People's voice., 1895-05-02
INTERNATIONAL.
London. England.

THE MINERS TROUBLE.-The Ayr
shire miners have decided by majority
of about to 1 in favor of restriction.
The restriction to include the days darg
as we'll as the days wrought. At spe-
cial delegate meeting on Saturday the
result of the ballot was affirmed by
formal resolution in favor of the five
days and the masters darg. There will
be considerable difficulty in the carrying
out of the above decision, as the pits
where there is no checkweighman will be
nothing better for it but the mems word
of honor and it is usually in pits where
there is no checkwegher that this virtue
is mostly wanting The committee of the
local union in Glenbuck have all been
dismissed. The intention being, no doubt,
to intimidate the men and smash the
union. The Ayrshire Executive Commit
tee has made arrangements TO carry on
the organization without the mems active
participation. The Cairntable Coal Com
pany. which is the chief employer in
Glenbuck, is also one of the few who have
INDUCED in the luxury of partial reduc-
ton. The amount taken off being about
Is. per day.
Montreal. Canada.
CAPITALIST LAWMAKERS.-The Cen
fral Trades and Labor Council special
committee on the unemployed passed the
following resolution at their last meet
ing: That this committee cannot too
strongly condemn the unmanly and in
human actions of the City Council on
Monday last in neglecting to do any
thing other than vote $500 for Labor
Bureau land some Aldermen were mean
enough to vote against that, for the
starving, suffering poor of this city, and
It Is no credit to Montreal to see our rep
resentatives waste time squabbling over
money misspent by themselves, rather
than attending to the wants of those
they are supposed to represent.
Winnipeg, Canada.
LABOR UNIONS STATISTICS. - The
Labor Council of this city has published
the following:
The Amalgamated Carrenters and Join
ers report a membership of 50, with en-
ployed; highest wages, 27l9 cents per
hour; lowest % cents per hour, and aver
age 271s cents Future prospects bad.
The Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners. No. S4S, report a membership of
IS9. with Of that number employed. Av-
erage wages, 27l2 cents per hour, and fu-
ture prospects poor.
The Bricklayers and Masons report a
membership of .75. with none at work.
Wages, 50 cents per hour, and future pros
poets not good.
The Plasterers' Union reports a member
ship of %. with none at work; wages 40
cents per hour and future prospects poor.
The Plumbers and Stesmfitters report a
membership of q, with l employed; aver
ages wages, S.75 per day of nine hours,
and future prospects fair.
Typographical Union, No. 19l, reports a
membership of 95, with Go of that number
employed; highest wages SIS per week OF
"a hours; average wages SIC per week;
future prospects poor. They also report
wages, THAT several men are working on
piecework, and it is hard to get details
of amount earned. Wages on typesetting
machines are about TO be reduced. We
shall try to maintain decent wage, and
eight hours work"
Since this was sent to me, the Typo
graphical Union has succeeded in getting
this matter satisfactorily settled. The
members Of this union have suffered con-
siderably during the past six months
through the introduction Of type-setting
machines into two Of the daily newspaper
Offices, which has done away with the en-
ployment of considerable of their num-
Der. am creaitably INFORMED that from
Is to 30 members have been thrown out Of
employment. This, if Winnipeg was the
only pla:e, would not be so bad. but like
machines have also been introduced in all
the larger cities of Canada and the United
States.
The different unions affiliated with the