The evening world., 1894-04-13
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

rpholstcrcrs' Union No. l gained eighteen new
members yesterday evening.
Henry JnnGmann was elected Finacial Sec
re'ary OF Union No. / yesterday.
llorsc-Collar Makers Union No. II elected c. j.
l'eher. President, and T. Williamson. Secretary.
six hundred unemployed workmen in Chicago
are about TO organize a cooperative colony.
Swedish machinists will be organized by Harry
Z. Easton at 800 Fulton street, Brooklyn. to-
morrow evening.
STRIKE benefit will be paid to Brotherhood car.
i. NJ. '
the recmcnt made by the United Standard
Engineers Union with their employers for the
current year,
Local Assembly 1923. painters. has left the
Knights Of Labor. 1t will continue to be known
us Painters Progressive Union No. 3.
Local Assembly 7.7sS. x. Of L: nremen. Is to
be reorsanized this evening at Washington Hall,
Myrtle avenue and Navy street, Brooklyn.
The Confectioners and Cake Bakers Union has
moved its headquarters to 257 East Tenth street,
where the regular meetings take place every
Thursday evening.
The officers elected by the New YORK Contec-
TONERS Society are: o. Borham. President Paul
Mattern. Vice President. a. Pitchman. Recording
Secretary II. becker. Financial Secretary; e.
The contracts Of the Brewery Workers Unions
were signed yesterday by the Valentine Loewer
Brewing Company. Schmitt q Schwanennuegel
and the Germania Brewing Company, OF Gutten-
burg
About nifty of Lattemann's striking shoe work.
es have obtained work in other factories. and
only eleven out OF the 300 who struck resumed
work at the terms of the firm.
Bakers Union No. l proposes to organize a
branch in Harlem next Sunday, 10 A. NJ; at
1900 First avenue The Initiation Zee VIII be
raised from 81 to 81 on May !.
The officers elected by Boilermakers' Union No.
Il are: John Flynn. President; f. McCabe, Vice
President: W, W. Lee. Recording Secretary; N.
responding Secretary; James Flynn. Treasurer.
The employees of the Marshall Yarn Works at
Newark. \. j.. were informed yesterday that their
wages, which were reduced 10 per cent some time
ago, would be restored from next Monday.
At to-night's public meeting OF Local Assembly
4, $50, X. Of L.. In Webster Hall, One Hundred and
Fortieth street and Third avenue, Rev; Leighton
the Social Commonwealth
The correspondence between Sam Gompers and
John Burns in relation to an ag',nti1n tour o. me
in the May issue of the official organ OF the
American Federation of Labor.
These new officers have been elected by the
Machinists' Benevolent Union: W. Beller, Presi-
dent; c. Wenzel, Recording Secretary: j. Hassel-
beck, Treasurer; II. Eckert, Once Manager; J.
Trunk. F. Suren, A. Lerch, Finance committee.
John Mcbride, p. A. McBryde, p. II, Penna and
John Nugent were elected by the United Mine
Workers yesterday to represent them In the next
convention OF the American Federation of Labor.
with instructions to vote for independent political
action.
General Master Workman James r. Sovereign.
of the Knights OF Labor, is on his way from Des
Moines, la, to Boston, where he will attend the
session OF the Massachusetts State Assembly. On
April II Mr.. Sovereign will speak at a public
mass meeting in Boston.
In his call for the annual Convention OF the
Textile Workers National Union. which will as.
semble in Philadelphia on May I, President Seidel
states that in the last year the organization
gained forty new local branches and the union az
Fall River enrolled about / 500 new members, New
Bedford gained nearly 600 and Lawrence, Mass.
more than 900.
Breach OF promise is the cause Of the renewal
Of the dyers' strike in Paterson. n. J. The men
were assured that their wages would be
raised II they resumed work. When they had
done so the bosses said wages would remain at
Ia cents per hour and that 60 hours would be a
weeks work. The men are out agin.
The Strike Committee Of the brotherhood Of Car
penters will meet to- morrow night at IS East
Fourth street to pay of the strikers on the various
big buildings.
Thomas Wilson and T. L. Frye, Special Commits.
sioncrs. appointed by the Secretary OF the Interior,
Hoke Smith. are investigating the sweating sys-
ten in Philadelphia. SO far they have found 1924
sweat shops, and they say that most OF the
clothes worn by fashionable people are made in
the dinGiest. dirtiest novels imaginable. Many
sweat shops arc In cellars and Easements. In one
shop. SKIS and 7 feet high. seventeen persons were
found at work making boys clothes. Another shop
was lixl4. with a ceiling too low for a grown per
sOn TO stand upright In. There the Commissioners
found twenty persons at work, with six little
children playing on the floor. There were three
dogs and two eats.