The evening world., 1894-03-09
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.

''our iron colleague is what comporitors call
the typesctting machine.
The new Corresponding Secretary elected by
Journeymcn BARRIERS Union No. IA is W. W.
Bogart.
Machinists' Union No. I2 has adopted resolu-
lions fayoring independent political action by or
ganiZcl labor.
Next Monday evening the Encaustic and Mosaic
Tlle-Layers' Union Will consider the question OF
demanding pay for overtime.
shoemnkcrs went on strike Yesterday at Msr-
teas factory In Dover, y. H., because their
wages have not been paid for the last twenty
weeks.
There IL a compositor on the Gazette at Dahl.
n. Y, who worked ~hfty-four years on one frame
and at one window. and lost but two weeks dur
ing that time.
F~orty-one trades unions in Germany spend $50,
600 per year to publish official organs, and last
year thlrty-three unions paid $50, 900 to travelling
members.
Receipts at General Secretary Treasurer wines's
office amounted to IS. 30l. 06 last month and 81
253.9t was expended, leaving a balance OF $50.
graphical Union.
In spite Of tn. hard times most OF the local
unions connected with the Brotherhood OF Painters
and Decorators report a gratifying Increase Of
membership.
The Strike Committee of the seventeen cigar
makers unions OF New York and vicinity has
chosen the Labor Lyceum. o. East Fourth street,
as Its headquarters pro TEN.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake will lecture upon
THE EIfranchisemen OF Women under the au.
piNN' "Na sSthnbi o'bou, n" VI IL, "a
Webster Hall. One Hundred and Fortieth street
and Third avenue, this evening.
Local Assembly 4o2. X. OF L.. trainers. has In.
dorsed the contract with bosses as proposed by
the New York Trainers Union, leaving hours and
wages for 1894 virtually as they were last year.
Schenectady has 46l families OF unemployed
workmen receiving poor orders from the city. OF
these. ~! families are Polanders. I Irish. 1 Amer
leans and 3 German.
There were 81. 900. 900 barrels OF beer made and
consumed In this country last year at a cost to
Ink n ahnnt x nn mn a suA tAI.l
OF this sum was profit to the manufacturers and
dealers.
Albert Weber. John weigel and A. Dietrich have
been appointed as a special committee by Car
pentcrs, Union No, 2ol. with instructions to de-
mand the eight-hour workday from the bosses in
Williamsburg.
The Dogs and the Fleas,' by one OF the dogs.
Is a serio-comic essay, written by J. Scrimshaw,
well known in this city as a lecturer and labor
writer, The book treats OF the labor question In a
quite novel and entertaining way.
A special meeting has been called by the Arcbi-
tectnral iron Workers Union for to-morrow, 10
Siscuss a proposition made by the Structural Iron
Settlers Union in regard to the demands to be
made within the next few days.
Sam Gompers said at the Pratt Institute last
night. in discussing the Ethics OF Labor that
the CONTAGIOUS bearing Of the striking girls Of
~ttemnn factory would have "a better moral
effect upon society at large than the doinss OF ali
women's organizations. from sorosls down.
"A movement is on foot in this city to brins
the various cooperative societies and labor unions
together and form one grand federation. Thu
principal promoters Of the idea are II. II. Sails.
bury OF l.. A. 1853. X. OF L., and Mrs.
lmogene c. Fales.
The Stand Keepers Union. which was recently
orSanized. sought Ambulance to the United
Hebrew Trades Unions, but the delegates were
TOD mat only unions whose principles are II
be admitted. 1t being alleged that the interests
Of the stand keepers are different from those OF
laboring men.
ofncial returns of the trades unions in England
ireland, Scotland and Wales give the foliowin.
results: England and WaieN membership. LOS,
slS annual Income, 1851, 37s and expenditures
$7,5l3,532; Scotland. membership. IS. III, income
3sSs Gal, expenditures, s2i2, 2Ss. ireland, member
ship. S.t65. income. s+5. $50. expenditures, $4l, 249