The labor world., 1899-09-23
Around the World.

The Employers association, represent
ing from s7,OOOOOO to 100000 of local cap
| ital has been organized in Spokane,
| Wash, to resist any demand of organized
labor in the cit. which it's members may
regard as unjust.
Heretofore the greatest trouble in glass
manufa cture lay in the melting Of the
sand. the process requiring a great deal
of time and needing good fuel, natural
J gas being the best. But an Indiana cap
itaist has just patented a codltrivance by
whicn sand is run through a vat, with
| sides and bottom composed of carbon, and
| over which ne can turn an electric cur
| rent. The process works perfectly, and
! the very best molten glass is now being
| turned out in almost as many seconds as
| it required hours for the old fuels to
! melt it. The vat is so arranged that it
can be adapted for every kind of glass
| making from plate 10 bottles. This in
vention, in connection with the automat-
ic blowing machinery which is being
| turned out, is likely to have a great et-
| feet on glass-mal1ing, both in the cheap
ening of the product and the displacing of
skilled labor
! The trunk manufacturers are kicking.
! ALL material they are compelled to use
,Tas been advanced in price by trusts,
while the trunk men are compelled to fill
contracts at a loss. But. never mind
with the disappearance of travelling sales
| men not so many trunks will be needed.
| The New York Voice, famous as the
| leading prohibition organ of the country.
is about defuuct. It will be combined
| with the Lever, of Chicago, and issued
from the latter city. This is another straw
which shows that the old prohib party
has seen it's best days.
In Germany a new discovery is an
nounced. It is a process by which heat
can be furnished at one-fourta the pres
ent cost and there is absolutely no smoke
nuisance. The invention has been sue
cessfully tried and has created favorable
comment.
1t is reported that the shipbuilding
Mich, formerly the Wheeler concern, and
divide the machinery among the other
plants. Some 1900 men will be forced to
start on the road in search of prosper
ity. .
The Belgian parliament rejected bill
to reform the electoral laws along demo-
cratic lines The socialists brought in the
bill, and now there is every reason to be-
leve they will start a lively agitation for
universal suffrage.
Mortgage indebtedness IN Ohio increas-
ed sas 0sos,o0eas nNe1s,last year.@2Oh, Hanna
Mckinley! Come home and once again
sing that sweet song, "Prosperity,' to
the bankrupt and abandoned middle class
property-holders
S15,OOO,0OO starch trust is announced.
The s5,00O,0O0 lake trust has taken con-
troll of the towing business. A $4,000, 900
cotton combine has gobbled all important
Southern mills.
What threatens to become great ma
tional strike of .seamen began at several
English ports on Monday. A slight in
crease of wages is demanded.
Another labor riot occurred between un-
mining district. One man was killed and
number were wounded.
In a special election held at Toulon,
France, the socialists carried the day by
several hundred majority.
Aside from the unions organized by af-
fiHated bodies, the A. F. of L. issued Al
charters last month.
1t is reported that al the cotton mills
of Fall River Mass, are to be organized
into a combine.
In various cities the employing prin-
/ ters are trying to get together to regu-
| late prices.
Coal barons. are raising the price of
coal. They need the money.
A s2,5OO,0Oo vegetable trust has been Or
ganized in New York.
| All but three of the Detroit brewer
! les have gone into a trust.
| The Independent Labor party Of New
week, one of the principal speakers being
John C. Chase, the social democratic
mayor of HaverhilI, Mass. The social la
! Dor party was invited to participate in
| the meetings, but did not 90 so. 1t is re-
| ported that the I. l.. P. is now organized
| in every assembly district, and nominal
| ing conventions are now the order.
The strike of iron ore miners in the Ish-
| peming, Mich, district for a raise o1
wages was lost, notwitns tanding the fact
| that prices of ore have shot Ekyward
| The operators are fairly coming money
but since defeating their employees prom
Use to voluntarily raise wages when the
| winter sets in.
The United States court decided tina
the injunction issued by a state court O.
Arkansas restraining coal operators from
importing scab miners into the state i!
illegal, conflicting With the interstate
commerce act and fourteenth amendmen
of Z. S. constitution.
Labor Day was celebrated generally
and successfully throughout the country
Parades were held in all principal cite:
and it was demonstrated that the ad
herents to trade unionism had largely in
creased during he past year.
An EMPLOYERS association, composed O.