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Politically It drill *apport only the friends
at labor.
Subacriptlon rate*. *9.OC in adrnice.
All communications muit be addreMed to
Th* liabor Enquires, !«8 Larimer Street,
Denver Colorado.
The publisher of this paper w not respon
sible for the opinions of contributors, ine
columns will always be open for the discus
sion of all sides of the labor questions of the
day. Contributions always welcome.
Owikg to absence from the city and
- the multiplicity of dufcios devolving upon
the editor, he asks the indulgence of
readers with this issue, especially for
omissions of current matters of interest.
He has had time to personally attend
only to coal mining aflaire.
A FALSE CLAIM.
No doubt the chief strength of the re
publican party in the last campaign lay
-in its war record and its continued hos
tility to southern ideas or war issues,
which it claims are not yet dead. The
democratic party is placed, by republi
cans, squarely on the side of the rebels.
This ridiculous arraying of dead ques
tions is carried so far that a large part of
the republican voters actually believe
that the democrats, on ;e in power, would
establish all. the rebeln fought for, or at
least pay them for their losses. Soldiers
seem *to hold as much enmity now as
they did during war times. They would
willingly go through the sailie slaughter
again for a like offense.
They will “ vote as they shot ” tor the
g, o. p. that abolished slavery.
*' They established for negroes
and that amply rewarded them for all
sacrifices.
These are the arguments of republican
soldiers, but they are not sound.
In the first place it is a question
whether the slightly improved condition
of the negroes is woith the sacrifice of
half a million able-bolied men, a greater
number wounded, and spent to
the amount of three limes the valup of
the slaves.
Law is the only thing that can make a
slave, and law could have freed them
without blood. Not a soldier went south,
not one gave his lift, not a dollar was
spent with the direct object of freeing
the slaves. Soldiers can be found to-day
who will testify that they fought rebels
one day, and on the next caught fugitive
slaves; guarded them, and returned them
to their masters. Ihis did not appear
like fighting for theii freedom.
The republican paity did not free the
slaves. The party wis not organized for
the purpose. They came into power
with a determination .to keen slavery
out of certain territory and to preserve
the union with or without abolishing
slavery.
True, there was .in element in the
, party known as abolitionists, and they,
hy tbeir agitation alfrmed the south to
such a degree that they took up arms,
but not one republican in ten was an
abolitionist. Abraham Lincoln issued
ljis proclamation, not as an abolitionist,
nor as a republican, but as commander
• in-chief of the army. He could no longer
fight the rebels and protect their prop
erty at the same time.
When we hear a republican soldier
boast that his party abolished slavery,
we may conclude that he is not acquaint
ed with the facts. He may claim that
the republican party preserved the union,
but it abolished slavery as it would burn
a bridge—to gain a fighting advantage.
The government went into the war with
the avowed intention of preserving
slavery if possible.
The party which our zealous veterans
wish to keep in power- represents in no
way the men who preserved the union.
The republican party consists chiefly of
the men who grew rich out of the war,
They were not bv anv means dead
heads in the enterprise, for they now
want one dollar foi every thirty-eight
cents invested, and fig interest in gold
on the one dollar.
They did not evetv money for
war b()t? rathe red .*pp .gteen
.baeks after they ftad-been that
purpose, bought bonds with Ihern at 60
per cent and more.discount, and now de
mand gold" foi both -interest and princi
pal. *' • ’•
It-is hard lo'b'el eve that the demo- 1
crats are such fire eaters as the repub
licans describe them If Cleveland’s ad
ministration is equal or superior to that
of any president drring twenty years
past, the bloody shirt will wave no,
more. Republicans who are’anxious to
taxe up important issues will no longer
feel compelled to vol* to keep imaginary
rebels out of power.* Honest men will
gee that they have enemies in both
parties and will see tie need of a People’s
party. Unless the democrats attempt
something similar tc what the rebels did
in 1861 there ,will be no excuse for the
existence of the rep iblican party. H.
AN UNTENABLE POSITION.
The position at, press.n. occupied by
the coal managers of .he state who refuse
to settle with their miners is as unten
able as anything.co lid possibly be, and
jf the public will consult its vital inter
ests it tvi ,i i.o ’wire. At the Pueblo
meeting on night, Mr. A. H.
Danforth, of twl >rado Coal and Iron
company had a ‘.unity to defend
hia position beibiW tiarge audience of
dtiasna, but it wVm>>pa.*ent that the
bwiMi* mar convinced of
bis inconsistency and insincerity in rep
resenting himself disposed to consider
the public good.
The only reason why this affair has
not been settled and the miners all pot
to work, is that the managers all work
ing for the large corporations are not
willing to surrender one iota of the auto
cratic power they have exercised in the
pesL. They will not admit the right of
the men to organise and select their
agents; bnt it is all right for the com
panies to combine and choose represent
atives to do their business. Mr. Dan
fort h, when brought right down to the
meat of the question admitted thia be
fore, the people of Pueblo.
No honest, fair-minded man will deny
the same rights to others which he exer
cises himself; and it is certainly a very
inconsistent attitude for the managers to
assume, when they say how much they
shall have for their coal, and refuse to
allow the miners to say what they shall
receive far their muscle and sweat —their
only possessions.
However this prolonged suspension
may end, and whatever may be the losses
of the state, it cannot be said that the
miners are in the least to blame. They
have offered to do everything that is fair
—anything further in the nature of a
compromise would be unmanly and un
becoming a free citizen of free America.'
If three men in this state will unbend
their stiff necks this whole trouble can
be adjusted In a few hours and all the
mines in the state will at once begin to
produce coal-with which to operate the
other industries that are now being pros
trated. If those three men in their arro
gance and false pride refuse to concede
the trifling point at issue, there is no
telling when these happy results can be
broueht about.
The miner is in the right in this con
troversy, and anv mqn can so satisfy
himself if he. will but investigate, and no
freeman or true American could wish
him to yield-to the unmanlv demands of
the few managers who would treat him
as a slave, and not as a free citizen.
The people of Colorado are familiar
with the enslavement of the coal miners
in some portions of Great Britain. They
are also aware of the introduction of the
same system into the fields of Pennsyl
vania. Now* let me ask if the citizens
of Colorado wish to Bee the reputation of
this state blackened in like manner ?
Do you want the pure air of Colorado
poisoned with the odiousness of human
slavery ?
This is Dot exaggerating, but just what
you may look for if the managers who
are opposing a fair settlement of the
' present difficulty are successful in their
present plans. And the controifine
spirit of the little ring was educated in
1 the slave pens of Pennsylvania's coal
1 fields, by one of Great Britain’s slave
■ drivers, into the intricacies of the cruel
and devastating work he is at present
’ engaged upon. He may find the men of
the west a little harder to shackle than
1 those with whom he has been accus
-1 toined to deal, and there may be some
thing come of this which would cause
every good man and woman to shudder.
But God forbid that there should .be
! trouble of a serious nature. By all means
let there be peace; but not at the loss of
r justice and the sacrifice of manhood.
* In the interview’had by a Tribune
! Republican reporter with Mr. W. G.
Brown, general agent of the Colorado
! Coal and Iron Company, that gentleman
1 is credited with objecting to the plan
’ submitted by the miners upon which to
settle the present difficulty because it
is backed up by the Knights of Labor.
1 What Mr. Brown objects to, is the
' strongest point in favor of the adoption
of the plan. The Knights of Labor is a
strong organization doing business of
this character upon business principles;
its agreements have stability in them,
apd are never broken. Besides, the
> Knights of Labor are positively opposed
to strikes and the order is taking afl in
-1 terest in this affair principally on that
’ account, and to end the present strike,
i
\ The Pueblo Chieftain is the assistant
1 of the stubborn managers of southern
' coal mines, and it should be taboded by
bv every citizen of the state. The Chie
f-5 tain not only aids the managers in the
1 schemes of misrepresentation to the nub
• lie, but its enterprising “staff” concocts
lies to help on the nefarious work. The
blacklegs who run the sheet have not
the redeeming feature of common cour
tesy, which Doc Baggs was never with
; i out. Out on the blackmailing sheet.
I N |
The opposition coal managers make a
' great cry to the public about the injus-
I tice, to the companies, of a raise in the
| price of mining at present. The agrev
-1 j ment theyare asked to accept says noth-
I ing of an advance. It simply Drovides
that the price shall be decided,-with
other important details, by a mutual
board, upon whicn the companies will
have representation, of their own choos
ing The public must not be deceived
in these matters.
Whatever may be the errors of the
Tribune Republican in dealing with the
labor question as a whole, it certainly
lirtts the nail on the head, when it ad
, vises all parties directly connected with
the coal miners’strike, to yield to the
' demands ot public welfare, and to settle
the trouble as soon as possible. The
miners have taken this good advice, and
it now remains to see what the managers
will do. ,y.
The situation in the Hocking Valley
grows daily more wretched, and the
community is receiving a severe lesson
on the evil results of cheap, serf labor.
May Colorado be spared a like fate, by
the application of a wise policy to the
present threatening situation.
The citizens’ meeting in Pueblo Mon
day night to consider the cause of tne
coal famine was forcibly reminded a ]j.
there was a coal famine by l^e , ere '
eence of fires in the opera house, wh
the meeting was held. It was ‘asco a
as a barn.” .
Conylst Labor
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Editor Labor Enquirer.
Some men are “■polling for a fight” and
others have already spoiled becanse of a
lack oif the exercise- a little fighting
would famish. They cling to their doc
trines in a self-satisfied, orthodox way,
after the doctrines hare been demolished.
I have so far found fight enongh to
keep me awake, bnt I will engage in a
(natch on convict labor grounds if anv
one Will pat on the gloves. A Knight of
Labor should be a labor knight When
challenged he should defend his’princi
ples and not merely say he believes
them, then ran awsy. “Unionist” should
be ready to give a reason for the faith
that is in him or abandon that faith. He
reminds me of a Yankee who experi
enced-religion, but found hardly enough
time for the necessary worship. He man
aged to allow time for an evening prayer
before retiring, but after awhile even
that encroached upon needed rest. He
bad his best prayer printed and posted
in plain sight at the foot of his bed. On
retiring he would point to the poster and
devoutly say: “Oh Lord, them’s my
sentiments,” and go to sleep with a clear
conscience.
8o with “Unionist.” Article 12 ot his
platform may be attacked and riddled
bnt he turns to it again with tranquil
faith, with no defense excepting “them’s
my sentiments.”
I challenged “Unionist” supposing him
to represent the trades unions, nearly all
of which, I think, are opposed to the
production of wealth by convicts. If
the Knights of Labor hold principles
which will not bear the most searching
criticism, their platform will never be of
much use except as an object of faith for
fanatical knights to worship.
The spirit that leads men to monopo
lize the demand for labor is the same
spirit which would monopolize anything
else. Large corporations now monopo
lize and limit the opportunity to labor.
The Knights accept the situation and
would monopolize this limited opportu
nity, instead of making labor a universal
privilege. Thus the Knights of Labor
desire to establish two large
monopolies opposed to each other, leav
ing the rest of the world outside to strug
gle as best they may.
If there be any justice in one class
working to support another, surely the
convicts, the outlaws, ought to support
honest people. Say the trades union, no,
we will support the convicts. Here is an
inducement to become a convict. Tramps
will commit crime so they may be sent
to prison where luxury awaits tnem.
The Chicago Herald says convicts
should be set to breaking stone, or other
common work, so they will not compete
with the trades. Georgeous thought!
Crowd the laborers to the wall. They
are not organized therefore have no
rights. Their only chance to break stone
is to become convicts! Zeno.
What Can We Do?
For The Enquirer.
W*e hear much about over-production
of goods and food, attended by starva
tion. lam tired of hearing about it;
and what is more irritating it is all true.
What can we do?
First, I approve of the Declaration of
Principles; I approve of the course pur
sued by The Enquires. Let the people
become intelligent upon the subject, ami
then act. lam constitutionally opposed
to fighting where the odds are against
me; and the probabilities are that the
moneyed rulers can hire ignorant slaves
to kill each other as they always have
done, so that those who deserve killing
most will be found safest from bullets
and bavonets, as they always are.
It. is quite likely that intermediate ac
tion of all kinds will be proposed to put
off as long as possible the final crisis.
The entire public unsold lands might be
kept from sale and used only for actual
settlers. The surplus revenue might be
used for purchasing “people’s land,” at
convenient distances from workshops
and manufactories for the use of
ployed laborers, to be increased by dona
tions and unclaimed estates. All such
measures and other means will betaken
to put off the final reckoning that is sure
to come to the wicked usurpers of God’s
footstool, but the time will surely come
when all laborers shall come to the
knowledge of tbe truth. Approving the
course of the reformers, I have no sug
gestions to make at present. We must
not believe that our rulers and%obbers
are entirely inditierent to the true situa
tion.
A company of boys once started out
on a thieving expedition. They were
successful beyond their expectations.
Towards night they 1 were oyertaken by a
terrible storm and sought shelter in the
woods. Tree after tree was turned up by
ihe roots: they took shelter i"n the lee of
a giant oak, and, as a tree fell against it
and stop|>ed, they considered themselves
safe. Now, the boys were the children
of pious parents and had been provided
with good bible names. As night came
on and the lightning’s red glare began to
terrify them, they began to think of
their, sins. The oldest one tried to calm
their fears, but when tree after tree was
shivered by the lightning, and each ope
still nearer to their giant oak, .they .lost
heart. “Now,” says the
lightning may strike this oak tree -even
if the wind can’t blow it down. Moses,
can’t you pray ?” “No.” “Daniel, can’t
you pray ?” “No.” “Isaiah, can’t you
pray?” “No.” “Well, now, Aaron, can’t
you pray V' “No.” Nicodemus was the
youngest but the wickedest in the crowd.
There was but one more hope for the
party as each one talked of his sins. The
leader continued: “01 Nicodemds, can’t
you pray ?” “No.” “Well, I can’t nuther,
but Buthen's got to be done, an’ that
quick, too.”
Legislators who rob the people know
that there is danger ; .that it is coming
nearer and nearer. Sometimes they
think, but the final conclusion is, “Don’t
stop to moralize, just now, but hand
down another pullet.” A majority of
them know that “Something has got to
be done, and that quick, too.”
John Smith, Philosopher.
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Editor Labor Esnvntu.
The election being over, we have time
now for other investigations that may
be more profitable to os than the prob
lem as to who shall he our president, or
who shall compose our legislature, im- (
portent as they are there are other ques
tions equally as important, for instance
—how shall labor receive its just reward, 1
and why doea it not receive this? Be
cause there is a law in constant opera- '
tion which robe labor of its fair share of
the profita of production, and that is the
excessive interest paid for the use of
money. It is this interest that fixes the
price of land, the value of the farm, the
rent of the house, and the amount of
wages that shall be paid to labor. Where
interest is high rent is high, and as a
natural result wages are low. And lam
not now referring to what you will call
high. interest, but we will take 7 per
cent. I have fallen heir to $10,000; John
and Henry are two mechanics without
capital. -I contract with them- to build
me a house whicb shall cost $5,000, on a
lot for which I paid $5,000, The house
and lot together is worth SIO,OOO. 1
lease this house to John and Henry and
charge them 7 per cent upon its cost,
clear of insurance,- taxes and repairs.
The interest is payable quarterly. A
rate of 7 per cent per annum, paid quar
terly, will accumulate a sum equal to the
principal loaned or invested in oroperty
in ten years. At this rave in ten years
John and Henry are compelled to buy
another lot and build another as good a
house and pay the lot anfd house to me
for the use of the house they occupy. In
1 twenty years if John and Henry retain
the use of the house and its accruing
rents they must pay me three houses.
In thirty years they must pay me seven
houses; in forty years, fifteen houses;
. in fifty years, thirty-one houses ; in six
, ty years, sixty-three houses; and in
seventy years, one hundred and twenty
seven houses. In seventy years all
these must be built by John and Henry,
and paid to me, as the accumulation on
. the one that I leased to them. The 127
lots which John and Henry earn the
, money to buy cost $635,000, and the
. buildings cost an equal amount, making
together $1,270,000, which sum is paid to
, me for seventy-five years’ rent of one
, house and lot worth SIO,OOO, and at the
expiration of the lease the original houße
must be returned to me as well as the
[ rent. If, instead of being invested in
j the house and lot, the SIO,OOO had been
; loaned out at 7 per cent interest, and the
interest were collected and reloaned
5 quarterly, the money should accumulate
t in the same period precisely the same
s amount as the property. Now, tell me
j where is John and Henry’s share of their
r labor after seventy years hard toil,
j Did I keep them the few remaining
s years of their lives do you say. This is
what is taking place every day ; and I
was not cruel or. hard hearted. I only
did what is done everwhere, and what
the law allows. Neither did I charge
1 them Colorado’s lawful interest, which is
■ ten per cent, and I only charged them
! seven.
Oh, ask me no more where is the labor
er’s share of his profit; who gets the
f profits of the' people. This is the way
- the rich become still more rich and the
5 poor still more poor. A Unionist.
l ——-
I Be sure and visit M. A. Hirsh’s
, store, having just received another
line of cloaks and wraps, the styles and ,
j low prices of which will more than sur
-9 prise you for cheapness, not bankrupt;
, stock, nor auction goods, nor yet moth-;
’ eaten, but they are fresh and the latest
styles-
A Correction,
k Editor Labor Enquirer,
Your inquisitive daughter of the press
s harbors, like most of her sisters, a fqr
j midable enemy to the emancipation of
} us quill drivers from the time honored
’ Satanic superstition, in the person of the
3 printer’s devil.
Lo, and behold : I had compared the
illustrious financiers andrailroad owners,
( Vanderbilt and Huntington & Co. with
( the old boy Uncle Sam, himself, as
} highly problematical guardians of the
of the public property. Now your little
s office devil, being naturally in sympathy
' with the political devil, neatly drops the
’ U. S. out of mv manuscript, thus setting
Vanderbilt and Huntington by jhe ears,
t as pull Dick, pull devil, and to prevent
rectification of the the tex;, goes on to
make of the wronged former the
“farmer,” applying to Vanderbilt!
t Whereupon there is “wailing and
gnashing of teeth.” Have compassion
on us. . M. E. Lazarus.
A Splendid Affair.
. The social dance giyiven by assembly
• 8217, at City hall, on Wednesday even
f ing, was a perfect soccess in all ways.
; The attendance was large and every
i body had a fine time, The programme
i was a lengthy one, but it was enjoyed to
the last number. The music was excel
. lent, and the supper, winch was served
, at Zippar’s restaurant, was participated
r in by a large number of couples.
Owing to an unavoidable absence from
i the city the old man of Thb Enquirer
could not be present, and, therefore, an
, extended report cannot be given.
5S9“ M. A. Hirsh, 278 Larimer street,
will open, Monday morning, a case of
English worsted Jersey, of entirely new
designs, which are adapted for holiday
presents'; also ladies’, misses’, children’s* 1
and infants’ hoods and jackets, of various
styles and colors, and the prices of 1
which are certain.lv low enough' to in
sure quick sales. , Part of my knit goods :
are hand made. !
Sterling Steppers,
Local assembly 3403, of Sterling, Colo
rado, gave their first annual ball, at the
school house, on Wednesday evening.
The Enquiber extends thanks for an in
vitation, which arrived too late for ac
knowledgment last week, and hopes the
boys and their guests had a good time.
Sttr” The best, finest and cheapest line
of cashmeres, black, drab, etc., at M. A.
Hirsh’s, 278 Larimer street.
EASTERN SPECIALS.
Akram.
[By Associated Labor Preea.l
Akron, Ohio, Nov. 27. — The Guide
mill of the Akron rolling mill winked
one flay last week. The twelve-inch and
t}ar mill woirked four days, the puddling
department foil time —twelve farfiaces.
Ferdinand Schumacher, the noted pro
hibitionist and mill owner, increased his
employes’ wages 10 per cent the past
week. Mr. Schumacher owns the four
largest mills in this city, the Akron ele
vator and the Greentown elevator. AH
his employes get the increase. He says
he can see no necessity of the manufac
turers reducing the wages of tneir em
ployes.
The contractors of the big conduit
haye pushed work so rapidly that one
section, 1,200 feet long, is finished some
fourteen days earlier than expected.
Should the fine weather we have been
having continue, the contractors say
they will finish much sooner than they
agreed to.
The painters of the Empire Reaper &
Mower works, who had not vet “received
their rations,” were treated to a 30 per
cent reduction of wages the past week.
We wonder if this is not a little republi
can spite ? *Ferd Schumacher says it is.
The labor organizations have formed a
literary and social club for the mutual
benefit of the members and their fami
lies. They are to meet every two weeks.
Much interest is manifested.
A good many of our potters have not
got back to work since the strike, and
some have gone to other places.
Machinery molding is fair, but stove
plate molding is steadily getting worse,
with prospects of an early shut down.
The fine weather has given carpenters
and bricklayers a.chance to get in a little
fall work, but cold weather will soon put
a stopper on them.
Akron’s Cigarmakers union, though
small, is one of the best in the state.
The shops are all very small, but all
union. Trade dull. T. and L. J.
Kansas City.
[Ev Associated Labor Press.]
Kansas City, Nov. 27.— Labor matters
continue about the same as last week,
with no prospect of improvement. Idle
men will walk the streets, hunting em
ployment, and were it not for the fine
weather, many would be suffering. Coal
has advanced to $4.50 per ton, while
those who buy in small lots are charged
20 cents per bushel. Fuel in this western
country is one of the great items of living
for poor people, as the best of it is poor
stuff, compared with Pittsburg coal.
Rents, too, are enormous, considering
the class of houses put up for that pur
pose. One that will cost from $250 to
1 S4OO will bring $lO to sls per month.
There being no law whereby rent can
be collected after it is due, tenants are
compelled to pay in advance. Labor
organizations, as a general thing, have
1 not been a success in Kansas City. It
1 being the gateway, of the new West,
1 there are so manv unknown working
men coming and going, stopping here
only long enough to replenish • their
1 purses, not caring how much they injure
the local trade, and willing to work for
anything, and as soon as they make a
raise skip off, leaving board bills and
i debt unpaid, while the laboring men
• and mechanics who live here and have
families are the sufferers. Our advice
. to workmen of the east is to stay there,
, if they can live at all, until times im
,i prove, even though they may have
, means sufficient to buy a piece of land,
unless, in addition to that, they have
capital enough to support themselves
one or two years. Wheat and corn are so
; low in the middle and western parts of
this state, that it does not pay to ship it
• two or three hundred miles to market,
on account of the enormous rates charged
by the railroads.
From Lamar, Barton county, Mo., our
correspondent, W. D. Sallee, writes that
times are very close, there being no
work to do of any consequence. Wages
for those fortunate enough to obtain a
job for a few days is from $1 to $1.50 per
diem.- Common box houses, unplastered,
rent for $4 to $7 per month, while any
thing like a comfortable dwelling will
bring from $8 to $lB per month.
One of our oldest Knights of Labor,
N. N. Carpenter, was killed on Monday
evening, by being struck by a locomo
tive, as he was walking home on the
Missouri Pacific track.
The street car conductors and drivers
are considering the propriety of organ
izing, their object being to obtain a re-,
duction of hours for a day’s work.
As soon as the street paving contracts
are completed, hundreds of idle men
will be seeking employment.
Parties are hiring men here to go
south to work on the levees; wages of
fered, $1.75 per day.
We are in fayor of a convention at
Pittsburg in January. D. and G.
Pittsburg.
fßy Associated Labor Press.]
Pittsburg, Nov. 26.— Just as intimated,
there has been quite a number of reduc
tions of wages hereabout. It is esti
mated, all told, there are 25,000 idle men
in Pittsburg and Allegheny. The Cum
berland, Maryland, region miners have
been offered a reduction from 50 to 40
cents for mining. These miners were
'Pilled down from 65 to 50 cents in 1882,
when the big strike occurred, Five thou
sand men are interested, and a good
many of them are Knights of Labor, 1
and all belong to the Maryland Miners’ <
State union. Quite a number of window I
glass workers are idle, the Wellsburg fac- <
tory having closed. There seems to be I
a general movement for a reduction of <
wages by the flint glass manufacturers. <
Already McKee Bros., flint men, the last <
to concede an advance some time ago, t
have offered their men alO per cent re- t
duction. One hundred teen are affected t
and 250 work in the faStorv. The men 1
are not likely to accept. They belong 1
to the Flint Glass porkers’ union. a
A reduction of 60 jcents a ton has been f
REBELHON AIO GREAT SUUGHTEEI!
'• . ij IN
THE SEVENTH WARD!!
This is not caused by the Peaceable Citizens out
here, but in the price of
ZDBY C3-QO33SS
; . AND
LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, ETC.,
;S SOLD BY —;
J. A.STIMSON,
m SANTA FE ATENUE, Cor. BEAR St (Cor. Goody Block.)
Only goods of standard value sold, and at the Lowest
CASH PRICES. Warranted to give satisfaction. I .y
offer no baits, but do a straight business. Working
men will save money by buying of me.
ordered in the melting department of
Park Bro.’s steel works. The men (all
non-union) will eet $4 a ton, and they
accept the cat. The wages in the ham
mer department will also be cut down.
When the new rail train of rolls for
the rail mill department of the steel
works at Braddock are put; in working
order, it will do away with a number of
skilled workmen. They will have no
use for fifteen men at the roughing rolls,
twelve men at the shortening rolls,
three carry-over boys, nine running-out
hooks, three catchers, fifteen pull-outs,
nine chargers, twenty-four stockers, three
beateis and three helpers, making a total
of ninety men, which will be a great sav
, ing to the company but severe on the
workmen.
A number of miners working at Wat
son Bros, shaft have struck against low
wages and tyranny of the foreman. For
several days’ work he wanted to pay
them at the rate of 49 cents a day.
Oliver Bros. & Phillips’ standard nut
works .will not compromise on the ten
per cent reduction, and the men must
i either accept or strike. All the mechan
ics in one of the Oliver mills has been
! discharged. The Sharon, Pennsylvania
. mills (600 men) have dosed down. Of
j the eleven furnaces at Sharpsville, seven
I are out of blast The wire drawers at
> Olivers’ wire works have gone to 'work
| at the ten per cent reduction. The wire
i workdre and others at the Beaver Falls
r mills went to work Monday at -ten per
- cent reduction. It is rumored that there
is to be a general cut in wages on the
r Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The Penn
. sylvania railroad deny that they will cut
> wages. Robinson, Rea & Co., Pittsburg,
have notified their machinery molders
i (union men) of a ten per cent cut, and
j they may strike.
r President Costello and Secretary Flan
i nery, of the Miners’ association, have
t issued a circular to the miners of this
, district calling for a delegate convention
. of the river railroad miners, to be held
3 at 10 o’clock on the morning of Novem
r her. 27. The bad trade and election of
3 officers will be attended to.
r Italian and other cheap labor is leav
-1 ing this sectioq. Many go back to Italy.
1 The passage of the bill to prohibit the
i the importation of foreign labor under
s contract will keep them all out of this
5 country.
> John Fehrenbachtj chief steamboat in
■ spector, while here said he did not want
* the office of Chief of the National Labor
> Bureau, and it is to be hoped that he
> will not get it. ’ L. H.
i
1 , Hamilton.
f [By Associated Labor Press. |
t Hamilton, Ont., Nov. 27. — The weather
, for the past few days has been so mild
[ that it has to a certain extent, effected
several branches of trade, prominent
among which is, ready-made clothing.
; Molding, with the exception of the plate
i branch’continues extremely flat. Scale
i makers are well supplied with work,
, but the supply continues fully equal to
■ the demand. Cigarmakers, broommakers
, and confectioners have nothing to growl
about at nreseut writing. Printing is
looking up a little, especially in the
commercial job line. Merchants are
not rushed with patronage, their invari
able answers are—when asked how trade
is with them—it is going to be a tough
winter and don’t you forget it. Sir John
Macdonald has accepted a bribe from
Gladstone in the shape of a G. C. B.
What he is to give in return is not gener
ally known, but it is believed that he
has pledged himself to support the im
migration of Coolie Slave Labor into
Canada.
Notwithstanding the general depres
sion Labor oganizations are flourishing
here. In a population of less than forty
thousand this city boasts of thirty
healthy Labor oganizations, that is in
cluding the K. of L.
Palladium of Labor.
Cincinnati
[By Associated Labor Press.]
Cincinnati, Nov. 27.— There is no im
provement in ldbor circles since las re
port, and thousands of men are walking
the streets with no encouraging outlook
for the near future. After surveying
the labor field carefully I must say that
times are becoming worse every day.
The Trades Assembly held its special
meeting last Sunday, mention of which
was made a week ago, for the discussion
of the land question. The meeting was
called for two o’clock, but long before
that hour the ball was well filled. The
discussion was participated in by many
persons, delegates and others, four-fifths
of whom were of the opinion that private
ownership of land was wrong and detri
mental to the welfare and happiness of
the whole people. One delegate was of
the opinion that the right of acquiring
titles to land was nearly as old as the
land itself, and consequently could not
be wrong, though, he admitted that the
abuse heaped upon the poor through its
possession was wrong. One other
speaker thought that to enjoy that hap
piness it was intended he should enjoy
when he was created, man should return
to the primitive state. The discussion
was interesting throughout. It is a
source of agreeable surprise to your
correspondent to see so much interest
manifesteu in all labor matters, at this
tiiqe, notwithstanding the fact that hun- •
dreds of the members of labor organiza
tions are suffering forth« necessaries of
life in this city.
The Cincinnati Rifle union, an inde
pendent military organization, composed
exclusively of workingmen, will, it is
said, make application to the’ Trades
Assembly for admission to that body.
This company, though well armed, ig
opposed to turning guns against working
people at the bidding of capita!, be
lieving that capital is the aggressor in
every instance.
The locked out cigar makers were
again greeted with a full house last Sun
day night, the occasion being their
second hill-top entertainment. They
lose no friends, but are constantly
adding to their already large circle.
The co-operative enterprise, referred
to recently, is increasing in membership
rapidly. The company is making
arrangements to get their own coal from
their own lands in eastern Kentucky.
The Central club, People’s party, will
elect an organizer next Sunday and pend
him through the various wards of the
city on an organizing expedition.
M. D. G
Industrial News.
Easton, Pa., Nov. 25.— The puddling
mill of the Bethlehem Iron company,
which has been idle since the early part
of the autumn, will resume December 1,
Madrid, Nov. 25. —The government, at
the request of the professors, has con
sented to withdraw the police and mili
tary who were stationed at the universi
ties, and a conflict has been averted.
Fifty-three professors have petitioned
the government to convoue the council
of the university and proceed against the
civil authorities who invaded their priv
ileges.
W ilkesbaure, Nov. 25.—The Record
has private intelligence this evening to
the effect that the combination has or
dered the suspension of all the mines
in the anthracite regions on Thanksgiv
ing day, and for the first six days in
December. /
Woonsocket, R. I., Nov. 25.—Notices
were posted yesterday in the Globe,
Nourse and Social mills, three of the
largest cotton factories here, of a reduc
tion in wages to take effect December 8.
t INCINNAT!, Nov. 25.—Next Saturday
the Fairmouut mills, in this city, Will be
shut down for an indefinite period .This
is said to be in accordance with an agree
ment‘which has been entered into by all
the woolen mills west of the Alleghanies
by reason of over-production and dull
trade.
Woonsocket, R. I., Nov. 25.— The Har
ris Woolen company’s mill commenced
running on three quarters time yester
day. The North Dillingham and Cary
ville, Massachusetts, woolen mills will go
on three-quarters time on December 1.
London, Nov. 25. —The government,
after receiving evidence concerning the
condition of things in the Island of
Skye, has ordered the military and po
lice expedition hot to proceed further,
and quiet has been restored among the
crofters.
Paris, Nov. 25.—The thirty rioters who
were arrested on Sunday for singing the
Marseillaise and the Carmagnoir after
leaving the mass meeting at the Salle
■* Leirs, were variously sentenced from one
week to four months’ imprisonment. >
Pittsburg, Nov. 26.— The blacksmiths - "^
! at Oliver Brothers’ Tenth street mill
have been notified of a 20 per cent re
duction, to take effect December 1.
■ Boston, Nov. 26.— E. W. Chapin <fc
Sons’ woolen mills at Northborough
have closed indefinitely. One hundred
and fifty operatives am
Taunton, Jfov. 26.— Tl?J f ‘“' li *
weavers in the Whittenton inil)r’ efus
to return to work this morninT* J ™
mills have shut dowi 1
’ Lancaster, Nov.
hanna Bolling mil a
: wages 5 per cent.
Per«
Martin Comerford
the city last Saturda *b<! .
called in to see The
is the proper stuff, a
will rejoice to know
well.
Fiictue I
In the rush last v
marked “past
show ihatyopare |
had an idea of the
and the matters on
you would pardon 1 t
also apply to other
under like circums ..
the fellows whg.ar
respond as quickly
for-granted ‘Jiat I
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