The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-08-29

good, healthy strong men will be kept
in the combines employ. Those un-
able to stand the work of the hot mills
continuously would be discharged.
The employees became so 1ncensed that
they t0e down the notices; then the
plutes offered reward for the appre-
hension of the culprits. It should be
stated that it is almost a physical i'm
possibility for even the strongest of
men to work in the hot mills each day.
But the capitalistic canniba1s care
nothing for the lives Of their workers
they are quite Indifferent whether or
not the men kill themselves by COM
mitting slow suicide extending over a
few years. Profit is their god.
During a recent speech at New York
city, Charles H. Coulter, mayor of
Brockton, Mass, stated that every store
in that place displayed union card
in the window, and that seventeen of
the twenty-eight members of the town
council were members of trade unions.
The most of them being Socialists.
President William Tallmadge and
Organizer P. J. Stockford, of the New
Haven, Conn.,, Teamsters' Union, have
been arrested, charged with conspiracy,
based on the alleged maintenance of
an unfair list" of the business men
Of that city. Conspiracy laws are be-
ing resurrected only during strikes
seemingly.
It is reported that Prof. George Cum
ton, who has long been regarded as
friend of organized labor and who is
proprietor of Gunton's Magazine, has
n "a 80 e1
it is true, the unions will try to recover
from the blow, and Mr.. Green Goods"
can go where he naturally belongs.
The strike at Senator Hanna's fur
naces in Buffalo has reached the riot
stage. Monday many shots were ex-
changed between the union men and
scabs. Injunctions are threatened.
The struggle Is becoming bitter and
has assumed national Importance be-
cause Of the interests involved.
By referendum vote Daniel McDon-
aid was reelected president Of the
American Labor Union by big ma
jority. D. G.. Coates was elected vice.
president and Clarence Smith secre-
ry-treasurer. Ed. Boyce headed the
list Of seven members of the executive
board.
The action Of the employers asso-
citation at Idaho Springs, COL, In ex-
pelling IA union men from the place
has aroused the organized workers of
that locality and they intend to boycott
some Of the gentlemen in the combine
out Of existence.
The running fight between Pittsburg
building trades and bosses is to be
fought to the finish. The latter want
to abolish the sympathy strike so that
they can break one union at a time.
The journeymen won't stand for that
idea and hence the struggle is on.
Officials of the American Window
Glass Co., the trust, have been in ses-
sion at Marion, Ind, and it is said they
are preparingz~to place a number of
more labor- saving machines, which
means ST many skillet
men. :. :
Iron molders at wilkesbarre, Pa,
have had a demand granted for an in
crease in wages from $3.50 a day to
$2.75 and those who receive more than
$2.75 day will receive an advance of
Is cents.
Molders of Chicago were injunc-
toned. Judge Holdom did the trick
again. Unionists are forbidden to
picket or ask other employees to quit
their jobs.
The Nebraska Independent, the lead
ing organ of the western populists,
printed a Karl Marx edition." Good
sign. The farmers are learning.
The militia company at Wheeling, W.
Va, is going to pieces. Union men
have passed the word along the line
that all should keep out.
After a strike Of three weeks, paint
ers at Chattanooga, Tenn, won the
eight-hour day and 311-2 cents an
hour.
Striking machinists OF Evansville,
then blacklisted.
Chicago Federation of Labor voted
to levy an assessment to assist the Kel-
logg strikers.
Union men in La Crosse, Wis, are all
deserting the militia and the officers
are angry.
Cincinnati molders won increases in
| wages, the minimum to be SO to 1920
a day.
Unions of Deadwood, S. D., are for
bidding their members from Joining
the militia.
At Memphis. Tenn, masons get an
increase from IS to $3.50 per day.
Carpenters at York, Pa, won nine
hour day.
National union may join thea. F. of