The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
the employees shall leave the shop until
the close of the cnrrent halliday.


the close of the current halliday.
ST. PAUL, July IA Bozeman Mon
tana) special to the Pioneer Press says !:
At Timberline the Knights of Labor,
supported by all the non union men, to-
day decided to resist the coal companyas
order that all the Knights should leave
the gulch. The company at once closed
is, store and butcher shop, and a COM
mittee of Knights were sent to Bozeman
for provisions. The situation is critical
and bloodshed is feared.
By order of the K. of L. in Skowhegan,
Maine, nearly all the operatives in
Keene shoe factory have quit work. One
hundred and twenty persons quit work
on Tuesday, and about twenty more are
expecting to come out soon. All the
edge-trimmers and edge-setters, all the
besters out but one, all the heelers and
most all the finishers, all the packing
room help are out, and the stitching
room force with the exception of about
a dozen are also out. This leaves the
firm without vampers, buttonhole oper-
ators, turner's, etc, and practically stops
the entire factory. This move was en-
tirely unexpected by the bosses, who
believed everybody to be working to
their satisfaction. This action of the K.
of L. was the result of a conference held
in Portland last Sunday bv the K. of L.
and the L. P. U.-Hsverhill Laborer.
The condition of the people at anv
one time is the best condition they are
CAPABLE of enjoying. Remember the
French Revolution. Our present condi-
ton as wage workers is much better for
US than the sublime idea of individual
ism held by my brother Labadie, or the
noble aspirations in the breast of my
brother Wettlaufer for a cooperative
common wealth. And for this reason
We are not in condition to enjoy any
thing better. Both ideas demand much
greater intelligence than the masses now
poss IS. We must evolute out of the
wages system into governmental coop
eratve system, and out of this into an
archism-a condition of society In which
coercive force is never known, and in
which there is no wrong doing. These
may now seem long way ahes1 /, but in
all probability they are much nearer
than We now have any idea of.-Judson
Grenell.
BERLIN, July Last fall Officer
Thing, of the political police, was Or
dered to watch the workingmen Social
lists. He became a member of one Of the
organizations in the guise of a machinist,
bIt after few months his true charac-
ter was discovered and he was expelled.
He gained valuable information of the
Socialists movements, however, and
Deputy Singer complained to the Reich
stag of the methods resorted to by the
government IN ferretlng out SOCIALIST
secrets and accused Thing of incitlng
Socialists to political crimes. Thing, to-
gether with Singers informants as to
the formers lntrigues- -Berndt and
Christianson, workingmen belonging to
the organization from which Thing was
expelled, we're prosecuted, and witnesses
were called to prove the truth of Singers
charges and endeavor to convict Thing
of treason. Thing denled the charges.
and contended that Berndt acted as his
agent. revealing the secrets for money,
The trial ended in the acquittal Of Thing.
The others were convicted and sentenced
to 81 months imprisonment.