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The Labor enquirer., 1884-05-17
Calico Hop.

Tickets are out for the social calico hop,
to be given by the lady members of the
Knights of Labor of this city. The hop
will be given, in the new city hall, on
the evening of Thursday, May 20. The
hop will certainly be a grand success, for
the ladies who are getting it up" always
succeed in such undertakings.
Tickets, admitting gentleman and lady
are to be sold at the low consideration
of so cents. The best of music will be
secured, and everything will be done to
make the occasion pleasant one. Fuller
particulars will be given in next issue o.
THE ENQUIRER.
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New officers.

At the last regular meeting of Denver
Typographical Union No, 49 the follow
ing officers we're elected; S. II. LavertY
financial secretary, vice O. L. Smith, re,
signed; Winn NJ Nudd, recording secre-
tary, vice F P. Mannix, resigned; Ed
OConnell, member of executive board
vice S. H. Laverty, resigned; Charles
Coffin and Charles A. Poole, delegates to
Trades Assembly, to fill vacancies.
These selections are all good ones, and
the union is to be congratulated upon its
efficient board of officers and representa-
tiYes.
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Omen Meeting.

Under the auspices of the Carpenters
Union an open meeting, for agitating
purposes, was held in Knights of Labor
hall, on last Saturday evening. The hall
was comfortably filled, and great interest
was manifested throughout.
The speaker of the evening was Mr.,
Carl Wulsten, who delivered an able
address upon the necessity and benefits
Of organization. He referred to the past
history of the working classes and theil
struggles in several countries, and hit
remarks evidenced deep research upon
the question. Thespeaker was frequently
interrupted by bursts of applause, ane
the address was heartily appiauded as
whole. ,-g
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ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken Of
your rest by sick child suffering and crying
with pain Of cutting teeth If so send al
once and get bottle OF MRS. WNsLoW's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETH.
ING. Its value is incalculable. It will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake
about it; Hcures dysentery and diarrh0ea,
regulates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind chOlic, softens the gums, reduces in
flammation, and gives tone and energy to the
whole system. MRs.WMsLoW's SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEEYHING is spleasant
to the taste, and is the prescription OF one OF
the oldest and best female nurses and physi.
clans in the United States, and is for sale by
all druggists throughout the world. Price q
cents bottle.
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The workingmen of this country do
not need to petition for justice they can
establish it themselves. They do not
need to ask for fair play; they can en-
force it. They do not need to demand
their rights; they can take them. Every
day lost by them is day of dishonor to
them. The workingman suffers from no
wrong that the workingmen themselves
can not put an end to. He is shackled
by no law that he can not abolish; he is
subject to no power that he can moi
sweep away.-Indianapolis Signal. .,
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A Larger Stock than Ever,

Calling on our friend T. S. Clayton, the
Popular Halter, 285 and 2S54 Fifteenth
street, we were astonished to find his
large store crowded with hats and caps
of every description, and more than
astonished on learning the extreme low
prices. Mems wool hats at rs cents and
81 mems fur hats from $1.25 and up
and an endless variety of mems, boys
and children's straw hats at any price
you may desire. We can safely say
that Mr.. Clayton has the largest store
and the very lowest prices, and would
recommend all in need of any kind ot
hats to give him call.
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Drcssnnnking.

Miss Anna Smith, begs leave to an
nounce to the readers of THE ENQUIRER
that she has opened dress-maklng, rooms
at her residence, pol Antelope street,
where she will be pleased to see all her
lady acquaintances and their friends.
Efficiency, neatness and promptness are
Miss Smiths rules, and she never fails
to please. Ladies having her do their
work are not annoyed by being com
PEELED to call and have their garments
fitted several times. One CALL to leave
the measure, is all that is required.
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in wages. They belonged to the un.
skilled departments. i

in wages They belonged to the un-
skilled departments.
Samuel Garrett and Duncan A. Ro-
mont, members of Typographical union
No. s, have been held for trial at court
for distributing boycotting circulars
claimed to be libelous.
The boss molders Of Cincinnati issued
a circular to the individual members OF
the union, full of falsehoods. and want
ing them to return to work and leave the
union, but the fish did not bite.
The carpenters of Troy, New York,
have won their strike for eight hours as
a days work They are not to be re-
quired to work with non union men
hereafter, which is great victory.
1t is rumored that the Vulcan iron and
steel works, at Carondelet, will shortly
start up again. AT any rate, heavy ship
ments of pig-iron have been made to the
works lately, which looks encouraging.
The arbitrator to whom the question
of wages in the manufactured iron trade
in Northern England was referred, de-
cided upon reduction of q per cent.
The employers demanded reduction of
10 per cent. s s..rs.-
The lockout of the Cincinnati cigar
makers still continues, and the bosses
threaten to import men from Germany
at from Sc to S14 per week. Their efforts
to fill the shops with boys and girls
didn't work we'll. .-a. :
The Keokuk stove works, of Keokuk,
Iowa, on Wednesday, notified the
molders employed of reduction of Is
per cent in wages, and the molders con-
tinued to work. The old price paid was
25 per cent above board rates.
Among the indictments found by the
grand jury of Lewiston, Maine, are sew
eral against the striking lasters of that
city and Auburn for unlawful assembly.
The strikers have engaged General But
ler to conduct their defense.
statisticians employed by the Labor
Congress held in Geneva some years ago,
figured out, that if every able-bedied
man and woman were engaged in some
useful labor. the worlds work could be
accomplished in three hours and forty
minutes per day.
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AngSEMENTS.
AT THE GRAND.

Il (
"a Bunch Of Keys" has been the win.
ming card of the season at the Grand
It is funny, extremely funny, and there
have been more laughs to the square
inch at the opera house during this week
than Denver has ever known before
The company could not be stronger, and
the play is simply budget of fun,
There will be an opportunity to see it at
this evenings performance. Seize it.
Next week Herne's Hearts Of Oak
will be the attraction, and if reports are
true it will be an attraction indeed. The
piece is said to be one Of the finest of
modern dramas and it has been favorably
received in all the principal cities Of the
Union. The company which will pre-
sent it here is the one which has been SO
successful in all the large eastern cities.
There is some fine scenery in Hearts oi
Oak" and the Tabor Grand artists have
been busy for several days perfecting the
settings.
g,- THE ACADEMY.
The improvements at the Academy
are being pushed forward with all possi-
BILE haste and it is hoped will be ready
for opening very soon.
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Late Labor News,

By Associated Press.
PUEBLO, Colorado, May '12.-The steel
rail mill at the Bessemer works closed
tonight for the present. All the other
departments of the works will continue
in full blast. The reason assigned for
closing the steel rail mill is that the de-
mand is so light and the prices are so low
that the management considered it more
profitable to close that department.
Only small number of men are thrown
out of employment. This is official.
P1rTsBuRG, May 11.-The telegraphers
here disclalm al. knowledge of the pro-
posed reorganization of the brother
hood, and the strike at Chicago during
the rational convention. Thomas NJ
Hughes, who was secretary of the
brotherhood, says that such talk is idle
rumor. Others say that so far as this
city is concerned there is nothing in it.
Many, however, favor an organization Of
some kind.
ST.. THOMAS, May l3.-The dynamite
scare has reached the English islands.
The luggage of all persons arriving is
carefully examined. The sudden depart
ure of the war steamer Canada from st.
Vincent is attributed to private informa-
ton, that the dynamlters were on the
track of Prince George, who is on the
steamer. On the mail steamer, the po.
lice went aboard, but the suspected per,
sons had landed at St. Kits.
CHICAGO, May 14.-The Anti-Monopo-
lists convention balloted tonight for q
candidate for president: The formal bal
lot resulted in Benjamin F: Butler 1874
Allen G. Thurman 7, Solon Chase l.
Butler was declared the nominee, and
the convention adjourned.
WORCESTER, Mass, May 15.-The
Paprachoag mills, owned by George
Compton, were burned this evening
The mill was used for manufacturing
woolen yarn. Loss $15O,SO0 and insur
ance $4,000. Fourteen women and
half dozen men were injured in leap
ing from the building, and several of the
wounded are likely to die. 1t is fearet
that bodies will be found in the ruins.
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LABOR NOTES.

CoaI-mining is somewhat dull about
Braidwood, Illinois.
The BARRIERS of Indianapolis are agita-
ting against Sunday WORK.
Coal operators now talk of more re-
duced rates in the fourth pool.
The Yardmasters' Association now
numbers nearly 1000 mem bers.
Buy Douglas coal, sS.5v Tor 1000 pounds.
Telephone s47: office 1861 Fifteenth street.
The Canadian Pacific has reduced the
force of its locomotive department 100
men.
Five "rat" cigar shops at Richmond,
Virginia, made assignments in one
month
The Toledo freight handlers arelocked
out So are those at Buffalo as you have
probably heard.
There are few thousand idle miners
along the Monongahela river as the
spring run is over.
The tanners of Chicago, Illinois, have
erected building, and are now running
cooperative tannery.
Exchanges will please notice that this
is bad place for molders, tailors or car
penters to come to for work.
1t is said large force of men will be
put to work soon in the South Park coal
mines at Baldwin, Colorado.
The cooperative store at Hametown,
Ohio, did business last year of 20,00O
on an original capital of 800.
Boston Typographical Union voted
$500 to each of its delegates to New
Orleans, to pay their expenses.
Boycott the clothing store of Appel &
Co. They are the bitterest of the bitter
foes of the rights of work. ngmen.
Italian laborers have arrived from New
York to supply the place of the strikers
on the Ontario and Quebec railway.
The wages of carpenters helpers on
the capitol at Albany, New York, have
been reduced from 50 to $160 per day.
A firm in Brookfeld, Massachusetts
discharged their foreman because he was
on a committee to get up labor lecture
Printers are not very busy in the book
and lob offices of St. Louis at present
and subs" are numerous on the papers
There were rumors of reduction o.
wages to be offered the employees of the
Fort Wayne road, but they seem to have
died out.
The Knights of Labor are rapidly e1'
terminating the New York Tribune III
Massachusetts. In some large towns moi
dealer will sell it.
Sixty-fve shirt ironers at Rothchild'E
establishment, Yonker''s New York
struck against an effort being made tc
break up their union
Preparations are being made for the
annual session of the American Film
Glassworkers' Union, which will be hele
in Pittsburg next July,
Times are dull in LeadvilIe. Onl!
two-thirds of the smelling furnaces o
the camp are running at present, ant
they are running light and irregularly. "
1t is said the New York Tribune vii
not declare a dividend this year, anc
that N consequence the controlling
stockholders talk of firing Whitelav
Reid.
The May number of the Carpenter ha
arrived. 1t is filed with trade news
and has large amount Of interestin
reading matter on the labor question i
general. .=. .'..~
Two men have been discharged b
the Union Pacific in this city for partici
patton in the rerent opposition 70 Gu
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MOST COMING.
The Great German Socialist will De-
liver a Series Of Lectures in
Denver.

, On one or two occasions this city has
been stirred up over an announcement
that John Most, who has gained so much
prominence as Socialistic lecturer dur
ing the past few years, was to visit Den
ver. These reports have all been with
out foundation, but the capitalistlc press
eagerly seized the opportunity to misrep-
resent and SANDER the gentleman.
THE ENQUIRER believes that every man
has a right to be heard, an d especially
is it willing to accord an honest audience
to one who wars upon the capltallstlc
oppressors and pernicious systems OF to-
day.. Therefore, it is pleasure to an
nounce that Herr Most is surely coming
to Denver, and that he will deliver
series of lectures upon the various phases
of the social-political questions of this
and other countries. IN
Mr.. Most will arrive in this city on the
thirtieth instant. He will be the gues
of Independent group, I. w. A. during
his stay in the city, and under its. aus
pices will deliver six lectures, as follows
First series, on May 81, June l and 2
second series, June Z, s and9. t'.e
Some of the topics upon which thu
gentlemen lectures are, "The Presen
Labor Movement and Its Aim" Reform
or Revolution" Communism and 1t
Enemies" "The Coming Panic lts
Causes and Results" /" american Systems
and Institutions Criticized THE situa
ton in Europe"
The group have decided to charge q
cents for tickets to each series, including
three lectures. The place of holding th'
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An Apology.

Attention was called through the col
umns of THE ENQUIRER last week to the
immense establishment of Jensen &
Bliss, on the corner of Eighteenth and
Holladay streetoTh'lt owing to the Inn
tied space in the paper at the time OF
writing it was impossible to do the sub
ject anything like justice. The editor of
this paper hates to be compelled to apol-
ogize to any one, but he must say at this
time that he feels that he fell far short
of the possibilities of the subject last
week in writing of the great stock OF
hardware kept by Jensen & Bliss. Read
ers of this paper are respectfully invited
to call and examine the goods in the
store, no matter what it is. they want to
buy in the hardware line. You will find
anything and everything there that is
kept in any complete house of the kind
and the prices are as low as the lowest
for the best quality of goods. If you are
going on prospecting, or intend to do a
little gardening on your own hook this
summer, there's the place to getthe nee,
essary implements.
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A Horrible Accident.

PITTsBuRG, Penn, May IA About 10
o'clock this morning collision occurred
on the Bando road, at point one mile
east of the Connellsville, between a
freight train bound west and construc-
ton train going east, resultingin terrible
loss of life. The construction train con-
sisted of six camp cars containing fifty
laborers on the way to the Ohio Pyle
falls to work. 1t was telescoped and the
men were crushed to death. Many of
those who escaped death were terribly
injured, There is sharp curve where
the accident occurred, and both trains
came together with crash, The cars
burned and the bodies were cremated.
Both trains were going at a high rate
of speed, and came together with a
terrible crash. The engines remained
on the track, but the heavy tenders
jumped into the air and fell, the freight
tender upon its engine and the gravel
train tender back upon the first car in
the rear of it. Here was scene OF
death. Six men were killed outright
in this car and four others in a car
fastened down by broken timbers were
roasted to death, the car catching fire
from an overturned stove. Three men
escaped from the car One of them said
the fire could have been extingulshed
had water been applied in time.
When the wreck had been cleared
away it was discovered that twelve
persons had been njured and fourteen
more were missing, The bodies OF ten
of these were recovered, but the others
are supposed to be completely consumed.
Of those that were recovered, only two,
Cassidy and Dermott, could be positively
identified the others we're burned IN
shapeless mass. One of the injured, j.
T. OShea, died on the way to the hos
pital, making fifteen deaths, as follows !:
Patrick Cassidy, Scott Dermott, Dennis
Ward, Sheabry Newman, Owen Penly,
John Perry, Thomas Whittle, Eli Stone,
Joseph Desmond, Pat Kelly, John
Hughes, John Conley, Timothy Shay, J..
S. O'Shea. The latter was the fireman
of the freight train, the others were
laborers. The injured were sent to the
West Pennsylvania hospitals ,at Pttsburg,
and the dead were brought to Connells-
Vile for burial.
The coroner's jury found that the acci-
dent was the result of the carelessness
of the train dispatcher, Gilbert Lewis.
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Larimer street, yoH will find the best
clothing in town.
Rollins & Bond have opened the finest
stock of double sewed soods for men,
youths, boys and children's wear, from
five years up, they ever brought here; and
with their present facilities for doing
business, can make it to your interest to
trade with them if it is real value you
are looking for.
We sell goods at One Price to all, and
everything marked in plain figures.
We also make clothing to order for
those who prefer it. Call and examine
our stock. ROLLINS & BOND,
1888 Larimer street.
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For Rent.

The Knights of Labor hall, 1856 Holla-
day street, on the third Tuesday and
every Saturday in the month. Inquire
at The LABOR ENQUIRER Office.
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With Butler as the nominee of the
greenback labor party, the anti-monopo-
lists and the other organizations mem
toned, and endorsed by the democrats
the republican party would never be
heard of again except as sreminiscence
of the war and the corruption to which
it gave rise. Those workingmen who
act with the democratic party should
make themselves heard in this matter
through the primaries, and not allow the
agents of the monopolists to use them as
voting cattle, to their own injury. Butler
can be elected by democratic indorse'
ment-no other man can.-St. Louis
| Union.
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CARPENTERS.

Carpenters Union No. IS meets every
Thursday evening at 7:3o r. M, at 975 Larf-
mer street lover the Boss clothing store).
NJ. T. BLACK, President.
j. D. MCDONALD, Secretary.
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"An Coma Uu.n

II was in the beginning of February
last that the warning "All Gone Up"
was here given in reference to the few
measures before congress in the interest
of the masses of the people. 1t was a
ophecy of the modern kind, but it has
turn ned out truer than it ought to have
done. There was so much noise at that
time over some of these bills that many
people thought it premature to say Gall
Gone Up" and could not believe that
the session would whirl along till the
middle of May without their adoption.
But over three months has passed
sinc &c that warning was given, and not
one of the bills then referred to has yet
become law. And we are approaching
the time of the presidential craze, when
anything like useful legislation is not to
be looked for.
An uproar was raised over the land
grab forfeitures when the house adopted
by an almost unanimous vote Holman's
resolution looking to the forfeiture of
over hundred million unearned acres
and many men thought that, within a
real sonahle period, the necessary bills
ould be passed. But the corporations
have proved too strong for Holman : and
not single one of the bills forfeiting
any part of the unearned land has yet
bee ONE law. The senate is hostile to
the m all.
A bureau of labor statistics bill has
passed the house; but it will 60 hard
with the man who tries to push it
thrp pugh the senate.
The Chinese restriction act amend
ment has passed the house but that
also has to run the opposition in the
senate.
Summers postal telegraph bill has no
chance in either house,-the monopolies
are too strong for it; and the most that
can be looked for is bill through which
the government may become telegraph
contractor under corporation.
Nothing has been done with the bill
to prohibit the importation of aliens to
labor under contract, though the dis
turbances Of the peace in Pennsylvania
and New York have given notice of the
dangers of the system.
Nothing has been done with the bill
to legalize national trade unions.
The bill to assert the authority Of the
government over the railroads, in regard
to their rates of fare and freight,-the
corporations are too strong for it.
A resolution has just been adopted by
the house calling for information" about
the foreign companies that have fenced
in Vast tracts Of land III Dakota, Colo.
RADIO, and many other parts of the west
and south and the chances are thou,
sand to one that this "call for informa-
ton" is all that will be heard of the
subject this session.
Something may yet happen that will
secure the adoption of some one or more
of these measures. Well, it is so to be
hoped.
1t will certainly be pleasure to correct
in any point the prophecy, call Gone
Up."-John Swinton's Paper.
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IRON MoLDERs.

Iron MoldeFs Union meets every second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month, at
Knights of Labor hall, at 7:30 p. m.
J. II. GILBERl, Secretary,
S3 Park street
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sToSBCUTTFB9,

Stonecutters Union meets every alternate
Tuesday, at Justice Sopris' court room at
80 p. m.
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Off for New Orleans,

O. L. Smith, delegate-elect of Typo
graphical Union No. 40, left for New Or
leans, last Saturday evening, on the 7:3O
Kansas Pacific train. He was escorted to
the depot by a score or more of the boys,
who fingered near until the train pulled
out"
"YankD was IN good spirits when he
left, and the odds are that he will remain
so during his trip. He can be counted
upon to extract all the pleasure and
comfort there is to be gotten out of such
long journey, and will make many
friends at the convention, while strictly
and intelligently attending to his duties
-as the representative of No. 49,. 1t is
more than probable that Mr.. Smith will
visit some of his old stamping grounds"
in the east before returning to Denver.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-05-17
TAILoRs.

Tailors' Protective Society meets on the
first Monday of each month, at Justice
Jsffries' court room, at O'Clock p. m.
@. PUfTKENNER, President.
T. HAhnIN, Secretary.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL.

typographical Union Ne. 40 meets on the
first Sunday of each month at Knights OF
Pythias hall, at 2 O'Clock p. m.
VIM. NUDD, Rec and Cor. Secretary.
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TRADE. ASSEMBLY.

TRADM ASSEMBLY.
The Trades Assembly of Denver and
Vicinity meets on the second and fourth Sun
DAYS Of each month;
j. r. BUCHANAN, President.
C l.. MERRITT, Secretary, News Office,
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KNIGHTS OF LABoE.

KNIGHTS OF LABoE.
Montgomery Benevolent Assembly No.
1924 meets every Friday evening, at Knights
of Labor hall. at 1880 O'Clock.
Union Assembly No. 1897 meets on the
first Tuesday of every month, at Knights Of
Labor hall, 3S6 Holiday, at 1880 O'Clock.
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BARRIERS.

Babers' Benevolent Protective Associa-
ton meets every Tuesday at p. IN. at
Knights of Labor hall, 1856 Holiday Street.
J. LEoNARD, President.
". NEWMAN, Secretary. . 49,