The Labor enquirer. [volume], December 16, 1882, Page 5, Image 5

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LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
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r-■ , /r TEADES ASSEMBLY. j
Time Trades Assembly of Denver and
Vicinity meets on the second and fourth Sun- c
days of each month.
JJichard Watson, President. ,
J. R. Buchanan, Secretary, 370 Larimer. J
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KNIGHTS OF LABOR. •
Montgomery Benevolent Assembly No.
nw cvi n at Mitchell
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57 meets on the
\ .evenings of each (
t, at 7:30 o’clock, i
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49 meets on the '
h at Knights of 1
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icial Secretary.
Secretary.
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;y meets on the
nth, at Justice
ock p. in.
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every alternate
•ds’ hall, 't 7:30
le first d third
, Cast Tail ,er hall,
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LS
* every alternate
•ds’ hall, at 7:30
ive the time and
nr organizations
e names and ad-!
nt to us fdrpub
(lunni for Mtua
■ all to maki' u>o
i hoy; ode who
v preferred,
do ouLside work
oui of euiploy
iuations, free.
now 1 hat we do
■ b printitni.
vuss for Rubber
arimer street.
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cdnesday, the
bouncing boy
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c an interest
ii the pen of
k Twain. It
nation meets
will be ad-j
i“s. Mr. Isaac \
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o be in wait
weights and
■ be more wait
> ntrnent.
Denver, who
a dangerous
1 track®, will
be pr fsed
itf €enhr,l*idh
ateSajAfcing
m putV : an
•lean!mess of
arrested for
while post
s resting in
ill abide till
tion will be
■i corner of
. :ets, is going
■ to furnish
* companies
f prices that
rarten school
ie beautiful
. ' stage. He I
with him to
night at the j
v retired by [
,‘e still upon I
tlieif re- J
t sufficient j
city is rich -
retired list
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Denver A j
e ago,- forI
train near '
the lower
s appealed
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of Seven
ther proof
ad council
i of the as-
sible men,
[ Assembly
1 igs:
nd during
I )ur largest
ated their
music for
in d reds of
Store and
Christine Nilsson appears in the Tabor
Grand in a few days and the sale of seats <
begins Monday. Our Italian musical 1
critic will arrive in time to give Chrisie 1
what she merits. He will occupy The t
Enquirer box and will be escorted to the s
opera house by a deputation of Denver ;
journalists and retired policemen.
Those workingmen in the city who are
without the protection and benefits of
organization are referred to the article 1
in another column under the head of! !
“To the Unorganized.” For your own 1
benefit, the welfare of your family and ;
the future generations, we appeal to you :
to bestir yourself in this business.
The most attractive of the numerous
places of interest in and around the <Mty
at present is the new city hall. Crowds 1
of eager sight-seers dock daily to view |
the classic ruins of what was once a j
magnificent structure (on paper) and a!
monument to American architecture and
“scab” workmanship. Many of the
visitors carry away scraps of the fast
crumbling walls and will place them
side by side with the eye of Cleopatra’s
needle and teeth from the burro’s jaw-i
bone of ancient history.
Visitors to this oiiice between the j
hours of 7 ami 10 in the evening will he j
treated to a rare entertainment. We j
have made arrangements with two |
I score of the auctioneers and .Cheap!
I i
j Johns who ply their oratorical vocations ;
| just opposite the office to furnish an en- j
tertainment each evening during the j
| holidays, and the hot wattles fiend will
| also appear in a number of interesting 1
! sketches, assisted by his sweet-voiced
I cub in apron and paper cap. Drop in for
u few minutes, but for whatever may
happen don't blame us.
Job Work.
We are prepared to do all kinds of job
work in the highest style of the art, at
reasonable figures. Understand, any
kind of job work. If you are needing
anything, call on us, 370 Larimer street,
over C. Frick’s shoe store.
Fire Department Notes.
j The hoys are having things pretty
I quiet at present, hut have some amuse
ment on the tapis for the near future.
i Jule Pearse has a new gong in his
j buggy, which is about the size of an
j average cheese, and when you hear it
| you feel like hugging the fence; it al
i most frightens the life out old Konosli.
1 Andy Butler, of the Archers, it is ru-
I mured, is contemplating suun taking
| unto himself a partner. We wish Andy
I success in the step : hut we’ll wait until
! he takes it, before saying the customary
! nice things.
j Frank and Billy, the equine firemen,
have been treated to an operation with
i the clippers, and the boys feel so proud
of their beautiful aides that they vow
they are going to rub them down with
rose water.
"Bill" Farrington has donned the de
partment colors, and the boys say his
long limbs will he of good service on the
truck.
The Richards hoys are much annoyed
at the delay in the completion of their
house, and are much displeased with the
contractor for “skipping” before he had
finished the job.
Charley Hinman takes a great inter
est in electricity and the boys say it is
dangerous to sleep with him —he is very
liable to toss them out.
Odious Laws.
Within the three last weeks two im
portant incidents showing the oligarchi
cal tendency of our government have
occurred.
The first was a combination of all the
starch factories of the country, with two
exceptions, into one great company, thus
j making a business very similar to the
Standard Oil company. Starch'is pro-
I tected by a prohibitan tariff amounting !
to 119 per cent, thus making the monopoly i
j complete. The first thing to be done j
I now. will be to put down the price of I
| starch below cost, till they crush out the j
: two institutions who refused to join the
monopoly. Then they will put the price
J up to the satisfaction of their own sweet
j wills. ■
Another law that went into effect
jin the state of New York on the first
' day of the present month prohibiting j
laboring men from consulting with each
other concerning their own business. If
several men working in the same insti
tution consult together concerning their [
wages or treatment, and unite in their
demands for an increase of pay, or in
their objections to having their wages
cut down, they may he arrested, fined
and sent to the state prison. The New
\ ork Truth, speaking of it, pertinently
says:
fTider it it is -now a crime to ask for
higher wages by combined action. Strikes
are criminal. The c agmbination of labor
is conspiracy. The demand for fair
wages for fair work is the first step
toward the penitentiary.”
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THE LABOR ENQUIRER.
This is not a law of Kussia, but of one -
of the great states of North America,
where patriotism and alcohol blend so
beautifully in the brains and capacious
stomachs of our flexible congressmen on
anniversary and funeral occasions. There
are similar laws already in existence in |
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. s
■ Durvea’s starch factory' at Glen Cove,
New York, seems to stand at the head of
this infamous combination. There was
a strike of the workingmen at this insti
tution last spring, and a committee being
appointed by the Knights of Labor to 1
inquire into the causes, fount “that the (
wages of the employes avefiaged only
$1 per day ; that they were forbidden to
organize in any way whatever, either for
social, political or literal purposes, and
required to vote as their employers die- j
tated: that they even interfered in pri
vate family matters, and would not allow
an employe to marry without their con- i
sent, and the workmen were compelled
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to trade at their stofie
Such being the rules of the factory,
( employes may’ now he sent to the peni-
I tentiary for demanding money instead
iof store pa\ r , or for voting against the
j dictation of their employers, if it can be
; made to appear that the matter had been
; previously discussed by three hr more
i persons. Could despotism go farther? I
! And yet these men, thus protected
| from strikes, and by a prohibitory
' tariff, clothed with power to send men
! to prison for refusing to work for them
|at their wages and under their hard
I conditions, themselves form conspiracies
and combinations with the manifest pur
pose of robbing, at once, employes and
consumers. No law applying to laborers |
| reaches them. The law was made for
their benefit, and discriminates in their
| favorand against their employes and pat
i rons. They are turned loose upon the
community licensed by the government
to rob whom they can, proteetedTiy gov
-1 eminent police, while their employes
are bound and gagged, and the govern
ment standing with a tariff bayonet at
every consumers breast, compels him to
"stand and deliver.” All this is done in
the great and glorious United States,
“the land of the free, and the home of
! the brave,” where “all are sovereigns,”—
.
j not in Russia.
Trouble in Canada.
A correspondent writing from Mon
! treat says': “A general lockout of lasters,
j to the number of 500, has occurred in all
i the boot and shoe factories. Unless the
1 dispute is settled in a few days the es
tablishments will all he shut down, thus
depriving from S,OOO to 10,000 of all ages
and sexes of employment. The manu
: faeturers have combined, and are pre
| senting a bold front, in fact, acting on
! the aggressive, by discharging men who
; have been employed from ten to fifteen
| years in the same factory. The object is
to suppress the union, or its interfer
: cnee with employes. The whole trouble
now appearing so serious, originated in
the employment of two non-union men
in an establishment where the union
men had struck. The union has offici
ally denied that it ordered the strike. A
very large meeting of operatives took
place this evening, hut nothing definite
was accomplished, beyond the appoint
ing of committees to confer with the
employers. Those called on subse
quently refused to treat unless through j
their association.
“The cigar makers have given their
ultimatum as to a scale of uniform
prices. Some manufacturers are paying
the rate demanded at present, but the
large majority refuse. A conflict in this
trade is regarded as almost a certainty.”
American Aristocracy.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
A society m Baluiaore is trying to establish
a basis ol American Aristocracy, and has
adopted rules prescribing the conditions of
birth which justly entitle a man to tbe I
honors of nobility. The following are the
prescriptions:
“Male descendands from the colonial
j governors, generals and chief justices.
“Male descendants from the signers of the
J Declaration of Independence.
“Male descendants of the Knights of the
I order of the Cincinnati (Revolutionary field
| officers).
“Resident European nobility.”
Those rales are very good but they do not
go Ur enough, tor which reason we advise
the following additions :
Male descendants of the American colonel.
Male descendants of the signers of petitions
asking the governor to pardon a political
| thief.
The grandchildren of prize fighters.
Female descendants of the national wash
erwomen.
Relatives of the man who does not drink.
Relatives of the man who does drink.
Great-grandchildren of the man who
invented the American hired girl.
Greatgranchildren of the man who did
not invent the American hired girl.
If these additions are adopted, we have
every reason to believe that the society will
be a success, resulting in the estdblishinent
of a grand aristocracy. There are bo many
purse-proud men in the United States that a
basis of family distinction is a national
necessity. j; , 7 *
N. G. FERGUSON. NOAH ALLEN.
FERGUSON Si ALLEN,
Attorneys at Law,
Room 17 Tabor Block, - Denver, Colorado.
S. E. BROWNE. T. G. PUTNAM.
EROWNE & PUTNAM,
Attorneys at Lau,
No. 383 Larimer street. Denver, Colorado.
FRANK TELFORD. ' R. H. GILMORE.
TILFORE Si GILMORE.
Attorneys at Law,
Rooms .V7 and 9 Moffat & Kassler Block'
Lawrence street.
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Has lately purchased the interest
of Mr. Jack Lambert in this well
known eating house, and hereafter
will he prepared to furnish his
customers with everything in the
the market at the most reasonable
1 rates.
He has every facility for fur
nishing travelers with lunch, and
will endeavor in all eases to give
i satisfaction.
ID. 233 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER.
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