The labor world., 1899-04-29
Around the
World.

Winnipeg, Man., has voted to pur-
chase the electric light plant and run
it in the interest Of the people, i'll
stead Of allowing the company to run
the people in the interest of the elec-
trio light plant.
# A call has been issued by the Ma
4 stional Good Citizens League for a
convention in. Cincinnati, May 2 to A.,
for the purpose of unifying the reform
ers upon direct legislation, imperative
mandate. and similar schemes that are
: III force in one or the other part Of the
world without changing capitalistlc
/ conditions in the slightest degree.
Pure and simple unionism is all
torn up in Louisville, KY The c. L..
q. is in control of an unprincipled band
Of fakirs and skates. Decent unionists
seeded and organized the Trades AS
sembly, and now protest has been
filed with the A. F.. Of L. against al
lowing the G. I. U. to retain it's char
ter 53s sE =
The invention Of a machine which
will automatically fold, wrap and ad-
dress newspapers is announced. 1t was
recently tested in New York and found
to besa phenomenal success. Two men
can operate six machines, thereby do
ing the work of "a men. The machine
will soon b. on the market.
ow the alley railway, cooperative
road built by small farmers and busi-
ness people, OF California to fight the
HIM tington and sante Fe robbers, has
fallen into the grasp Of the Sante Fe,
and the small capitalists are once
more at the mercy Of the plutes after
having been stripped of their coin.
Prof. Albion Small, Of the Chicago
University, in a recent lecture, round-
" denounced the capitalistic tendency
to- combine everything into trusts, de-
claring that the trust magnates are
dragging the country to ruin. Prof.
Small had better be careful. Rookie
feller owns the Chicago University.
There! The labor problem is finally
snlyedi AS a reward for faithfully
keeping the noses of some unthinl0ing
workingmen at the old capitalistic
party grind-stones, Frank A Kennedy,
editor of the Western La'borer, has
been appointed member Of the Oma-
ha fire and police board.
Besides the strike and boycott a
gainst the Carl Uppman factory, where
400 men are out, the New York cigar.
makers have called strike lin tha
Stachelberg factory, where 300 work
ers are now out. The Philadelphia
bricklayers won their strike for high
er wages.
The special convention of the brew
ers in st. Louis, last week, temporarily
suspended Secretaries Priesterbach
and Kurzenllnabe. The headquarters
will also be removed from st. Louis,
probably to Milwaukee, Cincinnati or
Cleveland in the near future.
The miners of Idaho are organizing
into the Socialist Labor party, and i'll
tend, to have the state thoroughly in
line by 1900.
It is reported that the city eight
hour ordinance of Denver was carried
into the supreme court and was knock
ed unconstitutional.
Socialist Labor party granted char
tiers to new sections in Homestead, Pa,
New Waterford, O., and Joliet, III.
.5 New York unions will hold big
eight-hour demonstration and street
parade on the evening of April 20.
More lamp-cliimney machines are be-
ing invented and causing the glass
workers sleepless nights.
Two new branches were organized
by the Social Democrats in Chicago
and one in Newton, Mass.
Socialist Labor party is discussing
plan to place four permanent organ
ixers in the field.
The Yankee Socialist is the name Of
anew paper started at Leechburg, Pa.
IL New Britain, Conn.,, the Socialist