The labor world., 1899-09-23

though the old parties may combine to
defeat him. Representatives Carey and
Scates of the same city, will probably be
returned to the state legislature. The
former is being fought by the Boston &
Maine railroad, but mis- popularity will
Eovercome all opposition, while the latter
is somewhat handicapped by middle class
! voters, which he hopes to overcome. In
addition it is confidently predicted that
the S. D. P. will carry the legislative dis
rricts of Brocton and Quincy and prob
| ably one or two other places. The party
| is reported as holding immense meetings
in the manufa acturing towns, and the
workers are said to be taking a deep in
terest in the doctrine OF socialism and be-
| coming quite clear-headed.
The unions of Colorado smeltermen,
who have just been defeated by the silver
barons are said to be gong to pieces.
The old age pension bill has passed the
British parliament
BY a vote of 79O to Is the socialist Sec
tions Of Greater New YORK nave endorsed
! the new national executive committee.
The question now, according to the con-
| stituton goes to a general vote of the
country All state or local votes taken
heretofore bearing on the matter are il
legal.
| '"rhe 'bull-pen' of Idaho," writes Eu-
gene v Debs, is the joint product of re-
| publican and populistic administration.
The pictures drawn of this hell-hole by
reliable correspondents enough to
make decent devils blush with shame.
The Democratic popuiistic Governor
Steunenberg and the republican General
Merriam, monsters Of degeneracy, consti-
flute the czars of this domain. Here hun
| dreds of honest working men, without
charge against them are corralled like cat
| tie, starved like outlaws and shot like
mad dogs, and while these outrages are
being perpetrated in the name of law and
order their wives are made victims Of the
lust of their brutal keepers Some of these
miners may remember that I told them
| nearly three years ago about coming
| events, about voting with the old parties,
and about socialism. They were not ready
| for socialism then, but now that their
unions are broken up, their homes des-
olate and themselves prisoners or ex-
iles and all this by the capitalist sys-
tenn which they supported by their own
votes, they will be compelled to realize
that through socialism alone is there es-
cape from the tyranny Of capitalist rule
and the atrocities of the wage system
The Derby, England, trades council has
followed the footsteps of other central
bodies in that country by taking up a
trade unonist and running him for
mayor.
The British unionists are evidently not
] in love with Chamberla1n's scheme OF
seizing the Transvaal by force, as sew
of the central bodies and all the labor
papars have denounced the consssmplat-,
ed war with Dom Paul. =
While the Southern Mercury, about the
only straight-out popu1ist paper still on
earth, is denoUncing trusts in one breath
| it tells it's Texas readers about the supe-
riority of the round bale cotton press,
| owned by trust which is charged with
running the small cotton-growers of the
Southland
! AS a result of the great lockout in
Denmark, Pastor Heigerg, a popular
priest of Drontheim, has Joined the So
| cialist movement. The capitalists of the
| whole world have united in a war against
| labor and in this war they are backed up
by the legislatures, police and militia.
| In Omaha the storekeepers have COM
bined to fight the clerks. The latter had
won early closing on Saturday, and then,
as usual, grew 1ukewarm toward the un-
| ion. The bosses caught on and now the
clerks are in a fair way to lose what they
| had gained.
| Nebraska employees are said to be at
tacking the law providing for maxi
| mum of ten hours labor and seats where
women are employed. The bosses are dis
charging the women who dare to demand
that the law be enforced.
| In New York charges are beginning to
fly about that the Independent labor par
| ty, recently organized in that city, is fall
ing into corrupt hands and will be used
by the old party politicians.
Trusts are pushing to the front in Eng
land. Velvet manufacturers, linoleum and
wall paper plants, breweries, pawn shops
and other institutions are being COM
bined.
According to the published program
the conference of German social demo-
Gratis at Hanover on October 9, will be
one of the most important in the his
tory of the party.
Cincinnati trades council refused to give
it's proceedings to a democratic paper,
which action is regarded as slap at Nc
Lean.
A Southern lighting and street railway
trust has been incorporated in New Jer-
sey.
All the salmon canneries of British Co.
lunbia are being trustlfied.
Another big silver mine in Colorado has
fallen into the possession of an English
syndicate, $4,000 900 having been paid for
it. Quite likely the syndicate will drop
a few thousand plunks into the democrat
ic campaign fund next year.
1t is reported that when Mckinley ar
rived at Canton the Deuber- -Hampden
Watch Co., a trust concern, gave its en-
ployes a half holiday at their expense.
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