The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-08-19


octopus, IN the shape of e acombtnat ation
||spfs all the river lines but four, nearlysa
hundred an number. BESIDES: those mines
the new giant will contro thousands sof
boats and all the agencies between Pitts
burg and New Orleans. q X S3
~ last Il Governor Roosevelt has IN
structed inspe ctors to nvestigate viola
hons Of the; ten hour law for ailway ems
|ployes IA New Fork stat Afters d number
sof strikes have been lost, the altfhorii
ties have the brazelg eftronteryH to begin to
wonder whether there was really sa viola,
ton!
|sssgsssAn sections of rench Socialists have
|Eagreed to take part in a natl ionalss sscon,
gress TO be held fl September next 81
(I1rdr to adjust the differences which
have lately arisen inS q Heir ranks. There
Isl every reason tb hope that s. the present
!dlfficnlty will be compile ely overcome
J15,00 900 chemical trust 81 900
tsAfexican lead trust, $1o, 900 900 glove trust,
$S0 OOO, 900 Southern steel trust, and $780,
900 900 chain trust are the very latest com.
bines formed. Rockefeller and: Hanna are
|sin the chain trust. 81 s*
The printers meet In ational convenr
tom In Detroit next week The f1ve-day
and shorter workday will be important
questions that will come VI. The
row with the chinists as well as poll
|.ticak topics will also be discussed.
Some more of the New York garment
workers are on their semi annual strike.
|sTt ,is reported that some Of the clothing
workers hi pull out of the =. "a.
|sNmeS national union issued seven new
charters. 55 IS :.54zt 5zt
rs The co-ope tive colony in Colorado Is
reported to be. n:bad condit ition. The
[colonists have commenced TO law. among
|Ethemselves.
FsSs The brewers official Journal declares
that capitalists have entered into COM
Espiracys to wreck the Western trades
unions. light after the political and
judicial business managers Of the para
fsitical classes In the far West have be-
come atisfed that the miners union Of
the Occur d,Alene was killed, and with
out any hope of resurrection, Z says the
Journal Mthey set out to look for another
victim of their 1abor-union crushing appe-
title. They saw the brewery Workmen's
unions in the InterSMolntain region, and
for a beginning they went for our local
union No. 2, of Spokane, Wash. IS All the
brewery workers were locked out aud
now a bitter fight IS on. between organized
labor and capita
"A $25. 5.0OO, 900 axle light and power COM
spany, to light, heat, ventilate and refriger-
ate cars by means of an electric current
generated by the reyolutio ion of the car
saNles, has been dncopola A com;
pressed air trust, capita allied at s15, ,oco 600,
controlled by the Whitne Widener- Elkins
Syndicate, has also been incorporated.
Letter is boss Of it.. 3 ss
Senator Butler, who Is chairman of
what is left of the Peoples party, threat
ems to debar the mid-roaders, who want
the old Omaha platform re-adopted and
fusion defeated, from the national cons
IVention next year, because they declare
they, will bolt il the Democrats run things
again as they did in st. Louis in 1880.
The new bike trust viii control 5S of
the largest firms of the country. It is
stated that y. sices will not be. advanced.