The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-29
LABOR NOTES.


can be sent by wire. 1t is in the nature
of camera.
Textile workers in some of the New
England mills are having their old
wage scales, which were pounded down
last year, restored
In Bedford, Va, the tobacco workers
have not received wages in five years,
the "pluck-me" allowing them to mere
ly exist. Slavery is still slavery.
Unionists of New York complain
that Governor Roosevelt is not keep
ing his promises to enforce labor laws
and to nave new labor bills passed.
Ominous rumors come from Russia
to the effect that big industrial up
heavals are taking place in the large
cities. All news is suppressed by cen
sors.
The glass workers at Alexandria
have been locked out because they re-
fused to do 20 per cent more work and
submit to a reduction of the working
force.
The newly organized rubber trust
and the sewer pipe trust have shut
down their plants to curtail produc-
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been displaced.
An English paper sarcastically re-
marks that Anglo-Saxon civilization is
rapidly spreading in the Philippines.
Since American occupation about 800
saloons have been opened in Manila.
The special convention of the brew
ers in st. Louis, last week, temporarily
Suspended Secretaries Priesterbach and
Zurzenknabe. The headquarters will
also be removed from st. Louis, prob
ably to Milwaukee, Cincinnati or
Cleveland ia the near future.
Dispatches continue to announce
that the various iron and steel trusts
are closing down the smaller plants.
That explains why the large establish
ments are busy. But it doesn't explain
how the workingmen who are laid off
indefinitely are getting along.
Western local unions are adopting
resolutions calling attention to the
fact that cigar manufacturers have
entered into a conspiracy to blacklist
union cigarmakers, and organized
workers are called upon to buy only
blue labeled cigars.
Alabama egislature-controlle by
the purified" democracy-is engaged
in DISTINGUISHING poor people, and
some of the northern republican daily
papers are applauding the act. The
Minneapolis Tribune says that the
time will probably come when such
action will be insisted on in the whole
United States. Look Quit The sap
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Besides the strike and boycott
against the Carl Uppman factory,
where 400 men are out the New York
cigarmakers have also called a strike
in the Stachelburg factory, where 800
workers are now out.-The Philadel.
phia bricklayers have won their strike
for higher wages.
In Germany the tailors and boot and
shoe workers and other trades are
making successful fights for higher
wages. No less than 159 typesetting
machines are in operation in that coun-
try and more are on the way.
Some more people were killed this
week in Pana, ILL.,, in a riot growing
out of the mining troubles, and the mi.
litia was again hurried to the scene.
The row was started by a drunken ne.
gro non-union miner, who began to
shoot recklessly about the street
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark,
says that the attorney general of the
state has decided that the newly en-
acted antitrust law can be applied to
labor unions and those organizations
may be outlawed. So much for anti
trust laws.
Glasgow city government appoint.
ed a committee to investigate the ad.
visibility of municipalizing the liquor
traffic. All over Great Britain the
capitalistic parties are pushing for
ward municipal ownership schemes to
keep in check the growing socialist
movement.
The invention of a machine which
will automatically fold, wrap and ad-
dress newspapers is announced 1t was
recently tested in New York and found
to be a phenomenal success. Two men
can operate six machines, thereby do
ing the work of "a men. The machine
will soon be on the market.
The experiment of telegraphing
from the coast of England to the coast
of France through the air without the
use of wires has proven successful and
now Tesla announces that he can send
messages from America to Europe in
the same manner. The success of the
experiment is creating no end of dis
cussion in scientific circles.
The liquid air discovery, and the in
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