The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17

I'VE believe in and purpose the lmlta-
ton of the daily hours of labor to eight
through organizatiou-and by arrange
ment with our employers. We demand the
enforcement I'd extension of the eight-hour
law. national, state and municipal to all
government employees and protest against
its violation and the evasion OF its intent
By letting out the government work to
contractors who fail to enforce the eight
hour law"
II one chooses to doubt that various la
Dor organization throughout the country
are planning comparatively early ANAL
gamation on a political basis. the future
may wear peaceful look. The official call
has gone out however, urging every man
and woman y to be prepared lat the
appointed time, May 1, 1890, to enforce
eight-hours as a days work"
At Chicago a few years ago, when the
first dead-set for an elght-nour day was
made there, industry was paray zed for
few days. But in Judging Of the move
ment let us be careful to observe how
far, if at all, the stimulus for the eight hour
day differs from that which has
made tue present an era of gigantic
consultations in industry and transpor-
tation. In the one case, to be sure. it
is the life of bust ness enterprise at stake,
or several enterprises. In the other, 1t Is
the well being, if not the existenc, OF peo-
pie, merely. The only unfavorable sign
respecting the prospect for a general upris-
ing of LABOR within year is based on the
record for nine years past. If we
represent the number of ldustrial en-
ployes on strike or locked out annually on a
scale, by years, side by side with
a wave-line indicating the gen
eral course of the price of
pig iron (the indica tor of the state OF trade
it il found that in general the strike-line,
I'D r;ul 6icf,,r IN he fho
reverse of that pointing to tine condition of
business; that Industrial troubles appear to
increase las reflected in strikes aud lock-
outs) when prices are shrinking and by
inference demand declining. The con
verse of this, that an epidemic of strikes
and lockouts may hardly be counted on
when prices are tending upward or when
| demand is good and production active
| would seem to indicate that next May will be
an unpropitious date to call upon organized
| labor to strike. But we shall sse.
What has been referred to, however, does
| not cover all the signs of the times. Indus
| trial production, as intimated, after organ
| izlng more thoroughly at the top and bot
! tom faces the prospect of another struggle
| But there is another branch of production
northumberland strange as it may seem,
Valley met by representatives at
| st. Louis recently and formed
a trust. They did not call it such. to be
| sure but what they formed was an associa-
| ton to fix and control the price of wheat
at primary markets and in order TO secure
the mana cement to the hands of the far
mers' forever" three-fourths of the CAPT
tai stock of the concern, only SIC, 5000, 900, is
| to be placed in the hands of a trustee, in the
int est of the farmer members.
The 500, 900 900 capital has or had but
$1,000 paid in, perhaps enough to pay tbs
| expenses of the convention. It was pro-
posed to buy out grain commission mer
chants at st. Louis, Kansas City and Chi
cago and establish agents 60 receive wheat
| and sell it in their places. To do this por-
ton, 5000, 900 Of their stock was to
be used, believe. Unfortunately
siuce then, some English capt
talists have bought number
| of Chicago elevators. so they will be too late
| at that point. Farmer Lindblom, of Chi
| cago addressed the convention, after which
| the delegates jumped on the practice Of
buying aud selling futures il wheat
and demanded that the government declare
it a felony where the property is no
already in possession Of the seller. Farmel
s.. T. x. PRICE, who has been selling wheat
statistics to the wheat "gamblersn and
others for years, appeared as statistician
hut Hon. Norman J. Colmau, the frs
Secretary Of Agriculture, finally took pos
session Of the convention.
Now, while, as may be inferred, | do no