Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-05-14
CHICAGO.

The Socialist Organ ReaDpoars FUN
Of i%noendiaFy Uttoranoes--Cioak
Makers on a Strike, Etc.
CHICAGO, May THE Arbeiter
Zsltung makes Us appearance again
this morning, though In very reduced
form. The old paper was a large pros.
porous looking folio sheet, while TO.
days issue Is a ten by twelve hand bill.
The leading article today Is addressed
to the workingmen Of Chicago, and
after relating the difficulties they had
in publishing the paper, owing to the
arrest Of all the printers and editors,
the paper says: "These twenty two
printers were arrested on the ridiculu-
Gus charge Of murder. People who
did nothing but their work
and for which they were paid. Bail
was refused them on all sides, and
there was a systematic attempt to
make the temperance Of the paper
impossible. You see then, working.
men, that the ruling class understands
better than you the value of a labor
organ. We will show that although
the recklessness of some may tempo.
rarily confuse, it cannot disrupt our
workingmens' party. We, therefore,
appeal to you workingmen. You will
see that a workingmens' movement
without an organ is impossible. We
shall continue the fight for freedom
and right. That this paper has always
conducted and unhesitatingly forward.
ed, in spite Of all chicanery Of the
ruling class. Again, workingmeD, do
your duty, we will do ours.
In another part Of the paper is an
article which indirectly charges that
the dynamite, which the police found
in their building, was brought there
by officers themselves. They say "after
the police had arrested the editors, they
carefully searched the building, but
found nothing. A short time after, they
reappeared and arrested all connected
with the paper, and behold they also
found dynamite. They are also said
TO have found a revolver and an old
file, indeed dreadful, and this find is
said to prove that the printers are MUIR
derers." The writer then goes on to say
that the whole thing is a conspiracy to
suppress the paper forever. In a con-
splcuous part OF the hand bill is print
I'd the comments of the New York
Volk Zeitung on the arrest Of Sctnck
and THANKSGIVING in that city.
The Peoples Gas Company has
instituted the eight hour system. 1t
has heretofore been the custom Of the
II hundred and twenty fremen to
work in two shifts of twelve hours
each at $2.75 per man per shift. Under
the new system the men work in three
shifts of eight hours each at $3.50 per
shift. Sixty new men will necessarily
be employed.
About 5000 cloak makers who work
only six month, out of the year, at an
average salary of three dollars per week,
have made a demand on the contract
ing cloak makers for eight hours work
and an increase of twenty. five per
cent on their wages. One Of the CON
tractors admits that the cloak makers
have been miserably paid, and he as
serts that the wholesale dealers have
grown rich out Of the profits on their
work. The contractors number about
even hundred and they are organized
as assembly No. 1929 of the Knights
Of Labor. At a meeting held last
night they expressed their willing.
ness to grant the demands of their
employees, providing they a induce
the wholesale dealers to pay All advance
on the present price of the goods. A
committee was appointed to lay the
matter before the leading houses.
The North Chicago Saloon Keepers
Association, which the striking en-
ployes of the Brunswick, Balk Col.
endar Company, billiard table manu-.
features, asked to boycott the firm, has
refused to do so.