The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-02
AMONG THE LABORERS
EVENTS TRANSFERRING IN THE DO4
MAIN OF LABOR.
Interesting Items for WaEewOrkeF
Gathered From All Parts of
the Country.

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the cigarmaklng industry, and one that
will tax the strength OF the union to Its
utmost. The fight will not be waged
| against the union directly, but will be
! Waged between the large and small man
ufactHrers. The Cigar Manufacturer
Association, like all trusts and corpora
tons, proposes to pull the political as
well as the economic wires. The begin
ming of the struggle will be the agitation
for a law taxing all manufacturers $50 a
year, which will cripple some of the
small producers, and then drop prices TO
bedrock for a period and squeeze out
those unable to lose money ana compete.
It will be readily seen that this scheme
will force many OF the small bosses into
the already overcrowded ranks of the
journeymen, together with the few men
they formerly employed, and the added
intensity Of competition will endanger
the union wage-rates and working hours
and the organization itself.
A Pittsburg dispatch says the Window
Glass Workers union has gone to pieces.
Here Is a study for those who believe
that trade unionism alone will solve the
economic problems. A few short years
ago the window glass workers had the
strongest organization on earth. They
had the trade practically solidly organ
lied and there was half a million dollars
in the treasury. Then, ostrich-like, they
rnmmed their heads in the sand and
kicked their heels in the air. They re-
fused to study the economic conditions
surrounding them. They sneered at So
cialistic ideas particularly, talked big
about their union, blindly voted old party
tickets, and finally the employers started
war against their workers and have
triumphed. The union goes down with a
debt of $4,000 left behind. This is one
OF thesad features OF trades unionism, that
wage-workers refuse to believe that new
occasions teach new duties"
Winnipeg, Manitoba, paper publishes
the following dispatch: "Griswold, Oct.
IA gigantic robbery took place at Oak
Lake last night. A 'scab' operator, re-
Gently brought by the Canadian Pacific
railway from Chicago during the strike
made Off with $1,000 consigned to Leitch
Bros. and 1900 to A. Cameron, and it is
also supposed that he carried on another
packet Of 5000 received the night before
destroying the way bill to elude discov-
cry. The company's till was also cleared
out Part of the telegraph keys were all
80 taken away, 80 a message could not be
sent"
HeintH, the pickle man, has presented
sharpsburg, Pa, with a drinking foun-
tain, upon which is a heroic statue Of an
old Indian chief. At the same time
HGinta, the pickle man, reduced the wag-
es Of the women employed in his pickle
70 FnkH h.
boast Of the Carnegie kind.
Chicago has a young girl Of II, who IS
described as being well educated, pos.
sessing charming manners and thorough
ly determined" who is conducting an ear
nest crusade in favor of the organization
of women wageworkers and Is making her
influence felt. Her name is Florence
Long.
Latest reports from Japan state that
everything is booming in that country,
and that wherever wageworkers go on
strike they invariably win, as employers
cannot do without them. But there is
machinery being imported
from the United States and England.
The Hotel and Restaurant Employees
National Alliance Is said to be going to
pieces. Two unions at Cincinnati, one at
Chicago and one at Boston have sent back
their charters, while the remaining Chi
cago union pays no attention to the ma
tlonal officials.
Quincy Ill.) Labor News has changed |
At the late election the News |
was one Of the three or four labor papers |
that supported the Hannaites. Thereup- |
on organized labor repudiated it.
Up in Maine the new woman Is even |
running the railroad crossing tender out |
IF his job. Quite number of railroads |
have hired women for just such jobs.
The Leadville strikers are still stand |
ng out solidly. The daily papers of Col
'rado are loudly protesting against the |
expenditure Of $1,000 day to keep the |
militia on the ground, and the taxpayers
ire also in an ugly mood.
Girls who manufacture shirts, collars
md cuffs In a large Troy, N. Y, concern,
Won their strike against a reduction
They stood out solidly since July.
Some eastern concerns are trying the
experiment. of sending out women drum
ners. The men are kept at home. The
women work cheaper
The Jewish tailors of London, England,
re about to inaugurate a movement to
improve the condition of workers in the
"GdL ouOpa. ]
Bicycle workers Of Kenosha, Wis, re-
luest that the wheels manufactured by
'eig & Walpole Of that city be left alone.
Topolobampo colony in Mexico is a
omplete failure, and the government has
evoked Its title to all land.
Unions of knitting workers and en-
roideres Of Brooklyn amalgamated and
eclared for socialism.
A movement to form a national building
rades council is on foot in st. Louis. A
all may be issued soon.
After forcing its employees to work at
he old rate OF wages, the glass trust has
dvanced prices.
1t is said some Detroit unlonists Will
tart a colony in North Carolina
A national sewer pipe trust will be or
anized at Pittsburg this month.
Another cooperative colony is to be To-
ated at Oak Mound. Mo.
The big strike Of printers at Winnipeg
'as won by the union.
Brooklyn is said to have III union fac
Drles.