The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-04

Omaha painters wined and dined
their employers
Western railways will "fre" 200 agents
and save $4,000 a year.
There is a movement on in New York,
started by small capitalists, to flood Gov.
Roosevelt with petitions to not appoint
union men TO office
A +. of l.. reports issuing "a charters
in January-three to nationals, one to
city central body, six to federal unions,
and IA to local trade unions
Indiana labor commissioner has made
the remarkable discovery that in con
tests between organized workers and
trusts the former usually come out see
ond best.
The girls who went on strike in a
carpet factory in New York against being
forced to do twice as much work as pre-
vious to the introduction Of improved
machines lost their fight.
BY new system introduced by the
owners of the new Boston Union Depot
one man will switch $50 trains daily. 1t
is such silent revolutions that is reduc-
ing the number of railway employees.
Elevated railways OF New York are
81" road has started out to save his
plutocratic masters million dollars q
year. Wages are cut from % to 33 PEI
cent, and dozens of men have been dis
charged and machines put in their places
A Nashville paper states that Their,
are children employed in the cotton mill.
of that city who receive but 5 cents q
day of II to - hours. One child re
ceived 55 cents for three weeks work, anC
a family of eight workers averages $50
month.
etc, or fight. 1t is a shrewd game, ant
the powerful Typographical union has
been placed between two fires. If it &C
cepts the bosses dictates the enInity O
affiliated organizations will be aroused
and if it stands by the latter strik,
may result. No doubt the managers ar,
working underhandedly TO destroy al
the printing craft unions This same
managers association is spreading t
other cities.
The case in which a nOn-union San
Francisco printer secured 81 200 dam
ages because he was forced out OF iol
will be carried up by the union. Labo
papers on the coast agree that if the cas-
is finally won by the scab plaintiff
unions might as well disband, for ever,
organization can be proceeded agains
in similar manner. The contest is
momentous one and is being watched wit
intense interest by laborers and capital
lists alike.
An immense meeting of 10000 peopl
was recently held in Stockholm, SwedeI
which was managed by the socialists, t
agitate for further extension of tn
right of suffrage. To "A committee VIII
waited on him, the king declared that n
further concessions would be mad
whereupon he was informed that nj
s tional strike of all trades would
! inaugurated. 1t is quite likely ths
trouble will occur during the preser
} year unless the power that be yield fC
the workers are deeply in earnest an
are organizing to secure their rights.
A labor war in the printing bushes
may be precipitated in Chicago ere Ion
The newspapers of that city entered
u sort of combine some time ago, and no
it is announced that the managers hay
u given it out that they will run cope
offices" in all departments except Il
: composing room, which means that IL
printers will have TO work with no
union stereotypers, pressmen, mailer
s The big Six" meat packers of Chical
> and Kansas city are forcing their wa
into Eastern cities and causing muC
uneasiness among the owners of sma
Strengthening houses. 1t is reported thu
o the Arnours and Swifts have also goi
! 6 L. Il l.
e 'iioo Ohe business oi nahoiihg ou''er al
eggs and are scabing it on the caster