The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-06-03

manded q further reduction OF wages
and so failed to meet the advances
of the miners for speedy and peace
full settlement. We hear that in one
district the men have lost patience
and there has been some breakage
of machinery. The chief agent of an
important group of collieries says
that the trade OF the county is being
practically ruined. The ship build
ing works at West Hartpool are al
so serious effected. 1t is believed
that the strike will continue three
weeks longer and that then a reduc-
tion will be inevitable.
GERMANY-There is a movement
on foot among workers in textile
fabrics toward making an agreement
with working men engaged in kind
red industries. In order to bring
the matter to a decision a congress
is to be held in August either in
Frankfurt-on-t the Main, Brunswick,
or Turnover. This agreement is in
tended to pave the way to a union
which shall include glove-makers,
furriers, leather-workers of various
kinds hatters, toilveo, textile work
els, shoemakers saddlers. tanners,
passementeries washers and ironers.
AS an illustration of what a repre-
sentative OF great mass of German
working people has to undergo, the
case of Kunert Leivlist, deputy to
the Reichstag, is interesting. There
are no less than twelve indictments
against him. Among them are six
for insult to majesty, one for incit-
ing to class hatred, and one for
blasphemy.
New YoRK-When the monied
classes talk so glibly about theneces-
sity of improving the morals of the
working people they really mean in
most cases that the workers should
restrict their expenditures and there
by be able to work for lower wages.
A strong light has been thrown upon
the morality of the "better classes"
in New York by the recent trials
cropping out OF the action OF a IA
shionable clergyman in this city.
This gentleman DR.. Parkhurst des-
cribed on the witness stand what he
and his party saw when visiting ex-
pensive resorts of questionable
character. The details given under
oath demonstrate two things very
plainly. LIST. That these places are
patronized and maintained by the
mcnied classes. I'd. That the de-
pravity and degradation OF these
as revealed by the reverend gentle
men are equalled only by the view
of Rome in the period of it's decay.
The question arised whether as it.
ting reply to the hypocrisy OF the
plutocrats the working people ought
not to start a 'Socity for the Moral
Improvement of the Better Classes"
The most interesting topic of the
hour III the strike of the PAYERS in
sympathy with the New England
quarrymen who are on strike and
locked out by the quarry owners.
The point at issue is the demand of
the employers that the contracts
for the year shall expire in January
when work is slack and the men are
at their mercy while the strikers ask
a renewal OF the old contracts which
expire in May when work is brisk.
The paving cutters Union had ord
cred simultaneous strikes in six big
cities. New York, Brooklyn, Phila-
deIphia, Baltimore, Albany, and
Troy. Some 1900 are out in this
city and in Brooklyn.
For many years past the walters
of New York have justly complained
that in order to obtain employment
especially OF a temporary kind they
We're obliged to go to various sa-
looms whose proprietors had an un-
Outstanding with hotel keepers and
headwaiters to furnish the help re
quired. In these places the men
seeking work were obliged to spend
a great deal OF money to get job.
Now the various walters Organiza-
tions are taking steps to organize
a central employment Office OF their
own in connection with club home.
1t is proposed to issue 1900 shares
at 10 dollars q share to carry out
the scheme.
The Free Speech Association held
it's first public meeting in City Hall
Park On Saturday, May It'll. Some
five or six hundred people attended.
The tone OF the speeches was strong
~ socialistic. When the speakers
first began there were more police
men than listeners present. 1t went
Off quietly and in an orderly manner.
Most of the New York papers ig-
nored the affair in their Sunday COM
ments because they do not care to
advertise the fact that Socialism is
making converts among the Eng
lish speaking population. Permis-
sion has been obtained for a meeting
next Saturday when Mr.. Samuel
Gompers will speak. The subject OF
the meeting will be the Unemployed.
Members of the League will also
make addresses. Messrs John II.
Edelman and w. C. Owen of the
Socialist League are among the
| speakers.