St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-05
GENERAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NEWS FROM THE WIDE, WIDE
| WORLD.
New Orleans will have another labor paper
| next week-The Journal Of Southern Indus
try-whieh will be under the supervision of
the Knights of Labor.
The Manchester Budget has been sued for
saving that the cut-downs in the mills were
wrong, and advocating higher wages for fac
tory hands.
The union compositors on the Burlington
Hawkeye have been locked out on account
of reduction in wages. The printers, with
commendable zeal, have started the Morning
Justice, in which they defend themselves and
by which they expect 10 exist.
Springfield, H., Special: The Wabash
employees, recently on a strike here, allege
that the company is gradually working in
new men with view to the ultimate dis
placement of the late strikers, aud this even
ing they held secret meetingin Knights of
Labor hall to consult about the matter. 1t is
impossible TO ascertain what action was
taken, but it is understood statement of the
case will be forwarded to the eomittee on
grievances.
The mayor of Sedalia, No., would not per-
nit the Pinkerton detectives to take any part
in the railroad troubles in that section.
Mr.. Peck, of New York state bureau of
statistics, has sailed for Europe, commits
stoned to inquire into causes of trade de-
preston abroad.
At last the great strike is ended, the Off
GERS of the Ohio State Miners association
officially declaring the trouble over in the
Hooking valley. Union miners are now
privileged to engage work wherever it can
be had. The iron clad oath has been with
drawn.
The hatters' and trimmers' strike at
Orange. n. j., has terminated in favor of
the strikers.
About 200 winders have struck against
reduction OF 10 per cent. at the Patterson,
n. j., silk mill. The firm assert they have
been forced, owing to the competition of
Union Hill and Philadelphia, and the times,
to make this reduction. This is the third
reduction within the last three months.
Efforts are being made to organize the silk
workers. This branch has been demoralized
since the strike last winter.
The labor market at Kansas City, No., is
said to be exceedingly dull. The effect of
the late successful railroad strike has been to
arouse the class to the importance of organi-
cation, and societies are being rapidly formed.
The Cincinnati Trades assembly have in
dorsed F. w. Oyster of Washington for pub
lie printer and c. P. Tibbles of its own city
as consul to Dublin.
The printers of New York are rejoicing
over the fact that the printing establishment
of Frank Tousey is now brought into the ty
biographical union. The boycott of his pub
LEGATIONS has now come to an end.
The Cigarmakers' international union is
calling for proposals on the subject of CO.
operation in that trade.
In the Pennsylvania legislative committee
the bill appropriating 10000 for the estab-
lishment of a hospital for the treatment of
miners in the bituminous coal regions was
amended so as to authorize the commission
to be appointed under il to select sites on
which as manv hospitals are TO he erected,
none of them to cost more than $4,000.
Petitions have been presented in the Penn
sylyapia legislature asking for the passage of
laws covering the objects laid down in the
declaration of principles of the Knights Of
Labor.
New Orleans reports 90 per cent. of her
screwmen idle, cotton yard men doing little,
bricklayers and carpenters doing nothing,
boilermakers and machinists mostly idle,
the rigging business at a standstiIl, and
'lougshoremen all complaining.
The Haverhill, Mass, Labour says the land
question is rapidly forging to the front, and
will in a generation or so be the most
vital of all questions of national polity.
A report from Columbus, o., says the i'm
ported labor not needed in the Hooking val
lev since the strike there has ended, will 90
to Pittsburg-
Three hundred quarrymen at Joliet, ILL.,,
went on strike Wednesday morning for an
increase of wages to 81. so per day, their pay
having ranged from S1.10 to sl.25 per day.
Operators Of the VARIOUS coal mines in
Evansville notified the miners that wages
would be reduced 10 8 cents busheI. The
miners refused 70 accept the reduction and
at noon Tuesday struck About ESQ men
quit work The proprietors say they
can get lots of men at 3 cents bushel.
The miners at the mines locsted on the
Cleveland. youngstown & Pittsburg railway,
who have been out on strike for the last
ten days on account of reduction Of 10 per
cent, acceded TO the terms of the mine
owners Tuesday, and viii commence work.
Nos. Of the new hands engaged BY the
eigar-mskers of New York, In anticipation Of
a lively spring trade, haze been dismissed:
the total nun Der thrown out OF employment
by the present dizziness is about LOCO.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has reduced wages al Chattanooga, Tenn, II
per cent