The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04


their employers.
Western railways will "fire" 200 agents
and save $4,000 year.
There is movement on in New York,
started by small capitalists, to food Gov.
Roosevelt with petitions to not appoint
union men to office.
A. F. Of L. reports issuing "a charters
in January-three to nationals, one to
city central body, six to federal unions,
and IA 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 a
carpet factory in New York against being
forced to do twice as much work as pre-
vious to the introduction of improved
machines lost their fight.
BY a new system introduced by the
owners Of the new Boston Union Depot
one man viii switch $50 trains daily. It
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 l3 hours. One child, re-
ceived So 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
plutocratic masters million dollars q
year. Wages are cut from Is to 80 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 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 q 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 City are forcing their way
into Eastern cities and causing much
uneasiness among the owners of small
slaughtering houses. It is reported that
the Armours and Swifts have also gone
into the business of handling butter and
eggs and are scabing it on the eastern
COWS and chickens.
NJ, cn ,,,ooksuo ~ IN mn nao~1a
was recently held in Stockholm, Sweden,
which was managed by the socialists, to
agitate for q further extension of the
right of suffrage. To 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
inaugurated. It 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.
A 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
composing 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
the powerful Typographical union has
been placed between two fires. If it ac-
cepts the bosses dictates the enmity OF
affiliated organizations will be aroused,
and if it stands by the latter a strike
may result. No doubt the managers are
working underhandedly to destroy all
the printing craft unions. This same
managers association is spreading to
other cities.