The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-06-25
RAILWAY employees LOSE
PLACES BY THOUSANDS
FULLY: $4,000 NdEN ARE LAID OFF
BETwEEN APRIL 16 AND
JUNE 10.
Butchers and Meat Cutter.' Union Is-
sues an Order That M Women
Shall BE Employed by Packers In
Departments Where the knife In
Used. Industrial Conditions Over
the Entire Country.

and June 10 fully $4,000 railway men
have been laid off. Some Of the COM
panies have commenced retrenching in
the passenger department. and one
brakeman Is to be taken from each
train where two or more have been
employed, aud the brakemen that re-
main is s11aust help load baggage, act as
flagInan and attend Ito. other duties
The runs are: also heightened in order
to squeeze more work out of the men.
Trainmen. complain that with the long
runs and long hours they are forced to-
work: to a point almost beyond human
endurance. They are haunted by the
fear of accidents from unpreventable
neglect ;of duty. They hold that the
running of trains in safety depends
upon the vigilance and alertness Of the
crews and they cannot do themselves
and their employers justice when COM
PEELED to work long hours on fast
runs. Watch out. for: more smashups,
the cause of which will be reported as
unknown" by the greedy corporation
cannibals.
The butchers and meat cutters have
given notice that on and after August
no packing house In the country will
be allowed to employ women in any
department where the knife is used.
President Donelly says the work is
brutalizing in the extreme and bad
enough for men, to say nothing of girls
Is and II years Of age who stand in
bloody water up to their ankles and
cut up the meat Of animals that are
dead hardly minute. OF course,
IN fa hAo ~$oI %~lS S~$e ~f $1,o
hog combine will howl some more at
this: "trade-union tyranny" that will
cut into their profits. They are the
guardians of the working people, pro-
tectors' OF the home and champion of
morals!
The strike Of blast furnace employees
at Hanging Rock, o., is about over.
The same old trick was worked. The
men reisted a reduction of their
meagre pay; the company imported
scabs from West Virginia and armed
them; the. latter began to shoot; the
unionists replied; the, militia was or
| dered. out, and peace restored. One
military officer balked. He could Sc
Ino reason why the soldiers should be
kept pn the erollrl ss55 tbu @ the com
Epan1@ln tstsd tthss luust remain,
md that Seettled t.s r ne unfonnt. people
are leaving the piece: Z: I: The, capitalists
have scabbed the mill more profits are
in, sight and they are happy. Prob
ably there is no class >struggle-prob-
ably. not.t''
We don't vouch for this: A we'll
known Employer of Dayton, o., who
realizes that organized labor is bene-
fit to the worker, and who desires the
frinedship OF unions, taught some Of
his employees a practical lesson by
posting notice that on and after
April 80 those of his employees who
could not produce a clear card in the
union of their occupation would be paid
at non-union rates. $3.50 less than the
union rate. In his opinions good union
men are sworth the difference to him in
his business.
There Is no cessation to the decline
Of wages in England. According to
the official Labour Gazette just received
the changes in rates of wages reported
| during April affected about 10000
! workpeople, Of whom nearly 1900 re-
| ceived advances and. $4,000 sustained
decrease. The net effect of all the
changes was a. decrease of $1,000 per
| week. The: changes of the previous
month affected about 81, 900 workpeople,
the net result being a decrease of ner-
ly 10000 per week.
Workn1en to the number of 1000,
thrown out Of employment by suspen-
| sion Of work on Pennsylvania railroad
improvements, have already gone to
! their homes in Europe. More will go.