St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31

pICoCHC. IL GLc Hills are ClOSoQ as expected
about 10, 600 men will be thrown out of en-
plOyment.
OUTSIDE LABOR NOTES.
Items of Interest From the Field al
Large.
The Industrial development in the South,
says labor exchange, is surprising even to
SOutherners, to whom the smoke and noise
OF industry have been strange. The South
ern states are growing in industrial wealth
faster than Northern states. Scores of little
Industries are arising, calling for from 81, 600
to SIS, 900 capital. Mines are being opened,
lumber mills and woodworking factories
being built, new cotton mills are bobbing
up every day, telephone and electric light
companies are being organized. 1t is from
this growing section that our future valua-
BILE markets are to come for tools, cloth,
iron, hardware and the many products of
cultivated skill
Some English iron and steel firms are
profting by military operations. One con-
Germ has just received an order for 300, 900
ramrOds for cleaning rifles; another an order
for 10, 900 dozen rifles; another for 20, OOO
intrenching tools and 20, 900 telegraph pins.
Then there are orders for machinery to
make small arms for water pumps, for hy-
draulic machinery, for army transport, and
for cranes. A Russian agent tried to buy
20, 900 tons of coal, but his order was re-
fused.
PittSburg turns out IS, 900, 900 bottles and
walls every year, besides ~, 500, 900 lamp
chimneys, many of which we export to
Central and South America and Cuba.
There are twenty window-glass factories in
Pittsburg, with 276 pots, making S3S, 400
boxes at So per box. The glass trade is
fairly active in all branches. Flint glass
works are everywhere running to full capa-
city.
The labor bureau agents under Col.
Wright have gone to work. Waudby is a
printer, Ward Knight of Labor, Stinson a
New England granger, Johnson and Fox
Pennsylvania labOring men, Judd and
Browning are also Knights of Labor and
Jones is a newspaper man.
The lumber labOrers of Hannibal, Mo-,
have been out on strike this week and
most of the mills have been shut down.
The strikers met, organized central COM
mittee and decided to use all just means to
secure raise of 25 cents per day to $1.50
The organization committee of the New
York Central Labor union is vigorously en-
deavoring to arrange matters so that all la
Dor unions will employ none but union men
for any work the societies may require.
The Musicians union of Brooklyn has in
duced Paul Bauer, the COney Island hotel
keeper, to abandon the idea of hiring non
union musicians who come to this country
under contract.
During the past twelve years the York
shire Mining association has paid out $780,
600 for strikes; loss in wages, So, $50, OOO
There are at present in England IS, 900 idle
coal miners.
The carding and spinning hands in
Rhodes & Bros. mills at Llewellyn,
Penn, struck on Monday last for the 10 per
cent. taken from their wages last December.
Hooking valley mines with men to work at
40 cents ton, has been sentenced to two
years for illegal voting.
At the Federation of the Window-glass
Workers in Pittsburg on July 13, delegates
will be present from England, France, Italy,
Germany and Belgium.
The walking delegate for the Philadelphia
Carpenters union is paid $50 per week and
has induced upwards of 800 persons to join
the organization.
The workingmen of Quebec have passed
resolutions asking the Canadian government
to prohibit the importation of Chinese labor
into Canada.
The striking brown stone cutters of New
ark have resumed work, the pay having
been restored to the old rate, Al cents per
hour.
Despite the dullness in iron, the building
of two new mills has been projected, one at
Emerson and one at Uniontown, Penn.
Knights of Labor assemblies have just
been started at ArmOurdale, Mo-, two at
Wyandotte, Rosedale and Kansas City.
Twenty lady weavers employed in the
Harris wooden mills at Catskill, N. Y,
have struck for an increase in wages.
Labor news from Cleveland, Boston,
Springfield, Troy and Albany shows very
little improvement in the trades.
The New York Walters unions are in
creasing in numbers at the rate of about one
hundred week.
Carloads of Virginia negroes have been
recently unloaded in the striking Illinois
coal district.
The Cincinnati workmen are to have a
grand parade Oh Sunday, June IA.
The New York legislature has killed the
Child labor bill.
There is to be national union of bakers.