St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-19
FROM THE OUTER WORLD.
Labor Matters in Different Parts of
the Country.

At conference, early in the week, be-
tween the striking employees of the McCor-
mick Reaper company, at Chicago, and
Supt. Averill, the latter stated that the
company would agree to the original de-
mand of the men, which was a restoration
of the - per cent. taken from the piece
workers. and the 10 per cent. reduction in
the wages of the day workmen The yield
| ing of the company caused great rejoicing
among the men. On Monday morning
work will be resumed in all departments of
the works. The case against the four
Pinkerton men, charged with the attack
upon George Roth, was continued for ten
days. Roth is still in q. precarious condi-
| ton.
| Grave doubts seem to exist in the minds
Of working men whether the recent act of
congress prohibiting the importation of
foreign labor will be enforced. 1t is feared
that the executive authorities, instead of
seeing that it is carried out as being law
of the land, will leave it to individual suf-
ferers to take action in the matter, as if the
Offense were only a private and personal
! injury.
The high entrance fee of some unions is,
in the opinion of many unionists, an OBJ
stacle to the growth of the organizations.
| They say that five minutes suffices to make
a man see the advantages Of joining the
union, while five hours are sometimes in
sufficient to convince him of the advisable
| ity of parting with SO.
All the employees of the Bankers & Mer-
chants Telegraph company in Buffalo, n.
Y, struck at 10 o'clock Thursday morning
because they have not been paid their
wages. The company owes them for two
months of last year and last month. The
| Office closed, and the manager only is left
| in charge.
| The working women Of New York have
organized protective union, and the So
ciety has three suits pending i'll the courts.
One is against dressmaker who refused to
pay skillful sewing girl her wages ''be-
cause there was no agreement" another
against wealthy woman who employed an
| old lady to sew carpets, and declined to pay
for the work. and the last against well-to
| do individual who refused TO settle bill Of
S23 for the family washing.
There are over sixteen hundred prisoners
confined in the Sing Sing state prison, of
whom 500 are at work on contract work.
This contract expires Feb. %, 1887.
Many unionists say that the real '1abor
| to occupy itself is what to do with the l.
500. 900 or 2. coo. COG of men now idle in this
country and getting desperate.
| Nearly all the various trades organiZa-
| tons are forming national associations.
a suit for 81, 900 damages has been COM
menced in Toledo. o., by Henry E. Glover
| against the Bricklayers' union of that city.
| The plaintiff claims that he was expelled
| by members thereof This is the first case
of the kind on record.
Seven colored assemblies of the Knights
Of Labor have been recently organized in
! Richmond Va.
Upwards of 500 employees of the Balti-
more " Ohio Railroad company at Balti-
more have been discharged. The men
have been making nine hours day. and it
is said will soon be offered work again at
the same pay, but to work ten hours there
| for.
! The outlook for the miners in the anthra-
cite coal regions is not very encouraging,
short time and low wages prevailing. Sew
eral strikes are reported.
''Culchad' Boston is awakening to the
importance of the labor question and tax
| ing great interest in it, Lectures are be-
! ing given at the various clubs. and an event
of the past week was the mass meeting held
at Faneuil hall.
At Bay City. Mich, the Greenback-La-
/ Dor party elected a mayor, treasurer. comp
| troller, one alderman. two supervisors and
three constables by a large majority. 1t is
regarded as a great victory for the labor in
! tereSt.
Reports from the interior of Victoria
| state that 5000 employees OF the Canadian
Pacific construction have gone on q strike.
on account of not receiving their wages.
The Adams & Westlake Manufacturing
company shut down its works on WetlneS-
| day. throwing $50 men ont OF employment
| The employees claim that this shutdown
was ordered with q view to re-engaging the
| force at reduced wages
The criminal greed OF contractors and the
need Of better enforcement Of the laws
| concerning them received 2 striking iIlustTa-
| ton in New York By the falling dawn OF
| eight ive-StOry tenement houses last Mon
day afternoon. which were in the process Of
| construction Half q hundred men were
working on them az the time. aud the Won
| der Is that all were not killed outright
| They were all injured, OF course, and one
or two have since died a most superficial
examination Of the debris showed that the
cause OF the disaster was wTetched work
manship and poor material The mortar
! contained little or no sand being composed
mainly OF loan or mud. This and the fact
I that the buildings had been erected during
/ the cold weather. of Wet and frozen bricks,
was directly the cause Of the collapse