The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-18
LABOR NOTES.

LABOR NOTES.
The central labor bodies OF Brooklyn
are trying to amalgamate.
Bakers and walters meet IN national
convention in Chicago next week.
The Grand Tunk railway has adopted
a plan by which withdrawing is done by
steam.
A machine is being placed in large
laundries with which 10000 collars a day
may be ironed.
The New York printers claim that their
farm is success, and that they will con
tinue operating the same.
Cigarmakers of New York won a fight
in the courts to restrain scab firm from
using q counterfeited.
The miners OF Arkansas and Oklahoma
are on strike, and in Ohio and Illinois
they threaten to go out for higher wages.
OF all the combinations announced as
forming recently only the proposed cereal
trust and the Hooking Valley coal pool
were abandoned.
The Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna says
there are l,l0l millionaires in Austria,
and that concentration of wealth is going
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A New York dispatch says that John
d. Rockefeller cleared thirty million dol
lars in two weeks rise in OIL Now look
out for donation of million or so to
some church or college.
The Marlboro shoeworkers' strike is
still on Many of the foremeIi have quit
work, but on the other hand storeSeep-
ers have refused to extend further credit
to the strikers, and the latter are in des-
perate straits and need aid. Help the
Marlboro strikers. Send funds to John
j. Dalton, Marlboro, Mass.
L. Anderson, president of the Trades
Assembly of Cripple Creek, Col, has
been arrested for boycotting and a fine
and Imprisonment stares him in the face.
Anderson is barber and his national
union is taking up a collection to defend
him. Boycotting, when INDUCED in by
workingmen, is contrary to law in Rus
STA as well as the United States, but in
the former country labor has no vote.
A bill was introduced in the New York
Legislature to provide more work for
locomotive engineers by compelling rail
road companies to employ two of the
foregoing licensed craftsmen to take
charge of each train. Thereupon com
mittee of railway engineers waited upon
the author of the measure and urged
him not TO push the bill as it would
cause the companies to reduce wages
The engineers could have adopted no bet.
ter plan to display their helplessness.
The New York People prints lengthy
description of new mechanical process
for feeding and threading the shuttle Of
a cotton loom, which was invented by a
poor laboror in Atlanta, Ca, and which
is being put in a large mill in that city
The new shuttle obviates all stoppagt
for threading purposes, and saves enough
time TO produce an additional length o
cloth per week But aside from increas
ing the output, the most important
change effected by the simple device ii
the displacement of operators. To every
one hundred looms in the larger factorie,
OF the country twenty men are required
to feed and thread the shuttles and at
tend to other parts of the loom. Witt
the necessity for threading the shuttle
gone, five men can attend one hundred
looms, or one-foulth the amount of la
Dor required at present. The new in
yention is on exhibition in the Exposit
ion Cotton Mills, in Atlanta.