The labor world., 1899-10-14
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Social democrats report eight new
branches organized in one week.
The unionists of Toronto are talk
ing Of establishing a daily paper.
Justice, of San Diego, CAL, has come
out for the social democratic party.
Prof Tripler, who invented a device
to manufacture liquid air on a large
(scale, has started on 1ecturo-to tour.
Another member of the German par
lament has been sent to the peniten-
tiary for three years for roasting EN-
pror William in a daily paper.
1t is stated that Macaroni will soon
make an attempt to send message
across the Atlantic without the use of
cables. Look out, you telegraphers,
for that young Italian!
An English genius has discovered a
process to print newspapers without
the use of ink. Electricity will do the
work if the scheme proves to be the
success that it's promoters claim.
There is novel strike on IN London.
Five bli. 4 brushmakers walked out
because t.-ey were not granted an in
crease Of wages, and now the national
league of blind men to which they be-
long threatens to call a national strike
in all brush establishments and a boy
colt if the trouble is not settled.
A correspondent of London daily
writes that there is great destitution
prevailing in the Transvaal, and "the
mine owners are showing a philan-
thropic spirit by engaging destitute
whites at rates of pay only slightly
higher than the wages given to ma
tives. They make hay while the sun
Shines
The tin plate trust is now carrying
out a new policy Of concentrating
plants in order to save freight rates,
managing, operating and other expen-
ditures. incidental to the maintenance
of a large number Of separate works.
At least four mills in small towns are
to be dismantled and their machinery
removed to larger plants.
The socialists will probably win the
Reichstag special election in the Pier
ma district of Saxony. They already
have IL of the % Saxon seats. The
first ballot last week gave the social
list candidate plurality Of about 1000
in total OF 4,300 votes. The final
election will be between the socialist
and 5anti-Semite candidates. The dis
Erict. has heretofore been an anti-Se-
mite stronghold. O.:
Some large demonstrations are being
held in Hungary in favor of universal
suffarge, which the government stub
bornly refuses to grant, fearing a del
uge of socialist votes that would sweep
the capitalist; system ouh of existence.
So far this year Secretary Morrison
of the "A. F. of L. has issued 1862 char
ters, including seven to city central
bodies These charters do not include
those issued by national organizations.
While Sir Thomas Upton is sailing
his Shamrock about American waters
and is being entertained by our best
people, who promises to pension his mer
if they win the cup, his firm has just
been fined $3.50 and costs by the Brit
ish government for canning rotten and
poisonous fruit, and the English peo-
pie are also up in arms because the no
BILE swindler' packs his in heavy pa
per and they are forced to pay higf
prices for it.
In declaring for political action inde-
pendent of the old capitalistic parties,
the Trades and Labor congress of Can
ada declared that hereafter members
of labor organizations found on tht
platform and advoca ting the interests
of the old political parties be regarded
with suspicion as decoys Of the wage
earners, and should be regarded as op-
ponents of the advanced labor move
ment,". which is a timely warning to
labor skates to look out for trouble.
Some day, brethren, when a new gen.
GRAFTON succeeds in knocking out th'
old fossils who dominate the A. F. of
l.. that body will take similar stand
some day.
It seems that the trouble regarding
the laying of the cornerstone for the
new government building in Chicago
was settled, and that Mckinley went
through the ceremony of performing
manual labor last Monday. All kinds
of scandal was kicked up by the row,
and many yards of newspaper space
We're wasted. Mckinley was made an
honorary member of the stonemason' s
union. and several building trades or
ganizations are at daggers' points,
while a nasty scandal has cropped out
in that the plutocratic managers of the
blowout charge MEMBER OF organized
labor named Sullivan with attempting
to blackmail them out of $4,000 to set
tie the trouble. The committee ap-
pointed to investigate the charge has
never reported, and is now chargd with
shielding Sullivan. About half a dozen
labor officials are in deep disgrace as
a result of the row, which was only
settled by backdown of the laborites
interested.
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