The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-03-04

Omaha painters winsd and dinsd
their employers
Western railways win sire 200 agents
and save $4,000 year.
There d q movement on in New York,
started by small capitalists. TO food Gov.
Roosevelt with petitions to not appoint
union men to ofhce.
A. F. Of L. reports Issuing e charters
in Jsnuary-three to nationals, one to
city central body, six to federal unions,
and Il 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 Sec
ond best.
The girls who went on strike in .
carpet factory in New York against being
forced to do twice as mich 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 viii switch $50 trains daily. 1t
is such silent revolutions that is reduc-
ing the number Of railway employees.
A Nashville paper states that there
are children employed in the cotton mills
OF that city who receive but 5 cents a
day of IL to Is hours. One child re-
eeived IS cents for three weeks work, and
family Of eight workers averages $50
a month.
Elevated railways of New York are
slashing things The manager Of the
81" road has started out to save his
Plutoeratic masters & million dollars q
year. Wages are cut from S5 to 50 per
cent, and dozens OF men have been dis
charged and machines put in their places.
The case in which a non-union San
Francisco printer secured 81 200 dam
ages because he was forced out Of q job
will be carried up by the union. Labor
papers on the coast agree that If the case
is finally won by the scab plaintiff
unions might as well disband. for every
organization can be proceeded against
in a similar manner. The contest is a
momentous one and is being watched with
intense interest by laborers and capital
lists alike.
The big Six" meat packers of Chicago
and Kansas Uity are forcing their way
into Eastern cities and causing much
uneasiness among the owners Of small
houses. 1t is reported that
the Armours and Swifts have also gone
into the business of handling butter and
eggs and are seabing it on the eastern
COWS and chickena
An immense meeting Of 10000 people
was recently held in Stockholm, Sweden,
which was managed by the socialists, to
agitate for a further extension Of the
right of suffrage. To a committee who
waited on him, the king declared that no
further concessions would be made,
whereuPon he was informed that a ma
tional strike OF all trades would be
1t is quite likely that
trouble will occur during the present
year unless the power that be yield, for
the workers are deeply in earnest and
are organizing to secure their rights.
\ labor war in the printing business
may be Precipitated in Chicago ere long.
The newspapers OF that city entered a
sort of combine some time ago, and now
it is announced that the managers have
given it out that they will run open |
offices" in all departments except the !
room, which means that the
printers will have to work with non
union stereotypers, Pressmen, mailers,
etc, or fight. 1t is a shrewd game, and |
he powerful Typographical union has
been placed between two fires. II it &C
,epts the bosses dictates the enmity OF |
affiliated organizations will be aroused,
md if it stands by the latter a strike |
nay result. No doubt the managers are
underhandedly to destroy all |
he printing craft unions. This same
managers association is spreading to
,ther citiRs.