The evening world., 1894-02-15
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

The headquarters OF Progressive Machinlsts'
Union No have been removed to ilA Fifth street.
The cigar packers OF Bondy G Lederer yester-
day Joined the striking cigar-makers Of that
Arm.
The question OF organizing a branch In Phila-
delphIu is 10 be discussed by tho Elevator Con-
structors Union this evening,
Fully 5000 miners have gone into New Mexico
from the Northern Rocky Mountain states dur
ing the last six months.
The Secretary Of the Baltimore Federation Of
Labor has Ntccrtancl the number OF the un-
employed In that city To be aout a0oc0.
An English woman Of great wealth has en-
ploycd thirtY-hv" poor Irish women since 1850 In
making copy ot an old peco OF Bayeux tapes
try.
The editor NJ the Nashville CTcnn.) Journal Of
Labor says he 10 wearing the hrst pair OF shoes
ever turned out in Tennessee with the union
label them.
Special meeting Of Untci Portable Hosting En-
ein,ers Saturday evening, Feb. T. business ot i'm
porance will hc transacted. Thomas +. Tohar.
Corresponding Secretary.
lecture upon Poverty" will be given at to-
nights meeting of the Workmens Vigilant Club
in Hudson Hall. Thirty-seventh street and Eighth
avenue.
From to-day the wages OF the employees OF the
Long island HAilroad will be reduced. and abou,
seventy-hNe engineers hremen. conductors and
brakemsn vil be discharged.
AT to-nights meeting Of the Phoenix Labor Club
If Metal Poshers there will be songs, recitals
and short speeches a new feature. which will be
made a permanent institution
1t is said that all the women who have hitherto
been employed as clerks and telegraph operators
on the various Russian railways are to be dis
missed and their places filled by men
The silk-rihbon weavers' mass meeting at which
1t Is to he decided whether or not general strike
should he ordered, will he held this evening at
BIohbecks Hall, 56s Ninth avenue.
Cigar -MakcrS' Union No. 90 enrolled three new
members this week. An application for permis-
sion to strike was granted to union out Of town
NoNt Saturday new mambers Of the Strike and
Label Committees are to be elected.
| Brickayers Union No. II has Instructed its
Delegate TO the General Council to insist that the
@ ,rke in s several I cities o! @ New Jersey be term-
etate to the Conference for the Relief OF tn. I'm
cmpio,ed
| Tho maas-mecting yesterday OF m.n working on
the river front, held at IS South street was well
attended. Tho speakers dwelt upon the hard
times stating that thousands Of 'longshoremcn,
| sewers and holders out OF employment and
rommit,E m I,;f,,, composed Of Martin McGlovan,
M,Ihasi sullivan William Russell, William Parker
ana stephen Nethercott was appointed to see
Mayor Glroy.
At Heckman's Hall 22o Avenue A, a mass
meeting OF street cleantrs hostlers and cartmen
was held last night to denounce the treatment OF
men employed in the Street Cleaning Department
II was also charged that CommissI sIoner Andrews
had been impollte when a committee called upon
| him to submit their grievances. while Mayor
! 'hroy had refused to listen TO the committee II
,, was roroyea to request the Commissioner to ap-
netghhorhood OF the Department stables.
Master Workman Charles sothernn has called a
special meeting OF l.. A. 1853. X. OF L. for next
Saturday evening to consider important matters
In connection with the agitation for the unem-
rloyed. Tomorrow evening Mr. Sotheran will
lecture at the public meeting Of L. A. 8 $50 in
Webster Hall, One Hundred and Forteth street
and Third avenue, upon the subject "A Co-opera-
tive Industrial system" and next Sunday he will
speak before the American section Of the Socialist
Labor party In Philadelphia. the subject being
Socialism and the United States Constitution"
A discussion upon the trouble among the steam
filters and their helpers led to the resignation Of
three members Of the building Trades Section Of
the Central Labor Union Yesterday. but the Sec
tion refused to accept the resignatons These
three delegges had been accused Of having tried
TO whitewash the steamhtters. A resolution OF
tho Ornamental Plasterers' Union requesting all
wood workers. architects and builders to unite
against the importation Of carvings indorsed
call for convention OF building trade workers.
issued by the National Association OF Marble Cut
ters was placed on fle
At yesterdays meeting Of the Board Of Dele
gates NJ building Constructors credentials from
the Stcamftters Union were returned with the
request that tho word helpers be erased from
the document the Bolrd does not recognize
a ''Steamhtters and Helpers Union" The agree
ment Of the electrical workers with their employ
indorsed also the action Of the marble
workers In refusing to handle material imported
for the Metropolitan Club Mouse. The delegate
OF the wood-carvers reported that carvings, gilt
material and ornamental plasterngs had been
imported for the palace Of Millionaire Bishop at
sixty-ninth street and Fifth avenue.