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M l-,1l I-- 11 11 I -4-f- \ . k - : - ■ LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. ' TRADES ASSEMBLY. The Trades Assembly of Denver and Vlcinitymeets on the second and fourth Sun days of each month. J. R. Buchanan, President. C. L. Merritt, Secretary, News office. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. Montgomery Benevolent Assembly No. 1424 meets every Friday evening, at Knights of Labor hall, at 7:30 o’clock. Union Assembly No. 2327 meets every Thursday evening at Knights of Labor hall, 386 fiolladay, at 7:30 o’clock. BARBERS. Barbers’ Benevolent Protective Associa . tion meets every Tuesday at 9 p. m. at Knights of Labor hall, 386 fiolladay Street. J. Leonard, President W. Newman, Secretary. TYPOGRAPHICAL. Typographical Union No. 49 meets on the first Sunday of each month at Knights of Pythias hall, at 2 o’clock p. m. 0. L. Smith, Financial Secretary. F. P. Manik, Recording Secretary. TAILORS. Tailors’ Protective Society meets on the first Monday of each month, at Justice Jeffries’ court room, at 7 o’clock p. m. C. Puttkenmer, President. T. Hamlin, Secretary. STONECUTTERS. ” Stonecutters Union meets every alternate , Thursday, at Mitchell Guards’ hall, at 7:80 p. m. BAKERS. Bakers Union meets on the first and third Sundays of each month, at East Turner hall, at 9:30 a.m. / IRON MOLDBBB. Iron Molders Union meets every alternate Tuesday, at Knights of Labor hall, at 7:30 p. m. John Gilbert, Secretary, Colorado Iron Works. carpenters. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners meets on every alternate Tues day at the Little Emma, comer Wynkoop and Nineteenth streets. We would be pleased to have the time and place of meeting of all labor organizations in the city, together with the names and ad dresses of the secretaries, sent to us forpub lication. LABOR NOTES. Cleveland now has fifteen local assem blies. San Francisco and Oakland has thir teen local assemblies. Best set of teeth S 8: try him; Dr. Drury, dentist, Opera House block. Eberhart’s foundry, at Portsmouth, Ohio, is still closed to union men. Best set of teeth $ 8: try him ; Dr. Drury, dentist, Opera House block. At Peoria, Illinois, the Dailv Freeman has been declared a “struck office.” Teeth extracted witnout pain ; goto him; Dr. Drury, dentist. Opera House block. Over seventeen hundred women work ers are enrolled in the Rochester assem blies. Louisiana has 2,558 factories, working 30,081 hands, with a capital invested of $18,318,974, Albany, New York, reports in both branches of the molding business as be ing very dull. Trade is very good among both ma chinery and stbve molders in Jersey city,'New Jersey. Probably a convention of the Knights of Labor of Michigan will be held in Detroit in December. A single ton of coal converted into steam and operating machinery cah now do the work of eight thousand men. Six large cooper-shops are carried on at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the co-op erative plan, with a capital of $500,000. The striking window glass blowers of lower town (Bellaire) will start a factory of their own, and are looking for a sec retary. Forty printers in Rochester, New York , are on a strike for a raise of a cent thousand and more type. One office only is affected. Warwick, the candidate for lieutenant governor of Ohio on the democratic ticket, was defeated by the workingmen. He employs ‘'scabs”at his coal mines. The German Typographical union in Evansville, Indiana, struck against the Evansville Demokrat for an advance of five cents per thousand and achieved a victory. The Independent Carpenters union, of Cincinnati, has been disbanded, and the funds have been turned over to the Bethel. Thus all trouble in Porkopolis is settled. An ad-valorum duty on foreign labor is advocated by the New r York Post, to keep down European the labor market here and to keep up the tariff on foreign products. The newest industry in Port Townsend, Washington territory, is thatofsmug - gling Chinamen into California at night. Two ’longshoremen profess to have cleared S9OO at the business last month. The government of Great Britain has again appointed three trades unionists as factory inspectors. Their names are: W. 3: Davis, W. Patterson and A Platts, H the latter being an operative cotton spin f ner of Oldham. Perry & Co., of Albany, who employ twelve hundred convicts making stoyes, have issued a pamphlet and are distrib uting it among the farmers of that state, favoring the continuance of the convict contract system. Therivindow glass manufacturers have been to England to try and get men to come to this country, but they failed. The Englishmen had heard of the treat- ment the Belgians received here and refused to come. The stove molders in Amborse’s fac tory, St. Louis, Missouri, have struck. The wages were reduced twenty-five per cent last January, and ten per cent more in March. Upon a refusal to restore, the men quit work. After January 1,1884, the Knights of Labor will have a permanent levy of five cents per month in support of strikes and lockouts- The money can only be used by the consent of the executive board of the general assembly. The call for a labor convention to be held in Philadelphia, January 12, next, to form a labor party, is a fraud and em anates from a New York clique of polit ical strikers, with Denis Kearney to back them.—The Carpenter. The Cincinnati Unionist wants to know why newspaper reporters don’t join the Knights of Labor, and do some thing to mitigate the wretchedness of their condition? A movement of that sort in St. Louis fell through. The Miller Chain Works, of Akron, Ohio, having attempted to reduce the wages of employes ten per cent, the men struck. The company also demanded that the men dissolve their connection with the Knights of Labor. At the Burden Iron Works, Troy, New York, 2,100 men are employed. The works are turning out the usual amount of work for the season. The Albany and Rensselaer works are not running full, but 1,500 men are employed, The French printers held a convention in Paris last August, in which sixty-two unions were represented] having a mem bership of six thousand, and $8,798 in the treasury. A system of traveling benefits was adopted 1 . The official organ of the society is the Typographic Fran caise, Paris. The Pittsburg plumbers recently turned the tables on the bosses in a neat way. The men heard that the employ ers were canvassing the question of re ducing wages fifty cents per day, when they immediately struck for fifty cents advance. The plumbers are members of the Knights of Labor. Why do brothers so soon forget their pledge? When they place their hands over their hearts and agree not to carry outside the assembly rooms anything said or done, and then the next day go to politicians and tell what some one said about them, don’t they know that they are doing a dastardly act? This must be stopped. A Tyrant—if He Could. We are glad to see that the Irishmen of Canada are not going asleep over the introduction of the exterminator, Lans downe, as their English-appointed gov ernor. Like a thief in the night, he stole in, guarded by the dock police, well armed, and surrounded by spies and human watch-dogs, and in the fashion of the czar of Russia, he was sworn into office. Lansdowne robbed and starved his Kerry tenants at home. Like beasts of burden, they carried the seaweed from the beach up the steep cliffs to manure their little patches of land ; and when, by unremitting toil, they had turned the wild heather spots into patches of oats or wheat, be rewarded their indus try by raising their rent, and by exter minating them if they would not pay his price, When a lifelong course of this weary slave-driving, and an occasional wet sea son, had changed the men to famished skeletons, the English Lansdowne, lord of Kerry, without any ceremony, packed them off, huddled ten in one compart ment, in the reeking hold of the emi grant ship; to this country, and as one large ward of the old New York Hospi tal was altogether devoted to the Lans downe “consignments,” it was named the “Lansdowne Ward.” The free-mijided, independent think ing Canadians of Irish decent, or other wise, display a praiseworthy spirit in their cold reception of this man. To what use is all the advance of civiliza tion ; all the brave deeds done, and sac rifices made by daring heroes, if men, to-day, are frightened, cowardly beings, who, when they are kicked and trodden 1 •' on, will not turn ? There is no doubt that Lansdowne would not have got the nomination to this nice sinecure, but that he had a high character of fitness for the office. The emigration scheme was on at the time, and Canada, Manitoba and the wild wastes surrounding it were the burial places intended by the government for the poor hunted victims of Ireland. /But when the dumping first was noticed m New York, the intelligence of the city spoke out, anu while it had a w-el come to all who voluntarily came to make a living, it put a summary stop to this little game of England’s. The Can adian projected dumping then fell to the ground, and Lansdowne, whose experi ence as an Irish exterminator had been put into requisition, found himself, like Othello, with his occupation gone. He now holds the position of governor general of Canada, but with a doubtful tenure, as he may be recalled on the ground that the particular job for which he was chosen has bursted; or he may get so disgusted with the coolness of his welcome that he may himself elect to retire to England, or the son of some vic tim of his or his father’s Irish policy may him. The time for prank playing and dancing on the people is now over. A nod ought to be as good as a wink to those in high station who would wish to play the tyrant—United Irishman. , _ Another Gone. The first number of the Western Workman was issued June 30, of the present year; and two weexs ago it sus pended. The following is the reason given by that paper for its being brought into existence; “Many leading spirits in Chicago labor organizations have for some months urged us to undertake the publication of a creditable trade journal. They promised us undivided moral and financial support. We have finally con sented. To-day the Western Workman is bom.” And now it is dead. A noble paper, well conducted, showing work and abil ity, and in four short months it must succumb for want of that proper support due it. No class of men receive lees money and less thanks for the efforts they put forth in behalf of the oppressed than do editors of labor papors. The Oppressed cry out for deliverance from the hand of the oppressor, and when a lending hand is given them to aid them in throwing off this yoke of oppression they see it go down for want of nourish ment The workingmen will vet see the day when they will cry out in all their agony for the presence of these same journals which have gone down for want of their assistance. Workingmen seem to think that the editor of a paper when walking around (he knows not what for), is having a good time, lives on the fat of the land, and has what they term “a soft thing.” For shame, workingmen, for shame. —Cleveland Messenger. To buy or not to buy, That is the question. Whether ’tis better to have Last season’s suit Repaired and dyed, Or, to invest in brand new clothes And sally forth like a gentleman. To mend, to patch, ah, no! For, by a little bushel work To remedy the defects In one’s apparel is a scheme of Little worth. For who wo’d care to grive and groan Under the guise of ancient togs Made over, when he Might to the clothiers go And for dollars few obtain The latest and the beet, ’Tis poverty makes slovens Of us all in high-priced times, And makes us rather Wear the clothes of old than Others far more prime. « But why disturb The current of my thoughts; for garb Correct and cheap is sold at Strauss’, 407 Larimer Street. Wipe Out Blue-Bloodim. “I’ve faced worse mobs and hung bet ter men than you!” said Ben Butler, one day last week, to the howling republican mob that beset him on every side, and the expression serves to give us an idea of the savageness of the political fight now going on in the home of Puritanism. The “blue blood” mounts high in the veins of the aristocratic lords of Beacon Hill, and the manner in which they do battle and exert themselves leaves us the impression that really they are mortals after all. They want “to rescue the gqod name of the state,” they want to "wipe out the disgrace of Butlerism in other words they wish to cover up the nauseous sores exhibited to the world by the only man in Massachusetts that dare do it. But they cannot. Humanity shudders at the exhibition and applauds the phy sician bold and skillful enough to ply the scalpel and lay bare the corruption that made merchandise of man—that starved his body in life and debased his covering in death. No, Boston “blue bloodism” is on the wrong track this time. There is but one way to wipe out the disgrace brought upon Massachusetts by the debasement of her own manhood, and that is to decry the horrible state of things brought to light by Ben Butler’s Tewksbury poor house investigation, to stamp the seal of condemnation upon such acts of inhu manity and place the penalty of ostra cism upon the guilty ones or those who abet such barbarities by striking at the man who revealed them, who cast aside the mockery of state pride for the higher dignity of manhood. May Ben Butler win against all the money of New York and Massachusetts backed by the “cult ure” of Boston, and may the traitors to the human race be taught a lesson in the coming election that others will remem ber when they contemplate such crimes in the future.—lrish World. Revolution in Europe. The Rev. Robert Laird Collier, for merly of Chicago, but now a resident of England, in a letter to a Chicago paper not long ago says that England is panic stricken. Dynamite, dynamite, dyna mite everywhere. You have heard of the arrests in Birmingham and London of the men who have been manufactur ing nitroglycerine, but you have not heard across 4,000 miles of land and water the echo of the feeling in England. This feeling is very complex. The public press suppresses this feeling, as it deems, in the interest of social order. The dominant conviction is that we are just at the beginning of a European political and social revolution. The old regime is drawing to its close. It is given out that never again will a crown be permit ted to be placed upon a head in Europe. Men who are sober and as prophetic as was Isiah, as solemn and as pathetic as was Jeremiah, call the world to order. “Halt." All along the lines these men are shouting "Halt! ” Education, steam, electricity have in -1 troduced man to man all over Europe. 1 Man is in solemn conclave. In London, ' in its streets its clubs, its galleries, among ! all sections of society, men are propound ’ ing questions in social statics that no ’ philosophy can answer, except just one: Social revolution! The wrongs of Ireland are venerable * and heinous. As far back as 1842 a royal * commission reported to Parliament in 1 favor of certain reforms in Irelrnd. Bill 1 after bill has for these forty years been introduced looking to reformatory legis lation, and they have either been de l feated or dropped. > Englishmen own Ireland. These few - thousand land owners have up to now l exacted every farthing of rent in good t years and bad years, and have spent s their money in England. Ireland has r been villainously governed and socially ; I ill-used. . I So to the end would Ireland have been THE LABOR ENOUIRisR governed and ill-used had she not made her voice heard in the land. Bat really the Irish question, momentous as dyna mite iB causing it to be, is but a small factor in this getters! European revolu tion. The Ciar of Bosnia is the absolute ruler of 85,000,000 souls. He keeps in his winter palace 7,000 servants! He and the imperial family of Russia absorb an amount of wealth of these 85,000,000 souls almost beyond calculation and beyond the knowledge of any of them. But Russia is far away. Perhaps not so far but that we shall hear the report of more dynamite explosions there before the imperial crown is placed upon another head. The Queen’s yearly grant of 300,000 pounds does not at all represent what her majesty costs the nation. Her places, her parks, her yatches and almost her households are kept up at public expense In the budget this year, it is reported, there is actually a charge for a rat-catcher for catching rats in the royal palace. The nine children of the Queen have enormous allowances rated upon the people, and yet not one of them ever crosses the Channel except at the ex pense of the people. Royalties and aristocracies are expensive ornaments, and for the first time in modern Europe people are asking if this wicked show is much longer to be kept ud. Within a gun’s shot of Buckingham Palace men and women are dying—not figuratively, but actually—of starvation. Yet any member of royalty can cross the channel any day of the week and the people must pay for it to the tune of from 40 to 120 pounds. These infinite disparities between these royal princes and the millions of toiling, suffering subjects are being not only seen and felt, but resented. What redress have the people? How can they make themselves heard? Parliament is the legislature of the rich, and men who op pose these venerable wickednesses are counted, as eccentric, as agitators, as dangerous. Power never surrenders power. This present ministry is called liberal; is said to be the most radical cabinet England has ever had. Yet not one member of the cabinet —not Sir Charles Dilke or Mr. Joseph Chamber lain —dares to vote against wicked and thieving appropriations to princes and to endow newly-created peers. There is no newspaper of influence in Ljndon, if in England, that raises its power against these legislative wrongs. The tongues of the platform and the press and the pulpit are bribed by social considerations. Dynamite is horrible. Assassination is hideous. These are ways that men are making themselves beard. The press, the platform, the pulpit are closed to their cause. The estimates of the army were never in a time of peace, so large as in this year’s budget, amounting to the sum of 17,000,000 pounds. The shipyards are turning out war vessels costing the people millions more, the millions ot people are finding life an intolerable burden. Their backs are bending and breaking beneath their loads, and are whispering their wrongs into the ears of sympa thetic men who become frenaied, and are speedily convarted into dynamite mon sters and dastardly assassins. One of Turgeneff's Stories. Just before his recent, the Russian Turgeneff put out some deep satirical trifles. Here is one of them: A? man with white hands claims brotherhood with a knot of workmen. “Impossible,” they rejoin; “your hands are white, ours are brown. Ours smell of tar; of what smell yours?” “Trv.” “The devrl! they smell of iron.” “Even so. I have been six years in fetters for your sake.” “Oh, so you would be a rebel, would you ?” Two years afterwards the workman meets another, and hears that the man with white hands is going to be hanged. “What say you, Brother Dimitry, could not one get a piece of the rope? They say it is a lucky thing to have in the house.” “True, true Brother Peter; let us try.’ Ratted. At the regular meeting of the Journey men Tailors’ Protective Society held No vember 6, the following resolutions were passed: Resolved, that L. Harrison, of 268 Seventeenth street, be stricken off the list of fair shops and be placed on the unfair list. That all union tailors be re quested to keep away from that firm. Resolved, that a copy of this resolu tion be sent to the Trades Assembly that they may strike his name off their list of fair shops. Resolved, that a copy of these resou tions be sent to the Labor Enquirer for publication. •Mr. Editor In asking you to publish i this I would like to say a few words in i explanation. L. Harrison has at several times objected and refused to pay the scale of prices agreed upon by him when he signed our constitution. A short time ■ since he discharged the union men em . ployed by him and taking on non-union , men to fill their places, at the same time ; stating that he would have no more ■ union men. We would therefore ask all ' that have the interest of the workmen : at heart to effectually boycott L. Har rison until he agrees to again employ union men. [ / Thomas Hamlin, Secretary. Too Lato to Register. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hamlih were presented with a bright little baby boy on Tuesday. This is the first child b orn to them in America, their others being children of English birth. Mr. Hamlin is a member of the Tailors’ Protective society of this city and is also financial secretary of the Trades Assembly. Thb Enquirer joins with his fellow-workers and many friends in congratulating him and his good lady on their new treasure. Tom says the visitor wasn’t registered, or he would have voted the workingmen s ticket. • JOE MURRAY. What the Sterling Champion of the People Says in a Private Letter. — 4, My Dear Buchanan. Ft. Collins, Nov. s.*—l have just re ceived and read letter signed by your self and friends in reference to the Chaf fee announcement that I am to address a public mass meeting to-night in Den ver. I am surprise that any of my friends could be led to believe or even suspect for a moment that I could be base enough to be guilty of such damnable conduct. It is true that I received a polite in vitation to address the meeting—but I did not deign a reply. Last year my entire crop was destroyed by hail and I was left penniless and in debt Several prominent wire palling republicans thought it was a good time to offer me a bribe, and they did actually offer me $5,000 if I would agree to obey their dictates. This year the hail "has destroyed three fourths of my crop and I suppose they imagine I am reduced low enough to take anything offered. They have ndt sufficient money among ail their millionaires to bribe me to say one word in their favor. Since leaving the republican party in 18781 have been belied and slandered constantly. I was persecuted with the utmost rigour, my wife and children left without a roof to protect them, until I managed to build a log shanty which I bought on time for $5. I would not sur render then, although the workers of the state were not organived—and I am sure lam not to be conquored now when I have a shanty all my own for my family and I can see my fellow laborers stand ing shoulder to shoulder in the dawn of organized victory. It is evident to me that labor is gaining ground in Denver when Chaffee and his minions resort to such dodges to try to break our ranks. Say for me always and atanv time that I have enlisted for the war and that I will be found, while life lasts, fighting to the best of my ability against all who oppose in any manner the olevation of the laboring man. I differ at times, in non-essentials with men who are equally earnest, but my platform is broad enough for all human ity. I know no creed, fxo clime, no sect, sex or race in my utopia. I am opposed to kings, queens, land lords and all their supporters—and I ad vocate the education of the masses—not the ABC business of to-day, but the full and complete education of every child at the expense of the state for the good of society. With respect to you and your friends and with pride in your sterling manhood, I remain, yours for humanity, Joe Murray. If the workingmen of New Jersey permit Jonathan Dixon to be elected governor, they deserve to be tarred and feathered. Dixon is the man who, as judge, imprisoned McDonnell, tiffs editor of the Patterson Labor Standard, for telling the truth .in his paper. Dixon said he would not fine him, because the people of Patterson would immediately subscribe the amount. This vindictive corporation tool should be buried under the votes of the workingmen and farmers of that state. If they do not squelch Dixon they deserve to be slaves.—St. Louis Union. If Dixon were a candidate in Denver he would be elected by an overwhelming majority. The workingmen here love to lick the hand that strikes them. By Wire. Pittsburg, November 7. —-The an nouncement that the Lackawanna iron mills has taken a contract for 60,000 tons of steel rails, at $35 oer ton. occasioned considerable talk among those interested in the industry here. Thomas M. Car negie, of Edgar Thompson & Co., Pitts burg Bessemer mills, in an interview said they could not manufacture rails at that rate, and as the orders on hand would not keep the mills running longer than the first of January they would probably be compelled to shut down by the stopping ol the mills. At Home stead and Braddock’s nearly five thou sand men will be thrown out of employ ment, and the coke trade materially in terfered with. London, November 7, —There was an explosion at 8:30 this morning in the, Moorefield colliery in Lancashire. There were 110 miners in the colliery at the time of the explosion, and after about fifty of them had been rescued, some of whom were badly hurt, the shaft became blocked. Parties searching for missing 1 miners traversed a distance of ever three-quarters of a mile before reaching the scene of the explosion. Twenty four bodies have been taken out of the mine, and twenty-four await removal. The latest accounts show that sixty-three miners were killed. Washington, November 7. —Senator Miller, of California, has written a letter to the secretary of state, complaining 1 that by the fraudulent practices of the ! Chinese officials, hundreds of Chinese laborers are being landed in America as teachers, students, merchants or others desiring to travel in the United States. Belgrade, November 7. — Four radicals were arrested to-day in this city by or der of the minister of war. The Banja district is in a state of siege and the riots ; are spreading. St. Petersburg, November 7. —at a meeting of the Nihilists to-day, the > moderate party prevailed, and the pro ■ posals of the terrorists in favor of vio ! lence were rejected. [ Cincinnati, November 7. —A Times i Star Steubenville, Ohio, special says the 1 miners went to work this morning ac ' cepting ten per cent reductions against j which the miners have been standing out for six months. ...ViD- „ V,... A \ < ~/• ■ ,-A A , ,*■*■ ’ ■’ I" ' J _ J". S. DREYFUSS, TMorkinpen’s Clothier, Wholesale and retail dealer in CLOTHING i GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Etc. 379 LARIMER STREET. HAS RETURNED FROM THE EAST, WITH A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF FALL & WINTER, CLOTHING-, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, CAPS, HOOTS, SHOES, ETC. He is Receiving Daily Hew Goods, Which He Will Sell as Low as the Lowest. Gail and See Him and Examine His Stock Before Purchasing. 9 9 , PURCHASERS NEED ONLY CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND PRICES TO BE CONVINCED THAT ALL WE SAY ARE FACT 3. J. S. DREYFUSS, 379 LARIMER STREET, DENVER. NEW FALL STOCK Of the Double Sewed Clothing for Men, Youths, Boys and • Children, Just Received at q6B Fifteenth Street. Call and See the Styles. Rollins & Bond. ON SUNDAYS.-^® /Jilil F - 0 BARTOL ’ S meat makket, 205 LARIMER STREET, Fresh Meats of All Kinds On Hand All Times. Try Him. WORKINGMAN —AND THEIR FAMILIES 1 Are Invited to Examine the Elegant Assortment of ■ XDR/1T GOODS As Found in the Beautiful New Store of M. J. McNamara & Co. - .j • r f ■Of'; - + • „ GOA. FIFTEENTH 4 LRRIMER ST. I > , : . i -A • • •- hIWSj - WE AIM TO PLEASE OUR CUSTOMERS AND WILL AT ALL TIMES GIVE THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. '' • During the Warm Season Extra Bargains will be Found, and it Will Pay You to “Drop in” and Get Prices. ■j ' - • . YOU WILL MTS BE WELCOME I ' "I j ' : j;M BEADTIFUL PLAQUES FREE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. Lv* jj V I , . , v vH