for permitting each union TO M
its own initiation fees is the MOulders' Union In
Albany. Y.
Cabinet Makers Union No has no:!Gei its
members working ar the shop o. Contractor own,
on West Twelfth street. where the piere-wOrk
| system is to be Introduced. that they will be
fined for working under that system.
The Headquarters Of Local Assembly 25i X. Of
l., rlastercrs. has been removed 10 10 Thrill
avenue. and the meeting night was changed from
Tuesday t. nr'day. The iirickhandiers Union
has also moved to 10 Third avenue.
The hottest mines in the world are the Com
stock. On the lower levels the heat is 50 great
that the cannot work over ten or fifteen
minutes at time. Every known means Of miti-
eating the heat have been tried in vain. Ice
nelrs before 1t reaches the bottom Of the shafts.
No delegate vii! be sent to the Convention OF
the Hrichlayrrs and Masons' International Union
Of them say they cannot aTOrd to pay the dele
gates expenses while others, among them Onion
No :. do not consider 1t to be necessary to hold
Convention
Secretary G. A. Waller OF the Boston Branch
Of the Atlantic Seamen's Union, reports that ship
ping masters in that city are SIN reducing wages
and that captains bitterly complain OF getting
incompetent crews Many captains are Offering
pay the difference In wageJ out OF their own
pockets in order to get union men.
Since the FIRST labor day parade In Bos,Cn Mass
the organized wage aruers Of that city have APP
proximutcly reduced their hours OF labor 5000
per day. $40 900 week and &c 500 900 hours an
nually II is claimed that employ is provided
for additional men in a corresponding ratio with
the shortening OF the DAYS work II this claim
Is accurate the reduction OF hours enforced in
Boston since lSsj-Sj will furnish ,S22 more men
with employment in 1898 than given amount OF
labor eight years ago.