Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-03

ganized In Kansas City.
There are over 100000 tenant farm
ers in the United States
The Alliance in Pennsylvania and
Maryland is growing rapidly.
OF the $4,000 bookblnders in this
country only 5000 are organized.
The iron moulders of the country are
still complaining Of lack of work.
The union clerks of Nashville, Tenn.
have organized fife and drum corps.
The Laborers' union protective socie-
ty has raised its iniation fee to $40.
Colorado labor unions are busily en-
gagged in roasting" Senator Wolcott.
New York printers union has GAIA
members, and controls 14b printing Of
fees.
this country Is estimated at about
100000
A labor lyseum is carried on by
by the organizations OF Jersey City
Heights, N. j.
A revival in labor circles is in pro-
gress in Nashville, Tenn, and unions
are growing rapidly.
Three hundred and ten policemen of
Chicago have o,ganized themselves
into a literary club.
The Longshoremens' national union
Is now about one year old, and has
thirty-two local branches.
President Mcbride estimated that
$4,000 out OF the $4,000 bituminous
coal miners in the United States join
ed the strike.
1t is said that 700 employees have
been discharged from the government
printing Office by Mr.. Benedict, the
new public printer,
In consequence of the coal strike
In this country Scotch mine owners
were asked to tender shipments of coal
for the United States.
Captain II. II. Brown In ottawa
Journal estimates that farm and home
tenants in the United States pay 1884,
775,52O in rents every year
Reports all agree that coal is getting
scarce on account of the great strike
and that something should be done to
protect innocent third parties.
The executive board of the Knights
OF Labor says II is receiving the best
reports from the order all over the
world 1t has had for five years.
As q very satisfactory remedy for
the hard times flor few there has
recently been established 400 new
Federal offices at $500 per year.
A movement is on foot TO make the
commonweal organization national in
its charter and political in It's nature,
to force congress to relieve the people.
The Chicago Daily News says Gen
eral Kelly intends to deliver his speech
from balloon when he gets to Wash
ington to avoid getting on the grass.
The Knights OF Labor are doing all
they can TO prevent workmen patroniz-
ing saloons that sell beer brewed by
what is known as the English syndi-
cate"
The Santa Fe mechanics In the To-
peka shops have been cut down to
less than 81 day and several hundred
hands let out Cause, lack of bust
ness.
Eleven tanning establishments In AL
legheny City. Pa, are preparing to
shut down, and 900 employees will be
added to the army of the local unem-
ployed.
In the National Brotherhood of Oper-
alive Potters only twenty men out OF
1900 who went on strike against re-
duction of wages have gone back in
the union.
Business men of New York city.
who have In their employment 10000
boys, have determined to give the
preference to boys that do not smoke
cigarettes.
Vessel owners and lake seamen will
henceforth arbitrate their differences.
The owners have agreed to employ
none but members of the Lake Sea-
mems union.
Eight hundred men. employed in sew
erai brickyards along the river front
OF Kingston. n. Y, struck because of
a reduction or 20 cents a day made
In their wages.
From one TO three columns of some
or the Salt Lake and Denver dailies
are taken up with the reports from the
various outposts OF the Coxey reserves
or commonweal out posts.
A 30 is per cent cut has been made
~ the wages of the 1900 employees OF
.ne wheeling and Lake Erie rail-
way, Ihe out win affect all grades
OF employees, from the top down.
Gold bonds and currency contraction
are the upper and neither mill
stones between which the people and
their industrial interests are being
ground to powder.-Iowa Tribune.
Az San Diego, Cal. mass meeting
OF Immense proportions was held re-
gently In which Coxey's movement
was unanlomusly Endorsed and 300 new
members added to the commonwea,
reserve corps.
The Populist announcement OF
Kansas has forced the Pullman Car
company 10 pay to the state some
N0OoOoo, mostly back taxes. which
VIII help TO tighten the burdens OF
labor in that state.
The American Federationlsts are BIT
.sry opposed TO tho ratification OF
the proposed Chinese treatv They
claim that the Chinese are not wanted
n THIS country and that their presence
mere tends to the degradation OF la
me Ohio Central lines, which con-
troi great amount OF the Ohio coal
" Spa,le' nave given notice OF cut of
ployes on the road, to take erect at
miners strike.
me National League Of Musicians
nv mol what might be called har-
nonlzers-in labor AFFAIRS. They re-
Sehtiy decided not to am.late with the
A'hefieah Federation OF Labor because