The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-02


hood enough to stand up and assert
their rights I do and l believe you will
agree with me.
And IL we hook up the various la
Dor bureau returns We would md that
this is no small matter, for in the state
of Kansas the returns from $50 work
ingmen show that there was but 12O Of
this number who owned property. or in
other words If Virginia worismen are
situated the same as their Kansas
brothers that constitutional clause will
disfranchise three out OF every four
workers in the state, and I dare say IL
the same was put into effect in our own
state of Montana. 1t would reduce our
voting strength at least One-half. So
You see if We are not preparing for the
final accounting. the other side Is. and
whether we will it or not the conflict is
shaping itself.
But to return to the strike question.
n will say that when the labor history
of the last year is written 1T will show
Z that the advantage was with the cap
iitaiist.
/ Now there must be a cause for this
condition. and if we are greater.in num-
.he1s and better organized. why these de-
feats?
In my mind the greatest cause of
those defeats is the proneness of labor
to vote the same ticket as the capitalist.
thereby placing the government into
the hands of the capitalist on one side.
or the other, for it makes no difference
whether they be democrats of the
south or republicans Of the north.
The second reason is the failure of
labor to profit by the example of the
capitalist. and reunite these forces as
he has done. Today we see capital
hn NJ
which they world has never seen.
While labor is divided up into hum
dreds of organizations.
Third, the introduction of labor
ing machinery which is placing thou
sands on the idle list thereby making
them the willing tools of the capitalist
in time of trouble. the following are
few Of the many labor-saving devices:
A new electric riveting machine. in
serts 1900 rivets in ten hours. A needle
making machine turning out 260 needles
minute. A new can making device
operated by a child. Sheets of tin are
cans drop out every minute, $4,000
I every day. An expert timer can make
500 cans a Cay. Each child operating
one Of these machines displaces be-
tween 20 and so men.
A recently invented and irgenius me-
chanical device pastes paper labels an
10. 900 cans in ten hours. The cans are
placed on an endless belt and each one
picks up label as it passes.
| The self feeding platen press prints
| 10000 or more cards an hour registering
/ to a hair.
Cigar making machines turn out
| neatly Hrapped cigars at the rate OF
| 5000 per day.
| The bread making machines by which
| three persons can mould 20 900 loaves
per. day.
The glass blowing machines turn out
| tumblers at &c. hundred against sos.
by the old hand process.
In the cotton industry one man and
| two boys do the work formerly re-
curing 1000 spinners
| In weaving one man does the Worl;
of fifty. In making horse-shoes orc
| man does the work which formerly re-
| uufred 500 men. In making nails one
man does the work of 1000 men.
Steel industry, three men with the
latest machine turns out $50 tons of
steel billets in ten hours. In 1892 1t re
| uuired lis men to do the same work in
the same time. Boiler making, 81 men
to the work that but a few years ago
| required 500 men.
In every branch of industry labor
saving inventions are being introd Iced
The genius of man is directed In this
channel because it is most profitable
Inventors all over the country are stu
dying day and night upon inventions
to save labor and increase the profits OF
the capitalistic class. There are change:
Imminent in production and distribution
which are so portentious that the work
| ing class cannot be too str )..gly warned
in time of the dangers that are coming
The introduction of liquiiiel air vii
dispense with the labor Of every nl're1
and fireman in the country The re
| cent experiments of the Northern Cen
| trail railroad in the state of Washing
ton in using the waterfalls of that sta.'
to generate electricity for the motive
power of engines instea1 Ut s:can
means that at near future day motor
men can be transferred from street car
to, run locomotives. Electricity is III
ready being generated by water poWe
at Niagara Falls and being supplied TO
municipal and manufacturing purpose
| To cities such as Buffalo, Rocheste
; and Elmira, N. Y. If these experience
| continue to be successful how lcng be
fore the Mississippi will IL usesi t.
| generate power for St. Louis or for tn
whole Mississippi valley: DO the en-
| gineers, flremen, stokers. etc. reai!z
what this means for them? The uralh
!. aye canal is being :;se1 for this pnr
. nose by Chicago. From 1880 % 1sso ne'
, machinery was introduced in the Unite
States equivalent to the labor power q
40, ooo, 900 men. THE machinery IN IN
mills of Great Britain Is cIui'Alc'': I
+, 700 ooo, 900 men mo e thar all the ada'
, | inha bitants Of tho earth.
,, massachusetts has machinery dom
as much work as 50, 00o. 900 men.
81 wish right here to be plainly under
. stood in regard to this labor-savin
. machinery. While I deplore the suHe
! ing entailed on those who are displace
: bv 1t still am in favor OF 1t for 1t seen
: that many working men will not see u
y | wisdom Of the government owning u
/ means CT production and distrloutio
a | or,v through suffering.