The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-04
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i lllt WOl III ;
A Chicago paper notes the CONSOLE
dation of three churches in that city.
Two will be closed, and two preachers,
two janitors and two choirs will be
out of jobs. The question arises, is
this trustifying business going to ex-
tend to the spiritual world and send
the brethren of the cloth into the
unemployed army to tramp about on
their uppers looking for situations.
Marlboro boot and shoe workers
are still on strike. In other parts of
Massachusetts wages in the trade have
also been forced down.
Textile workers of Fall River, Mass,
have asked for restoration of the old
wage rate.
Wooden mills in New England are
Ienforcing 10 per cent reductions.
In Italy the working people are
slowly organizing their unions again,
which were disrupted by the govern
ment upon the OCCASION of the insur-
rection about nine months ago. The
triumph of the Socialists at recent
municipal elections, despite the we'll
known bullying methods of the gov
eminent, has encouraged the work
ers, and no doubt they will soon be
strongly intrenched in unions again.
Despite the objections of the faculty
of the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, the pupils had their own way
in securing Eugene V. Debs to deliver
a lecture, and it was an unqualified
success the famous agitator being
agreeably surprised by his reception.
Debs finished his tour in Michigan
and is now in Ohio this week.
In England another desperate strug-
gle is coming. It will be between the
organized contractors and plasterers,
and probably other building crafts
will be drawn into the fight. The
employers have made demands whivh.
if conceded by the unionists, would
paralyze the organization, and the
latter have declared that they will re-
sist to the bitter end.
The Indiana legislature killed the
two-cent fare bill. The railway cor
porations worked the same old game
got their willing slaves to circulate
petitions protesting against the pro-
posed law, as their wages might be re-
duced. Other, and usual influences
were exerted.
In Bedford, Va, the tobacco work.
ers have not received any money for
five years. The pluck-me store has
allowed them to exist, and that is all.
Still they claim that slavery has been
abolished.
Denver Trades Assembly has re-en-
dorsed the theatrical mechanics fight
against several theatres and called up
or the musicians to come out. But
the music makers refused to bulge.
A congressman at Washington says
the eight-hour law is now practically
a dead letter owing to the action of
United States encouragement in sus-
pending it during the late war.
Nearly everything is in readiness for
the great international peace demon
stration in London, on March 8. Mr..
H. NJ. Hyndman, the well-known So
cialist, has been selected chairman.
The Citizen is in position to say
upon good authority that, barring ac-
cident, Eugene V. Debs will be dele
gate to the next convention of the
American Federation of Labor. We
make this piece of news public at this
time in order that certain pharisaical
official may not declare that Mr.. Debs
''broke" into the convention at the
eleventh hour, and that the disheart-
ened rank and file everywhere may
know that the celebrated labor agi-
tator will continue to fight their bat
ties, and that his voice will be lifted
in behalf of progress in their coun-
cils.-Cleveland Citizen.
On straight vote as to whether Or
not political discussion shall be toler-
ated in the printers union of Atlanta,
Ga, the Socialists, who took the affir-
native, won out by a vote of four to
one.
There is a split in the Louisville,
Ky, central body. The disruption oc-
Cured on account of an election, in
which the old-party political takers
fought with each other to get control.
PianOfOrte Recital.
The pupils of Mrs. D. H. Day will give
Ia pianoforte recital at Pilgrim Congrega-