The labor world., 1899-05-06
Around the. World.

The Socialism Study Class in Prince
ton University, organized by Christie
pher Easton, one of the honor men of
the junior class, has come to an end,
as the administration of the Universi-
ty has prohibited the lectures of Mr..
Easton.
Another convention is slated for Gin
cinnati to organize a new party. The
Good Citizens League meets May 2 to
prepare to take political action.
All the sugar factories and oil plants
in Russia have been combined, and
some of the iron and steel and textile
industries are also being trustified. In
England, Germany and Belgium some
trusts have been formed lately, and
there is talk of amalgamating the
metal industries especially. Ameri-
can competition is causing European
capitalists to enter closer federations
for self-protection.
The winning of the great strike in
Pittsburg in the plant of the pressed
steel car trust, in which some 1000
men are employed, by the Socialist
Trade and Labor Alliance, after other
organizations failed 10 gain conces-
sions, places the alliance in a position
where it must be reckoned with in in
dustrial affairs in the future. It is
reported from Pittsburg that hum
dreds of men are now f1ocking to the
S. T. and L. A. standard.
There is great Indignation in Ger
many at the outrageous sentence i'm
posed on the carpenters in Dresden,
who were sent to prison for total of
SO years for assaulting brutal con-
tractor who compelled his employees
to work overtime. Two Socialist
dailies have already collected over
$4,000 for the maintenance of the
families of the prisoners, and the So
cialists in and out of Parliament are
denouncing the government for the
persecution of the carpenters. The
agitation has become SO widespread
that the crazy Emperor William has
instructed his hirelings in the Reich
stag to withdraw the bill providing
for imprisonment of strikers who in
timidate or persuade others from
scabbing.
Potter Printing Press Co., of New
York, patented an automatic stereo-
typing device that knocks out six
men. It will practically wipe out the
trade.
Three trade organizations in Great
Britain, the Amalgamated Society of
Engineers, with 10000 members; the
Railway Association, with $4,000, and
the Society of Carpenters and Joiners,
have between them nearly 100000
in cash and stocks.
The ,Amundson Printing Company,
of Chicago, has instituted suit for
$4,000 damages against the Typo
graphical union for ordering strike
of it's employees. The damages are al
legged to be due for the injury to their
business by closing down.
The contracting printers OF Mem
phis, Tenn, last week signed the jour-
neymen's scale, eight hours at $2.25
per day, for the present season.
Memphis, Tenn, is the most thor
oughly. organized trades union city in
the South The employees are also or
ganizing, and will form "Builders'
Exchange during the coming week.
Seventy-eight new labor organiza-
tions were formed in New York state
in 1895.
The seventh annual convention of
the Allied Printing Trades of Illinois
meets at Ottawa on June 6.
Bedford Qnd.) stcnecutters are de-
manding 81 per day. They have been
receiving $3.50 and will probably
strike.
Strikes among street car men are
extending to almost every part of the
country. The Pittsburg men on near
ly all lines in that city will probably
go out, demanding a reduction in
hours and an increase in wages.
It is not generally known that the
national bankrupt law provides that
wages performed within ninety days
Immediately prior to the bankruptcy
shall be in all cases preferred claim
against the assets of the bankrupt.
The Granite Cutters National Union
will make a universal stand for the
eight-hour day on January 1, 1900,
and as the time approaches, warns its
local membership that all agreements
and bills of prices must be framed ac-
cordingly.
The painters strike at Omaha, Neb.,