Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-12
AMONG THE LABORERS.
Events Transpirfng in the Domain
0f Labor

! The Labor Commission of New York
wants to know what should be dona
With the thousands of women i'll the
! big city who work hard and yet do
not receive wages enough to enable
them to live as human beings ought to
live" The commission ought to direct
his questions at the unprincipled poll
tical fakirs in the New York Central
Labor Union who have been hoWling g
for one or the other of the old parties
in the years past, and not only voted
away their own birthright, but that OF
! these same women and even the little
! children as we'll. And mind YOU the
voting slobs have actually got the gal,
to blame women and children for being
compelled to slave in shops and fac
tories to keep body and soul together.
The A. R. U. convention in Chicago,
beginning on June Is, will be watched
with more than usual interest. 1t is eX-
pected that it will mark the commence
ment of new phase of industrial de-
velOpment in clean-cut demand for
the adoption of socialism and prepara
ton for overland emigration to plant
the standard of cooperative com
monwealth in Utah. That Debs and his
plan and also promise of support there
can be no doubt. The coming conven
ton may make more history than
many people are willing to admit al
present.
The first suit for damages against the
city OF Chicago, resulted from the
losses sustained during the A. T. Il.
strike, has terminated unfavorably to
the city. The case will be carried up
Through the confession of William in
gliss Bloom, a former militiaman who
was on duty at Chicago during the
strike, and who is now in Jail in Cleve-
land with an incendiary charge hang
h
cleared of the charges made by the
plutocrats that they fired cars. Blooms
statement, however, that he set fire TO
the cars does not seem to have made
the city Of Chicago less responsible.
The big four years strike of the flint
glass workers strike against non-u1lion
establishments in the Pittsburg district
has been declared Off, and it is probable
that the union will follow the window
glass workers and go to pieces. Over
million dollars was spent. The workers
struck against capitalism in the indus
trial field and on the political field they
voted more power into the bosses
hands.
The charge is made that the conduc-
tors, while in session at Los Angeles.
patroniZed a non-union printing office
and non-union musicians. With the
exception of one or two brotherhOo1s
and the A. r. U. the railway organiza
tions have blamed poor conception OF
trades unionism.
Ex-senator Edmunds of Vermont
who is slated for foreign mission,
showed that he is thoroughly in har-
mony with the present administration
by making vicious attack on labor
unions at a plutocratic dinner in Phila
delphia, charging them with being
coercive trusts.
The New York and Philadelphia
clothing opera tives are once more Win
ming their strike. 1t will not be long.
however, before the bosses once more
break their contracts. 1t has come TO
be habit with them to do such things.
Pinkerton, a labor member of the
lower branch of the New Zealand par
lament, was defeated for reelection,
but was Immediately appointed TO
seat in the upper branch But, then,
they are crazy, anyhow, in New Zea-
land.
Reports from New England states in
dicate that wage reductions are still
the order of the day. Those who have
themselves known by wearing yellow
hats.
The Canadian government has decid
I'd to pass the alien labor bill, which
is aimed at the American working peo-
pie who may cross over the border in
search Of work. Who're paupers!
Over 5000 West Virginia miners have
received cut from 40 cents to 80 cents
a ton. There is no limit to the greed of
these cannibalistic capitalists.