The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-03

all men who are members of labor or.
ganizations. When a man applies for
work he is subjected to rigid cross
examination, it is said, and rejected if
he is member of the union.
BUFFALO, June 23-The cigarmakers'
strike still continues, both manufacture
ers and .journeymen maintaining an un-
broken front. The bosses tried to hire
a lot of Progressiyes from New York, but
the latter passed resolutions refusing to
come.."......The bakers won their strike
after weeks struggle.
Ashop girl in New York named An
ME Condor committed suicide on ac-
count Of overworS. She worked all day
and until late hour at night. Her en-
ployer complained that she was neglect
ing her duties and did not work fast
enough. Hence the laudanum. Some
people may be able to draw moral from
this.-Craftsman
We are sorry to read in Judge Bar:
ret's charge to the jury in the Thesis
case two or three references to Glasses"
in this commonwealth, and especially to
the laboring class. We are all laboring
men, judge, and the constitution guaran-
tees equal rights to all of US. There are
no classes except in the Unsupported
fancles ofimaginative thinkers.
Two of the street railway companies
in Plttsburg refuse to abide by the
award of arbitrators who decided that
employees should not be required to
work more than twelve hours day. 1t
would be interesting to know just how
many hours the soulless corporations, if
they could have their way, would be
willing to accept as DAVIS labor.
girl in Milford, Pennsylvania, was
a regular attendant at church. Some Of
the lady members of the church wrote
to her that they preferred she should
not come to the service unless she was
better dressed. She afterwards stole
some articles of personal adornment,
was caught and sentenced to four months
in the penitentary.- The Laborer
The first strike in America of which
record can be foun was ma lie by fac
tory girls at Dover, N. H., in 1927. Op-
pressive exactoas aroused he indgna-
ton of the operatives, who, to remedy
the evils complained Of, left their work
and paraded the str cts with a
band of music and American flag.
They carried the sympathy Of the peo
pie with them and Sol their c,use.-
Labor Union.
A German named Shimmel WAS re-
Gently arrested n Ne" York for steal
ing. While the officers were searching
his pockets he attempted TO commit sui
eide by taking ppi>ol He was imme-
diatelY taken to the hospital and medi-
cal aid given him. When asked why he
attempted to take his life he an8wered
that he was starving and wanted bread,
and that he would have sold the things
he attempted to steal TO buy cd.
Two months a5o the temperance peo-
pie of Newcastle, PENNSYLVANIA, began
boycott against ali merchants who at
tached their sig 'aturts to petitions for
liquor licenses The boycott has been
vigorously enforced, and several mer
chants say that 1t is doing them great
damage. How permanently the po-
tency of the boycott has become fixed in
the public mlnd. 1t is now the ready
weapon of the cnurrh he press and the
rJstrum.
ST. LOUIS, } lue 24.--At the election
to-day Of spe, ial judge to try the cases
of the Anarchists charged with endors-
ing the action Of their Chicago brethren
the members Of the bar present evil
IDENTITY favored tie defense, for William
Burch, an Outsp ken advocate Of Social
istic doctrines, WAS chosen. Prosecut-
ing attorney ClAiD ,rne asked leave to
enter "a no2ie prosrqui in the cases.
Leave was granted, but new warrants
were Immediately issued for the An
archsts, and they will y" rearrested,
and another IIL. viii Ne rl .rted to try
the cases.