Prison Labor Mandamus Filed Over Convict Pay Rules
A writ of mandamus from Franklin County Circuit Court targets the penitentiary directors to pay convicts by the piece as required by law. Iron Molders Union leaders say the contract system harms trades and seek enforcement of the piece-work provision while noting broader labor and economic impacts.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Sam Miller
Board of Penitentiary Directors
Fitzpatrick
International Iron Molders’ Union
Iron Molders Union No. 3
No. 8
John G. Weaver
Iron Molders’ Union
BASE BALL NOTES Inter-League games and player moves
Yesterday's sole inter league game ended Cleveland 11 Pittsburgh 8. Detroit St Louis game postponed by rain. Upcoming schedule spans Baltimore Pittsburgh Detroit Chicago Kansas City two games Milwaukee Louisville bid, with several player changes including pitchers and infielders. odd spelling and misprints noted.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Pittsburg
Baltimore
Detroit
St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
Government Theory and Industrial Monopoly Critique
A Chicago Herald critique argues government sovereignty fails in business as capital wields power. It condemns Gould and telegraph monopolies, praises post office efficiency, and calls for extending government monopoly to private wires while denying private sale of water trusts.
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Chicago Herald
Merly
Israel
Solomon
Gould
New York
Washington Territory
Mr. Gould
Powderly Defends Immigration Policy in Minneapolis Address
Grand Master Powderly asserts support for immigration despite charges to the contrary. He cites his foreign birth and condemns agents who lure immigrants, saying he hates anarchy and anarchists. He argues for controlled immigration and questions the treatment of immigrants who risk poverty to seek homes in the country.
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Workman Powderly
Minneapolis
Union Labor Party of Ohio Proposes Broad Reform Platform
Delegates in Ohio endorse the Union Labor Party platform calling for abolishing the fee system, tying official salaries to service, banning bribery in nominations, revoking charters of violator corporations, taxing real estate mortgages, printing public school books at cost, fees from banks, and stricter regulation of speculation and corporate taxation. The document targets monopolies, patronage, and unequal wealth influence in politics.
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Union Labor Party
State of
Ohio
Cincinnati
Sone
Taharel
Banke
National Platform on Land Money and Communication Reform
The text presents a 19th century style platform advocating land reform with a graduated tax on large estates and public land opening in Oklahoma, calls to prevent corporate land accumulation, and to settle tribes. It argues state control of irrigation, public ownership of transportation and a national monetary system issuing currency to producers, with free coinage of silver and a postal savings bank. It also condemns forest bonds and debt, seeking rapid debt payment and equitable financial policy.
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Oklahoma
United States
Ees
Postal Savings Bank
Platform of the party calls for income tax and direct senatorial election
A broad platform urges a graduated income tax taxing the wealthy and millionaire bondholders, calls for direct election of U S Senators, exclusion of Chinese labor, and equal voting rights. It includes a resolution naming Land Transportation Money Income Tax and Chinese Labor as core planks, with states free to adopt others.
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Wehdale
United States Senate
Republic
United States
America
Colonel Wington
North Carolina
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Franklyn
Powderly On Immigration
Allen
National Platform
Ss. Tuchfarber
Central Avenue
Potter's
Mem
Fifth Street
George Albert
West Third &c
Telephone
Cincinnati, Ohio
Norwood
Bevieced
Moessingfr, Fritsch & CO
Fourth St
N. W. Cor, Seventh and Central Ave
Peter Ibold
KB. Cor
Central Ave
August W. Bruck
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