St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-30
INDUSTRY ABROAD.
Notes For Eorkingnen All over the
Country.

y general strike among the machiniStS.
carpenters and Iaborers in the shops and
yards along the line of the Gulf, Colorado
Il Santa Fe railway took place at noon
Thursday, an order to that effect having
been issued by the grand council of the
Knights of Labor applying to all lines; the
wOTSmen on which had just cause for
grievance. The Santa Fe road was in
Guided in this class OF corporate offenders
ON the grounds that the men employed ON
the line received less pay than those
working for the Missouri Pacific railroad
and that they had been honestly dealt with.
In Galveston, Tex, an attempt was made
to prevent the departure of an evening pas
Senger train by blocking the track The
police, however, interfered. and removed
the distractions without opposition. The
trains are now running as usual, and thus
far the effects of the strike have not been
perceptibly felt. At Fl Worth and other
prominent points on the road the strike was
general. The condition of affairs at that
place looks serious, and, though the rail-
way officials appear To treat the matter
lightly, the indications are that they will be
forced To accept the strikers terms.
Straws point toward hard winter among
the wage-wOrkers, says an Eastern paper.
Iltlt SDult VI Tic SlldNS- HOW
widely and cOmpactly organized, will strike
against prevailing low wages in several
branches of industry. Employers have
taken alarm; many of them are now run
ming full time, especially in the textile.
hardware. stove, clothing and other trades,
to- accumulated three to six months stock
A little looking around develops the fact
that an unusually large number of boys and
girls Just over the legal restriction age are
learning how to do factory work; and when
the strikes come they will be able to do
something. The machinery capacity can
turn out in six or eight months what
will require twelve months to con-
sumo. Labor was never more aroused
or more hopeful of good results from
united action. 4 series of strikes will be
inauguTated. and works will shut down to
get rid of accumulatiOns and to endeavor to
diSorganize labor. Then the spring will
barely open before the eight-hOur national
strike will be inaugurated; and so the COM
ing twelve months promise 10 be eyentful
for labor.
The latest type-setting machine that is to
do away with printers labor cost $3.50. 1t
is rumored that five of the most prominent
newspaper prOprietOrS of the country have
purchased the invention. which is secured
Dy nIlN patents a AoH OOdIu, SlinlldT 10
that of a typewriter, is operated until a
line is set up, when by an ingenious con-
trivance, the line is spaced out. This ma
chine will, as usual. do the work of eight or
ten cOmpOsitOrs. The lines are arranged,
as east, automatically on a galley, which
when filed is proved and read. An error
or change neceSsitateS the recasting of the
line.
During the past three years mechanics
and wOrkmen of all crafts have been flock
ing westward, carrying their trades union
ism with them. Every Western city and
town had its idle crowd. but the Knights of
Labor sprang up and gathered them in.
The Union Pacific company has antici
pated the eight-hour strike by reducing the
time Of the 1900 men in the Omaha shops
from ten hours to eight. A similar course
WILDE pursued this winter and next spring
wherever it is found practicable.