St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
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The workmen employed at the Boston
navy yard in tearing apart the old United
States war ship ''Virginia;" find the wood
IN a good state of preservation. This is at
trlbuted to the fact that her tfmbers Ivera
Saited. Large humps of salt have hean
taken from her that were put there over
seventy years ago, when she was con-
StTucted.
Five hundred workmen are EMPLOYED in
the United States in the manufactures of
glucose and grape sugar. They are maid
81, 600, 600 per annum in wages. and WOrl,
up S14, 000,0 worth of raw materials
This industry threatens some day to come
into competition with the legitimate sugar
industry
The fifth annual meeting of the Work
mems Cooperative bank was held recently
in Boston. The membership is 5O7: shares
3, $50. The earnings for the year have
been percent. The assets were S1O1. 900.
The bank is in most prosperous condition
and its success has led to schemes to start
others.
industrial arbitration continues to make
Roadway, but its progress is due largely to
the fact that it rests on a vigorous Organi-
cation OF labor. Without such organization
employers would be unwilling to arbitrate.
and would say as they have often said to
labor, what do you representa-"
Charles Powell of London, representing
the Church of England WOrkmen'S society,
IS speaking in favor of that kind of Organi-
cation, and is here for the purpose of bring
ing before the working people the advan-
t1pn of OrtroOizof iOr, flo e
the church. The membership in England
numbers 1900.
A Texan has just invented telephoning
instrument which can be operated without
the use of batteries, and which consists of
two ounces of wire, One-half pound of steel
and horseshoe magnet tiiansmitter The
instrument can transmit soind seventy-fiye
miles.
Ihe Brotherhood of Loci motive Firemen
OF New England met recently in Boston for
the purpose of extending their organization.
Inc membership is $4,000, scattered Over
the United States, Canada and Mexico,
ana with the engineers numbers 80, 900.
The Joliet rolling mill start I'D ON july
D, with new automatic process, which
cost 500, 600, and which will dispense with
a large number of labOrers. The Edgar
thompson mill has done the same. Other
mills are trying to do likewise.
Consul Merrill at Jerusalem. Palestine.
says that American sash. doors and blinds.
ana ready-made houses would find cOnsid-
cradle sale in the Holy Land The wood
now used there Is of very coarse quality,
and does poor service.
Indiana legislature has passed a law for
bidding the importation of foreign contract
IaDOr INTO that state, also to compel cor
porationS to pay wages regularly and in
cash so as to the stop the store order
system.
affirm it as my conviction that class
laws placing capital above labor are more
dangerous TO the republic at this hour than
chattel slavery in the days of its haughtiest
upremacy.-Abraham Lincoln.
In all the revolutions there have been but
two parties confronting each Other-that of
the people who wished to live by their own
labor and that of those who would live by
the labor of others. -Blanqui.
Mirabeau, sitting in the garden of the
TulllerieS, declared to Talleyrand. Napo-
Icons minister, that the people never clam
Ored unless there was just cause for their
grievance.
The Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific shops
and the Kurr-MuITay Iron works at TT.
wayne, Ind, have resumed operations, the
striking employees have returned to work.
Kansas and Connecticut have Just adopted
state labor bureaus by vote of their legisla-
lures. In Maine the measure has been de-
feated.
An eight-hour bill has passed the Penn
syIvania legislature. Heavy fines are i'm
posed for violation of the law.
Now Iarco1r hoe ,oo-.ol
schooling law. No child under II years of
age is allowed to work.
The strikers at the Pennsylvania colliery,
Mount Carmel, Pa, are somewhat violent.
Florida wants labor bureau.