Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-02-10
Labor Notes.

The strike of the Louisville brewers is
settled, being won by the union, the boss
brewers signing the scale.
A Havana correspondent says that
in shoe factory in that city operatives
receive SO per week, which is more than
those workers average in Massachusetts,.
The Miners Union of Red Lodge,
Mont, has started a cooperative meat
market, and will, it is said, start a CO.
operative store.
The British engineers, machinists, ETC.,
paid off debt of $25O,OOO last year in
CURED during the great strike and have
million dollars in the treasury.
Broom trust raised prices 25 cents a
dozen, making an advance of rs cents
per dozen in six weeks. The lime trust
has also advanced prices IS and 40 cents
a barrel.
Another big strike of garment workers
and tailors is brewing in New York city.
About $4,000 persons will be involved.
The cause is the increasing oppression
of the competing sweat shop bosses.
The battle" for supremacy between
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern railways has resulted, it is
reported, in combination, as usual.
The Rockefeller, Flower and Morgan
interests are in the deal.
Ellis Bartholomew, Lima. O., So
cialist and trade union worker, has been
allowed patent for railway and street
car air-brake that overcomes all defects
in those brakes in use at present with
out infringing on any of them.
The match trust is attempting to alb.
sorb the oatmeal trust and the straw.
board trust.-The very latest combines
being formed is brick trust in the Dis
trict of Columbia, a national bicycle
saddle trust, and hotel trust.
Now the Siegel-Cooper department
store proprietors have started an old age
pension fund for employees with $780,,
600. The little one-line storekeepers in
Chicago, New York and other cities will
be wondering what the big merchants will
do next.
The number of labor strikes in Ger.
many for October was 81, for November
40. In Austria there were only six strikes
l.;r November. During October Belgium
had 10 strikes with total of 2,l97 strik-
ers, France 81 strikers, $3.50 strikers,
while England had 81 strikes affecting
1857 men.
The miners and the operators in the
joint convention sat Pittsburg, agreed to
the Chicago scale of last year, which in
cludes the eight-hour day. However, it
is thought that considerable trouble
will be experienced with the Hooking
Valley operators, DeArmit, Col. Rend
and others who refused to yield.
1t is reported that nearly three hun.
dred firms in Great Britain have joined
the new employers federation which is
| organizing and accommodating a fund for
the purpose of making war on trades
unions Many of the far-seeing labor
people are apprehensive of serious trou
BILE in the near, future, and especially as
the bosses are making wry faces at the
formidable competition of the American
trustified industries.
The locked out textile workers of At
lanta, Ga, are in bad way. Hundreds
of families have been evicted from the
company houses and are forced to live il
tents. And in this era of capitalistic pros
perity the new" democratic officials, city
and state, are doing just exactly what tn,
republican officials in Massachusetts anC
other northern states are doing to stay
the oppressive and strangling fingers O
greed-nothing. What a rascally an(
hypoeritieal set these old party Politician
are, to be sure!
One of the most astounding seientifi,
discoveries of the age is, Prof. c. E. r
Triplers liquid air motor, and if his pro
phesies prove true we are ON the eve O
a new mechanical revolution. Liquid ali
is an innocent looking fluid, but runs {,
400 degrees below zero. According t.
Prof. Tripler, it can be used for pro
pelling steamships and running all sort
of engines. A few carloads would blow
up all the fleets in Europe. Its moto
power is from 20 to 100 times greater thar
steam. 1t may be used in the treatment
OF diseases such as diphtheria. cancer
and blood poisoning.
| The Gendron Bicycle Co, of Toledo
Ohio, has adopted the union label, and i
will appear on all wheels made by tn,
firm. John F. Mulholland, president .
the Bicycle Workers and Allied Mechen
ics' International Union, has signed sucl
an agreement with the firm and recon
mends their bicycles to all who love fail
wages and honest manhood and who up
hold the cause of organized labor. Presi
dent Mulholland is actively organizing
the bicycle workers of the United States
and pushing the union label. Make {
note of this If you are knight of tn,
wheel.
Under the new name of the Contra
Federated Unions of New York the c
L. U. and the C. L. F. OF that city hav,
finally amalgamated. For a number O
years there has been much enmity be