The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-25
Labor Notes.

Bricklayers of Germany are going in foI
the eigbt-hour day and raise of wages.
Thomas Elderkin, for many years ma.
tional secretary of the seamen, has re-
signed.
Strikes and boyeotts against unfair
methods of church publications are re-
ported III Nashville, Dayton and New
York.
The cotton operatives of New England
are restless again. They hear 80 much
about prosperity that they want the 10
per cent cut restored.
In recent decision the Iowa supreme
court has practically knocked out all
attempts of making employers liable for
injury to life or limb.
The New York central labor body may
go in for nominating an independent
ticket on municipal ownership plat
form for the next election.
Despite the promises of its agent at the
Kansas City A. F. of L. convention the
large Liggett & Myers tobacco plant in
st. Louis has gone into the Union tobacco
trust.
The Western Labor Union has organ
lied a number of new unions in the last
few weeks. and some of the officials
threaten to make things interesting for
Gompers when he comes into their
country.
In line with the concentration of cap
ital and the abolition of waste, it is
announced that the New York Central
railroad is about to establish a large
printing office to do its own work.
Printers have voted down a PROPOSE
ton to repeal the referendum law and
in favor of taking in proof readers and
machine tenders.-A convention will be
held in Detroit in August.-Twelve new
unions were organized last month and
four ceased to exist.
Dock strikers in Colon won their de-
mand for an increase of 25 cents a day.
At Panama they are also winning. In
the Argentine Republic, South America,
quite a number of strikes have taken
place recently, most of which were won,
and in Cuba all kinds of trouble has
been occurring between masters and men.
A dispatch from st. Louis states that
the long fight between the brewery
workers and the English syndicate of
brewers in that city has terminated by a
compromise. Troubles have also been set
ford, Conn, Union Hill, n. j., and She
boygan, Wis.
Rice & Hutchins, of Marlboro, Mass,
who are the ring leaders in the conspira-
cy of employers of that city to break up
and destroy the shoemakers' unions, are
especially obnoxious to the unionists.
Rice, at the banquet held in Boston, at
the rate of $l5 per plate, said his locked
out worlImen who were lucky to get
snow balls to eat, were a lot of Spaniards,
pirates, and other endearing names. Look
out for Marlboro shoes.
Labor papers state that cigar makers
throughout the country complain bitterly
against a recent decision of the internal
revenue department to the effect that leaf
tobacco cannot be sold from broken pack
ages. A whole package costs from $500
to 5000, and the ruling will work a great
hardship upon the little buckeyes" 1t
is charged in some quarters that the de-
cision was purposely made in the inter
ests of certain manufacturers, who are
moving to wipeout small competitors.
A great crisis is brewing in Belgium.
A strike of miners is to take place shortly.
A manifesto has been issued the Nation
al Federation of Miners stating that the
strike is inevitable, owing to the irrecon-
cilable attitude of of the employers and
their disdainful refusal to enter into ne
gotiations with the men. Between 250,-
600 and 100000 will be affected. An
English paper says the government is al
ready preparing with police and militia
to take hand in the struggle, and it is
quite likely that stirring events will be
witnessed in the little kingdom.
The textile workers of Augusta, Ga,
have sent out agents to solicit funds.
They tell narrowing tales of the situation
in the Cracker state" There are 1000
workers out resisting a reduction of 10
to 20 per cent, and hundreds have been
elected from company houses and are
camped in the streets and subsist upon
soup. Their average wages were $3.50
a week before the strike, and if the loose
similar reductions will be made through
out the South, and then the New Eng
land mill bosses will make another on
slaught on their slave stockades and tear
off another reduction in order to COM
pete with the Southern white slave own
ers. Most of the stricl<ers are women
and children.
Day of Calm Mt Paris.