The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-04

declared for the eight-hour day.
A New York dispatch says that the
international thread trust has $500 ,000,- |
600 capital behind it.
An Illinois Judge has decided that the |
"union labor only" clause in ordinances
and laws is unconstitutional.
Oxford College, in England, proposes
to establish branch college for labor
agitators, which may be regarded with
some suspicion.
The trust bakeries in Chicago have
been equipped with new machines by
which three men and two boys can do
the work of so men.
The Sigel & Cooper department store
magnates are establishing branch houses
in the south to the great decentralization
of the old-fogy one-line stores.
Molders of Albany, Troy and Science
tady have been injunctioned from boy
cotting concern in which there is a
strike. Injunction is temporary.
In the case of Columbus, o., unionist
who had been brought into court upon
the charge OF violating the antitrust law,
the lower court held that trade union
is not a trust.
A London cable announces that British
capitalists are agitating the formation
of trusts to keep pace with American
competitors. They fear that the Yankees
will encroach still further on their mar
kets
The American steel and wire trust has
''readjusted" the wages of its New Castle
employees to the Beaver Falls basis,
which is lower than the Cleveland scale.
Another REIMBURSEMENT" at the latter
place may be anticipated.
The miners convention voted down a
socialist resolution by 1853 to go. Later
Ratchford was slapped hard by the adop-
ton of resolution that officials who ac-
cept political jobs must resign or be re-
moved by the executive council.
The Standard Oil company's distilling
and distributing combine has been reor-
ganized and acquired possession of nearly
all competing concerns.-A pressed steel
has been formed.-A pool of all the con
Germs building freight cars is organizing
The New York Central railway and
the Metropolitan street railway system
of New York city will adopt the com
pressed air plan of motive power. 1t il
claimed that there is greater economy
in every respect in compressed all
power than in steam or electricity.
Some time ago the U. S. supreme court
declared the railway traffic association
/ illegal. Now the railway magnates anC
interstate commerce commissioners ar
discussing plans to adopt uniform rates
which is precisely what the pools wer'
organized for. So the railway trust i
bound to come after all.
The four big loan corporations il
t Canada have decided to consolidate, an,
r in all the cities of the Dominion tn
D deal will affect large office stats, wher
e one office will take the place of -four
The combine will have a paid up capita
q of $6,OOO,OOO, a reserve of $2,000,O00, an
q assets of $25,000,00, and assets of $25
q 100000.
!. There is a big strike on of cigarmaker
n at Tampa, Fla, the workers demandin
higher wages. The trouble, accordin
to tobacco journal, is having a ter
e dency to bring the employers INTO
combine. An effort is being made t
+ get all the manufacturers together an
!. fix scale of wages, and pledge all t
stick to it at any cost and to assist eac
q other in controversies.
i Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust raise
q the price of gasoline at wholesale so pc
: cent; the same gentleman's new cope
h trust has advanced prices; the new ph'
tograph paper trust has done the sam
II thing; the wire and nail trust raise
; prices, and some of the iron and ste,
h combines are following suit So it goe
"a 1t is to be hoped that those democrat
= who were wildly clamoring for hight
- prices in 1896 will now be happy.
A startling story comes from Londol
10 1t is to the effect that the employers al
a. organizing a general federation alon
- the line of the one that defeated IL
engineers and machinists in the gres
n struggle of year ago and for the pu
- pose of destroying the trade unions. Fac
=, firm locking out its employees for beir
:, connected With a union will be linden
- nified to the extent of its previous year
profits. One concern is reported to ha'
70 started the ball rolling by contributir
= $4,000 to a fund to be used when Il
- attack begins. 1t is also proposed
~ bring pressure to bear upon parliamel
~ to grant favorable legislation protectii
- capital, as is the custom in Americ
- Thus the British workingmen are beii
- slowly and surely forced into a corn
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