The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-25
Around
the World

| lnc NATIONAL EifOtnernOO0 OF BIack~
smiths offers $50 and the Trunk and
bag Workers. International union Of
fers &c to organizers of the American
Federation Of Labor for every union
formed by them Of these crafts.
An agitation is going on in New
York city to enforce the 10-hour law
for railway employees. some of whom
have been compelled to work as high
as twenty-five hours continuously.
This law has been openly violated for
years by the magnates, and now that
a demand is being made to enforce it
the 10-hour law will probably soon
be declared unconstitutional.
Social Democrats report new
branches in New York, Baltimore,
! Pittsburg, st. Louis and Exeter, n. IT,,
Debs' meeting in Indianapolis aston
isilcd the daily papers by its size.
IN Paris Il new machine has been
introduced that posts bills Oh walls as
high as fifty feet without the use Of
ladder or paste pot. BY new process
wagon tires can be shrllnk on wagon
cold in two minutes, which is a great
improvement.
Speaking Of the Worlds Labor Con-
|
tice says: ''Such an international
congress, we may be sure, has never
been held before. In the last four
years the progress of the cause all
over Europe. as well as in America
and Australia. not to speak of Japan,
has been far more rapid than during
any equal period in the history of the
movement The committee having
the congress in charge. which is COM
posed of representatives of all Social-
| list factions. has decided to admit all
delegates from organiza tons that favor
the Specialization Of the means or pro-
uction and exchange, an Internal ional
understanding between the workers of
all countries, and the possession of
political power by the workers organ
lied as class-conscious party. \
New York paper says Debs will be sent
to Paris to present the claims of the
Social Democrats in america for rec
ognition.
The telephone girls of Detroit have
organized with some seventy charter
members.
The moldcrs of Cleveland, O., want
10 per cent increase of wages on
! March 10.
Another great industrial battle is
on in England. Last Monday the or
ganized employees began their assault
on the building trades by locking out
! 10000 plasterers in London. Ellie
bosses made demands that the union
lists cease boycotting unfair firms, that
! they work with non-union men, tnaG
| they cease placing IL limitation upDn
| apprentices, and others of lesser inn
portance. The workers took u refer
| cndum vote and refused to comply
| with the demands, as it would virtually
| mean the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of their Or
ganization. They have 100000 in
| their treasury and expect the supper:
OF the carpenters and other craftsmen.
| The bosses have watched the steady
growth Of the building trades with a
jealous eye. and have finally prepared
| 70 deliver Il blow at labor organiza-
tons and wreck them il possible. The
struggle will be watched with keen
interest on both sides of the Atlantic.
Several thousand granite workers
! in Vermont are OIL strike to enforce
Il new wage scale.
There is more talk in Europe of Il
universal strike of dock laborcrs.
| Lima unionists. like those of Clcve-
land, will produce Il labor play.
On May the annual congress OF
Gcrmany's trade unionists begins.
Georgia unionists will form a state
! federation soon.
\ row has started among Indian
apolis laboritcs over the question of
street railway franchises and Scent
fares. How they do like to quarrel
over petty capitalistic questions.
Great heads!
Printers issued several charters last
month"; The New York union will give
| the vegetable farm for the unemploy-
cd another trial.
Denver Trades Assembly has been
in,junctioned from boycotting a scab
Theatre.
California Socialists have placed Il
! propaganda wagon Oh the road, and
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