Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-02
THE ADVANCE OF
UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD.

layers and slaughterers.
Two Socialists have rugged out
wagon at Girard. Kan, in which tbeT
propose to travel about the collntry
delivering speeches and selling litera.
ture.
In the recent elections to the can.
tonal legislature in the canton of
Berne the Swiss Social Democrats in.
creased their number of seats from
three to II.
A year ago the coal miners Of
Banksville, Pa, established Il coon.
erative store which has alreadv
cleared over $3,00tl vt will be mad
cooperative department store.
Twenty-Five members of Cigar.
makers Alliance No. So of New York
have raised a fund of about So, COO and
established cooperative factory
Every six months the profits are to
be divided among the shareholders.
The town council of Tarnopol in
Galicia, Austria, by force of circum.
stances, decided to operate a bakery
and sell the bread at cost to the PEG
pie. 1t also appropriated $3.50 for the
tree distribution OF bread among the
poor.
The MarXist Parti Ouvrier tGuesdes
group contested 105 divisions at the
recent French elections, and in.
creased its poll from l52.124 in 'G3 to
3'l.2ll, or IA per cent. Six of its
candidates were elected on the first
ballot.
George Belt, wel!-known British
OF al
board of Hull, coming in at the head
of the poll with over $4,000 votes to
his credit. f. w. Booth, another So
cialist, got a seat in the board Of
guardians.
On the Russian governments new
railroad in Siber ia the fare for immi.
grants has been put at 80 for POO
miles and $3.50 for 1000 miles. Gov.
ernment ownership does not seem TO
conduce to keeping up charges to any
great extent.
An industrial and manual training
school is to be opened up in Coving.
ton, KY. in the near future. T. j. |
t'estner, an energetic Socialist, is the
chief promoter and would like to have
the cooperation of Socialists in and
around Coyington.
The prime minister of Japan intro.
duced an act in parliament which ex.
tends the lective franchise to five
times the present number of voters.
The most advanced nation of the far
East seems to be rapidly pushing
ahead of European civilization.
Socialists of Sweden have two daily
n Ill, 81
the other at Malmo. There are also
two Socialist weeklies and a few
trades union organs edited on Social.
list lines. The movement in Sweden
is said to be in a rapid state Of {
growth.
The German government now fur.
nishes its soldiers with one meal a i
day. If they desire or need more
they have to get it at their own ex.
pense. The press has started on a
campaign to better this state Of /
affairs, but thus far have met with no
success.
Agricultural cooperative assooia.
lions composed of women have come
into existence in the province of Fin.
land, Russia, within the last few
years. Most of them are engaged in}
the dairy business, and some of the +
butter produced is exported to Ger.
many and England.
The agitation for the establish
ment of the referendum has assumed
formidable proportions in France
Much space is being devoted to it BIZ /
leading papers. Paul Deschanel. the |
Ia ..~s J., fH%
disturbing the eXploiters by advocat
ing municipal referendum.
The Petite Republique Socialist
account of the balance of parties III
the French chamber of deputies: ~ i
opportunists. 1870 radicals and Social
list radicals. - reactionaries. q
Socialists, - rallists. % revisionistE
anti-semites. According to this &C.
count the strict Socialists made gain
of II seats.
There are seven regular Socialis,
organs published by the Socialists 10
Spain. The places in which the So
clalist movement is strongest are
Madrid. Bilbao. Barcelona. Malaga
Matruro and Valencia. The Spauiari'
who have done most to spread Social
Ism y their own country are la1.
lglesias, f. Diego, G. QueJido and
Mesa.
In Berlin no animal may he killed
under heavy penalty. except at the
slaughter bouse. Ever
animal is not only subjected 10
close scientific investigation. but
specimens of its blood and TISSUES arc
examined under powerful micro
scopes. - lady microscopists. viii
eyes trained to the work, being cor
stantly employed.
During the recent insurrection q
the Italian workpeople the govern
ment put the railroad employees uude1
military command. and they wer
thus entitled to II cents a day be
sides their wages as railroad cd
ployesl for meals, etc. But they de
termined to turn this military stipenl
into their strike fund. As soon as N
authorities heard of this "unpath
otto action the military board pa
ceased
The convention of Austrian Socia W
lists, held at Linz, resolved to use
means possible against the absolutisn
the government DroposeS TO inaugn