Hartford labor., 1894-10-20
NATIONAL.
NEW ORLEANS, LA


 LABOR GETTING READY. - The Workingmen's Independent Political Club has been organized at K. of L. Hall. Their intention is to nominate for Con- gress a man who is workingman. They have selected two men from each of the different wards to canvass the wards and get all the workingmen interested in the movement.
 The committee prepared the following platform, which was adopted: ''The in- ordinate greed for wealth, the rapacity of corporate power and the remorse- less warfare upon human welfare if not restrained will inevitably lead to anarchy and revolution. In the ferocious fight for existence the wage-workers of the nation are forced into deadly competition with each other. Boys of fourteen are taking the places of men of forty; girls of fif- teen are taking the places of women or thirty; children of tender years are driven from school and home to tend labor-saving machines, while men are forced into idleness and compelled to exist on the scant wages of their wives and children, thus propogating ignorance and poverty. the twin precursors of immortality and crime. Therefore in the interest of common humanity be 1t
 Resolved That. all laws that do not bear equally on. capital and labor should be abrogated. 2. That eight consecutive hours shall constitute legal days work. 3. That female workers between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one shall not be allowed to work more than six hours in any one day, nor more than five days in any one week. D. That the public schools shall be open at least ten months each year, and that all tuition, books and appurtenances be furnished free by the State. That all males under fourteen and all females under fifteen be required to attend school at least eight months iii each year. 6. That free night schools shall be established for the benefit of all who wish to attend them. T. That a board of factory inspectors, consisting of one male and one female, be appointed in the City of New Orleans. 8. That the hiring out of convict labor be prohibited. g. That the referendum be established in the making of all laws. That this club will only advocate and vote for an independent representative from the ranks of labor who is in full accord with this platform
 ssPRINGFIELD, ILL.
 PULLMAN PAYS NO TAXES Gov ernor Altgeld appeared before the Board of Equalization and read a long comnuni- catior. which he filed with the board, along with several tables of figures and a copy of the testimony of George M. Pullman, taken recently by the Strike Commission. In this testimony MT. Pull man says that his company has always paid dividend, never less than per cent; that it has no bonded debt; that its undivided profits amounting to $25, COG, 600. Taking the these figures as a basis the Governor said that the capital stock of the Pullman company was worth at least $61, 900 and at it's market value in April last ($1.7D, 1t was worth more. The Auditor of Public Accounts some time ago sent to all the States of the Union, and also to the Dominion of Canada to ascer- tain just how much the Pullman company is assessed in the several jurisdictions.
 It was found that in sixteen States the company pays no taxes at all; in several other States and in the Dominion of Can ada it appears to pay no taxes; in seven teen States the taxes paid amount to $21, 425, while in the remaining seven States the exact amount of taxes was not obtain able. The assessment was reported as being $1, ,104, 359, and upon this assessment the Governor estimated the taxes as being $l9,326. Thus, according to the Governors S figures, the Pullman company pays only $4O,751 in taxes outside of Illinois. In Chicago. his Excellency declared, this would pay taxes on less than $4OOO, GOO of property, but he was willing to give the company the benefit of the assumption that the property taxed outside of Illi- nois was actually worth $12,OOO,OO0. In Illinois the assessment is $1, ,695 800, which by the usual ratio would represent prop erty worth SIG 75o. Thus the Governor declared, only s2o,ooO,oOO of the Pullman property was taxed, while over s4O,Ooo, 900 escaped taxation entirely.
 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
 POLICE RULE-Gen. Kelly, the leader of the Industrial Army which left here last summer and went to Washington, while addressing crowd last evening in Oakland, was ordered by Officer Scanlon to desist. Kelly refused, whereupon Scanlon took him into custody and the two marched off They had not gone far when Scanlon suddenly began clubbing Kelly and fractured his skull. A crowd Of several hundred people marched to the City Hall and demanded that Scanlon be placed under arrest The authorities quickly granted the demand, thereby pre- venting probable violence. Kelly's condi- tion is serious.
 CINCINNATI, o.