The evening world., 1894-04-17
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

A free employment bureau has been established
by the municipal authorities OF Baltimore.
The people now on strike and forced to idle
ress by the strikers In Paterson. n. j.. number
about 5000 all told.
Charles Blakesley has been elected Master Work
man OF Local Assembly 4,5i2. X. OF L., Miscel-
laneous Trades. The new Secretary 10 Burt
Hemmerrick.
All unions represented in the United Garment
Trades report a rapid increase Of membership.
The organization will parade on May l.
Union carpenters are about to strike on a Job
OF Contractor Norcross. One Hundred and Twen-
tieth street and Tenth avenue. as he refuses to
pay union wages.
A conference q the Independent Bakers Unions
is to be held at Faulhaber's Hall, Second avenue,
between Seventy ninth and Eightieth streets.
next Saturday evening.
Al the last meeting Of the Textile WORKERS.
Union OF Hudson County l05 new members
were enrolled. and there ere now over 700 In
good standing.
Twelve members OF Plumbers Union No. 2
Gold streets yesterday, as their organization is
not recognized by the Board OF Walking Dele
gates.
The receipts at the general ONCE of the Jour.
neymen Brewers National Union last week
amounted to $751; 20. Tomorrow the organiza-
ton Is to be transformed into a National Trade
District OF the knights OF Labor.
Melchior Meyer has been elected Recording
Secretary OF Cabinet Makers Sick and Death
Benefit Society No. I in place OF Jean Pietz.
deceased. The members are agitntIng for an
amalgamation with the United brotherhood Of
Carpenters and JOiners.
About 200 shoe and slipper makers held a
mass.meeting yesterday at 2S7 East Houston
street. listening to speeches made by ]. O'Leary.
r. Modest and several others who explained
the value Of labor organizations. Quite a num-
Der OF new members was gained.
THE conservative trade unionist is really the
advanc" thinker In the labor movement He
has discovered and has sense enough to know
and that the surest way to overcome the barriers
In labor's pathway Is to put n shoulder to the
wheel and help to level them to the earth by the
trade union process. '-Cigar-Makers' Journal.
Jacob f. Bausch, J. p. Mahon. William Gellard,
]. Baumann and James Terrell are at work on
a plan by which the conference OF carvers, mar
workmen Intend to prevent Entertainments upon
their trades by prison labor and imported decora-
lions.
william II. Frank and Meltzer Brothers and
kept quiet signed the annual contract. OF Brew
ers, Union No. SO yesterday. The other bosses
decline. and II they persist their breweries will
be declared non-union places. The contract OF
Firemen's Union No. l was not signed by any
OF the bosses
Progressive Painters Union No. l was the sub
ject Of discussion at yesterdays meeting OF the
Board Of Walking Delegates. as several member.
being alleged that members Of Union No. 1 had
taken the places OF strikers. The matter was
finally Tei ,Ss to . spssia' r. 9Sm WOrs cT 1fdton
were referred to the Brooklyn Board OF Walking
Delegates. The Bluestone- Cutters Union was
requested not to cut any granite.
At last nights meeting OF representatives Of the
Populists. Socialists. knights OF Labor and the
Central Labor Federation at 80 East Tenth street
1t was agreed to unite In appointing watchers at
the polls next Fall. A platform containing the
demands OF the Socialists, the political programme
OF the American Federation OF Labor and the
propositions Of the X. OF L.. was unanimously
adopted, and It will be submitted to a vote OF the
organizations represented in the conference. The
next meeting is to take place on May 81.
Boss tailors are trying to force reductions Of
wages In Nashville, Tenn. San Antonio. Tex.
Macon, Ga. Peoria. Ill. Little Rock. Ark. Sioux
Falls. 8. Oak. jacksonville. Fla. Lexington.
Ky. Sharon, Pa. Kalamazoo. st. Louis. Des
Moines Ia. Louisville. KY; Saginaw. Mich.
B~inghamton. n. Y. and the General Executive
lea cautions tailors against going TO these places.
John Fraser and James Sims have been appointed
Organizers. The general oficers advise that a pro-
trctive fund be established from two annual
assessments at 80 cents each. The receipts at
Secretary John II. Lemons ONCE amounted to
Sc, 2Sl 30 last month and Sc s25. n5 was ex-
pended. There is a balance OF Sl,65S, 10.