Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-01-28
Labor Notes.

The big Bellaire iron and steel mill is
to 90 into the federal steel trust.
a photographers paper trust, CONTROL.
ing the entire output, has been formed.
Powdcrly's suit for back salary from
X. of L. has been settled ont of court.
Sandusky, o., will have milk trust
to milk the public and water The milk.
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 i'll 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
y big telephone trust is organizing
The company in Cleveland already con
trolls the companies in half a dozen states
The BELL monopoly is behind the deal
An invention by which tclephoning
can be done over a telegraph wire has re-
ccived a successful trial 1t is reported
also that by Il new discovery 5000 words
a minute can be telegraphed.
Swift Co., the boycotted meat packers
OF Chicago and Kansas City, increased
their capital stock from $l5,0OO,O0O to
S42,000,000, Which means that this unfair
concern will have more power than ever.
1t is stated that there are y members
of labor organizations in the Colorado
Legislature. They hold the balance of
power and their action will he closely
watched by laborers and capitalists
alike
\ 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 ]. Wright Tobacco Co., of Vir-
ginia, which made a barrel of money out
OF the Knights of Labor by posing as the
workingmens 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 a new
weaving machine surprising the famou,
ID1nJnNnI Mort hmm (lpa 20,
six machines, which turn out an averag,
OF lao yards each a day of ten hours, ant
requires but half the motive force o
=, ordinary machines. The fabric shows
, woven effect on one side and knitted OF
the other, and will take either as plail
goods OF novelty.
The American steel and wire trust ha
gobbled up the Shcnango Valley Stce
Co., of New Castle, Pa. The signiican
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 a 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 recognized and
capitalized at 96,00O,OO0.
Eiye-cent cigars are now made by ma
chincry in the larger factories and sold
TO dealers at 81 30 hundred, says the
: Labor News, OF Youngstown, o. The
apparatus for steaming and stretching the
wrappers is one of the recent economics
in the manufacture OF tobacco. BY its
operation 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 a few days ago 5000 fiye-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
ccnters by hand. Thus another trade ia
succumbing to rcyolutionizing influences.
Prof. George Gunton, OF New York
commonly known as professor green
goods'), runs a cheap magazine in which
he pretends to make propaganda for
organized labor and is eyerlastngiy
warning workingmen 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