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

urholstcrcrs' UnioA No / gained eighteen new
members yesterday 'ycEing
Henry Junsmann elected Finacial Sec
fttary Of FIrtmans Cuion No, | yesterday.
Horse. Collar Makers Union No. II elected c. j.
Reher. President and r '"lliamson. Secretary.
SIX hundred unemployed workmen in Chicago
are about to organize cooperative colony.
Swedish machinists will be organized by Harry
T. Easton at $3.50 Fulton street. brooklyn. to-
morrow evening.
Strike benefit will he paid to Brotherhood car
penters at So East Fourth street tomorrow
the agreement made by the United standard
Engineers Union with their employers for the
current year.
Local Assembly 4923. painters. has left the
Knights OF Labor 1t will continue to be known
as Painters Progressive Union No 3.
Local Assembly 77S5, K, OF L. hremen. Is to
be reorganized this evening at Washington Hall
Myrtle avenue and Navy street. brooklyn.
The Contectloners and Cake Bakers Union has
moved Its headquarters to 267 East Tenth street,
where the regular meetings take place every
Thursday evening.
The officers elected by the New York contcc.,
tioners Society are: o. RorhGm, President: Paul
Mattern. Vice President. A. pi,chmsn, Recording
Gebaucr, Treasurer
The contracts OF the brewery Workers Unions
were signed Yesterday by the valentine l:oe~er
Brewing Company. Schmitt Schwanennuegel
and the Germania Brewing Company, OF Gntten-
burg,
About fifty OF Lattemann's striking shoe-work.
ers have obtained work in other factories. and
only eleven out of the 800 who struck resumed
work at the terms Of the firm.
Bakers Union No. l proposes to Organize
1900 Fist avenue. The initiation fec will be
raised from 81 to IS on May /.
TIL. officers elected by Boormakers' Union No.
II are: John Flynn. President; L. McCabe, Vice
President; ". W Lee. Recording Secretary; NJ.
Regau Fnacia Secretary; William Rush, Cor
respondng Secretary; James Flynn. Treasurer.
Newark. X. J., were Informed yesterday that their
wages. which were reduced 10 per cent some time
ago would be restored from next Monday.
$3.50 k Of t. In Webster Hall One Hundred and
Fortieth street and Third avenue, Rev. Leighton
Williams is to speak upon The Development OF
the Social Commonwealth
The correspondence between Sam Gompers and
John Burns IN relation to an asitaii1n your o, me
in the May issue OF the ofcial organ oil the
American Federation OF Labor
These new officers have been elected by the
Machinists' benevolent Union: w Bcller. fresi-
bcck Treasurer: II. Eckert. once Manager; J.
Trunk. F. suren A. Lerch. Finance Committee
John Mcbride. p. A. McBryde T. 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 les
Moincs. la, Boston, where he Will atcnu the
session Of the Massachusetts State Assembly On
April II Mr.. Sovereign will speak at public
mass meeting in Boston
In his call for the annual Convention OF the
Textile Workers National Union, which Will as
sembls In Philadelphia on May I. President Scfel
states that in tine last wear the organization
gained forty new local branches and the union AZ
Fall River enrolled about 1900 new members. New
bedford gained nearly 600 and Lawrence, Mass.
more than loco.
Breach Of promise is the cause Of the renewal
of the Overs strike in Paterson. N J. The men
were assured that their wages would be
raj sed II they resumed work, When they had
done so the bosses said wages would remain at
l5 cents per hour anl that GO hours would be q
weeks work The men are out agn.
The Strike Committee Of the brotherhood Of Car
pentcrs will meet tomorrow night at So East
Fourth to pay OF the strikers on the various
big buildings.
Thomas Wilson and T. l.. Frye. Special Commits
siDners appointed by the Secretary Of the Interior.
IIoke Smith are investigating the sweating sys-
tenn in Phadephia. So far they have found S2t
sweat shops and they say that most OF the
clothes worn by fashionable people are made in
the dIngest. dirtiest novels Imaginable Many
sweat shops In cellars and Easements. In one
shop. GSls and feet high. seventeen persons were
found at work making boys clothes Another shop
14xli. with ceiling too low for a grown per-
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 cats.