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

excuse to do so. If they could market their
goods readily they would yield to the de-
mand OF the workmen and go on. The re-
suit probably, will be that certain lines Of
goods will be scarce and the price stiffened
up. The manufacturers will mark I'D all
goods on hand and as soon as the surplus
stock is worked off at the advanced price
and lively demand is developed for goods.
they will start up again. The
price OF iron nails has already
been advance about 30 cents per key, and a
Jurther advance may be looked for. No
one can tell anything about how long it will
last 1t may continue for week and il
may last for two months The strike
may cause an advance in other goods not
Immediately connected with it providing III
continues long enough, but there is no
probability that it will last sufficiently
long, as before that time is reached there
will undoubtedly be a compromise"
j. A. GREGG.
cit is pretty difficult to make statement
about the matter for the reason that no
one knows enough about the facts to war
rant conclusion. No doubt the effect will
be to put up the price of goods. Nails
have already made sharp advance of 20
cents per keg, and an advance of 10 per
cent right straight through On iron. 1t has
stiffened prices up materially all around.
The stocks in the city, should Judge.
would be equal to thirty days supply. AS
l said, the great trouble about saying any,
thing in regard to this matter is that we do
not know enough about it, The parties
may settle the difficulties between them at
any moment, and may not settle it at ALL
AS far as I am advised the manufacturers
are not going to sign, and it is probable
that they wanted the strike to take place.
l do not think the strike can have any eff
feet at all among the people generally It
certainly will not among the wholesale
merchants If the iron men and the
Amalgamated association do not come to an
understanding within two weeks it will
probably be a lockout for two or three
months, and that means high prices
WILLIAM B. DEAN
The effect upon the country, generally,
will be very slight indeed. The men who
are out of employment will suffer and all
the dealers in the locality Of the strike, and
who have been supplying the SO, 900 or more
that are out of employment with groceries,
provisions, wood, &c. will also suffer. for
they will be cut off from the monthly pay
mentS that they have been receiving from
the strikers. Of course, if the strike lasts
long enough, many of the smaller and
weaker ones will go to the wall Outside
of the locality where the strike occurs there
will be no results from it at all. The nat
ural effect OF the strike will be to raise the
price of all stocks on hand. When it comes
to the point where present stocks are about
exhausted, the manufacturers will naturally
be anxious to resume work, and the strikers
will feel that it will be more advantageous
to them to go to work. Consequently they
will be likely to come to an understanding.
No failures will be caused by the strike ex-
cept in its immediate vicinity.
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
Gathered from the Industrial Gem
tiers of the Country.
A fire in the Nudge shoe factory, at Pea
body, Mass, throws 200 hands out of work.
The seventeen special agents of the labor
bureau, recently appointed by the govern
ment. have received their commissions and
are now on their way to the places assigned
to them.
In the international convention of prin-
tiers at New York on the 4th, the plan for
the benefit of printers travelling in search
of work, by which they should receive
mileage and per diem, as is the system in
vogue with the cigarmakers, was voted
down. The proposition to re-establish the
sub-list system was lost The delegates
were banquetOd in the evening.
On June a type setting match occurred
in New York between Joseph Mccain OF
the Herald and Ira Somers of the World for
a purse of $500. The men set for three
hours, Mccain putting up 6,325 ems Of
solid minion, without paragraphs, and Som
ers 1922 Mccain is an old-timer, aged
about 33, while Somers has never before
participated in race, being young fellow
aged %. The latter was nervous and set
his first stickful in sixteen minutes, while
his last was emptied in thirteen minutes.
Both men beat the previous record. 1t is
thought Somers can beat Mccain, and
another match will probably result.