The evening world., 1894-03-22
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.

Labor items are copied from The Evening
World by papers throughout this country
Cabinet Makers Onion No. 80 is about to add
to Its features death and sick benefit fund.
Beer bsttlns companies refusing TO employ
union drivers are being hoycotcd by the Cen
ral Labor Union OF Indianapolis
Single tax advocates alege that there are now
more than 500, coo people In this country believing
In Henry Georges theories
The Building Trades Section ~ the Central
Labor Union received credentials Yesterday from
the elders Union. The delegate admitted is
A. Cattsnach.
The movement for building alnhor lgeeum in
Paterson. n. j., has been deferred until the
present trouble in the silk factories is settled
Resolutions tayoring the abolition of the United
States Senate have recently been adopted by
many labor organizations In different states
Albany clerks are successfully aEtating for early
closing, They have union OF several hundred
members among them good many youhg women
Cigar-Makers' Union No. 90 gained hve new
meuhers this week and granted one application
for permission TO strike. New officers will be
elected on Saturday, April lt
Paper hangers strikes are announced jobs
at Eighty eighth street and Madison avenue. and
6 West Ninety.hfth street and 60 East SIXTY
sixth street.
BY a majority OF 81 the new South Wales Parlia-
ment has passed a bill providing for the abolition
of the contract system for public works The
Government was opposed TO the bill.
Progressive Painters Benevolent Union No !
will celebrate the second anniversary OF its organ-
ration next Mondsy Mon night March 2s at Brick
Window smashers'' are on the increase in Lon
don. They smash windows 10 secure prison fare
to keep from starving. Tom Mann says London
has more than 1000 people out Of employment
The Culinary Trade Council yesterday resolved
to publish an otneial organ which will be known
Henry Weismann. OF the Bakers Journal. II will
probably make its appearance next week.
II was reported at yesterdays meeting Of the
Board OF Walking Delegates that the Ornamental
Plasterers' Union and the Operative Plasterers'
Society have anal gamAted under the name Of
Operative and Ornamental Plasterers' Union. The
representative OF the organization is Michael
Weisdoerfer. He was admitted the Board.
The average cost per electric arc light in
twenty three American cities owning their own
plants Ia S53.O per year. while the statistics OF
twenty nine cities where private capitalists own
the electric ligh. works show that the annual
cost per light Is 3I060l
NJ e. Martins Sons, manufacturers ot paint
ers' brushes, assert that during the sixty four
years OF existence OF their arm they only once
had trouble with their employees. They had two
men in their employment more than fifty years
two more than forty. and number more than
twenty years.
A conference will soon he held by labor unions
the members OF which are engaged In decorating
the interiors Of fine houses, The object OF the
Conference will be to induce rich persons TO en-
ploy only American workmen to do the decorating
OF these persons heretofore to employ Frenchmen
and Itrlans The Gilders' Union and the United
Order OF Carpenters notified the Building Trades
Section Of the Central Labor Union last night
that they would take part In the Conference.
The Section VIII send fye delegates. The Secre-
ask c, T. Yerkes. who is building house at
SiXty-elEhth street and Fifth avenue 10 employ
American ornamental plasterers instead OF the
FrenChmen he has now at work.