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Show INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. The General Union Workers' association associa-tion of Hudson county, N. J., has decided de-cided to pay strike, lock out, out of work and sick and funeral benefits hereafter. The Nationalists and Socialists of New York city will work together in the fall election. District Assembly No. 1, the banner organization of the Philadelphia Knights of Labor, which had 60,000 members in 1880, has dwindled down, according to the statistics of the United Labor league, in which D. A. No. 1 is represented, to to 1,159 members today. The strike of the London postmen was of short duration and a failure. Cause: Pressure from non-union element. The government eight hour bill was favorably reported by the committee on labor. The labor unions and farmers' organization organi-zation have formed a sort of go-as-you-please federation. The unions are not eager to support the political movement of the formers. The London policemen said they could get along in their strike without the assistance as-sistance of the labor men. They got a long ways from success. The bobbies now know how it is themselves. Seven actors, employed at Vacca's West End Pavilion at Coney Island, struck against a reduction in salaries and a demand for more work. The Chicago trades assembly refused to financially assist the striking cloak-makers cloak-makers because their union is not attached at-tached to the assembly. A committee is now actively engaged in securing subscriptions for a stock company to erect a building for the Knights of Labor in St. Louis. ' J ohn Devlin, member of the general executive ex-ecutive board of the Knights of Labor, says there are 119 locals of molders in the United States, with a membership of about 14,000. The number of members in tho order generally has increased 2'"oOOtlM general assemHy about "It is a most dangerous precedent to establish to let the workingmen know there i3 one law for the rich and another hvw for the poor."-Judge Martine of .new York. A communication from the Rochester trades assembly states that a boycott had been placed upon the Co-operative Foundry company of that city, for tho reason that through advertising it Ins scoured tho country for scabs and cheap labor and has been partially successful. |