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St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
MINNEAPOLIS COOPERS.

There was slightly larger business done
by the Minneapolis shops last week, yet it
was very light. This week the mills are run
ming quite well and the sales of barrels
will be pushed upward to much more
respectable figures. The shops. however,
are inclined to run lighter, the storage filled
being quite large. Barrel stock continues
lifeless, no one caring to buy under the
present circumstances. Two large mills
have lately changed from the use of elm to
oak barrels and predictions are made that
others will be forced to adopt the same
course. This cannot fail to exert a certain
influence ON the market. Although there
probably never were so many hoops and
poles piled up in Minneapolis as now,
dealers continue to come around and in Or
der to dispose of their poles are forced to
sacrifice prices. orthwestern Miller.
o. E. Dubois, manager of the Rennepin
shop, is seriously ill from an attack of the
hiccoughs, which has finally caused con-
vulsions of the stomach, preventing the re-
tention of food. At last accounts he was
confined to his bed and was very weak.
His condition is considered alarming.
Louis Sees, who issned challenge for a
barrel-mahing contest, has not accepted any
of the offers made to take up his PROPOSE
ton. Henry Schlink of the Phoenix shop
is the latest candidate who doubts Mr.. Sees
ability to make more barrels in certain time
than himself.
At the annual meeting of the Northwest
ern Barrel company. held Tuesday, the old
officers were reelected: President, A. j.
Palmer. secretary, Thomas Flannery; treas
urer, Oden Dahl; directors, Peter Weiss,
Henry Schmutz and Levi Thomas.
a dust box in the machine room at the
Hall & Damn shop caught fire last Tuesday
The flames were readily eXtinguished, but
the heavy volumes of smoke created consid-
cradle alarm and caused stampede among
the employees.
l.. 7. Keene and Lawrence Keene have
sold out their stock in the North Star Bar
rel company and are going South with the
intention of locating if favorable oppor-
tunity presents itself.
Henry Drussel, late of the Stevens shop,
has gone to Clayton City, Ia. where he
will engage in the hoop-pole business.
The Sixth street shop was shut down the
first three days of the week on account of
defective steam pipes.
The three Pillsbury mills are now using
all oak barrels. and require about thirty
thousand weekly.
Jnlina Kinea aud 2 r Hamiltnn rf tha
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
ssOO-OPERATfON.v
What the Word Means and What il
will Do.
To the Editor of the Globe:

To the Editor of the Globe:
Cooperation proposes that in all new
combinations of labor-lender and capital
lender, the producer of profits shall be dis
tributed in agreed proportion over all en-
gagged in creating profits. Cooperation
means concert for the diffusion of wealth.
1t leaves nobody out who helps to produce
it. Those who do not know this do not
understand cooperation; those who do
know it and do not mean it are traitors to
the principles; those who mean it and do
not take steps to secure it or are silent when
others evade it, OF do not advocate it and
insist on it openly as the impossible prin-
ciple of industrial justice, are unseeing or
silly OF weak or c0wardly. 1t is thus that
cooperation supplements political economy
by organizing the distribution of wealth in
the near future. 1t touches no mans
fortune; it seeks no plunder; it
causes no disturbance in society;
it gives no trouble to statesmen:
it enters into no secret organizations: it
needs no Trades union to protect its inter-
est; it contemplateS no violence; it subverts
no order; it envies no dignity; accepts no
gift nor asks any favor; it keeps no terms
with the idle and it will break no faith with
the Industrious; it is neither mendicant,
Servile nor otfensive; it has its hand in the
mans pocket and does not mean that any
hands shall remain long or comfortably in
its own; it means self-help, self-dependence
and such share of the common competence
as labor can earn or thought can win. And
this it intends to have. bnt by means which
shall leave every other person an equal
chance for the same good. r.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
RAILROADS.
Wages Paid TO Working men by
These Corporations.

wages FaEd TO WORKING men DY
These Corporations.
To the Editor of the Globe:
A matter that claims the attention of the
people, and especially the workingmen Of
this city, is the wages paid to laborers by
the incoming railroads. Since the 18th OF
this month the wages of those men have
been reduced from $1.25 to 81 per day, a
scale of wages that no man can live on as
becomes a man, and while the company is
thus enjoying the benefits of lands rendered
them by the city in their enterprise, they
take advantage of the state of affairs to op-
press the bone and sinew of it. There can
be no just exception raised to the idea of
bringing as many railroads to our
limits as may be directed here,
but there are many exceptions to
be taken to any enterprise that for
gets the rights of the men on whom it
must depend for its advancement. Closing
up the river, as is being done by this new
corporation in question, IS not the only
wrong being perpetrated by them, nor the
only one that should be reprimanded. No
fair-minded man will claim for single
moment that dollar day is enough for
laboring man in any line. nor is it just for
any corporation to take advantage of cir
cumstanceS to crush men that happen to
be subject to it. The prosperity of this
city does not depend alone on the manage
ment of railroads, nor their entrance to the
city. much less the success of men alone
who have the management of them, or the
contract to build them, but on the success
of the entire community, and these matters
will not be overlooked by the friends of
labor, and the scale shall not be left un-
tipped in the reckoning. 1t is well for the
city fathers to have an eye on the enter
prise, and ee that the rights of labor are
not forgotten in the summing up. The city
council owes a duty to the wellbeing of
these men that cannot be overlooked, nor
will it be well to forget it. Nor is the
mayor up to the mark in the matter of ig
norng these things. The Trades and La
Dor assembly has this matter in hand. and
will wave the hand of chastisement over
the disobedient and the unruly. Many OF
the people in this city are aroused on this
point, and these lines are written as re-
quest from them. Let justice be done.
A KNIGHT OF LABOR
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
General News,

The Painters Labor union of New York
recently became involved in quarrel with
the Fifth Avenue hotel, and the matter
being taken up by the Central Labor union.
that organization decided to boycott the
hotel and every one of prominence who
stopped there. Senator Sherman, Secretary
Endicott, Warren Miller and ex-Gov. Fos-
ter of Ohio were among the first to 20
there afterwards. and each received cir
cular threatening his social and political
future unless he Immediately left the hotel
None OF the gentlemen paid any attention
to the note, however, eX-GOv. Foster re-
marking that mo one but demagogue
would pay any attention to such stuff -
Gen. Butler received one of them recently
just as he was leaving the hotel, and owing
to his position as the asserted champion of
labor and labor unions considerable curios-
ity is manifested as to where he will stop
on his return.
A scheme is attracting the attention of
New York laborers over the establishment
of new and free city," The proposition
in brief is to spend $40, 600, 900 or S25, OOO,-
900 in purchasing 10. 900 acres north of the
Harlem river, and lay it out in 100, 600 lots;
to build houses on them for 25, 900 people,
and to sell lands TO others who are able to
buy for themselves, and to construct an
underground railroad from the city hall to
the grand central depot. By means of rapid
transit, wage workers could live in this new
city and reach their present quarters with
out inconvenience.
The strike of the Monongahela valley
miners which was inaugurated last August
has closed, the miners returning to work at
21s cents. The strike was ended by advice
of Grand Master Workman POwderly of the
Knights of Labor. All the operators had
refused arbitration.
The Laboring Mems association of St.
Louis recently passed resolution condemn
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
MINNEAPOLIS MILLERS.

All possible precautions are being taken
against fire at the PillSbury A mill. Auto
matte fire sprinklers are being put in. a mer-
curial alarm system is being introduced;
500 galvanized pals, each filled with water
and placed on a bracket, have been dis
tributed through the mill, and 10 more in
the elevators, farmhouse, machine shops.
etc. The Anchor mill has put in a stand
pipe running from the basement to the
roof with fifty feet of hose for each floor
The Cataract mill is supplied with sprink-
les. and the Humboldt mill has covered the
roof OF its attic with sheet-iron.
The stage of water in the canal has i'm
proved considerably, and fifteen mills have
been running, with a total capacity of 90
0G0 barrels daily during the week. The
-four market remains dull. but the ship
ments have increased somewhat, there be-
ing better demand at former prices. Indi-
cations are that most of these mills will
continue running until New Years.
oJohn Dodge, W. FL. Dnnwoodv. j. I.
Grard and Ed Richards of the Washburn
mills on Monday returned from deer-hunt-
ing expedition in Wisconsin.
J. B. Duff's coat caught in the gearing at
the Cataract mill Thursday and he got a
painful squeezing before he was eXtricated
S. F. Madden, for some time employed at
the Standard mill. has gone to take charge
Of Parson & Nicols' mill at Dawson.
The interior of the attic of the Humboldt
mill, where the recent fire occurred, has
been covered with sheet-iron.
The new storehouse of c. A. Pillsbury &
Co., with capacity of 100000 barrels, is
completed.
The three-hundred-hors power Wright
Corliss engine at the Crown Roller mill is
ready for use.
Nat Zeron got fall from purifier at the
Cataract mill and received severe scalp
wound.
George Rush. formerly of Stoughton,
Wis, succeeds W. B. Gordon in the Dakota
mill.
J. A. Copps of the Washburn A, is re-
covering from an attack of pneumonia.
Fifteen new dust-collectors have been
placed in the Pillsbury A mill.
The Petit mill shut down Saturday even
inU
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20

! ing the street sweeping machines as in
efficient, and asserting that their use was
| unwlse and injurious in depriving working
men of employment.
Fortytwo employers in Massachusetts.
who had delared that they would fight the
laborers to the bitter end, recently submit
ted to arbitration and good feeling was re-
stored.
The nailers of the Sharon Iron company
OF Sharon, Pa. are dissatisfied with their
wages and will build cooperative nail
mill at that or some neighboring point.
The BARRIERS union of St. Louis has estab.
lished an employment agency. Nonuniou
men will be charged a fee and union men
will be advised gratuitously.
Forty-one flint gIassblowers of Montreal
have struck for the wages received by the
members of the. American Glassblowers'
union.
There is large immigration to the Wis
consln woods just now, and indications
point to very large log cut this winter.
The machinery of Great Britain is capa-
BILE of performing work equal to that of
400. 900, 900 men.
The Brooklyn Central Labor union will
hold series of agitation meetings through
out the city.
Twelve thousand organized workingmen
paraded in New Orleans the other day.
The number of knitting mills has in
creased 25 per cent. in two years.
Furniture and cabinet makers of Boston
are well organized.
The Rhode Island ten-hour law goes into
effect on Jan. 10.
The Bakers union is agitating the eight
hour question.
Railroad brakemen have organized q
union.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
PRISON REFORM.

Point Overlooked in the COnstruc-
tiOn of the BrOckway System.
To the Editor of the Globe:
There are TWO requisites in connection
with this system. First, that the terms of
the sentence positively require the reim-
bursement of the damage done by the crime
of the prisoner in all the points that bear
on it, directly or indirectly, with no chance
of release prior to full payment, and with
the further understanding that the prisoner
shall be then released if thought fit to be.
Second, that in the event of his being not
fit to be released at that time, he shall serve
until he has demonstrated his fitness.
The first may and should be definite. The
second ought not to be. And the point to
be guarded against in the practice of the
second qualification is the possibility Of any
man or number of men abusing the prlyl-
lege granted them to exercise judgment
over prisoners. A possible safeguard
would be the fixing of certain standard
points of reformation to be subject to III
spection by citizens, appointed by the peo-
pie for that purpose who are publicly
known to be disinterested parties. No in
dividual is fit to be trusted with the eXer-
else of too much authority over even the
offenders against law and decency. not even
a Brockway. 1t is safe to say. however,
that the Brockwav system is fair one. and
can be made effective with the necessary
improvements, but these improvements
must be attached or the system fails and
would result in an injury i'll some respects.
1t would be well for men who advocate
this system to see and consider these points
in becoming the champion of prison reform
1t is not enough to know one side Of the
question:; we must know both sides before
we can establish right, and right is what
we are after. Even prisoners have rights.
VINIUS
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20

was SO much displeased with the last lee
ture, and probably will not attend any more.
let me say that the remedy L advocate for
the SIS cent laborer is sitting down hard on
pauper immigration and convict labor that
conflicts with the honest laboring man. The
only way to permanently raise wages IS TO
limit the supply of laborers. When two
bosses are after the same laborer his wages
will be high; when two laborers are after
the same boss their wages will be low.
What said about incompetence and IN
dolence, taken in their connections, IS true,
When twisted and perverted they may of
course be made to appear ridiculous. have
no further time to devote to this criticism
nor the space. I close with one remark.
why did not T. W. B. have something to
say about the immense power of labor COM
binations, to which l devoted much time,
and cooperation, which l regard with SO
much favor and hope for the future. l en-
JOY criticism, but l want it to be fair. |
like to talk to laboring men on these sub
jects and never lose an opportunity of doing
so. 1t was rot my lecture that T. w. b.
handled without gloves" nine rounds out
OF ten he was pummelinga a IMAM of straw"
John T., SCIDDER
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
TRADES AND LABOR.
What the Nyinnea polls Assembly is
EOiDg.-A Meeting Tonight.

At the meeting of the Trades and Labor
assembly Friday night the attendance was
unusually large, in addition to the delegates,
there being quite number of spectators
present After the disposition of routine
business a brief discussion was had of the
Mrs. Ryan case. and new committee was
appointed to ascertain the exact truth con-
corning the alleged brutality of the land
lords agent, who is said to have taken all
the windows and doors out of her house
while she was lying on sick-bed. Reports
OF committees on boycotting were heard,
and it was finally moved to post the5dif-
ferent articles and the firms selling them.
AS this was considered very serious step
action was postponed and the matter was
made the special order of business for the
next regular meeting, IN order that it may
be given thorough consideration.
A number of employees from the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul car shops asked the
aid of the assembly in their behalf. They
reported that in the blacksmith shop the
smoke from twenty-five fires and two fur
naces is allowed to fill the room. the
only possible escape for it being
through one ventilator with closed
shutters in the roof. There are no
chimneys, and, as there is no current of
air. the smoke settles down unon tho
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20

jeopardize the movement. My idea Of the
proper way to reach success is all appeal to
congress and the state legislatures. 1t is
measure that will be a benefit to both
employer and laborers. and the wages will
regulate themselves.
r. F. York; think its success will be
for the good of humanity, and benefit both
employer and lab0rer. 1t will give the
laboring classes time for needed recreation
and study. Some say that the extra time
would only be thrown away with the ma
jority. but my experience in England where
the nine-hour law was successfully inau-
gurated, is to the contrary. The change
will have to come about gradually, and by
mutual understanding.
A. L. Robinson-Yes, it would be good
thing, and l think it will come about before
long. We can't expect ten hours pay, but
that matter will regulate itself. We want
eight hours for sleep, eight for work and
eight for recreation. A man will always
get enough to live on and that is about all
he gets now.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
ST. PAUL TIME.

The affiliation of the Socialistic Labor
party of st. Paul with the Trades assem-
bly is one of the problems of the future.
The Socialists are ready but there is GER
tain prejudice against them in the labor
unions which the former claim IS mainly
the result of a misunderstanding Of their
principals and aims.
~
1t was learned yesterday from j. G. Go
heen of the Cigarmakers' union that steps
were being taken to secure 200 acres in OF
near West st. Paul for the site Of a labor
colony. Over forty have already taken
hold of the scheme. There will be room for
about two hundred families and only work.
ingmen can partake of the benefits. The
location is not given. but it will be about
two miles from the bridge in Dakota county
and will probably be called Uniontown or
some similar name. A similar colony OF
Philadelphia workingmen numbers nearly
four hundred families
~
Over one thousand nine hundred resi-
dences were erected in st. Paul this year,
and of the more than six thousand real es-
tate sales, only sixty-six of them were eS-
pecialIy large amounts 1t looks as II
good many workingmen had been fortunate
to have been building homes for themselves.
*x*
An interesting feature of the local labor
field just now is the graders strike on the
Chicago, Burlington & Northern line.
When men with families at home to sup
port and men who have to pay 81 for board
are asked to labor at dangerous employ
ment, exposed to the rigors of Mime
sofa winter and for dollar a day
they are naturally inclined to rebel
at the pressure which forces such condi-
tions. But the fact which has been so
often demonstrated that riotous proceedings
on the part of strikers not only fail to bring
employers to terms. but react to the injury
of the movement, will probably be again
verified in the present case. But there
hasn't been much riot anyhow.
xx*
The statement of the contractor that
nearly hundred men visited the place
every day in search of employment at 81 a
day, suggests many tales of undeserved
suffering, and should meet with a response
of sympathy in every reader.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20

railroad shops, the harvester works and the
st. Paul iron works. About sixty belong
to the union.
At the last meeting of the Bricklayers
union G. A. Lafayette, Charles Brunk and
J: N. Smith were Selected delegates to the
Trades and Labor assembly for 1886.
Rev. E. c. Evans, pastor of the Pacific
Congregational church. devotes considerable
attention to the interests of labor.
An account of the closing of the shops of
the Singer Sewing Machine company will
be found on the thirteenth page.
Work is slack with the iron-molders,
but by the first of the year the usual re-
vival of work is expected.
The eight-hour question is favorably re-
garded by the Bricklayers' union, but has
not been settled as yet.
The Knights of Labor have determined to
start cooperative industry in st. Paul
soon.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
Another c., B. go. Strike.

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-Another strike COM
menced on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad here this morning, the To-
cal firemen and switchmen going out. The
yards of the company at Western avenue
were filled with strikers and sympathizers,
and, as a result, anticipating trouble, thirty
policemen were dispatched to the scene.
No disturbance has yet occurred but freight
traffic is almost at stand still.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
hsnix Barrel company are working at St.

Phoenix Barrel company are working at st.
Paul.
The Minnesota shop was closed down
last week but will run this week, it is ex-
pected.
A. G. Emmons of the Hall & Dunn shop
expects to remove to Kansas shortly.
The new structure for the Northwestern
shop is about completed.
The North Star shop run four days Of the
week.
The Hennepin shop run last week on a
stint
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
Anti-Chinese Association.

SACRAMENTO, CAL. Dec. ia C1ti-
zens' ANTI Chinese association was organ
lied here last night with large member
ship. The association has for it's object the
furtherance Of legislation for Kidding Cali
fornia Of the Chinese and the displacement
of Chinese by white labor.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
St. Paul Notes.

G. W. Stevenson of st. Paul was one of
the speakers at the mass meeting in Mime
apolis under the auspices of the Trades and
Labor assembly. He advocated agitation
and education for the improvement OF the
laborer'S condition.
There are over hundred iron molders
in the city. most of them belonging to the
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20

ssWhen will the average citizen stop
spending half of his hard earnings on ci-
gars and tobacco? Give it up? Well,
when he finds out he can do without to-
bacco and cigars. but can't keep up without
the infallible remedy. Dr. Bulls Cough
Syrup" One bottle % cents.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20

choking them almost to suffocation. as the
cold weather makes it necessary to close all
the doors and windows. In order to breathe
men are sometimes forced to open the win
doWs, and the result is that many are at all
times during the winter laid off with severe
colds. Severe cases of sickness result, and
In some instances deaths have been Occa-
stoned. Appeals to the railroad company
have thus far been overlooked, and the as
sembly was asked to endeavor TO have the
difficulty remedied. This statement
aroused no little indignation. and commit
tee was forthwith appointed to look into
the matter, with instructions to ask the
railroad officials to provide some method of
ventilation, and, in case of refusal, to apply
to the city health authorities.
The assembly here went into executive
session, at which important matters were
considered 1t was decided to hold a spec
ial meeting this evening.