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Pratt City Herald

Location

Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1901

Page

6

Conduit coats for summer wear featured in Paris fashion

A long survey of summer coats labeled Conduit presents full length garments in water resistant fabrics with varied styles. Descriptions include olive, blue, brown and peppered cloths with half stripe accents, plain sleeves, pockets, turn back cuffs, and a mid calf to knee length cut.

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Right to Work and Blacklists Stir Chicago Labor Debate

A Chicago superior court decision led by Judge Waterman upholds an employer right to blacklist workers who join strikes, arguing the right to work is the responsibility of capitalists who employ labor. The ruling suggests the wage agreements and the fight over hours reflect broader tensions between labor unions and capital owners.

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Among the toil ers and wage limits across unions

A Jersey City judge bans girls on strike from making faces while unemployed workers face job loss. Bridgeport master builders grant eight hour days after demands from carpenters bricklayers plasterers and stonemasons. New York Electrical Workers accept eight hour days and 3 50 daily wage for contracts within 25 miles of New York City. A cooperative group in Indiana plans a gas belt window glass factory at Centralia. The New South Wales Tabor party proclaims a new agenda with demonstrations likely. South Western labor trends extend to Washington employment rules capping female clerks assistants at ten hours and prompting store closures in hotels restaurants and laundries by early evening.

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Dinner Pade Signals Prosperity for Workingmen

The Age notes a western tinware firm outputs mainly five and six quart dinner sets, shifting from three and four quarts. It infers workers can provide larger, more varied lunches as prosperity rises, per the Louisville Courier Journal.

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Amalgamation Talk Around Railroad Brotherhoods

Ambitious talk of all ratio road brotherhoods amalgamating to resist demands likely from recently consolidated railcoat interventions. Centralizing vast corporate interests may strengthen union solidarity and influence.

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Early Hours in British Shops Spark Debate on Productivity

The piece argues that forcing an eight o’clock start aims to secure a longer workday, but early arrivals often waste energy. It notes workers arriving at six can worsen fatigue, cold, and wet clothes, reducing efficiency. Better timing and rest may yield more output than rigid early starts.

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The Structural Worker in the Iron Industry

A look at iron workers dangers and stories from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Details of riveting hazards, collapsing bracing, a worker leaping to the river and slipping injuries. Notes on building trades demand, street railway organizing in Georgia and Kentucky, and a printer union name change to the International Steel and Copperplate Printers' union.

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McKinley Not a Lone President in Era of Good Will

Smith D. Pry notes that McKinley’s White House tenure has been marked by frequent callers, contradicting the idea of a lonesome president. The piece contrasts Monroe’s era of good feelings with Jackson and Polk battles, praising McKinley as a sincere Christian leader whose public faith and devotion to his wife define his popularity. A brief late note mentions a London society protecting husbands from drunken wives.

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