The labor world., 1899-04-29
Around the
World.

Winnipeg, Man.. has voted to pur-
chase the electric light plant and run
it in the interest of the people, in
stead of allowing the company to run
the people in the interest Of the elee-
trio light plant.
A call has been issued by the Ma
tional Good Citizens League for a
convention in Cincinnati, May 2 to T.
for the purpose of unifying the REFORM
ers upon direct legislation, imperative
mardate, and similar schemes that are
in force in one or the other part Of the
world without changing capitalistic
conditions in the slightest degree.
Pure and simple unionism is all
torn up in Louisville, Ky. The c. l..
U. is in control of an unprincipled band
of fakirs and skates. Decent unionlsts
seeded and organized the Trades AS
sembly, and now protest has been
filed with the \. +. of L. against al
lowing the C. L. L. to retain its char
ter.
The invention Of a machine which
will automa tically fold, wrap and adj
dress newspapers is announced. 1t was
recently tested in New York and found
to be a phenomenal success. Two men
can operate six machines, thereby do
ing the work of "a men. The machine
viii soon be OH the market.
Now the alley railway, co-operati'e
road built by small farmers and busi-
ucys people of California to fight the
Huntington and Sante Fc robbers, has
fallen into the grasp Of the Santc Fc,
and the small capitalists arc ONE
more at the mercy of the plutcs after
having been stripped Of their coin.
Prof. Albion Small, Of the Chicago
University, in a recent lecture, ro'nd-
ly denounced the capitalistic tendency
to combine everything into trusts, de-
claring that the trust naSnatcs are
dragging the country to ruin. Prof.
Small had better be careful. Rocke-
feller owns the Chicago University.
There! The labor problem is finally
solved! As ii reward for faithfully
keeping the noses of some unthinkin%
worlIingmcn ut the old captalistic
party grind-stones, Frank \ Kennedy,
editor Of the Western Luborer, has
been appointed a member of the Oml-
ha fire and police board.
Besides the strike and boycott a.
gainst the Carl Uppman factory, where
400 men are out, the New York cigar
makers have called Il strike ln th.'
Stachelberg factory, where 800 work.
ers are now out. The Phi|adelphls,
bricklayers won their strike for high
cr wages.
The special convention of lhr brew
crs in St. Louis, last week, temporarily
suspended Secretaries rricstrrbacn
and kurzcnknabc. The headquarters
will. also be removed from ST. I.nui>,
probably to milwaukee,, Cincinnati "r
Cleveland III the near fut urc.
The miners of Idaho are organizing
into the Socialist Labor party, and i'll
tend to have the state thoroughly in
line by 1900.
1t us reported that the city eight
hour ordinance Of Denver was carried
into the supreme court and WAS knoch-
ed unconstitutional.
Socialist Labor party granted char
ters to new sections i'll Honest cad, Pa.
New Waterford, o., and Joliet, III.
New York unions will hold Il bi"
eieht-hour demonstration and street
parade on the evening Of April 20.
More lamp-chimncy machines are be-
ing invented and causing the glass
workers sleepless nights.
Two new branches were organized
by the Social Democrats in Chicago
and one in Newton, Mass.
Socialist Labor party is discussing
wv to place four permanent organ
., in the field
'!lu. Yankee Socialist is the name Ct
8 lInN paper started at Lccchb'1rg. PA.
! New britain, Conn.,, the Socialist