Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-14


get bond Issue OF 100000 for park
work.
Thirty hands have been discharged
from the Matham watch factory owing
to dullness in business.
Gompers Of The Federation Of Labor
urges the issue Of bonds by the govern
ment for the relief Of the distressed.
Neither an individual or u nation should
be required to pay debt In money of
greater value than the contract price.
Corporations in this country owe So
0OO.OOOOUO TO Europeans. The principal
and interest will be demanded in gold.
Fully 5000 miners have gone into New
Mexico from the northern Rocky noun
tain states during the past six months.
It is calculated that St,5OOOOO was
distributed in food and clothing among
the poor in large cities on Christmas day.
Some 5000 employees Of the Chicago
City railway company We're vnccinlted,
because Of the small poX scare In that
city.
The tightharrcl coopers Of Minneapolis
MINI, have been successful in their
strike against a 10. per cent reduction
of their wages.
The miners at slope coal rilnc 10 Sa-
linevlle Ohio. went ON strike 'iust a
10 per cent reduction. and day laborcrs
against 30 per cent
The Wirimuntc linen company paid in
one year 90 per cent dividends, but II
paid It's men and women operatives from
80 cents 10 81 DAY in wages.
Out Of 100000 hands employed in the
South - per cent are white, one-third
are skilled laborers. and Of the skilled
lab'rers only 10 per cent are colored.
At convention Of miners held in Du-
bois Pa, last week, representing upward
Of 10000 miners, II was agreed to join
the United Mine Workers Of America,
Pittsburg has over $500 men employed
in the two parks, yet that number does
not seem to make any great difference
in the ranks of the army unemployed.
Employees vino were poisoned at Home
stead during the labor troubles, will COM
mcnce suit for damages aggrcgating
Sl,OOOOOO against the Carnegie company
As long as money Is increasing in value
md property is falling, the money will
be boarded and held as mere matter
| Of speculation, and that Is what Is the
matter with the country.
Minis "a" and &C" of the Catasauqua
| -hlhNlhtiultuE company at Attention re-
sumed operations full-handed and with
u sufficient number of orders to keep them
running for some time.
Phil D. Armour Of Chicago forced
every butcher within reach of his pack
cries TO sell his beef Millions are paying
| tribute ~ this king aud DO is making
millions by ths sort of briganlagc
Five hundred and sixty sugar ralsers
! get SN,lG3,S as gracious Gift from
| the United States government The gov
| eminent, however Is not giving anything
| at present 10 the poor farmer who is ras-
ing wheat cotton and corn.
The local lodge Of the Brotherhood Of
| Surface Railroad Employees at Indian
! apOlis has been forced to return Its char
| ter To be n member of the brotherhood
was equal to a discharge, and the men
decided to ,disJnnd for the sake Of their
| families
At the general meeting Of the heads
! Of ralrlnl ORGANIZATIONS IN Chicago
last week II was decided That strikes
should NOT be ordered hereafter until
q meeting Of all the railroad Mons had
been called aud the grievance carefully
considered by unparalleled minds.
The shoemakers of st. Louis have
been successful in their fight for recogni-
ton Of their organization. but the cigar
makers and brewery workmeu are still
| out and there is no end to be seen OF
their struggle for their right to protect
their interests by means of organization.