People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-08
LABOR NOTES.

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well coal company's mines, struck on
Aug. 5, out of sympathy for the Kan
sas miners
The Pacific, Everett. Washington,
Atlantic, Arlington and Pemberton
mills at Lawrence, Mass, have shut
down for several weeks Many thou
sand hands are thrown out Of employ
ment and their loss is estimated at
$4,000.
A number Of mills at Lowell, Mass,
have shut down, some of them for an
indefinite period.
The Labelle steel works, one OF the
largest steel works in Allegheny,
closed down on the 5th OF this month.
The Liggate spring and axle works
OF Allegheny close foi an indefinite
period, Aug. 5.
A Johnstown special says that nearly
all Cambria Iron Company's mills
closed down on the 4th, and 1000
hands were thrown out OF employ
ment.
-Four hundred hands have been
thrown out Of employment at the
Gautier steel works and the balance
are working on one-third time.
All over the country mills and fac
tories are closing down and hundreds
OF thousands Of workmen will soon be
out Of employment
A train load Of miners, who h d left
Colorado on account Of the closing of
the silver mines were told by the po-
lice at Kansas City to pass on" or
they would be run in as tramps. thus
men are denied by law the right to
learn their bread in the sweat OF
the r face" Great country, this.
The New York Herald recently con-
tanned an advertisement from strong,
healthy young man, 81 years old, who
offered to sell himself to any one who
would keep his old mother from being
turned out doors for unpaid rent.
There are 1000 reform papers in the
country and more coming every week.
The most dangerous type Of man
kind is the professional politician, who
for pay or position is ready to deceive
the people into betraying the country
into the hands OF their enemies
Denver is having very exciting
time with her idle men who cannot Sc
cure employment And the whole
country is going to have an exciting
lime II something is not done to re-
lieve the unemployed or give them
employment, and the situation will
brook no delay.
Down in Kentucky they call 1t
Growers panic"
The Minnesota supreme court saws
strikes and boycotts are lawful.
Stonecutters claim to have won
thirty strikes this year and lost none.
The Bohemisns are demanding uni.
versal suffrage, and riots are a com.
mon occurrence.
There are 1874 members In the French
parliament friendly to socialism.
The Industrial Legion is meeting
with immense success In California
and on the Pacific coast.
Strikes for better conditions are
raging all over Europe.
The Princess Eulalie cost this gov.
eminent $4,000. but nothing can be
done for the poor.
Ex-senator ingalls, says "the gulf
between the rich and the poor is grow
ing wider and wider every day." 1t
wi | probably soon be so wide that the
earnings Of the poor cannot be got
across it 10 the rich.
Austrian workingmen are holding
immense demonstrations in favor. OF
universal suffrage. The spirit of
freedom is shaking the earth.
About 10000 miners and nearly all
boot and shoe workers OF Great Britain
are locked out becau, reductions were
refused. 1t may be a fight 10 the
dea b between the bosses and employ.
ers' organizations.
After two years fight, the boiler.
makers have won strike aga INST two
OF the largest firms in Brooklyn.-Nine
hours geined in twelve cities, and this
week demand for the same was made
in all cities in the country.
Breweries in and about Cincinnati.
numbering twentv-eight, are now all
union. Hours have been reduced and
wages increased, and the union now
has 800 members where there were
only twenty few years ago. Very
good.
Dunkirk, n. Y, city government,
according to decision of the courts,
can furnish lighting for private
families, and steps are be ng taken to
put in plant with this object view.