St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02
HERE AND THERE.
Industrial Notes from the Country
at Large.

Notes from the Country
at Large.
On Monday morning the mill of Rust.
Eaton ~ Co., at Milwaukee, a suburb of
East Saginaw. started up with full force
upon the same conditions as existed previ-
Gus TO the strike, all the men being anxious
and willing TO work. At a strikers picnic
in Saginaw City on Tuesday, Representa-
tive Barry spoke very strongly against these
men, and is said to have remarked that the
mill would not run to-day. About o'clock
on Wednesday morning two men in a buggy
drove up to the house of Ed Spain, the cir
cular sawyer at Rust, Eaton 81 Co.'S mill,
jumped out, OrOke in with clubs two VIM
dowS of Spain's house, threatened his life,
and as they drove away, remarked: ''This
is but the beginning" The result was to
brighten Spain and a number of other men,
and the mill did not start next day.
Fully 500 mechanics in the West Shore
railway shops at Frankfort, n. Y, quit
work on Monday. Wages for two months
and twenty-five days are owing them at
rates varying from 81 to So per day. The
master mechanic could not tell when the
pay car was coming. The men were quiet
and orderly, but resolved to do no work,
nor let any Others work, until two months
wages are paid and day fixed for payment
each month. The resolutions were sent to
the general manager through Master Me-
chanic Boone. Great dissatisfaction exists
at Kingston. y. Y, among the employees of
the same road over the fact that over two
months pay is due them. A meeting was
held on Monday afternoon and committees
were appointed to wait on the officials at
New York and see when the amount due
will be paid. The engineers threaten to
stop work unless some understanding is had
in regard to receiving their wages.
a reduction of the miners wages in the
Tuscarawas valley will, in the opinion of
President Mcbride of the Ohio Miners
union. cause a strike. Fifteen hundred
men will go out. Gerge II. Warrington of
the TuscarawaS Valley Coal company said:
I'VE are being ruled out of the markets,
because we were not able to sell coal as
cheap as operators in other districts We
have been paying about 50 cents more per
ton than was paid in the Hooking and other
districts. and in fact Is or 20 cents more
than is paid in the Pennsylvania soft coal
districts The vein in the MassillOn district
is not quite as thick as in the Hooking, but
the miners have told me that they would
rather work in our mines for 90 cents than
in the former district for 40. You see We
will still pay 20 cents more for mining than
paid elsewhere"
State Representative T. B. Barry, who
has been the leader of the strikers, recently
sent private telegram from East Saginaw,
Mich, that, with two hours delay, 4. W.
Wright x Co. resumed work after eompTO-
missing with their men on ten hours work
and a propOrt tomato reduction in the wages
of all receiving over S1.50 per day. This
being one of the largest mills on the river
indicates an early settlement of the diff
Guilty. McLeOd's mill has also resumed
work, eOneeding all the strikers demand.
Several other mill owners are consulting
with their men with view to a settlement
Everything indicates an early and Satisfac-
tory settlement.
The report of the London committee ap-
pointed some time ago to inquire into and
report upon the condition of the Irish in
dustries on Wednesday presented an in
formal report to parliament. In this it is
stated that all Irish industries, with the
single exception of linen manufacture, are
at present in deplorable condition. The
report recommends the improvement of the
railway facilities of Ireland, the introduc-
ton OF 4 course of teaching of the sciences
relating TO industrial work in all the ma
tional schools, a comprehensive system of
arterial drainage, without which, the report
declares, proper cultivation of the soil in
Ireland on sufficiently extensive plan is
impossible.
Three hundred men and boys employed
in the Lake Erie Bolt works went out on a
strike on Friday morning at Cleveland, o.,
on account OF 10 per cent. reduction in
wages The reduction was made several
days before, and the men finally decided
that they would not stand it, as they ac-
cepted 10 per cent. cut about year ago.
Only the bolt makers, nut makers and boys
struck. The machiniSts were not affected
and they wished TO continue work. but were
forced out by the others. The works are
now idle, and Supt. Schofield an
nOunces they will not be put in operation
until the employees accept the proposed re-
duction-
On Friday evening large meeting OF
Cleveland iron workers, wOTkingmen and
others to the number of 1000 met at Monu-
mental park and listened to speeches. NJ.
4. FOran, member of congress, and J. Z.
| Mcclure, secretary of the Brotherhood OF
| Carpenters, were the leading orators. FOraT
argued for cooperative system between
| EMPLOYERS and employees, and Mcclure de
clared that organization was the proper
thing. The strike bids fair to last for some
i ~ NOiAAC-
Notices were posted at the twelve mine:
/ of the MasSilon, o., district on Monday i'll
| forming the men of a reduction in price Of
mining from 40 TO 60 cents per ton. The
reduction was to go into effect yesterday
| The miners had not been informed of the
decision of the operators, so quiet was the
matter kept, and it is predicted that gen
eral strike will result The miners are To
in position TO Withstand 4 large strike,
and if they decide to go out much suffering
will result.
The women workers In all kinds of in
dustry are suffering greatly from genera
debility They cannot afford to take {
much-needed recreation; day after day the,
drag their weary bodies 10 the shop or fac
tory; night brings no rest or refreshment
the winter will come and find them unpre
pared to withstand the cold, and they viii
lll bed in hospital, and ultimately
grave. But there are plenty of others Il
take their places.-John Swinton's Paper
A dispatch from Philadelphia says: ''Col
Fox, the newly appointed superintendent o
the mint, takes no stock in shortening tn
hours for his subordinates governments
employes). He has issued orders that n
! more ten-hour business shall exist, and tina