The star. (Aberdeen, S.D.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-18
Labor Letter.

g porCentage Of their salaries for the relief Of
the unemployed. The President Of the Board
OF Health urged the tearing down of the tene-
ments In the Italian district the poor being
allowed to take the wood free. and the laying
out Of the cleared spaces of two new parks.
As the Conference Of delegates of labor Or
CARNATIONS On Thursday, DR.. Colt, on behalf
OF mo committee. recc mended that commit.
tee should be sent to Albany to secure the pas.
sage Of bills to the following effect: The
Health Board recommendations to be carried
out, the streets to be better cleared and paved
the erection of new school buildings, etc.
This was adopted. with the recommendations
for municipal labor and bureaus and town
halls in each assembly district to be let free for
public meetings. The economic difficulty was
got over by aproposal that trade union wages
should be paid, but half time only be worked
At the opening of the State a ssembly at Al
bany the two parties We'd with each other to be
In Offering resolutions on the question of
mIthe unldoyed. Sulzer for the Democrats was
In advance, and presented resolutions urging
the immediate grant of money for public
works, including the Capitol and other build
ings, lettering of canals, etc. Answorth for
the Republicans. presented similar resolutions
just after.
Interviewed On the recommendation in favor
OF an independent labor party at the recent
Convention OF the American Federation of
Labor at Chicago. President Gompers said: IT
believe that the time has come for independ-
emit action on the part of organized labor. The
present industrial depression will have the
effect Of turning M thoughts of the working
men OF America toward independent political
action, and such action will be on the lines
laid down in the platform which the Conven
ton referred to the Industrial organizations
Henry Weismann, pronounced Socialist and
the recognized leader of the Radical wing of
the Federation, believes that the next year
will see the greatest UPRISING of labor, in pci-
teal sense, that has ever been aiken place, and
that it will not be purely local. AT last"
he said, 1--WE have lifted the trade unions out
Of the narrow rut in which they were working
into something higher and broader, and in do
ing it we express the same opinions, and
seem TO feel that the Independent labor party
OF Am erica will soon be an accomplishedfact
FOREIGN LABOR NEWS.
England: The effect of theSocialist revolt
are still apparent. The Secretary for War,
House of Commons, said the Government had
ordinance factories to 48 weekly.
A special committee appointed by the Home
Secretary to inquire into the effect of the man.
ufacture of pottery and the health of potters
has reported. 1t fully bears ont the charges
that led to its appointment. The chief evils
are dust and lead poisoning. Fifty per cent
Of potters die of lung diseases, double the rate
among non potters Lead poisoning is less
oil N ot On
glazing and painting suffer severely from it.
Drastic recommendations are made for the
remedy OF these evils.
France: CounteAdrien de Nun, formerly a
Of Deputies, has agreed to hold public debate
on Socialism with NJ. Jules Guerde, the WE'LL
known Socialist member Of The Chamber,
The result Of the French senatorial election
show Republican gains. The Conservatives
have suffered severely and the Socialists have
not met with the success that their victories
in the Chambers YOU'D lead them to expect.
August vaillant's bomb appears unhappily
quite sufficient to account for this; violence is
generally the enemy of useful reform.
Germany At the second International
Congress of Socialist st dents held recently at
Geneva, Germany was represented for the first
time by students for the universities of Berlin,
Kiel, Freiburg. Munster, and Marburg. They
presented an address. in the course of which
they said, I'VE are of the opinion that the in
tellectual proletareat significant role in the
socialist movement, on the one hand az teach
ers and opponents to the people of sientinc
and social problems, and Oh the ether hand as
constructors Of socialistic tn eories correspond
ing to the general scientific progress. But we
emphasize the fact that this is only possible
Of the intellectual proletariat is in cloee union
with the working class movement