The labor world., 1900-01-06
AROUND THE WORLD
Mucl, Information Given in as Few
Words as Possible.

cd the chasn1 and come together The
congress recently held, while affirming
the principle that the Socialist party,
representing the working class in ans
| tagonsn1 to the capitalist class, is
necessarily opposed to all bourgeois
administration, agreed that Socialists
may under special circumstances, and
with the consent Of the party take
part i'm such administrations. Differ
ences We're got rid of, constitution
for the guidance of the party in the
future was agreed to, and the unity
| of the whole party was agreed to with
acclamatiOn amid the greatest enthus-
iasm. 1t was bitter pill for the cap
italist politicians, who hoped to see
wider and deeper division result from
the congress.
At Amsterdam, Holland "a congress
was recently held to consider the al
visibility of forming an assocition TO
agitate for the esta tablishment of uni
: versal suffrage. A committee was in
structed to draw up program de-
manding the right of voting for all
men over 21, the vote to be by ballot
and each elector only to have one vote.
How these ignorant foreigners do per-
sist in advocating equality.
] Capitalism need have no fear Typo
graphical Union No. 271, of Boice, Ida
no, at its last meeting adopted a reso-
lutino declining to strike the name of
Governor Steunenberg from the list of
honorary members, on the ground that
his action in the case of the Wardner
miners was necessary for the protec-
ton of life and property and for the
maintenance of peace"
The secretary of the c. A. I. L., of
New York, recently took a trip west
and was feted by managers Of model
slave pens at Dayton and Cleveland.
No evidences of the class struggle
(! came to her notice and yet one of her
hosts in this city threw up a con-
tract because union labor was insisted
upon.
| The American Window Glass Co.,
whose plant has been idle since June,
began operations on Monday, and at
lthe same time ordered reduction in
the price of glass of SO 1-3 per cent.
The wage scale of the unions were
agreed to. A merry war between the
glass trust and the independent con-
lcerns is now imminent.
| Manager Bateman, of the Toledo
Tube Works, has been held subject to
action Of the grand jury, for discharg-
ing A. B. Cole because of his con-
nection with a labor union. It will
i now be demonstrated whether the so
called labor coercion law is worth the
1 paper tits printed On.
It is likely that a s12o 100000 appro-
! priation bill to construct the Mica
ragua canal will pass in this con-
gress. Capitalist interest demand a
shortening of the water way to our
possessions in the Philippines, and its
servile tools in congress will do the
masters bidding.
A walking delegate of the Lathers'
Union Of. New York was brought into
Magistrate Planners court and ad-
monished not to interfere with the en-
ployes Of Contracotr Mccarthy, who
fwere performing greater task per
Iudy IlldH dllOWCu Ny CAC AAA1o1A'
! r. B. Howard "a compositor, of Kan
sas, Mo-. who at the Detroit conven-
ton of the I. T. U. opposed discus
sion of the socialist resolution, has
been appointed superintendent of the
lfree employment bureau. Another case
of no politics in unions, please.
The ST. Louis Building Trades Coun-
Gil has taken issue with the Theatri-
cal Stage Employees of that city, be-
tcause the latter refused to accept al
agreement with the theater managers
which the council approved of. Solid
itary, oh bosh!
! A wheel workers union, whose juris-
diction- of the Int. Carriage Workers
was organized at Cincinnati. Twenty
three firms are entitled to use the labe
Of whom II are located in Cleveland
IL in Milwaukee, and 8 in Lawrence
Mass.
The Baldwin locomotive works in
Philadelphia has crane which will
lift a 10000 pound locomotive 40 feet
in the air carrying it S36 feet and set
| it down again in 3 minutes and &C
seconds.
In the Bradenburg, Germany, munic-
/ ipal elections the Socialists elected five
additional members to the council, Civ
ing them eleven members in all.
Troy, N. Y, newspaper writer's have
|oganized and secured charter from
II. T. U. In this city they are above
doing anything like that.
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The Denever ordinance, prohibiting
clothing stores from opening on Sun
ldays, has been declared unc0nstitu
tional, by the supreme courts.
! A threshing machine trust, capital
Iized at s6Oo.OOO,0OO, is under process O.
formation, embracing 70 per cent o
the incorporated factories.
/ The DeLeonite N. E. c., S. L. P.
ordered suspension of Sections Fitch
iburg and Clinton, Mass, to make room
for reorganization.
The German Reichstag. has passed
the third reading of the bill repeating
the law prohibiting workmen's associa
tions. nH.
Chinese laundrymen in New Yorl
city have organized and adopted :
scale of prices How dare they!
K of L. in Toronto. Canada, ar
reviving. Several new assemblies hav'
recently been organized.
Social Democrats organized nev