The labor world., 1899-11-25
AROUND THE WORLD
Much Information Given in as
Few Words as Possible.

Cramps and the other ocean ship
builders are organizing a trust.
In a special election for member of
the Legislature in SchWartZburg, Ger
many, the social democrats won.
| Translations from foreign papers in
dicate that socialism is making rapid
strides in the larger cities of South
America.
There is wailing and gnashing of
teeth in Canada. The Standard Oil Co.
! is gobbling up the choice independent
oil properties.
Uncle Sam has decided to introduce
automobiles in the mail service of
Buffalo and Boston. Hey, farmer,
raise less hay and oats.
The boot and shoeworkers' national
union will establish a national organ
on January Is. 1t will probably sup
port the social democrat. party.
Textile workers of Massachusetts
want their prosperity-puffing bosses
| to restore. the old wage rate, and if
they don't strike will be ordered De-
cember IL.
A New York daily paper charges that
! the DeLeonites colonized about
thousand voters in the Twelfth and
Sixteenth assembly districts of that
city. The matter is being Investigated.
The Carnegie interests have given it
out officially that they are not going
to fight the Rockefellers, and thus
those who expected the big monopo-
lists to smash each other to pieces
will be sorely disappointed.
The forthcoming report of the Ohio
mine inspector will show that the av-
erage monthly wages of pick miners in
1898 was 5000; machine leaders, $3.50;
and machine runners, $34.9S. Yet some
of these people talk glibly about ''the
pauper labor .Of. Europe, ~.., ..r
| James r. Carey and T. o. MacCart-
| ney, an ex-preacher, will represent
the social democrats in the next Mass
achusetts legislature. An increased
vote was polled in that state, 35 cities
and towns giving 6,747 votes against.
2,945 last year. Next month the muni-
cipal elections take place and it is 'ex-
pected further gains will be made.
President Mckinley, honorary men,
ber Of the Chicago bricklayers' and
masons' union, is reported as wanting
the convention Of that organization:
held in Washington in 1901. The "new
| member is already becoming active:
and it is to be hoped that Bro. Hanna
will also join some union soon and
| start in agitating like Bro. Mckinley.
In the. recent congress, of Austrian,
socialists it was shown that if all the.
| party papers were printed on the same
day it would require an issue Of 276,-
I 600. 4s'l e=-Rehes:aia len jccrna 81 one.
have a circulation of 144,OOO copies,5
having 10 periodicals. Then there are
81 German papers, one, of which is
daily, and the Poles possess three pa
| pers and one magazine. The party
| membership is steadily on the increase.
! Following the lead Of the socialist
| city council pf West Ham, England,
| in proposing to spend SO, ,0O0, 900 to erect
workmen's dwellings and improve the
| sanitary conditions of the city, the
London county council has decided to
spel:d a like sum for the same purpose:
| Some of the cities in Northern Eng
land are discussing this same ques-'
ton, and may also go in for a general
cleaning up in accordance with the
West Ham plan. -. >, :
| A few facts regarding the tSwitzer-4
| land election have come to hand, and
they show that the socialists won four
seats in parliament and. have a chance
to secure three more in second ballots.
The most significant about the elec-
tion was the steady increase of the So
cialistic vote, in many districts it hav:
| ing doubled in three years. The total
vote is not yet obtainable, but when it
! is made public it will show a marked
gain for the laborites.
The most important municipal elec-
tion held in Germany this year occur
red in Berlin last week. The contest
was. seats in the city council, and, al
though all the capitalistic and reac-
| tionary parties combined on the liber-
al nominees, only six of the latter were
| elected while twelve of the socialist
candidates were triumphant. This out
come will probably have the effect Of
starting Mr.. Emperor Bill on another
season of threatening to abolish the
Berlin council.
When blowing machines were first
introduced in the Indiana glass belt
the bosses hired many boys to do the
work Of former skilled mechanics. Now
the foxy capitalists have discovered
that young girls can be made to work
considerably cheaper, that they are
more docile and less liable to strike,
and as a result girls are being grad
ually employed to run the machines
| After a while no doubt the kind-heart-
ed bosses will rob the cradle and press
| infants into service to coin profits for
our "best people, Beautiful" system,
is capitalism.
1t is reported that no less than 81
| corporations are in the field to manu-
i facture various kinds of automobiles,
and that their nominal capital aggre-
gates $3.50, 900, 900. An Associated Press
dispatch says that Milwaukee is soon
to be the center of the automobile in
dustry of the United States, and large
ly for the reason that an Iowa man has
invented machine weighing not more
than Is pounds, which can be attached
to any vehicle now drawn by a horse,
and is capable of reaching speed of
| so miles an hour A million-d dollar
combine will soon manufacture the
machine.
There is something the matter with
the United States Industrial Commits
sion. Following the ugly charge made