Labor reform by liberal employers and union history
The Sunday Globe surveys labor questions, arguing liberal employers can solve friction with unions. It cites English and American examples, praising Amalgamated Engineers and firms like Cheney Brothers and prominent figures such as Sir Titus Salt. It argues cooperation over strikes, explains Mill on strikes, and highlights humane treatment of workers as a path to economic progress.
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Sunday Globe
Lunds
Isbor
Trades Societies
England
John Stuart Mill
Saltaire
West Riding
Salt
Titus Salt
Yorkshire
Imperial Commission
Legion of Manor
Fee
South Manchester Cheney Mills Show Labor Harmony
A Globe correspondent visits South Manchester to study the Cheney Brothers silk mills. The article portrays a model village with about 1500 workers, owned homes, a company hall with a free library, and a policy against trades unions. Wages are fair, hours are 60 weekly, and housing is held by the firm to avoid nuisances. The piece contrasts with Bradford’s Salt and highlights humane employer practices and community benefits.
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New England
Bouth Manchester
Hartford
Conun
Cheney Brothers
Glone
South Manchester
Lim
Cheney Firm
Saltaire
Ciy-Drews Pilar
Cheney Gruthers
G. A, R. Post
Connecticut National Guard
South
Manchester
Jacquard
Cheney Tll
America
Ward Cheney
German Stone-Cutter Firm Earns Prize for Mutual Aid
In France, a German lithograph stone-cutting firm won a prize from the French imperial government for a worker generosity story. Facing a downturn, workers voluntarily cut wages by 35 percent but pooled savings to lend the owner funds, then repaid, preserving jobs and the business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titus Salt
Alpaca Wool and the Liverpool Merchant Tale
An 19th century sketch recalls a Liverpool warehouse owner who buys long unsold alpaca wool. The madman turns it into a thriving industry, bribes crowds of workers, and raises a town’s fortunes, while Chartist unrest and a slack economy test ambitious ventures. The tale notes Salt in Bradford as the alpaca maker and mayor, with a costly, controversial relief strategy.
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Saltaire
Dickens
Liverpool
Bradford
West Riding
Yorkshire
England
Werchant
Salt
Beame
Anggble Iupatic
Luo
Remarkable Alibi Story From Columbus Jail Descent
A despatch from Columbus to the Cincinnati Gazette reports a conspiracy of justice as Sam Hail, jailed for murder, claims innocence. He says he was earlier sentenced to fifteen years for horse stealing and escaped in February 1877, contradicting the murder conviction and suggesting wrongful hanging. The tale asserts he lied under threat of death to avoid execution.
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Columbus
Cincinnati Gazette
Nolmes
Sam Hail
Muscogee
Reunion of Cuban widow’s children after eight years apart
The widow of Francesco Rodriguez vanished with her two children eight years ago, leaving a five year old boy with Mr. and Mrs. Cox in Newark and a three year old girl with H. H. Eblers. Recently both adoptive families learned of each other’s charges and Mrs. Walker, now Mrs. Rodriguez, traveled from Newbury to Newark to reunite with her grown children in a dramatic scene witnessed by onlookers.
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Francesco Rodriguez
Howard Mission
New York
Thomas Cox
Newark
N. J
H. H. Eblers
Sears Woose
Train's View on Telegraphs and Monopoly Fight
Special correspondence from New York outlines George Francis Train praising cheap telegraphy victories by General Butler and condemning monopolies. The piece details battles with the National Associated Press, Western Union, and press freedom, plus calls for government restraint and accountability in communications.
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Boston Globe
New York
London
Train
Boylston Museum
Globe
Supposed Monopoly Battle Cited in Congress Fight
The text argues that if allowed, it would reveal Western Union’s influence over Congress. It credits the National Associated Press with a noble fight against monopoly, urging eternal vigilance and psychological evolution to overcome the odds.
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Western Union
Congress
National Associated Press
Heirs Claim Vast New York Trinity Estate Fortune
The Philadelphia Record reports Van Horn and Anneke Jans heirs asserting new discoveries link their lines to the Trinity Church property in New York and Lord Waldron’s estate in Holland. They say combined heirs may pursue claims across the Trinity, Waldron, and related lands totaling about 260 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
van Horn
Anneke Jans
Anveke Janses
New York
Trinity Church
van Horna
Pennsylvania
van Horns
Newark
Lord Waldron
Holland
Trinity
Wolfert Arnant Webber
William IV
Wolfert
North River
Chatham Street
Chatham Square
Peter Stuyvesant
Annelie Webber
Lovelace
Anneke
Jaus
Helleyona
Philip Minthorne
Wolfers Webber
Minthorne
Bogardus
Minthornes
Government of Oiland
Webber
Vantelt
Huguaman
Woolsey
Corson
Johnson
Longshore
McAlister
Brownsend
Vandergrift
Hariem
Hell Gate
Central Park
Lord Rk. Waldron
Jt 18
Monster Reptile Remains Found In Hollow Tree
Remains of a twenty one to twenty two foot snake are discovered in a hollow buttonwood tree after two neighborhood men split the trunk with a saw. The bones, with six inch diameter largest, are preserved and to be sent to the Society of Natural Science with a history of the case.
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Kelsey
Smith
Society of Natural Science
Fashion's Varied Spring Dresses Show Rich New Fabrics
Fashion notes new season silks and cottons with mummy cloth looks, over dresses in gray rose and lilac, pale grounds with faded floral patterns, and prints such as armures. Spring walking costumes emphasize dark street wear, while Princess over-dresses and basques pair with short draped overskirts for city and house wear.
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Adies
Wit and Wonders Across the Nation
A collage of brisk anecdotes and curiosities from Reading to Paris, Canby to Yuma. A jeweler's wooden watch, boyish math quips, daring rescues, frontier journalism jabs, new Paris hair fashion, roaming camels and a scrapbook mania populated by witty vignettes and local flair.
California's New Senator Farley Arrives in Washington
The Hon. James I. Farley, newly elected to fill California's U.S. Senate seat, arrives in Washington. A Virginia native who moved through Missouri to California, Farley built a reputation as an able, impartial legislator and former speaker of the California Assembly. His background spans mining, agriculture and commerce with deep Pacific Coast ties. He is expected to serve effectively in the Senate, drawing on long legislative experience.
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Bob Burdette
Calis
California
Washington Post
James ‘I. Farley
Senate
United States
Sargent
Farley
Virginia
Missouri
Legislative Assembly of
State Senate of
Democratic Party
Casselly
Mrr
Pacific Slope
Avis
Too D-d Fair
Senator Eaton once remarked about Bayara’s appeals for fairness that there is such a thing as being too fair to radicalism. He said he never heard of civilized warfare laws being observed when killing a snake.
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Washington Capital
Eaton
Bayara
Fashion description of skirts and stockings with monogrammed instep
A garment description notes an apron in front with straight satin side panels and overskirts featuring two apron draperies. Striped scarfs run along the length, a bouffant back adds a striped end, and stockings display a lace medallion on the instep bearing the owner's monogram.
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Fraternity of Labor
Adam Smith
Higgle
Lees
Tose
Conn
France
Paterson
N.J
Cheney Mills
Cheney
Lue
River Aire
Gladstone
Sale
Sir Titus
Sir Titus Salt
George Francis Train
Butler
Madison Square
P. E
B. S. Waller
Hammond
Associated Press
Corsican Brothers
National Associated Press Missions
Simonton
Goodsell
Hurlburt
Hutchins
Victor Hugo
Chul
Telegraph
Fiverybody
Chambers of Commerce
A! Boards of Trade
Anaconda
Pacific Railway
Staver
Withal
P Pacific
Thurman
Matthews
Clnernnati
White House
Jones
Committee
Simonlon
Billingsgow
Wall Street
Globe-Democrat
Tiul
Dana
Green
Blanton Duncan
Louisville
Secret League
Seamuson
Republican
Inter-Ocean
Globe Man
Witheheater
Haras
Paris
Uey Exchange
Europe
Chicago
San Francisco
Ralston
Bank of California
Cali Builetin
Mills
Naltons
Stock Telegraph
Stock Exchange
Standard Oil Company
Vanderput
N.A. P
Globe MaNn
Duncowbe
Comstock
Hayes
Bullock
Bill Sykes
Cologne
Brady
Oliver Twist
Chandler
Sayin
Sir James GraLaw
Jouke George
Saxony
Martin Luther
Napoleon
Charles Mackay
London Times
Illustrated London News
Associated Check
Graphic
Star
Froude
Buuler
House
Cavaan
Housatonic
Housatune
Euclid
Haydn
Reading
N. Deriot
Bristol
Jenn
Texas Pacific Railroad
Jerusalem
Deriot
Penn Street
Albany Journal
Miss Mackey
Miss Flood
Master O'Brien
Mackey
Hank
Canby
Minn
Bethel
Yameee
Societ l Eaders
Arizona
Canzona
Nevada
Gila
Yuma
Adonde
Sonora
New York Express
Pope
May
John Stuart Mills
Wheeling
Blackford
Rider Blossom Hollow
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