The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-11
Labor Notes.

receive % per week, WHICH Is more lndu
those workers average in Massachusetts
The Miners Union Of Red Lodge,
Mont, has started cooperative meat
market, and will, it is said, start CO.
operative store.
The British engineers, machinists, etc,
paid oil Il debt OF $25O,OOO last year in
CURED during the great strike and have
u million dollars in the treasury.
Broom trust raised prices % cents a
dozen, making an advance OF 70 cents
per dozen in six weeks. The lime trust
has also advanced prices 80 and 40 cents
barrel.
Another big strike of garment workers
and tailors is brewing in New York city.
About $4,000 persons will be involved.
The cause is the increasing oppression
OF the competing sweat shop bosses.
The battle" for supremacy between
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern railways has resulted, it is
reported, in a combination, as usual.
The Rockefeller, Flower and Morgan
interests are in the deal.
Ellis Bartholomew, a Lima, o., So
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allowed patent for railway and street
car air-brake that overcomes all defects
in those brakes in use at present with
out infringing on any of them.
The match trust is attempting TO alb
sorb the oatmeal trust and the straw
board trust.-The very latest combines
being formed is brick trust in the Dis
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saddle trust, and hotel trust.
Now the gel-Cooper department
store proprietors have started an old age
pension fund for employees with $780,
900. The little one-line storekeepers in
Chicago, New York and other cities will
be wondering what the big merchants will
do next.
The number of labor strikes in Ger
many for October was 81, for November
40. In Austria there were only six strikes
in November. During October Belgium
had 10 strikes with n total of 2, 1877 strik-
ers, France p strikers, $3.50 strikers,
while England had 54 strikes affecting
1857 men.
The miners and the operators in the
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the Chicago scale OF last year, which in
cludes the eight-hour day However, il
is thought that considerable trouble
will be experienced with the Hooking
Valley operators, DeArmit, Col. Rend
and others who refused to yield.
1t is reported that nearly three hun
dred firms in Great Britain. have Joined
tho naxy annnloxyaro, faIoratio,, x.,b,ob -
organizing and accommodating a fund fol-
the purpose of making war on trades
unions. Many of the far-seeng labor
people are apprehensive of serious trou
bic in the near, future, and especially al
the bosses are making wry faces at tn,
formidable competition of the American
trustified industries.
The locked out textile workers of At
lanta, Ga, are in bad way. Hundreds
of families have been evicted from tn,
company houses and are forced to live il
tents. And in this era of capitalistic pros
perity the new democratic officials, city
and state, are doing just exactly what the
republican officials in Massachusetts, anC
other northern states are doing to stay
the oppressive and strangling fingers o
greed-nothing. What a rascally anC
hypocritical set these old party politician
are, to be surel
One of the most astounding scientifi,
discoveries of the age is Prof c. E. r
Tripler's liquid air motor, and if his pro
phesies prove true we are on the eve o
a new mechanical revolution. Liquid al
10 an inuooant Iodine, f,,sd I,,t ,,,ns =.
400 degrees below zero. According t.
Prof. Tripler, it can be used for pro
pelling steamships and running all sort
of engines A few carloads would blow
up all the fleets in Europe It's motto
power is from 20 to 100 times greater thai
steam. 1t may be used in the treatmen
of diseases such as diphtheria. cancer
and blood poisoning.
The Gendron Bicycle Co., of Toledo
Ohio, has adopted the union label, and
will appear ON all wheels made by tn
firm. John f. Mulholland, president G
the Bicycle Workers and Allied Mechan
les international Union, has signed sue
an agreement with the firm and recon
} mends their bicycles to all who love fai
wages and honest manhood and who uI
c hold the cause of organized labor. Pres
J, dent Mulholland is actively organizin
the bicycle workers of the United State
; and pushing the union label. Make
note of this if you are knight of tn
+; wheel.
!, Under the new name of the Centre
;, Federated Unions of New York the {
/, L. U. and the c. l.. +. of that city hav
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