Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-11-13
the average American workmen.

OF tHe average american NoTknen.
1t is not true that the increased cost
of living made it impossible to main
tain fair standard of living on the
present wage basis. 1t is not true
THAT children are forced into breakers
or mills. Nowhere have workmen as
many comforts and facilities for edu-
cation at such profitable employment
as In the anthracite mines. The work
day of eight hours win not be a real
advantage to the anthracite miners,
and will increase the cost of coal and
hamper industries using anthracite
The company has not treated the men
unfairly in the weighing Of coal.
Since the advent of the unions, bust
ness conditions in the anthracite have
become intolerable, discipline has
been destroyed. strikes of daily oc-
currency the cost of mining has in
creased. When a union composed of
anthracite miners exclusively Is form
ed a trade agreement may be posi-
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| WILKESBARRE, Pa, Nov. 1.-THE
last Of the troops in the field departed
for their homes this morning.
Twenty thousand employees of Mar
kle & Co. resumed work today and
twenty-five hundred employees Of Cox
Bros are meeting today to talk about
disseminating the strike.
| CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 1.-THE strik-
ing butchers have won out. All the
packing companies today complied
with the demands of the men and
granted them increased wages.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE general
public has only hazy idea of the ex-
tent of the competition in the steel
business. One hears the statement
made from time to time that the Unit
ed States Steel corporation has mo-
nopoly of the steel business in the
United States. and that 1t can fix
prices at any figure 1t desires. While
it Is true the company has plants
turn out very large percentage OF the
total output of the country, it is far
from having q monopoly OF the husi-
ness. Among its principal competi-
tors are the Colorado Fuel q Iron com
pany. Tennessee Coal & Iron
Jones & Laughlins. Cambria Steel
company, Lackawanna Steel company.
Pennsylvania Steel company and the
Union Iron and Steel company.
The Pennsylvania Steel company
has increased its capital to $50, ,000.-
600; the Allis-Chambers company has
organized with a like capital stock !;
the Cambria Steel company increased
its capital to Si6 900, 900. the Lacka-
wanna Steel company increased its
capital to 100000, 900, Jones & Laugh
Inns Limited increased its capital to
$50 100000. and the American Steel
Foundries which has capital OF $40,-
600 900 is one of the newly organized
concerns in the steel and iron trade.
Several Of these work in complete har-
mony with the Steel corporation.
TOPEKA Kans.. Nov. III. G..
Johnson. Democratic national commit
teemap and chairman of the Demo
cratic national executive committee,
in an interview, says that fusion
against the Republicans is ineffective,
and unsatisfactory. "a wise thing to
do" he says, is to reorganize Dem
ocracy to make it broad enough to
embrace all antl-Republican elements
and nominate straight Democratic
ticket on a broad and progressive plat
form. No fusion can be made so
close that there will not remain some
dissatisfaction.
MARSHALL. Mo. Nov. 11.-Bunce
Quarles, the Kemper college football
player. is paralyzsd from the should
ers down by au injury received in the
game yesterday.
BOULDER. Colo..- Nov. 11.-Dr.
Baird. who is charged by the coroner's
jury of numbering his wife and has
been arrested. has thus far been una
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quired for bonds. Last night, owing
to his asthma, the doctor was permit
ted to hire his own deputy sheriff and
thus remain IN his house instead Of GO
ing to prison. Himself, his son and
daughter are making renewed efforts
today to find the required bail.
MELBOURNE. Nov. 11.-By the
wrecking of the British steamship
Elangamite at Three Kings island.
probably one hundred lives have been
lost
NEW YORK. Nov 1l.-Daniel De
Leon, the candidate of the Socialist
party for governor OF New York,
says; '"Therc are now five million
persons in the United States who ac-
cept the Socialist name Half a mil
lion are real socialists and the rest in
dicatc a willingness to join the move
ment. The Morgans and Rockefelers
are plowing the ground in America,
and we are sowing in the furrows
made by the trusts"
DIR. Lyman Abbott is more radical,
and said this morning: The move
ment towards Socialism in this coun-
try shortly will ne Irresistible It
ought not to be resisted. It will with
out question sweep the country"
BOSTON Mass, Nov lit has
been ascertained beyond doubt today
that the police made a terrible mis-
take in arresting Allen G, Mason, the
Boston club man and Harvard gradu-
ate. the scion of the Mason family,
who had been accused of numbering
Clara Morton. Mason has been honor
| abl,. ,Viuahory.J and woe ,sitFan "a ra.