The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-08-18
LABOR NOTES.

The Detroit horseshoers won their
long strike for niue hours.
The textile workers of Biddeford
Maine, have won their strike.
The National league of musician
have $4,000 members and will soon
publish paper.
The K. OF l.. Miners of Alpine, KY,
have won signal victory, securing
every point.
It is stated that the Illinois Central
railroad is contemplating the adoption
OF some sort of profit sharing system.
Iowa proh,bitionists have adopted
the populist platform with the addi-
ton of an anti-liquor plank. The
forces are coming together.
The trades unlonists of Topeka,
Kansas, have gone into politics on q
non-partisan basis, nominating for
local officers none but working men.
In spite of the protests Of organized
labor, President Cleveland appointed
scab employer as postmaster of New
port, KY. Cleveland never loses an
opportunity to slap orga nized abor in
the face.
The socialist convention at Chicago
has endorsed the action of Gov. Altgeld
in pardoning the anarchists.
Maine is to have conference of rep
resentatives Of organized labor to dis
cuss the political situation for the
coming year.
Railroad companies Of the United
States paid to their attorneys the
enormous sum of $l4, 900, 900 in 1892. 1t
WAS taxed up to the people.
Carnegie is said to have secured con-
troll of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company heretofore owned by Brice,
the Ohio senator from New York and
''Me too Plat.
Over 5000 women practice medicine
in the United States,
Tho cotton industry Of New Eng
land is very dull, thousands of work
men being idle.
1t would require the labor of 81, 900
men, working constantly, to produce
the income OF W. w. Astor.
One of the foundry firms in Chicago
that refused to concede the demands
of the molders is now in the hands of
receiver.
The brewery workers of Sandusky,
Ohio. have secured an advance of IS
per month, the bosses also signing the
agreement they held out against for
some time.
Two of the contractors foremen at
Lamont. ILL.,, who assassinate0 strikers
few weeks ago, have been indicted
of murder. We don't hear the daily
press howl for their blood, as would
be the case if the defendants were
strikers.
Powderly says that strikes are
merely object lessons and boycotts ex-
periments. He endorses the new
railway union and believes that all
organizations will be forced to COM
bine in the near future, and that
political action will have to be taken.
The London Daily News is authority
for the statement that the Rochdale
Pioneers, the first and Oldest cooper
alive society in England, have more
money than they know what to do
with. They are trying to devise a
scheme which will lead members to
withdraw some portion of their saw
ing. This shows what cooperation
will do.
The Peoples church of Washington,
d. c., will discontinue services until
Sept. 8, thus giving DR.. Kent we'll
earned rest, His congregation, which
is made up largely Of nationalist, is
growing. and it is probable that in
the autumn the church will meet in
larger hall.
The trades unions and other labor
organizations of Nebraska, at a recent
meeting in Lincoln, concluded that
the best way to obtain legislative re-
lief was to send their own representa-
tives to the legislature instead Of
paid lobby.