The labor world., 1899-10-28
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The miners of British Columbia have
enforced the eight-hour day.
The granite cutters are preparing tt
inaugurate the eight-hour day next
spring.
Newburyport, Mass, boasts of new
social democratic paper, the Signs OF
the Times.
| A big cotton trust has been organ.
lied in Germany. 1t controls IS pei
cent Of the country's business.
/ Debs has been lecturing to packed
houses way up in Manitoba. At Ra
Portage he organized trades assem-.
bly,.
The social democratic party was rep.
sented at the German S. D. P. congress
at Hanover by Eugene Dietzgen Of
Chicago.
| Machinists are requested to remain
away from Elmira, N. Y. Strike on ir
engine works. Bosses want more work
for less pay.
After an exciting debate the Con-
necticut State federation voted down q
resolution to affiliate with the socialist
labor party.
Another lighting and heating trust
with $5,OOO,0OO capital, and another 49,
100000 automobile trust incorporated in
New jersey.
The Toronto Daily Globe, having the
largest circulation of any daily in Can
ada, is reported as having begun to
teach the ethics Of socialism.
Nearly all tht zinc mines in Mis-
souri, are closed down. The workers
demand higher wages, and the opera
tors have declared sort of lockout.
The first case brought against labor
ur;ons in Seattle under the law passed
by the last Legislature to prohibit
blacklisting ended in a victory for the
labor union.
Rockefeller's agents secured injunc-
ton against plasterers prohibiting
| them from interfering with scab labor
in the construction of a beautiful man
| sion in New York.
The German government has estab-
| lished the single tax system, as taught
by the followers of Henry George, in
| two of it's colonies, New Guinea and
KeouChow, China.
1t is published that the match trust,
| which will clear about Is percent on its
watered stock or about so per cent on
it's real capital this year, is succumb-
| ing to Standard oil influences.
The plutocratic politicians who run
Washington navy yard have begun to
tag and number the laborers like con-
| victs or cattle, and the workers are
protesting with vehemence.
A s10,0OO,OOO telephone trust has been
Incorporated and a $1O0,0O0,0Oo cattle
! trust is being organized. In five East
ern states $4,000, 900 milk trust is COB
| bling up the entire milk supply.
So far this year Secretary Morrison
| the A. F. Of L. has issued 1862 charters,
including seven to city central bodies.
| These charters do not include those
issued by national organizations.
A Chicago workingman has discover
/ cred how to make plate glass out of
Stag, the waste in iron ana steel manu-
facture, and the federal steel trust will
build a plant to turn out the new pro-
! duct.
The Daily Letter, independence, Mo-; j;
Equality, Deadwood, S. D.; the Refer
| endum, Faribault, Minn., and the New
Light, Port Angeles, WASH, are more
papers that have come out for social
| ism lately.
Carl Browne, who had started on an
| overland trip to Washington with an
unemployed army, abandoned the
whole outfit when he got as far as
Kansas. AS star performer Browne
is losing his grip.
Oberlin M. Carter, the ex-captain who
defrauded the government out Of s2,-
100000, has paid his fine of $1,000. This
little transaction developed the fact
that Carater has substantial, bal
| ance in prominent New York bank"
Because the laboring people of Grip
pie Creek, Col, nominated a ticket of
| their own the democrats are now de-
| nouncing them as ''anarchists,' "dyna-
miters,'' etc. They were all right,
though, when they meekly voae the
| tickets put up by the democratic mine
barons.
The Pittsburg river coal trust has
| announced an increase of prices of rs
! per cent. This combine controls the
| trade from Pittsburg to New Orleans,
and the dumbhead voters of the Miss
| issippi valley will now have chance
| to study the beauties of capitalism.
{ Wages, of course, were not raised.
| All the calico print mills of England
! have combined into $50000,0 900 trust.
The promoters So" that price cutting
| in lJew York was the primary cause
for organizing, which shows that in
| ternational competition. is becoming so
kee that lowering or raising prices a
| fraction of a penny is liable to disar-
range the worlds markets.
| The great miners strike at Pana, ILL.,,
has been finally settled by compro-
mise. The struggle lasted going on
! two years. About 25 lives were blot
ted out and many thousands of dollars
| were wasted, to say nothing Of i'm
prisonments and suffering of every de-
| scription that was undergone by the
workers and those dependent on them.
And this is civilization-yes, of the
| capitalistic brand!
A great parliamentary struggle be-
| gins in Germany next month. The CO.
cialists will move that the lese majes-
ty provision, under the operation of
which many hundreds of years of i'm
DrSOnment have been meted out to