St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-07

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getting full pay, 16 cents, and have a con-
tract to supply the PillSbury A mill for six
months, and mean to fill it. The ones who
want an arbitration are the journeymen
coopers who have been cut TX cents. AS
long as the cooperative shops pay the
regular price of IL cents they are
open to censure, because they have en-
deavored to obtain contracts to furnish
themselves employment In receiving the
Pillsbury A contract, he said, the North Star
shop was only getting back what it was
cheated out of by the managers of the Hall
s. Damn shop. Concerning the statement
that the journeymen coopers are better of
and receive more pay, Mr.. Batcheldor said
this was not true where the conditions
were the same. 1t stands to reason that
the cooperative men, who own their own
shops receive profit in addition to their
regular wages, and conduct their business
as inexpensively as possible, should receive
more money than the journeymen who only
work for hire, and give what profit there IS
to their employers. AS far as cOnvenienceS
for work are concerned, the cOopers OF the
North Star have every arrangement to save
them time and unnecessary trouble Their
hoops are soaked and the stock is delivered
ut Cull1 llltlIl > MI. DdtCiiCAtiOi oeeAea
that thus far the cost of. working off by
machinery has not exceeded 3 cents per
barrel. When the men get accustomed to
the work he expects that the cost will not
exceed ~ cents, including margin for
repairs.
o. +, DU BOTS,
treasurer of the Hennepin Cooperative
Barrel company, was highly amused at the
init tnfn
that the statements would hardly stand the
light of truth. The Hennepin shop has
been using machinery for five years and
thus offers a practical test as to the cost of
working off Mr.. Du Bots said this &C st
had not exceeded cents. including repairs.
1t might cost the Hall & Damn shop 5
cents, but he doubted it. That establish
ment is run at greater expense than any
of the co-operatives. 1t occupies an ex-
pensive site, has high-salaried manager
and the coopers are not careful to work up
stock as closely as the cooperative men.
The statement that the journeymen were
making Is per cent. more pay than the CO.
operatives was too absurd for denial. He
was willing to wager that comparison OF
the pay rolls would show that the cooper
alive men have received Is per cent more
wages than the jOurneymen. Another
thing, the Hennepin shop has earned a div
idend of 80 per cent. upon its investment
during the past year, and paid its men IL
cents more than the Hall & Damn men get
now. The trouble with Mr.. Reeve is that
he has been making plenty OF money,
and now that he is compelled
to make cut he wants it to come out OF
the pockets of the men, instead of the pro-
prietors. Concerning the matter of the ar
bitration, Mr.. Du Bots said the journeymen
find fault with the North STAB and Sixth
street shops for making the cut The CO.
operative men believe, however, that they
were justified in so doing as long as they
do not cut the pay of the men. Then again,
there was something back which induced
those shops to make the cut. Several years
ago, while one of the proprietorS of the Hall
& Damn shop was up town signing an agree
ment to keep prices up, another was at the
Pillsbury A mill Offering to cut under the
prevailing price. In this way the North
Star and Sixth street shops, which were
then supplying the PiIlSbury A, were
euchered out of their contract. Now they
have got it back, and he was glad of it.
Concerning the convenience for turning
out work, Nh Du Bots said the Hennepin
is the best arranged shop in the Northwest.
each man having plenty of room, with his
stock soaked and brought to him. Even
the shavings are carried away for the men,
and there was nothing lacking in the way of
cOnyenienceS.
AT THE SIXTH STREET SHOP.
Mr.. Kobler of the Sixth Street shop said
that the machinery has only been running
for a few days, and it is not known what
the cost of running the machinery will be.
1t was not anticipated, however, that it
will amount to more than cents. 1t has
not cost the Hennepin more than that, and
in New York and Philadelphia only cents
is allowed the machinery. He. could not
see how il had cost the Hall q Damn shop
cents. and considered the statement to
that effect the veriest bosh. The corpora
tive men have not sought any arbitration,
but are willing to submit their side of the
question to any fair-minded men, with per-
feet confidence as to what the decision will
be. The cooperative men have never
urged the journeymen to strike. He believed
that the latter should stand up for their
rights and should put the blame where it
really belongs-On the bosses and not the
cO-OperativeS.
COOPER CULLINGS.
Manager Muir, of the Doud shop is quite
ILL.,
Coopers are agitating the question of an
annual picnic.
Notwithstanding the backset of it's April
fire, the Minnesota shop is doing well.
The family of President Du Bots of the
Hennepin shop is visiting in Oswego, N. Y.
The Phoenix is making more barrels than
it can sell and is storing them for the time
when the mills will resume.
The Acme company, operating the Stew
ems shop, is not doing much business dur
ing the inactivity of the mills.
The Sixth street and North Star shops
are the only ones that have all they can
comfortably do, but the Hennepin and
Northwestern are running steadily.
National Cooper: An exchange tells us
that Minneapolis has a mandatory of
paper barrels just getting under way with
some novel machinery. A number of citi-
zens are interested in the project, and some
of its most sanguine promoters claim that
paper barrels will soon be substituted for
wooden ones in many of the leading flour
mills of this country. All of which sounds
very nice, but is highly improbable.
Northwestern Miller: The sales and man.
ufacture of barrels both took drop again
last week. and have left some of the shops
pretty short of business. There are, how
ever, two or three that continue to run to
full capacity. The sales and manufacture
of barrels for tue past four weeks, and for
the corresponding time in 1884, are shown
in the appended table:
Sold, Bills. Made, Bbls.
Week ending 1884. 1885. 1884. 1885,
May 80. 81 900 $4,000 $4,000 $4,000
May %. As, 500 $4,000 49,5OO 71,6OO
May 16. ........55,s $40 $4,000 $4,000 so, ZOO
May 9...........4S,50 500 S7.700 57,4O0 $4,000
May g .62, 500 $4,000 $4,000 $4,000
April 25. ...... $4,000 $4,000 SO, 700 $4,000
MINNEAPOLIs BOILERMAKERS.