Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-19

tumacious While the state Of the mines is
most prosperous, the condition Of the men is
yearly more wretched.
The bourse quotations show an enormous
advance in shares For instance, the bort
muud union mine shares have risen 80 per
cent within two years, and meanwhile some
OF the men at Dortmund have earned beg
carly 12s 6a weekly. Recently the owners
have withdrawn some allowances hitherto
granted to the men, and have increased the
severity of the fines imposed upon the min
ers. For instance, there is the practice
called mullen, by which nothing is allowed
n miner for any carload of coal which lacks
full weight The owners sell this coal, but
the man working under ground, often naked
in a temperature upwards of twenty degrees
Reaumer, which is common TO the deep
Westphalia pits, gets nothing if the car is
not quite full
Criticisms on the alleged violent phrase of
the emperor to the workmen's delegates,
that If they resisted the troops he would have
all of them shot ILasse er allies ueber den
haufen schiessen) led to a semi Official denial
that the emperor made use of phrase which
bade fair to become historic illustration OF
masses The official version of the stem
ographer present does not contain the words
The delegates say that the emperor,
striking the pommel OF his sword, warned
them that he could make them feel his power
If they resisted the authorities. His subse-
quent assurances of sympathy softcned the
severity of the warning.
Herren Liebknecht and Bebel invited the
delegates to confer with the socialist men,
bers of the reichstag, but they declined,
having noted the emperor's remarks: Don't
associate your movement with the social
ists."
The building trades strike in Berlin is ex.
tending. Many of the workmen have given
their masters until Monday to answer their
demands. The climax of the movement will
probably be reached in June, several of the
largest workmen's associations having post
poned the general strike until then.
Public feeling is becoming more and more
pronounced in favor OF the men. The paraly-
sis of the iron and steel industries conse-
quent upon the lack of sufficient supply of
coal, intensifies the feeling of discomfort ex
isting outside of the coal district. In the
event of the failure of speedy settlement of
the trouble the government will convene a
conference of employers of workmen, un der
neutral president, which shall be en-
powered to arbltrate on the differences.
In the reichstag, to-day, when the aged
workmen's insurance bill came up for
third reading, Prince Bismarck made an
acrid speech. He said he was not surprised
that the socialists, the freisinnige party and
the Poles opposed the bill, but he had not
expected the conservatives would assume an
hostile attitude toward proposals affecting
the innermost depth of the whole empire. In
concluding, he sald 81 wish the bill to be
disposed of before the next election, for no
one knows whether we shall have
as much leisure next year as now.
/ beg the conservatives, imperialists and
nationalsts to free themselves from the
socialists, Polish, Guelph, French and
freisinige parties"
After reply from Herr Bamberger the
house adjourned.
Prince Bismarck's appeal is likely to in
duce the government groups to give warmer
support to the measure. The opposing ma
tionals and ultra conservatives will again re-
frain from voting, leaving Prince Bismarck
to rely upon the former majority. Prince
Bismarck will entertain a large number of
members of the reichstag at fruhschoppen
on Monday morning.
The bundesrath has approved, without al
teration, article four of the penal code, en-
bodying IN the common law provisions
hitherto specially applicable to the socialists.
The government will not venture to test the
reichstag on the code during the present ses-
sion.
A hurricane, on Thursday, swept over
Saxony, Lesse and Thuring, accompanied
by torrents of rain. A number of bridges
were destroyed and some lives were lost.