Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-08

Domestic.
Bookblnders have forty unions.
Terre Haute Ind. has 5000 men out
Of work.
Pueblo cob steel workers wages
have been cut 40 per cent
sacramento. cal. has three tinrts
too many men for the work.
Tho iron works at Phoenixvllle, Ohio,
closed and 1000 men are out.
CARPENTERS eieht-hour conventions
are being held IN many cities.
Vicksburg. Miss. is looking up.
| There Is better outlook for work.
At Paterson. N. j., the Dolphin iute
mill closed and threw 800 men out
The Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg
/ road makes q 10 per cent cut on wages
In forty-nine cities carpenters make
| It n rule to work only eight hours
day.
In Germany, as in this country. the
labor reform Is strongest I'm the eoun-
| try
AT Paterson, N. j., 1900 ribbon weav-
ers struck for an Increase OF 30 per
cent
At Pomeroy Bend, Ohio. 1000 miners
accepted work at one-fourth redue-
ton.
The news Of a big fire in Hannibal.
Mo, brought carpenters in for miles
around.
Mouldors at the Cleveland. Ohio
union shops, are on a strike against
q reduction.
scv6nty-one per cent Of the wealth Of
the country Is owned by 0 per cent
Of the people.
A movement for the eight hour law
Is being pushed In a lively manner in
! New Orleans
The number Of active alliances in
Iowa has Increased 400 per cent since
last November.
In our great cities there are only
eleven families out OF 100 that live in
their own homes
The Iowa state Farmers Exchange
| at Des Aioinca has been revived. and IL
ON u good basis,
Many newspapers bring an over
stock Of labor to a city by their effort
to boom things.
In Fan River, Mass, the mill owners
| say there must be either cut down
or shut down"
The fourth annual convention Of the
textile workers will be held In Phia-
delphia IN May.
Carpenters strikes are going on in
New York. Cincinnati, Chicago and
Belle Vernon. Pa.
!
are thrown out by the shut down in
the rubber works.
Mount Washington glass works,
MaHsnchusctts. viii become non-union'
with 10 por cent cut
Since the war gold has nearly
doubled IN value. aud labor has been
cheated to that extent
The average pay OF the unemployed
Of Minneapolis, Mimi. Mt the stone
yards Is G. 10 cents day.
Miners. coke drawers and laborers
OF Conceivable Pa, have been Sc
cretly organizing for months.
Miss Ida Van Etten well-known
reform agitHtor and organizer Of New
York, dled in Paris Of starvation.
Society must have system In which
| every one who IL willing to work
shall somehow be able to find IT,
Gov FshbacS OF Arkansas calls the
! decentralization OF silver 1.-THE most stu
penduous legislative crime OF the age
The proposed exposition In Atlanta,
Ga, has served To bring such numbers
OF wordngmen there as to deluge the
city.
In 1872 bushel OF wheat paid more
than $i,l5 Of mans debt Now il
} takes three bushels to pay Sis Of
debt,
While we have increased In popula-
tion 20 per cent in this country, we
have increased In Indebtedness 1860 per
cent,
The Universal WorSlugmen's Sick
and Death BENEFIT association OF
America, has 5000 members. and pays
sick benefits Of from So to 50 week.
In 1880 we produced ten bushels Of
wheat TO every person In the United
States. Now We produce about six.
What becomes OF the overproductlon
theory2
The Central labor union OF Indian
| apOls, Ind, mpmurlnll8cd congress In
favor OF government ownership OF tele-
ErOphg.
Ten mon on u bonanza farm In the
far West can produce enough by their
, labor to serve bread to 1000 persons in
New York.
: There are In this country s5.2s1 To-
, | comotivcs, 2iSSl passenger cars, 7aO(
I mail aud baggage cars and lies "a.
/ freight cars,
; Rloting took place at Cleveland, Ohio
because tho men employed were glyer
Z work that displaced others at so cents
I To $500 day.
: In Seattle, wash strike took plnc,
In the mechanical department OF The
, Great Northern rond on account OF re.
{ duction Of wages,
! The Wall street thermometer. Henry
: CLOVIS, notes slight Increase OF con.
ndence, and says: Money il easy
For whom Ia Il oasyp
= Our war Is not against men, but
2 against the inhuman system that per,
, mitB neoccrs aud capitalists to take
the Hons share of wealth
a reduction OF 20 per cent I'm tho
: wages fuud OF the United States means
: reduction or u purchasing power
OF the people Of 100000 600
The hours OF labor should be reduced
In order that men may have the LET'S.
uro to llve-the leisure to love the
leisure 10 taste our freedom.
Labor can never get the fun results
OF its work under the present system
! OF industry, Competition must be su-
perseded by cooperation.
! A hereditary working class Is the
natural consequence Of ~ hereditary
capitalstic class. such class divisions
are a remnant Of hcathenism.
Saving springs from acqulsltlveness.
The trouble with worlgmen ~ not that
they did not save enough. but that
they had not enough to spend.
Thcre are three ways OF getting a
llvlng-worlking, stealing, begging De
prived OF the privilege Of working. man
must choose between the other two.
The reports from the 600 cities re-
cbtved bV the National Cnrpanfats