The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-02
NOW LABOR IS ABUSED
ALL OVER THE WORLD
OE6IITUTION AND DISTRESS
PREVAILS IN LONDON AND
elsewhere.
Parrysites Getting Busy in the Middle
vest Every Labor Agitator To Be
Enrolled on a National Blacklist
New York Contractors Still Persist
ent'-Edison Opposes Union Labor.
-Organizer Ridden Out of Town.

Destitution and distress in London
this winter is greater than for years.
owing to the industrial depression.
iens OF thousands are out of work.
lhe first month Of winter produced a
cry of distress from the East End. It
IS an omlnous cry, foretelling period
of destitution which authorities declare
VIII exceed that of last year when
thousands Of workless, homeless and
starving men hopelessly paraded the
streets. hTe Salvation Army reports
the number Of unemployed is double
that Of 1902. Nightly between 5000
and 1900 persons are being turned
away from the Army shelters to sleep
IN the streets and parks. Owing to
the trade depression factories are clos
ing or reducing the number of en-
ployes daily. Every bench along the
embankment is filled with homeless
and hungry men. The police, despite
orders, are not heartless enough to dis
turb them, since their search for en-
ployment has been in vain. An ad-
vertfsement for an elevator attendant
produced 1873 applicants, for night
Watchman, 200; stoker, 120; gardener,
$50; carpenter, no. truck driver, 1870:
porter, 800. The advertised wage for
= porter is one guinea per week. The
police are compelled to force the ap-
plicants into line. Eight men in the
Hne wore frock coats and silk hats.
There are now 150,u00 confessed pau
pcrs on the rolls of the poorhouses of
the various parishes of London, and
the number is increasing weekly.
T1~ De-
League. formed recently in the middle
Nest as an adjunct and auxiliary OF
the National Manufacturers Associa-
ton, to be used as weapon for club
hing WOrkingmen into submission, Is
E.art,ng out famously. It has founded
a national blacklist, on which will be
entered the names of every labor agi-
tator in the country. This will be
placed in the hands Of every employer,
end members Of the association pledge
themselves to employ none OF the con-
demned men. The agitators are black
listed because they demand higher
wages and shorter hours and still some
OF these same blacklisted men cannot
see that. there ia
A New York daily paper says the
tend to establish an employment
bureau $50 that workmen might be
found without interference Of walking
delegates" At banquet held by the
bosses it was the consensus of opinion
that union officials should be ignored
entirely and workmen should be en-
ployed irrespective of their affiliation
with trade unions. In other words,
the open shop policy would be en-
9orced no matter what the unions
thought about it. 1t seems that the
plea of the conservative element that
30 radical declaration along political
lines should be made by the recent A.
E. Of l.. convention has not reassured
.he master class.
Thomas Edison, the WIZARD" has
openly declared himself an enemy to
the labor organizations, his bitterness
having carried him SO far as to dis
charge every union man in his labora,-
tory. He even went SO far as to so
through the Edison Storage Battery
Go. "a shop not implicated in the
present strke) and discharge every
man who admitted he was a member
pf the union. The international AS
suciation of Machinists wish this
notice given the widest circulation.
Organizer James Leonard, of the A.
r. Of L., was driven out Of the good
old Bourbon town Of Vicksburg,
Miss, by armed citizens, because of
his activity in organizing the working