St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-29
MINNEAPOLIS RED HoTs.

It is becoming quite the thing for min
listers to preach upon the labor question,
and working men should encourage this
tendency. They have everything to gain
and not very much to bse.
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If the new evening paper is to employ
girls and ''scabs'' it need not expect to re-
ceive very hearty support from the indus
trial classes.
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You can see what it's coming to. Will
lam Costello recently applied to court in
Chicago to compel the Bricklayers' union to
reinstate him as a member, after he had
been impeached and expelled as a ''scab."
The Bricklayers' union must be an institu-
ton worth while belonging to.
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While arrangements are being made for
the holding of meetings in Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and Saltwater for the purpose of pro-
testing against the establishment of the new
penitentiary in accordance with the act of
the legislature, which provides for its loca-
ton near stone quarry, so the labor Of
the convicts can be let to the contractors
the committee appointed by the legislature
is coolly going about the work Of selecting
a site. Recently visit was paid to Red
Wing. and the committee examined a hol
low which lies between two stone bluffs,
and it is understood was highly pleased with
the location as Attending unlimited quanti
ties of stone, which, when quarried and cut
by prison labor under the contract system,
will be sufficient to paralyZe the stone-cut-
ting industry of the entire state. Pleasant
prospect-for prison labor!
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If the labor organizations which oppose
the penitentiary as an injury to honest in
dustry and the hunanitarians who desire
the prison should be Feformatory will
take hold together and work for the COM
mon interest they can inaugurate move
ment which is bound to carry all before it.
Let circulars be prepared which set forth
the situation, and let them be scattered
| broadcast over the state. Let meetings be
held, addresses made. In short, let the
matter be thoroughly agitated. All that is
necessary is that the people should be en-
lightened. Nine men out of ten will SYM
pathize with honest labor and the efforts in
behalf of humanity. Few. very few, will
take the side OF the monopolists. When
once aroused the people will vote and act
accordingly.
The agitation will also bring friends to the
cause of labor. Worklngnen who have not
associated them;elves with organized labor,
especially farmers, are as much interested as
those who are organized and only need be
asked to come Drward in the battle which
is being made in their behalf, in which
| thew have thuSfar taken no part.
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inst one illustration of what agitation
can accomplish. The mills of Lowell,
Mass, have decided to pay wages weekly,
| instead of mdthly. If these weekly pay
ments had lot been demanded by the
Knights of Labor persistently talked and
written about and finally urged by the leg
lslature, who'thnks that the mill owners
would have ger of their own accord have
| taken this aoion which lessons their power
over their employees by putting the latter
one step forward in the march towards in
| dependences
The eighthour movement seems to have
| made cool start in Cleveland, o. The
2,40O carpeters of the city have established
the Saturday half-holiday, and have done
so under tie assent OF all but one of the 312
| Cleveland losses. Wages are from S1.25 to
S2.25 per ay. Some bosses agree to pay
| the full weeks time, while others require
the men II take the halliday at their own
| expense.
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Perhap the carpenters and bricklayers
of Minneapolis and St. Paul could accomp-
| lish as mlch-n they should try.
Minneapolis Millers.
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