The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-11
Industrial Notes.


wealth have none OF il?
lndustria Notes.
CLERKS now have IL. unions.
SOCIALISTS OF lhicaSo Endorsed the
Peoples party ticket.
MONTANA miners strike has been
satisfactorily adjusted.
THE Baltimore Federation of Labor
adopted 4. +. Of L. platform.
OVER 500 employees Of the govern
ment printing office were dismissed.
No work.
UNION printers of New York will
start daily paper to aid their un-
employed.
THE union Of railway biographies
has declared in favor Of Government
ownership of railroads.
EUGENE DEBs says he believes in
the cooperative commonwealth as
taught by Law renee GrOnlund.
CHICAGO telegraphers rescluted for
government teleEraphs. Initiated
eighty-ftve members at one meeting.
The official organ Of Denmark So
. ciali>tS cleared $4,000 in the last
year. which went into the campaign
fund.
THE Plumbers Supply Company,
| La CT sse. Wis, adopted protit-shar-
ing. Workers will all be milliOnaires
in a few years.
QUITE number of Western rail-
readers are going to South America
and South Africa. Blacklisted dur
, ing the strike.
SOCIALIST congress of Sweden de-
cided to inaugurate a general strike
unless the Government granted uni
! versal suffrage.
ONE-QUARrER, or Is. 900, of the en-
! tire $4,000 bakers in the country are
concentrated within ten miles OF
New Works City Hall.
THE New Zealand Government de-
termined that strikes must be abOi-
ished. and to that end a compulsory
arbitration law will he enacted.
! MORE than 5000 new members and
four new unions have Joined the
United Garment Workers during the
past three weeks in New York.
Z. Y. POwDERLY, who for many
years was the General Master Work
man of the knights Of Labor, was
admitted to the bar in Scranton. Ia.
A NEW national union OF wood
workers has been proposed which will
number over 100000 men. 1t will
include all the various woodworking
trades.
CHICAGO printers union demands
the resignation of Carroll ID. Wright,
Labor commissioner. for carrying a
Pullman pass. Other locals resulted
similarly.
PRESIDENT GOMPERs declares that
there are 100. OC0. more men in the
trades unions in the United States
now than there were before the Pull
man strike.
In the Cleveland, Durham and
other iron-working districts OF En-
gland the cight-hour day is being in
stituted. while in "protected' Amer
ica-oh, rats!
BEFORE the wage Garner can expect
steady employment and high wages
the labor market must be relieved OF
its surplus. Demand for labor can
not come until that is first done.
LABoRING people everywhere should
show by their action that they de-
serve a better condition. While a
man votes to continue the same un-
just legislation he deserves nothing
better. 81.
The Spinners' Union at New bed
ford held a meeting recently, and it
was voted to pay the members OF the
union 81 per week and % cents for
each child in members family dur
ing the existence of the great strike.
EVEN those labor unions which
have been SO Succe .sful in forcing an
increase IN wage. and maintaining
them, now recognize one great lack
ing power-that Of providing work.
1t is this latter question which Is
, now attracting their attention, and
which is causing them to so rapidly
, Join the Peoples party.
! Tue Federal courts arrested Gov.
Waite On trumpedup charge tn IN
timidate the POpulists. Gov. stone,
. OF Mississippi. free-silver Democrat.
) was arrested on cnarge OF counter
} feiting United States money, an
r equally ridiculous one. Gov. Alt2e.d
: was booked for arrest during the
1 Chicago strike IL he had not re-
tired To his shell. Verify Gro. is
{ car, sure enough