Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-26
DOMESTIC.
Krupp employs 10000 men.


America has 1000 women printers.
Coope,s prohibit their men from joining
| tie miAtn.
Populists are arranging to establish
state paper in Vermont.
Chicago girl electric workers have an
| eight hour club with 400 members.
When the farmers are not prosperous
every other business must languish.
The Roy watch case company has re-
| duced the wages of its help % per cent.
| Machine wood workers have felt tie
depression more keenly han any other
| clasa
a bar Of steel costing one dollar may
be worked up into watch springs worth
| S25O,OOO.
The International Cigar Makers union
has not lost a single local during all the
hard times.
As intelligence increases among the
workingmen the ballot will supercede the
| stike.-Gompers
Tho Joliet mills of the Illinois Steel
company are TO start up on the 10Th inst,
aud will give work to 300 men.
The Dre1el institute. Philadelphia, Pa,
has arranged for a regular course Of lee
lures on 'fhe Labor Problem
Women are now succeeding in more
than 100 different employmeuts whereas
forty years only seven were open TO her.
A number Of the iron mills in the Ma
hOnng valley, Ohio, which have been idle
since June so resumed operations last
week.
The very destitute and suffering Of
Baltimore, now receiving aid 10 prevent
actual starvation number about 225
families
1t il estimated that fully 1000 people
are idle at POttstown, Pa. Relief meas
mrs. have been begun by the citizens of
the borough.
IT is the sacred duty of every citizen
OF a republic to study economic and poll
ticll questions and 10 act we'll his part In
those relations
The Krupp gun works claim TO have
manufactured II machine which viii roll
iron 80 thin that II would take 1900 sheets
TO make an inch.
Twenty-four striking iron workers,
with THEN families, were evicted from
the company's houses at pittsburg, Pa.
Ihoy are ptnniless.
, The Hungarian miners of Cambria
, | county, Penn, send home S1S1 900 nnnu-
ally, What chance have American labor
ors beside these mem
, The acrimonious Observation-Disclosures
that have existed between the knights Of
, lcbor and the American Federation OF
! Labor seem 10 bc drawing to close.
The numbes Of applicants for charity
, In Baltimore last year was 1858 nm IN
lIthHt Ut W. percent over Inc AtNr before,
B. OF these, 0O3 We're exposed as impostcrs.
, General Secretary Harry j. Skenington
D says that of the 1900 members Of the In
tcrnationnl Boot and Shoe Workers.
p union about 1000 are still out Of employ
2 mcnt.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided thnt au employer Is liable for
damages II he does not sufficiently in
struct young persons Ia the use of dan
y gerUus machinery.
II IL estimated that since July / over
a SDo,OuO men, heretofore steadily en-
n ployed In this country, have lost their
positions. and only about 30 per cent
1. have been relnstated.
9 The Bigclow Carpet Mills al Clinton.
Mass tho second largest cprpet mills
/. N America, employing about l0OO
= hands have shut down for an indefinite
period owing 20 lack OF orders,
: Ex'Sccretary of State VIM. NJ Evarts,
,, IN ms report to congress On wages and
Z lnhor SAID; One workman in the unRed
It States does az much work as two work.
men IN most Of the Countries IN Europe.
:. The bank statement yesterday showed
e that the New York banks now hold In
II excess OF their reserve S65.4TO 475 Tn,
highest excess ever known before Wi,
Il about $4,000 O00.-Atlanta Constitu,
q tlon.
+. The mortgage Indebtedness OF thI,
1850, or nearly -four times ~ fast rs IN,
. Increase In tho true vplnc Of real estate
y Then i was SG,I5O OOOOOO, now Il /,
" SlO,sOOOOOOOO
4 Last year witnessed large increas,
IN the labor orgnnlzations Of Nebraska
A. aud the coming labor cnngress TO meet
NJ ut Omaha January Is expected to be
very Important one.
A. Tie Topeka Advocate says one OF IN,
It hest results OF the late election in Kan
II aas IS the, faCa That the Australian balo
and the Republican party suffers mos
FROM this,
The repopt Of the executive committe,
y OF the knights Of Labor Is just out. Il
" contains careful aud conservative actor
= on the part of those who think Of strik
X ing against reduction OF wages or FOL
X other causes.
y The hottest mines In the world arc H.,
: Comstock, Men cannot work in then
~ over ten or fifteen minutes az a time.
~ About, sixty flint glass factories an,
tyenty-hye eioen glass houses have start
,e plrectorGeneril Davis Of the World
n tar estimates that the work would hay,
III cost SlWN,OO0 more IL Il had been car
M rlcd on by non-union mcn, But unioi
r. men did the work under the eight hon
il iaw, anil the trade aud labor unions fixe,
~ The Mississippi Farmers Alliance rae
" ommepls suspension Of all participation
y u politics until 1896. II urges IT, mem
=, hers 10 plant more hogs. diversity crops
q stay ~ home. work harder, and tho Al
~ pealAvalanehe thinks This Is a yer,
10 wise policy"
er Samuel acmpers SAYS; Certainly IN
d state or the municipality should give II
II lief to The unemployed through publl
works, which will give them steady eni
AZ ployment. This would be mut,h bette
az than charity. Workingmen do not wan
OF CHARITY but chance TO earn living.
o An exchange says: The bank OF El
u gland has now declared that a ten dolla
~ gold coin Of the United States coinage |
~ only worth eight dollars and twenty-liy
y, money for 4. therefore deu.onetislng gol