Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-13
LABOR DEPARTMENT.


Why Christians let men dicE
It's tears OF blood we shed,
AS we starye and toll and freeze
It's work we want, not money and
bread
In doles from the charlton
Mhet wonder that men go MAD
with trouble and toll and mh2ef
What wonder that women 20 bad,
II nothing but badness paysP"
The strike evil must be arbitration.
Gen. Weaver sent the Kelley army
1000 lonves OF bread on It's arrival In
Des Moines
The careful leadership Of Eugent
V. Dcbs had much to do In settling
IN. Great Northern railroad strike.
The Woman'a commonweai society
OF Chicago has been ordained for the
purpose Of oldins the Commonweal
army.
The knights OF Labor Journal comes
out In u new dress on superior paper
and purposes soon to add two TO four
more pages.
The New Jersey state board Of arbl-
trntlon has been succeFful 10 bringing
about an agreement between Newark
strikers and their oniploytfs.
The Washington correspondent Of
the Chicago Express says Senator VIII
iam NJ. Stewart regrets having written
his letter Rgains, the CoAey move
ment,
Labor papers criticize severely the
display of brutality and regklesa use
OF clubs by the police 81 washington
on Coxey'B men md innocent spec-
tators.
The general officers Of the Knights of
Labor are 10 be congratulated on the
very effective assistance given by
thum In the settlement OF tho Great
Northern strike,
Considerable impetus In mining ma
chlnery Is reported. resulting mainly
from the cfforts " COMPANIES 20 fe-
duce the cost of mining by putting In
new and Improved machinery
The Chicago Herald hay been making
extensive Inquiry into the huaipee
PROSPECTS ot the country % late. ari
CONCLUDES ,hat the spring business
has been reasonably good every whore
Gen Weaver says the golden ruiz
should b, carried nut in the treatment
of the uufmplUy ed. especially the com
inonwca asniues he says ANY
other course wdl produce hu oNpln
sion."
Some papers sim ailudc to CoXey'H
army as composed % 'yagH' and
'traups." But such characters could
not be Induced 10 march 400 miles, over
mountains. amid storms aud through
mud as coNcy's army did,
"Thc STORY ot tho Commouwcat" by
Henry Vincent Official historian 80 rp.
ueived by tho labor department 1t
contains 4iS pages, " nicely Illustrated
and ~ Interesting ~ u novel W y
Conkoy Co, publishes Chicago, III.
An Eastern labor exchange says the
reform movement eau expect but little
from the farmcrH OF that section be-
eeusc they are too conservative. ana
but little from the wage wurkerH be-
I'd tH1 lax
respectable seoundrellsm.
b. o. Flower. editor Arena, Says
piutncracy was ntNct more alarmed,
never mofc determined and never more
A unit Than at thc present Time The
lnly hope ~ labor n IN sinking all dif-
lerences and uniting against the COM
non enemy Tor a u'uer Cancellation.
Prof Il. W HemB ur the University
" Chicago IN "a late address before a
,ody Of ministers said 'Uultas We
,R=ten Ia curb the monnpollrs and stop
he corruption practiccd by corpora
ions IN purchasing public Franchises
here will be an outhurat that VIII
weep US toward socialism. 1t VIII he
something more than the murchlnE nt
non &c Washington Lock up these
zen and 1t Will be like iirlng a vol
iano
The Federauonst gives u history Of
May Dny" and It's establishment RH
national holiday IL sayn' 1T grew
tut u the agitation FOR The eight.
hour day. The International labor
congress. held Ia Paris july u, 1880
nd0rsed the proposition for an inter
national cight-hour demonstration on
May L. SuhUcguont rougr saseH IN,
d1rLcd the action OF the Paris meet
ing, and the eight hour movement has
made great strides In all civilized cuuu
tries IN the past few years. In Eng.
10 .fUlH j.
had an enormous de, clppmenti IN Ger.
many there has been "a general redu
ton OF houts, and the Nl iry OF tho
eight hour movement ,na countr,
Is we'll known"
J, NJ Clenry receuGy uade the tol.
lowing sucpg point nfgaulXcd Ia
sor 'ENeept Tor organ ition. who be-
heNos that the poor ac-,ion hand who
earns but dollar day would have
any one strong enough 90 speak q word
N his favor aud command hearing.
IN orEanEntlon tho weakest VIII be
cared fcr as wei as tho strongest mud
oeEl paid. order N heavens first law
and what IL order but organization
Organization W written all over tho
lace Of nature. IA man bccomos civ.
liAed he uniteH In organization foi
uutual protection Organization of la.
nor ducn not Imply opposition To- the
,mplpNera ~ labor. I am juatiucd IN
aHfNINlNt my own ilkhth, nut not Ia
;ncroaching upou the ighH OF an,
,thcr. rha, is what the wage.earurr
Intends 10 do tn guard his God given
lights. and not Ia allow himself to
DC REDUCED 10 slavery"
A. tho Minneapolis MAY day celebra.
Won, Row Dr. sample said '''rhe vase
iystem Is not tliN highest form. Whom
The idea OF tho sermon on tho mount
;onos, we VIII have an Industrial ByA
,em In witch ouch man win omni,,
hmselt when labor viii enjoy not n
git OF what u produces but the whole
WY V production should cease 10
single year we would all starvc. n
nc cloth makers should stop their
work Tor three years We would all M
TAXED. II the builders should All ste,
hrir work for ten years we Would III,
v unhoused. II Il out OF the pr,d,,,,,
" the hborlng man that his n,yn
WAGES are paid, Monopoly Is mo c,,r.'
me day, wherefore man Il moi n.,s
nitted 20 employ himself 'rhere ar,
I've species % monopoly. That of ~
wealth Of the soil. that OF transnar,s ny
lon mat Of intelligence. the tclorrnnh
nc telephone, whereby nti.mers,,l'
iaiie news Is kept from tho n"o,n,
nav or the medium of eNchnnys a.',
nat q leglsla,ion. Down win IN
cranhieis.
Patriotism Is on gold basis
The land shall not be SOLD forever. d,