Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-05-10
LABOR NOTES.

in line and passed an antitrust bill
buncombe purposes.
The lockout of plasterers in Engl
continues. The bosses are now res
ing to the old game of importing S,
from the continent.
Organizer Thobe, of the Internal
al Wood Carvers' Association, has /
meeting with considerable success
his organizing tour.
Further experiments with wire
telegraphy in this country den
strate that the discovery can be W
ed successfully and will soon be in
Grafton.
Glassworkers' strike in New Jel
is still on. Bosses have come out
ly and declared that they will sn
the union, while on the other hand
men threaten to start cooperative
tories.
Butchers have issued a circular
ter calling attention to the fact
they and several other organizat
have placed Swift & Co. on the un
list because the concern boycotts
ionists.
1t is stated that 10000 small dea
of various kinds have been squet
out of business in Chicago by the
partment stores, which employ oil
$4,000 women and girls who now
more work than all the small st
keepers and their clerks used to.
Suits to recover damages under
ployers' liability laws were rece
lost by injured workmen in New
sey, Tennessee and Florida. Democ
ic and republican judges We'd with
other in protecting their corpora
masters. In each case the workers
accused of taking hazardous risks
their own free will.
A report that will cause surp
comes from London. The Italian
lutionary committee stationed in
city has issued statement to the ei
that in Italy radical and socialist W
ingmen are still being imprisoned
on the slightest pretext. 1t is decli
that preparations are under way
another uprising, and they claim
support of 10000 soldiers of the tia
army. The government is rotter
the core, the right of suffrage is dei
to thousands of workers, and the
preston prevails that liberty can
be secured by force of arms.
The New York Journal, in pub
ing q list of recently-formed trt
heads the same with the statement
the movement "is something like
progress of an avalanche on the m,
tain side" and that "its pace is alrt
becoming terrific, and the near fu
will see its final elimination in
cooperative commonwealth.
A Polish laborer in Honolulu WI
to n socialist paper in Austria Pol
describing how he and 40 others
into human slavery under the Hav
an labor laws, which are sanctioned
the United States government. A
man agent at Bremen, he says,
them to the Austrian consul at II
lulu. When they were unable to v
they were imprisoned. On the pla
tion they were starved, housed
the horses, beaten and driven bacl
work by dogs. The men beg to be
cued.
The fourth annual convention of
Colorado State Federation of LII
will assemble In Denver June g,
from reports bids fair to be one of
best attended as well as the most
teresting meetings yet held. There
be at least 200 delegates present
members of organized labor from
various points in the state to the
Der of more than 1000 will accomp
the delegates and attend the sess
of the convention. AS an additiona
traction President Samuel Gomper
the American Federation OF Labor
be in attendance.
On the one side the California Il
lature has enacted n new eight-l
law for pampered public employees,
on the other side the supreme C,
knocks the mechanics lien law in
cooked hat by declaring 1t unconsi
tlonal. The panderers of plutocI
surely do have great amusement
the workers.
Governor Roosevelt has signed
bills which 1t Is believed will hav
tendency to greatly reduce the evil
the sweatshop system now In vogu,
New York city. One provides for
appointment of fifty deputy factory
spectors. ten OF whom shall be won
for the better protection Of emplo
The other one, which gives permar
relief TO victims of the sweatshops,
vides that no garments shall be n
altered or repaired in
dwelling or tenement until a lice
has been granted by the factory
spector.
An A. +. of l.. organizer at Ia
vile, o., resigned because, he decla
the Federation is in politics, and
the further reason that the offic
persistently antagonize employ
This fellow is splendid type OF
genuine pure and simpler. and his
satisfaction with the Federation
pears to be ill-timed.
Machinery must be invading
stonecutters' trade. Chicago rep
say that some OF the men in that G
are striking because machines
used. Much good 1t will do them.