The evening world., 1894-03-02
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.

Eight gloss factories were closed Unidentified,
last week.
More than forty cigar manufacturers were
granted the blue label In this cit, during Inc lnst
nine months.
Quarrelling among the mem pcrs has split the
once powerful Lumber Dock i.aborors Union Of
Cleveland. q.
An assessment Of 80 cents has been levied upor.
the members OF the International Furniture
Workers Union. 1t Is due on May l.
In one year in Leeds. England, there we're to
preventable, leaving only IS from causes beyond
control.
Machine Wood Workers and Turner's Union 40.
Us enrolled four new members this week at an
Initiation fec Of $40 each.
Meeting tonight at 20 Delaney street Of the
Conference for the itelIct Of the Unemployed.
George Scott has been elected Master Mechanic
by Lodge No. 266 Of the International Association
OF Machinists. The new Recording Secretary is
Charles J, Mccarthy.
A motion to aid the Hartford city Glass Com
pany by ioanins $40, 900 to ii, has been rejected
by a large majority OF Local Assembly 800, X. OF
l., glass workers.
Upon protest Of Electrical Inside Workers
Union No. 3. credentials for delegates OF Electrical
Workers Union No IS have been rejected by the
building Trades Section Of the Central Labor
Union.
John McGregor. President OF the Stone Masons
International Union. has issued n circular re
guessing local unions to organize the helpers at
independent bodies. TO be affiliated with the In
tsrnationGl,
Non union painters are said To he working at
the armory Of the sixty-ninth Regiment. and Pro
gressiVe Painters Benevolent Union No. ] liz
trying to induce the proper authorities TO hire
union men At union wages.
Grand Chief Missioner. OF the Brotherhood Of
Railway Carmen. has recovered from his recent
illness and is again on the road, busily spreading
the organization. AT present he is in st. Paul,
MINI.
View OF the Demands Of organized Labor at
Webster Hall, one Hundred and Fortieth street
and Third avenue. this evening. The meeting is
one OF a series arranged by Local Assembly $3.50,
X. Of l..
A. one Of the recent PROFESSIONS OF the unem
nloyed in Chicago a placard vas carried bearing
this inscription: The triumph OF the nineteenth
century Fifteen thousand American sovereIgns
shovelling snow all day for two bowls Of soup
and sleeping room on the bare moor"
The orncers elected by Electrical Workers Union
No. % are: II. Thayer, President e. Cook, Vice
President; W. S. Seaton, Treasurer; W. A. War.
neeke, Financial Secretary; E en- Recording
! Warden; J. Briggs, E. Jennings, A F. Duncan.
Trustees,
Commissioner Edward F%eeney, Of the Board Of
we're To be made subordinate TO the state Bureau
o. Labor statistics employers would not be apt
to treat the Commissioners with the consideration
which would be due them II they were independent
State officers.
Cane. Mccartney & 90. and Max Ernst & Co.
have made agreements with the Amalgamated As
sociation OF Clothing Cutters and Trimmers for
the Comins season, and the men working for these
firms will be paid union wages. This evening the
Union Is to vote upon the question OF excusins
unemployed members who are In arrears from pay
ing dues.
The Queensland Branch of the international
Seamen's Union has opened Its doors to the wharf
laborers. cooks. stewards, lightermen, coal bump.
ers and all other maritime occupations on water
and shore. the cards Of membership being ex.
changeable in any port Of the world where a
branch Of the International Union exists.
An attempt Of the boss builders at Evansville
Ind. to cut down bricklaycrs' wages has been un.
successful. as the men are thoroughly organized
and there was no one to take their places when
they went on strike. There is also a union OF
colored hol-carriers in Evansville, who stood
out with the bricklayers to a man.
II was reported at yesterdays meeting Of the
Board Of Delegates OF Building Constructors tha'
steamntters from the Enterprise Association
would resume work on several buildings fror
which they have been discharged, II they dc
new complications will arise. The members Of
unions aniiated with the Board will remain neu'
trail by not going on strike and not taking the
places OF strikers.
Frank Sladek, Second street and Fairmount
avenue. Philadelphia, Is a boss baker who import
cd a Bohemian cake baker under contract, prom
Using him board and lodging and $40 per month
for two years. When SlRdek was arrested FOL
violation OF the Contract Labor law he said hi
would. II convicted, sell out his bakery and re
turn TO Austria. where he could make all tbs
money he needed without being arrested for hir
ing men as cheap as they would offer themselves