Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-12

100000 men In enforced idleness In
this country. AT 81 day this means
ST50OOOOO a mouth less TO business
Probably 3,0OQOOO moye are working on
half time ~ less, which Is SiI .5nDiNJ
more lost. The productive power Of this
body Of men " at lenst Eve times Tint
much. This means $3.50, 500, 600 month
loss 10 The wealth Of the country. Most
Of our people are obliged to economic to
the very utmost This uecessitates n loss
to business which il is impossible 70 cor
recty compute The rate of profit. there
fore is reduced to zero and factories and
mines have to close NJ Even many
wholesale houses are advertising Heir
whole stock AZ retail at Wholesale prices.
The wages of millions Of workenA being
reduced limits still fuRher their power
of purchase.
During JeGerson's term The taxes were
about 20 cents per capita. Now they
The executive committee Of the state
Alliance passed a resolution urging the
membership TO insure IN the Alliance
aid security as being tic cheapest Of all
asae@ment companies. The Mutual Life
OF New York was also recommended as
the best Of the old line companies.
Our reform exchanges speaR out very
emphaucaliy concerning the significance
Of the repeal. They gay Il Il d direct In
suit 10 labor aud a blow 10 thr smith
aud West md tho prime cause Of the
late land slidc.
Samuel Gompers Inns declined TO be
q candidate AZ delegate TO the constitu-
tional convention Of Pennsylvania
Electrical workers say their trade Is
good.
Carriage makers say their trade Is
Jun with no hope Ot improvement.
a few years ago tobacco stripping.
which IL done by girls, paid an average
OF 80 per week In this city. Now strip
pcrs hnrdly get S15O for week Of
seventy hours.
Two-thirds Of the upholstcrers Of San
francisco are out Of work
IT II now thirteen weeks since the boil
ermakcrs OF Minneapolis, MINI. went on
strike and they have appealed 10 ali
unions for aid.
Wingo steel and iron works of West
Virginia has closed up, throwing 600
men out Of work,
The tenth ccusls shows Tint 100000
inhnhlt1uts Of the United Stutcs are sun
ported by agriculture. ] 10000 by man
uiaclorles, aud l5,G2O,OOO by commerce
The st. Louis and san Ftancisco
railroad company owes is employees two
months back pay, and unless u settle
ment IL made soon general strike is
likely TO occur,
quincy Oinnhn and hnnsns city rah-
10y" ui,,',inI' lElie uulluru on sWrep-
Jug luu, non IN me WHses ni employees,
ebl, 'i,i N ,.,'i M we lne'
reduced from one to three in every ten.
The Wayne ir1n works Of Pennsyl-
yanin has fired Its mon with Indignation
by urging them to sign an iron-clnd
agreement to ieuve all labor org1nlla-
tiuns
A pittsburp iron.worlrr. infer hunting
work for Two months. was sent To The
pcnitcutiary at Syracuse rs q tramp.
aud when they sent him 10 the work
house he siid That ne last he would re-.
cciyr three square meals a day, which
he could not procure even il he had
found work, Now what becomes Of his
family II lac was so unfortunate as
TO have one, we nskY-k. of l.. Journal.
Wisconsin b,s s7n7 v,,,,,,,r G,rp,,ry
A New York hotel is said 10 use n
mAtNine thnt washes and drips 1OOl
dishes mn hour. Two urrtnng nttnnd IN
Ii.
por,t,,l ma. h.. tnn ,..s.....
80 wv AM w. h'Au'''s V"'
Va WA
me model town which covers an area
W iNuni9 -uN' HuuAit nlllta ~ ihe garden
spot OF Niagara county, New York, a
cooperative cU,pW after tn Brllnmy
idoa was started q few DAYS ago with
Wbn lnhnlilnnts 10 begin with,
Editor Stend while ON a visit 10 our
Chicago exposition said English working
men were not as progressive In some
things az Americans; but thp working.
not be- tolerated ia London. lie adds,
II the lot of tho worl,ingman Is to be
substantially improved, and that ought
to he your first aim. II can only be- nude