St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12

milton generation ago. This demonstra-
ton will do more to enlighten employers,
capitalists, investors and workingmen as
to the best interests of labor and capital
than all the wOrn-out political economies
of the past. The rate of wages is steadily
advancing in all countries, while the price
of living is declining. In Manchester,
Eng, between 1850 and 1888 the wages of
jOiners advanced from S5.76 to SS.72 per
week; bricklayers, from 1924 to S9.3S;
masons, from 1878 to S7.S4; plasterers,
from 1924 to SS.72; labOrers, from S4. OF to
$40; iron puddlers, from S10.S0 to S11.52;
mechanics, from S6.72 to STA; golfers,
from S4.70 to $3.50. In cotton mills mule
spinners were advanced from S9.42 to
$500; female piecers, from S1.66 to S2.64;
rOvers. female, from S1.S1 to S4.3 SO; over
lockers, male, from S5.2S to 50. strip
pers and binders, from $40 to S5.04. Dur
ing that time the price of wheat per bushel
declined in American money from S1.6S to
Sl.OS, the present price. In New jersey
the average earnings in manufacturing in
duStrieS advanced during the same time
from S247 to 1916.
The tradeS-uniOniStS are asking each other
why they cannot do in all branches what
they are doing in the iron trade and the
shoe trade. The Philadelphia shoe manu-
facturerS and the Pittsburg iron employers
can SympathiZe with each other. The or
gan of the shoe trade says: '0ur manufac-
turerS have been so schOOled to passive sub
mission that they sign scales presented to
them with scarcely murmur or protest. b"
Recently firm put on a gate, mo admlS-
sion except on permission from office" A
day or two after the firm received a notice
from outsiders to remove the gate. The
gate was removed. The same organ says a
new style of shoe cannot be admitted with
out the consent of the employees.
There is evidence in abundance that man
ufacturers, business men, railroad men,
bankers and others are lOOAing fora general
revival. They do not intend to be caught
as they were few years ago, with deficient
capacity, high wages and high-priced ma
terial. Every industrial plant is being lm-
proved and strengthened. The country is,
in short. preparing itself against the evils OF
boom by expanding and improving capac-
ity in every direction, and but for this the
depression would be much more acute.
Further depression would affect capital and
employers more than labor and labOrers.
A Washington dispatch says: Chief Clerk
Weaver of the labor bureau says the work
of the bureau is progressing satisfactorily,
quality is coming in from the special agents
in the field. No attention has been paid to
labor strikes that have occurred recently in
various parts of the country, although the
bureau may at some future day devote itself
to an examination of that phase of the labor
problem. The efforts of the inspectors at
present are largely directed to the ascertain
ment of the labor unit; that is to say, the
exact cost of the labor necessary to produce
the great staples of manufacture.
The third annual convention of the chiefs
and commissioners of bureaus of statistics
of labor was held in Boston, Mass, last
Monday. The following states were repre-
Sented: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio,
Massachusetts, New jersey. Missouri, In
diana, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Wis
cOnsin, Iowa, Maryland, Kansas and Cali
fOrnia. Able writers on political economy
were present and spoke on the progress OF
bureau work.
An English company has 500 square
miles of grazing country in Northern Wyo-
ming. \ Scotch company has 5000 acres
and monOpolizeS the use of 1000, 900 acres
more. Foreigners are roaming over the
West picking up available grazing lands.
Public lands are being everywhere taken up
by stOckmen. Gov. White of Wyoming
said lately that, so far as the settlers are
concerned, the public lands are exhausted.
Laborers are not anywhere a unit on re-
form meaSuTers. In Austria they are pro-
testing against the reduction of the hours OF
labor from fourteen and twelve to eleven
10 the law forbidding women and children
from performing the severer parts of work
and they object to a Sunday holiday. i
SO, such slavery to toll should all the more
be checked by government interference.
The 200 striking moulders at Rochester
n. y, are still out. In the Cooperative
and Sell fOundries about twenty non-unioI
men are working. These men work, sleeI
and live in the shops, and are clOSel!
guarded against possible attempts of th'
strikers.
y call for a meeting of the national exec
utive board of the Miners association, tt
be held at PittSburg July Is, has been is
sued. The meeting will arrange, so far a.
possible, for combined action on the part O.
various associations throughout the United
States.
| Twenty per cent. of the Yonkers strikers
have already returned to work at the car
| pet mills. and more will soon follow. 1t i
said that the strike has entailed an enOr
nous loss to both strikers and employers
and much trade has been diverted from thu
mills.
The managers of the electric light com
panieS, five in all, are favorable to the or
ganiZation of wOrkingmen, and all thei
workers are now joining the labor organiza
| tons.
The New York stablemen, who worl
from twelve to twenty hours per day, sever
days in the week, for S11, are organizing
| to reduce the number of hours and increase
pay.
The workingmen of Newark are maxim!
extensive preparations for the great labO
demonstration which will take place on tn
21st inst. in that city.
4 Cincinnati firm. on discovering that it
employees were Knights of Labor, imme
diately discharged ITO.
The Washington, d. c., unions and as
semblieS propose to build SIS, 600 hall TO
| their use.
Six thousand trade-unioniSts will parade
in Newark on July %.
Outcast London.
Much excitement has been made by re
ports recently published on the vile cOndi
ton of the slums of London. In one celia
was found a family consisting of a maj
sick with small-DOX his diving wife tire