Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-09-07

COulIdClOIS On SC3iOoI WOIA III ~ I%ouio.
Philadelphia unionists want a law
guaranteeing them the right to organ
ize.
A Quincy (Mass.) shoe firm has a
thirty years.
Cincinnatis Labor Day celebration
promises to be the largest in the history
of that city.
The union scale for painters in New
York is So for plain work and $3.50 for
decorative work.
Boston has 81, 5000 trade unionists, be-
ing one of the best organized cities in
the United States. -
Tailors' Union,5 No. 5, of Chicago, will
assess members who fail to take part
in the Labor Day parade the sum of S.
each.
The Musicians Union has been sus-
pended from the st. Louis Trades and
Labor Council 1t refused to aid the
theatrical employees to secure their de-
mandS.
The Fall River Weavers' Union pays
no money to members for losses through
depression in trade. But the spinners
are paid weekly by the union during the
shutdown.
A dispatch from Elwood, Ind, says:
'"The industrial situation in this city is
the dullest ever known even at this time
of year. All our factories are idle, and
tho man ont of on1nIOuTnpnf -
The German socialists who went
straight to politics, and let the old trade
union methods slide, are now discover
ing that they made mistake, and are
barking back to Industrial organization.
The men are talking Of engaging Rev.
w. H. Carwardine, of Chicago, to lee
ture in Duluth on social economies.
Rev. Carwardine is the Pullman minis
ter who espoused the cause Of the car
shop strikers during the A. r. q. trou-
bles.
Organization says the Indianapolis
Sentinel, sis the chief factor in secur-
ing high wages. There is not member
of trade union who would be willing
to dissolve the union and trust to the
effects of tariffs or money systems or
anything else to maintain wages.
Gov. ID. M. Clough, of Minnesota, has
issued a proclamation for the obsery-
ance of Labor Day, in which he recon-
mends and requests that on Monday,
Sept. z, 1896, all places where labor is
employed be closed, and that every pos
sible opportunity be given all who labor
to celebrate the day in a manner bef1t-
ting the purpose to which it is sdedi-
Gated"
Notices have been posted in the south
sidefactories Of the United States Glass
Company now operating at Pittsburg,
announcing an indefinite shutdown.
Individual notices were given the nom
union workmen employed by the COM
pany since it locked out the American
Flint Glassworkers' Union members
three years ago, that their services
would not likely be needed again, and
the men were advised to take work
elsewhere if they could find it. This
may mean the beginning Of the end OF
one of the greatest Industrial conflicts
ever fought in this country, and 1T is
probable that the factories of the COM
pany throughout the country will be
open again to union workmen and the
long lockout terminated.
In the National Convention of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers in Detroit Mayor Pin
gree. in a welcoming address, referred
Of +ho Vinl
President Carney, in his reply, said:
eve can tell the Mayor story OF mis-
ery. We can paint for him verbal pic
ture of suffering from scenes close to
Pittsburg, where children-hundreds OF
them-never smile. They have never.
learned that part of natural language,
because their parents know it not. The
miner comes from the hole in the pit,
hungry and broken. His wife, in patch
ing to get herself a little food and the
few clothes they have, sees no sunshine
in her life The future is dark. They
exist in despair
The dull season in London, England,
has brought the usual disturbances
among laborers and artisans, and the
long threatened lockers strike seems
probable to come to head in the near
future. The men at several of the naval
torpedo works are already out, trouble
is brewing among the Nottingham lace
workers. the East End tailors' strike
has begun against the large tailoring
firms and the men will be withdrawn
from the other concerns shortly. This
strike is promoted by the middlemen,
who get contracts from the big houses
and then distribute them to Journey
men. The middleman claim they have
$4,000 journeymen behind them. Final
| " a London cabbies strike against the
privileged cabs at the railway stations
is being discussed and voted on, and
will be decided soon. The last half
year has been the most profitable one
for English railroads for many years
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