Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-03

Omaha painters wined and dined
their employers.
Western railways viii "fire" 200 agents
and save $4,000 year.
The railway employees cooperative
store at Juniata, Pa, has gone to the
wall.
There is a movement on in New York,
started by small capitalists, to food Gov.
Roosevelt with petitions to not appoint
union men to office.
A. F. Of L. reports issuing "a charters
in January--three to nationals, one to
city central body, six to federal unions,
and IA to local trade unions.
Indiana labor commissioner has made
the remarkable discovery that in con-
tests between organized workers and
trusts the former usually come out sec
ond best.
The girls who went on strike in a
carpet factory in New York against being
forced to do twice as much work as pre-
vious to the introduction of improved
machines lost their fight.
FINER & Bro, tobacco mandatory
of Louisville, KY, whose product was
actively doomed by unionists in this part
of the country, has thrown up the label
and sold out at good price to the to.
bacco trust.
By a new system introduced by the
owners of the new Boston Union Depot
one man will switch $50 trains daily. It
is such silent revolutions that is reduc-
ing the number of railway employees.
Elevated railways of New York are
slashing things. The manager of the
81" road has started out to save his
| plutocratic masters million dollars q
year. Wages ore cut from 25 to 33 per
cent, and dozens of men have been dis.
charged and machines put in their places
A Nashville paper states that there
are children employed in the cotton mills
of that city who receive but cents q
day of IL to Is hours. One child re.
ceived IS cents for three weeks work, and
a family of eight workers averages $50
q month.
etc., or fight. 1t is shrewd game, and
the powerful Typographical union has
been placed between two fires. If it &C
cepts the bosses dictates the enmity Of
affiliated organizations will be aroused
and if it stands by the latter strike
may result. No doubt the managers arr
working underhandedly to destroy al
the printing craft unions. This sam,
managers association is spreading t.
other cities.
The case in which non-union Sar
Ero no inf
ages because he was forced out of a jol
will be carried up by the union. Labo
papers on the coast agree that if the cas-
is finally won by the scab plaintiff
unions might as well disband, for ever.
organization can be proceeded agains
in q similar manner. The contest is
momentous one and is being watched witt
intense interest by laborers and capital
lists alike.
An immense meeting of 10000 peopl
was recently held in Stockholm, Sweden
which was managed by the socialists, t.
agitate for further extension of tn
right of suffrage. To committee VIII
waited on him, the king declared that n
further concessions would be made
WHeTeupon ne WAS informed CnaC ma
tional strike of all trades would b
inaugurated. 1t is quite likely tina
trouble will occur during the presen
year unless the power that be yield, fo
the workers are deeply in earnest an
are organizing to secure their rights.
A labor war in the printing bushes
may be precipitated in Chicago ere lonl
The newspapers of that city entered
sort of combine some time ago, and no,
it is announced that the managers hay
given it out that they will run cope
offices" in all departments except tn
composing room, which means that tn
printers will have to work with nor
union stereotypers, pressmen, mailer
The big Six" meat packers of Chicag
and Kansas City are forcing their wa
into Eastern cities and causing niue
uneasiness among the owners of sma
Strengthening houses. 1t is reported ths
the Armours and Swifts have also gor
into the business of handling butter an
eggs and are scaling it on the easter
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