The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-01-28
Labor NOfes.

A photographers paper trust, controll-
ing the entire output, has been formed.
Powderly's suit for back salary from
X. OF L. has been settled out of court.
By the absorption of an independent
concern in Columbus, O., the monopoly
of the dashboard trust is complete.
The great textile workers. lockout in
Georgia is still on. Dispatches say that
the workers are in a very impoverished
condition.
The shoeworkers' lockout in Marlboro,
Mass, continues. The workers have
sent out agents to collect funds to wage
the fight to the bitter end.
In Illinois and Missouri court decis-
ions were recently made sustaining the
right of municipalities to have the union
label placed upon printing.
big telephone trust is organizing.
The company in Cleveland already con-
trolls the companies in half dozen states.
The Bell monopoly is behind the deal.
An invention by which telephoning
can be done over a telegraph wire has re-
ceived a successful trial. 1t is reported
also that by new discovery 5000 words
minute can be telegraphed.
Swift Co.. the boycotted meat packers
of Chicago and Kansas City, increased
their capital stock from $l5,OOOOOO to
$42 100000, which means that this unfair
concern will have more power than ever.
1t is stated that there are % members
of labor organizations in the Colorado
legislature. They hold the balance of
power and their action will be closely
watched by laborers and capitalists
alike.
A big miners strike is coming in
Belgium. The employers are combining
and refuse to treat with the men who
are restless and threaten to walk out all
over the national Louvain the cigar
makers have whipped the bosses to a
standstill.
The old j. Wright Tobacco Co., of Vir-
ginia, which made barrel of money out
of the Knights of Labor by posing as the
workingmen's friend, has gone into the
Continental tobacco trust. The Mayo Co.,
in the same state, has also been gobbled
up by the trust.
To meet German, English and Ameri
can competition in the markets of the
world, the fabric manufacturers of ROu-
baix, France, have developed new
weaving machine surprising the famous
improved Northrup. One man operates
six machines, which turn out an average
of l40 yards each "A day of ten hours, and
requires but half the motive force of
ordinary machines. The fabric shows d
woven effect on one side and knitted on
the other, and will take either as plain
goods or a novelty.
The American steel and wire trust has
gobbled up the Shenango Valley Steel
Co., of New Castle, Pa. The significant
thing about this transfer, aside from
making the trust complete is that the
New Castle concern operates the largest
tin plate plant in the world, and which
is now a part of the tin plate trust, thus
forming n direct connection between the
two huge combines, which will probably
lead to a closer federation or entire ANAL
gamation in the not distant future. One
thing is certain; the wire, tin plate and
federal steel combines will not oppose
each other to any great extent. The steel
and wire trust will be reOrganized and
capitalized at $96,OOO,O0O.
Fve-cent cigars are now made by ma
chinery in the larger factories and sold
to dealers at 50 90 a hundred, says the
Labor News, of Youngstown, o. The
apparatus for steaming and stretching the
wrappers is one of the recent economies
in the manufacture of tobacco By its
operation a leaf that formerly made one
wrapper now makes two, which is equiv
alent to making two blades of grass grow
where one grew before. In one large fac
tory few days ago 5000 five-cent ma
chine-made cigars had to be destroyed
because they had been wrapped so tight
that vacuum pump couldn't persuade
them to draw. They were chopped up,
wrapper and filler, and made into ten
centers by hand. Thus another trade is
succumbing to revolutionizing influences.
Prof. George Gunton, of New York
commonly known as professor green
| goods'o runs cheap magazine in which
he pretends to make propaganda for
organized labor, and is everlastingly
warning WOrklhSmeh NOT TO become
identified with socialistic agitation for
fear of arousing the hostility of employ
ers, is an erstwhile British subject, who
with true fakir instincts, is attempting
to land the labor commissionership plum
of New York state, thus showing CON
clusively that he is merely capitalistic
decoy duck, which is further demon
strated by the fact that the printers are
now after him with club for having