Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
THE ADVANCE OF
UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD,

Ia, Richmond, Ind, and Newport
Ky.
Socialists of Massachusetts have
made the following congressional
nominations: First district, E.
auckland OF Holyoke: second district
H. G. Nagler of Springfield.
The Socialist Republican Party Of
Ireland, organized about year ago
is about to establish a weekly journal
The Workers Republic. 1t will be
issued from the party offices, g. Mid
Abbey street, Dublin.
The election of the capitalist can.
didate Vachers to the chamber for
the first district of Montlucon
France, has been nullifed on account
OF fraudulent proceedings, and the
Socialist, Comrade Letang, declared
elected.
All houses to be erected in the CITY
of Baltimore hereafter must he
equipped with bath rooms. This new
law is being strictly enforced. Here
comes this awful, dreaded Socialists
paternalism interfering with our in.
dividual liberty of living filthy and
spreading disease. Down with Social.
ISM
In the province of Groningen, Hol-
land! a Socialist has been doublv
elected to the legislature-int the con.
stltuency OF Groningen city and also
in Hoogezand In the former con.
stituency the Socialist polled 1851 of
d total of :, 1O5 votes in the first bal.
lot, while a year ago the Socialist
candidate received but Oh votes in
the same town.
The city of Antwerp, Belgium, has
purchased tract of % acres. and
holds an option on $50 acres more. on
which it proposes to dump the CITY
garbage and refuse matter. Thus the
productivity of the land will be in.
creased, and a city farm, truck gar
den and nursery will be established.
and poor and sickly children will he
sent there for recuperation.
The Nashville Trades and Labor
Council is evidently wheeling into
line with the progressive workers of
the labor movement. At the election
OF officers few days ago the lines
were pretty sharply drawn in the con.
test for president, but William Maillv.
the Socialist candidate, got there by
a good majority. The Nashville CEN
trial body deserves to be congratu-
lated.
The Iowa House passed a bill for
bidding the employment in factories
or in stores of children under I3 wears
OF age, or the employment of a boy
under ID or of a girl under Is in any
capacity, domestic service excepted,
while the public schools are in ses-
sion. 1t also prohibits the employ.
ment at night of boy under Is or of
a girl under Is, and provides for a To-
hour workday for boys under Is.
Some Partisan workers have agreed
to form a colony just outside Paris
On Sunday, July 3, they visited their
future and still problematic home
Among the intending oolonists are
wood-cutters, market gardeners, nav
vies, joiner, a carpenter, a lock-
two tailors, some printers and
clerks, a public man who amuses him.
self with farming in his hours of lei
sure, landlord who is sympathetic
with the undertaking, a dressmaker.
and seamstress.
In round numbers 1000. 900 OF the
| l 200, 600 registered voters exercised
their political franchise at the re-
cent German ReiIhstag elections.
This is 100000 less than in lsg3,
the number of qualified
voters has increased $4,000 since:
thus only IS per cent of the voters
went to the polls, against 72.4 per
cent in 1893, Some of the capitalist
papers. startled at the growing NUN.
Der OF the stay-at-home vote. urge
he passage of a law making it oblig.
ltory tor all citizens to exercise the
'otir 6 privilege. They attribute the
success of the Socialists 10
he fact that the non-Socialist vote
tays at home, while the Socialist
'ote. on account of splendid organi
alton, comes out in full force every
line.
At a meeting of the immigration
held recently at Winni.
'eg, Canada, German Consul Hespler
rave a very interesting history of the
immigration to Manitoba,
which suggests what an energetic
PEOPLE, working under voluntary CO.
'peration along agricultural lines
nay accomplish, Mr., Hespler traced
he movement from 1874. when he
onducted five Russian delegates OF
he Mennonites through Manitoba