St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-19
FROM ABROAD,
News OF Labor from the Country at
Large.


News OF Labor from the Country at
Large.
For some weeks past trouble has been
brewing between the brick manufacturers
of Chicago and the men employed in the
yards. 4 majority of the brick yards are
not provided with improved machinery and
only three or four of them use a brick ma
chine, which enables them TO turn out
larger number of brick and at less cost.
Last week it was decided to reduce wages
90 cents day and the men were notified,
but the proposed reduction met with strenu-
Gus opposition, and on SATURDAY.. the 18th.
when the men quit work they announced
their intention of not coming back unless
the standard rate of wages was paid. In
consequence of this disagreement these
yards have since been idle, with the excep-
ton of the few using the machines. Up
ward of 1000 men are out of employment,
and each side remains firm in its intention
to cOncede nothing to the other. 1t is
strike against reduction of wages, strike
sanctioned by all labor unions, and one in
| which the strikers are sure of sympathy and
| financial support of all worlmen.
The plumber differences, in Milwaukee,
notwithstanding the break in the ranks of
| the master plumbers some weeks ago, still
| continue. In the meantime, the co-opera-
| tive shops are securing a hold even beyond
that anticipated at the start. One of the
| officers of the union is authority for the
| statement that the four cooperative shops
| have taken plumbing contracts aggregating
| $50. 900. So great has been the pressure on
their resources that journeymen have had
to be obtained from Chicago. The four
shops, the same authority says. have cleared
nearly 5000 since the cooperative expert
ment was commenced. This was after pay
| ing full wages to the men. The master
plumbers say they will soon receive fresh
| consignment of Canadian worllmen, when
they hope to be able to shut the cooperative
shops
The Malone convention, which has been
i'll session at Richmond, Va, during the
past week, declares, among other things,
for free labor and its Just share in its con-
| tributiOnS to the power and wealth of the
| nation; for money wages for labor against
the store and order SYSTEM whereby cOrpO-
rate and other employers control the eX-
penditureS of their employees, and under
which great extortion and oppression ara
| imposed; for eight hours as a days labor;
| for the payment of all labor employed on
public works and in mines and manufactO-
| rieS and corporations with weekly pay
mentS."
-Four of the Wabash railroad strikers at
| Springfield, ILL.,, who interfered with the
new men employed by the company. were
sent to jail for thirty days by the United
States circuit court, Judge Treat on
/ Thursday, for contempt of court, and the
! two whose OffenSeS were less were sem
fenced for ten days. The case has been on
trial for three days Gen. John NJ. Palmer
defended the prisoners.
Goshen, the English economist, said in
his recent Manchester speech that immense
incomes were declining and moderate in
comes were increasing; that pauperisn in
| England had fallen from to per cent;
that while the population had increased
from %, 900, 900 to $4,000, 900 within
stated period, pauperism had declined from
1000, 900 to roo, 900.
The New York State Workingmen's as.
sembly will meet at Rome on Sept. 1, to
review the action Of the state legislature on
| bills presented in labor interests. The leg
islature refused to enact any labor laws,
and a movement is to be inaugurated to
punish the recreant Legislators who secured
labor support through profuse promises.
The sheet iron workers wages causes
dissatisfaction at Pittsburg, Pa, and has
resulted in a strike at one mill. Others are
expected to follow. The trouble is caused
bv a failure of the firms to classify their
mills. At the wage conference some time
ago. it was decided that the plate and sheet
mills should be classified at once.
Labor organizations are more favorably
regarding the temperance movement. Many
of the labor leaders are urging greater tenn
perance or absolute abstinence. Much of
iabor's fault in this respect is due to extreme
toll and depression Of spirits incident to
a long life of hopeless struggling for exist
ence.
The Yonkers carpet weavers have given
official notice that their strike is ended, as
announced in the GLOBE some time ago.
The operatives have gained the main points
for which they cOntended over four months
an advance of 10 per cent. in wages and
the right to belong to labor union.
The New York street car conductors and
drivers have discussed the question of a
strike and have decided against it. This
drivers of the new Broadway road get 50. 81
for fourteen hours. They want days
work to be six trips instead of seven.
Trades-unionism has taken a fresh start
in several large cities where the lines be-
tween trades-unionism and socialism are NOT
very clearly defined. Quite number OF
dry goods clerks have organized in som(
Eastern cities.
There are wooden mills in Connecticut
where children go to work at o'clock in
. the morning and stick at it until at night,
with three-quarters of an hour for dinner,
and As cents for one days work.
The national convention of tailors shortly
: to meet in Baltimore, will endeavor to
secure the approval of the membership to
eight hours a days work, and refuse to WORK
at home.
The Washington labor bureau has sent
l.. NJ. Wilhelm to the Pacific coast to4pro-
cure statistics of the wages and occupations
{ of the Chinese and their effect on labor.
l The strike of the employees of the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad still continues, not
l withstanding the reports to the contrary
t issued by the railroad company.
American labor organizers are actively at
: work among Poles, Hdngarians and ltal-
1 ians. in order to secure their co-opera1on.
!, The Hebrew workingmen of New York
! have held grand picnic to assist them IN
raising funds to establish labor paper.
a There are twelve assemblies or tns
\ Knights of Labor in Bay City. Mich.