St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-03
A REVIEW OF THE FIELD.
A General Improvement Follows
30, the Opening of Spring.

AS was anticipated short time ago,
work in the leading trades is growing
brisker every day, not only in St. Paul, but
the country generally, and the prospect is
that in very short time there will be ample
work for all. The principal cause for the
increase in the demand for labor is due in a
great measure to the season of the year. 1t
is at the present time that building opera
lions, in every city branch out more extern
sively than at any other periods, and hence
furnish work for several lines of labor.
The good effect of building operations is
felt particularly in the Western cities, where
their rapid growth demands such work
From reports from the different sections of
the West it appears that this seasons de-
mand is equal to that of past years, and
there is very little complaint about diff
Guilty in procuring work. 1t should be
stated, however, that the announcement of
building activity in ST. Paul has attracted
large numbers Of mechanics to the city,
and that, consequently, the demand for
labor of this kind here is fully supplied.
In the eastern part of the United States
the prospect of war and the demand for
certain articles necessary in that cOnnec-
ton has frightened up trade generally, and
in some lines created a demand which labor
is taxed to supply The business outlook
is, as whole, more cheerful than it was a
few months ago, and almost everything is
indicative of coming good times. In the
great field of labor the past week has no
ticed no marked or sudden change. No
startling developments have occurred in any
part of the;country. The disagreement of
labor and capital has taken on no lnseemly
writ no ofo 60
strikes, everything has been peaceful and
quiet
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
The Pioneer Cooperative society is grow
ing rapidly in Buffalo, where 5000 artisans
are building and paying for houses for
themselves on the cooperative plan.
The Brooklyn Central Labor union has
Endorsed the boycotting of the Brooklyn
Watch-case company's goods.
Although Supt. Jackson of Castle Garden,
n. Y, has been instructed to use every eff
fort to prevent the landing of laborers i'm
ported under contract, still there is strong
feeling among the trades unions that the
law is being violated elsewhere with i'm
punity. and that some special measures on
the part of the government are required to
prevent it's evasion.
The telegraphers of Chicago are to have a
bill introduced in the Illinois legislature
limiting their time to eight hours day and
seven and a half hours at night.
General Secretary Turner of the knights
of Labor reports that eighty local assemblies
were started last month.
Assemblyman Alexander Troup. editor
of the New Haven Daily Union, who has
Just been appointed internal revenue collec-
tor for Connecticut, was a prominent labor
advocate in Chicago several years ago.
The bill recently passed by the Connecti-
cut legislature creating bureau of labor
statistics is victory for the Knights of
Labor of that state, who have three of their
members in the legislature. Similar bureaus
exist in California, Illinois, Massachusetts.
Michigan, Missouri, New York, New Jer-
sey, Wisconsin and Ohio
The relief sent to the Hooking valley
miners will aggregate 100000.
Seven hundred men joined the Knights of
Labor insurance fund last month
A national convention of the Progressive
Cigarmakers' unions will be held at Phila-
delphia May Is.
A reduction of 10 per cent. in their wages
has caused strike Of about thirty men en-
pIoyed by Campbell & Thayer, in their oil
works, Brooklyn.
The bricklayers of Richmond, Va. have
organized themselves into a branch of the
International union.
About six hundred persons have left
Yonkers since The strike of the weavers.