The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-25
The World in q Column.


tional. The lot. is twenty-five feet front
bv 100 feet deep. Over twenty co oper
ative schemes have been heard of dur
ing the past few weeks.
The Minneapolis mlllers will here
after restrict production by cutting of
the water supply at stated intervals.
Western lands are being quietly
sought after by eastern capitalists, anC
much m ore eastern money is going into
the west as loans than heretofore.
A London paper once more war ms En-
gllsh manufacturers that American agri-
cultural machines are crowding them
out in Norway.
American cheap labor is competing
successfully with the pauper labor Of
Europe.
The Newtown, North Carolina, cotton
mill people are filling up their works
with a'lot of new Lowell, Massachusetts,
machinery.
The New York workingmen are doing
far more than the temperance people
ever did to make Sunday dav of rest,
.as they have taken strong grounds
against Sunday shop and store selling
They keep away from saloons, and thus
act, at least with consistency, and earn
the good opinion of the intelligent pub
lie. Mayor Grace has been called upon
to enforce the Sunday law at the request
of the Central Labor union
A state assembly is to be organized in
Indianapolis on December 20. At Min
ueapolis grand K. of L. hall is to be
built through the efforts Of the associa-
ton with capital stock of $1OO,O 900. 1t
will be four story building, especially
fitted up with an auditorium for 1000
people. 1t is to be ready for the next
General Assembly.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-In the United
States senate Yesterday, Mr.. Van WYck
introduced resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution for the
election of the United States senators
by the popular vote.
Farmers OF north Wales are resisting
the collection of the tithes. In one sec
ton of the country the farmers expelled
the collecting bailifs from the farms
and escorted them out of the district.
BERLIN, Dec. 2l.-The reichstag has
appointed a commission to consider the
motion of the Socialist deputy, Kayser,
to authorize the holding of meetings of
workingmen for the consideration of
questions effecting salaries of and the
relations of employees toward their
employers.
M1LwAUKE, Dec. 21.-For the publi
cation of scurrilous poem rejecting on
the integrity of the court in the trial of
the riot cases, Judge Sloan to-day SEN
fenced Paul GrottkaD, editor Of the So
cialst organ, Arbeiter Zeitung, to thirty
days at hard labor.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-The Ameri-
can District and the San Francisco Dis
trict telegraph companies to-day con-
ceded the demands of the striking mes
sengers for Is cents a day of twelve
hours, and the bows will return to work
tomorrow.
COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec. 1S.-Public
opinion is very strong against w. T.
Russell, state organizer of the Knights
of Labor, for organizing the negro la
borers in the rural districts into district
assemblies of the Knights of Labor.
Some fire-eating newspapers advise the
farmers to spot all white men like
Russell" and if they try to organize ne
gro Knights of Labor, to r"u them
from the neighborhood. 1t is consid-
cred as actually criminal to arrav the
coored people against their white en-
ployers. The legislature has appropri
sted money for the maintenance OF
militia, which will be called out to sup
press any strikes. The senate has passed
bill defining an organized strike as a
conspiracy and Furnishing it with i'm
prisonment for six months and fine OF
$500. The house will probably make it
law.
The Rev. Sylvester Malone, the oldest
and most influential priest in Brooklyn
says that Henry Georges land doctrines
will benefit the poor without doing an
injustice to the rich,
A recent compilation shows the total
number of men m the European armies
to be S,l34,SO4. Three millions OF men
who are but trained murderers; and the
producers support every one of them.
Bishop Borgess. has given the Rev.
DR.. Charley O'Reily. treasurer OF the
Land league, the necessary warning to
resign his treasurership,
CLARIFIED. Pa. Dec. 16.-Forty la
borers employed at the large tannery OF
Fsyerweather & Laydow were dis
charged to-day for joining the knights