Thomas County cat., 1890-07-17
LABOR and ALLIANCE.
Labor Notes.

Labor Notes.
Employees of the Cincinnati Dessicat
ing company won Is cents a day advance
The Adams Express company is re
ducing wages from $50 and $50
month to $50.
Local assembly 479, Knights of Labor
Boston, Mass, met Sunday and voted
$43 to the Cambridge pork packers.
Tailors' union No. IL will join thu
Brooklyn Garmentcutters' local assem-
bly, No. 231. Knights of Labor.
Brooklyn has the largest bakery-70,-
600 loaves day. The ovens are under
the street. About 500 are employed.
The wages of the Knoxville engineers
on switch engines lave been increased
from S2.75 to So per day. The road
men now receive S3.45.
Bilboa SPAIN miners wyn eight hours
for from November to March, nine in
March, September and October, and ten
from April to August.
A new local assembly of steam rail-
road men has been organized at White
hall, and will soon take its place among
the large locals of railroad district 246.
District Assembly 24e has now $4,000
members and is still growing. Its
jurisdiction reaches from New York to
Chicago, and comprises the Vanderbilt
system and all its leased lines.
Fifty weavers in the Bethlehem silk
mill in Bethlehem, Pa, went on a strike
last week against 10 per cent reduc-
tion in wages. The weaving depart
ment of the mill is idle.
At a meeting of the District Assem-
bly, 1853, Knights Of Labor, in Lancaster,
Pa, on Saturday, a new plan of organ
ization was adopted. The district as
sembly is composed Of assemblies in
fourteen counties.
The striking street car men in Col
umbus, Ohio, have accepted the propo-
sition of the Consolidated company and
will return to work at a compromise
scale-S1.70 for conductors and SLIGO
for drivers.
The chairman of the Union Labor
state central committee Of Iowa's has
called state convention for August
for the nomination of state ticket,
the platform to be that promulgated at
the st. Louis meeting Of alliances and
knights last December.
The executive committee of the Min
nesota Farmers alliance met on June
16, and decided to call state conven-
tion to be held at st. Paul, July 16. A
complete industrial ticket, state, con-
gressional and legislative will be put in
nomination.
The alliance in Nebraska now num-
bers $4,000 members.
The farmers alliances of Sheridan
county, Neb, met in DELICATE conve-
ton at Rushville, on Wednesday of this
week. They will hold another meeting
there on July 8.
The alliance warehouse in Griffin, Ca,
has received nearly 1900 bales of cot
ton this season. 1t has $500 in the
bank and all expense paid and has de-
clared dividend of 45 cents per bale,
which amount goes to the members of
the alliance.
About 200 farmers, members of the
Alliance, Grange, and other farmers
organizations met at Indianapolis June
IS and organized an Indiana state
league for political purposes.
"What fools we mortals be-" After
allowing about 65 per cent of the wealth
of the people to be tilched by less than
per cent of the population and three
fifths of all the wealth to he owned by
less than 10000 persons, we wake up to
the fact that we have become ''indus-
trial Slaves" and must agitate and
organize to recover our rights.-HOme
Rule.
Some COnundrums.
At the late annual meeting of the
Wisconsin state Farmers Alliance a
motion was carried unanimously that
the following questions be submitted
to all candidates for congressional and
legislative offices:
"Will you commit yourself to support
the following propOSitiOnS if elected: