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

Our iron colleague Ia what composltors call
the typcsetting machine.
The new Gorrespondins Secretary elected BY
Bogart.
Machinists' Union No. ~ has adopted resoiu-
tions f~avoring independent political action by or
ganized labor.
Next Monday evening the Encsustic and Mosaic
Tle-Layers' Union will consider the question OF
demanding pay for overtime.
Shoenakers went on strike yesterday at Mer-
tens factory In Dover. \. H.. because their
wages have not been paid for the last twenty
weeks,
There is a compositor on the Gazette at Delhi.
y. y. who worked ~hfty-four years on one frame
and at one window. and lost but two weeks dur
ing that time.
Forty-one trades unions In Germany spend $685.
900 per year TO publish onciel organs, and last
year thIrty.threc unions paid ss6, 900 to travelling
members.
Receipts at General Secretary Treasurer wines's
Office amounted to IS, SOL. 0G last month and 81
1884 was expended, leaving a balance OF SSP,-
1914 in the treasury Of the International Typo
graphical Union.
In spite Of the hard times most o, 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. Ga East Fourth street,
as Its Headquarters pro TEN.
Mrs. Lille Devercux Blake will lecture upon
The Enfranchisemen OF Women under the au-
Ftl'tN VI ~ htNFHhb II \" L. IT
Webster Hall, One Hundred and Fortieth street
and Third avenue. this evening.
Local Assembly io2, 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 virtup'ly as they were last year.
Schenectady has i6i families of unemployed
NO"k'nen receiving poor orders from the city. or
these, a, families are Polanders, 7 Irish, 4 Amer
leans and . German.
There were 81, 900, 900 barrels Of beer made and
consumed In this country last year at a cost to
drinkers OF about xtb Nj Un Nalrlv tNyO.thIFda
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
psnters Union No. POI, with instructions to de-
mand the eisht-hour workday from the bosses in
Williamsburg.
is a serio-comic essay, written by J. Scrlmshaw,
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-
%tectural Iron Workers Union for to- morrow. to
discuss a proposition made by the Structural Iron
setters' Union In regard to the demands to be
made within the next few days.
n;sht, in DISCUSSING the Ethics Of Labor" that
L~attemann's factory would have "a better moral
enect upon society at large than the doings Of all
women's organizations. from sorosis down"
A movement is on foot In this city to brins
the various cooperative societies and labor unions
together and form one grand federation. The
principal promoters OF the idea are II. u, Sails
bury. Of l.. A. 1858, X. OF L., and Mrs.
Imogene c. Fales.
The Stand Keepers Union. which was recently
Organized, sought admittance to the United
Hebrew Trades Unions, but the delegates were
told that only unions whose principles are In
accordance with those Of the U. II. T. U. could
be admitted, 1t being alleged that the interests
or the stand keepers are different from those Of
lahoring men.
Oficial returns OF the trades unions In ENGLAND,
ireland, Scotland and Wales give the following
results England and wales. membership, los.
2ls, annual income, 81. 5si, 379 and expenditures
y 532; Scotland. membership. SIN, income,
s23S, Cal. expenditures, S2i2. 23s: Ireland, member
ship. s.f6b. income, tb. $50, expenditures. Sal, $40