The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-18
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Let the trust business go forward.
Let every industry come under the
control of the trust. It will be then,
after being thoroughly organized,
much easier for the government to
step in and manage the whole in the
interest of the entire people.
Among the new industries to spring
up in Cuba and the Philippine is
lands will be that of growing oranges.
The recent frosts in Florida demon
strate that that state cannot be de-
pended upon for growing this fruit.
| Beet sugar is probably to be one of
the prominent products of Minnesota
in the near future. The soil and eli
mate of the state are admirably
adapted to the raising of vegetables,
and among them the beet, the sweet
fluids in which will make sugar. The
bounty of one cent a pound on beet
sugar is sure to cause the establish
ment here of sugar refineries, result
ing in material benefit to labor inter-
ests of the state.
The flour trust is fact. It includes
capacity of 10000 barrels daily.
Capitalized for $7000O,O0O. All food
products will soon be in the trust.
Flour, oatmeal, sugar, mill1-only a
little longer and the control and sup
ply of all the necessaries of life will be
in very few hands. It should be clear
to any thinking person that the peo-
! pies trust will absorb the whole thing
a little ways further along and all the
workmen engaged in these various in
dustries will come under government
control.
to its workmen if they discharge large
numbers of their employees who are
thus deprived of the privilege of work
ing and earning the means whereby
they can support themselves and fami-
lies. The trust that will give more
people work then have been employed
heretofore is deserving of much praise.
|
The authorities of West Superior,
| Wisconsin, are deserving Of commend
alton for establishing an employment
agency in their midst by which they
will give information to all seekers for
employment, as to where it can be
found. They also propose to see that
all persons have work that want it.
The Federal Steel company claim to
have $4,000 employees. The probability
is that the stockholders of this corpor-
alton do not number over 1000. That
makes one employer for every SO
workmen. If those employees will now
form sufficiently strong union they
can secure a shorter days work as
well as the advanced pay which the
company has lately allowed. Much
praise is due the company for thus adj
| vancing the wages of their workmen
| from five to ten per cent, but one of
the most important reforms to be in
augurated by all the trusts will be the
shortening of the hours whereby all
| not probable that managers or en-
ployes will shorten time t will devolve
! upon workmen themselves to bring
about this reform which can alone be
done by concerted action through the
| unions.
We disagree. We cannot pay our
workmen any more and the workmen
consider they should have more. I'm
| able to come to an agreement the
workmen strike. They lose time and
money, and machinery stands in idle
ness. We lose profit and the public
are Inconvenience because of the dis
agreement between ourselves and our
employees. Strikes become thus more
and more common and the public suf-
/ fers serious loss in consequence. It
is continually evident that there
should be in many localities g. local
board Of arbitration. who would adj
just the differences that now tkouble
lwos1insn And employers. #