St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-17
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.
Notes of Labor and Unions Through.
out the Country.

out the Country.
Many molders in Columbus, O., are said
to be idle.
The Patterson, n. j., silk mills are run
ming over time.
Kansas reports a surplus of skilled and
unskilled labor.
Several small strikes still exist in and
around Boston.
All branches of industry in New Orleans
are dead for the summer.
Eighty. four Knights of Labor assemblies
were organized last month.
The miners of the Pittsburg railroad dis
trict have abandoned the strike.
The Green Ridge, Penn, skilled miners
earned less than 81 per day during April.
Several members of Typographical Union
No. 191. Winnipeg, joined in the expedi-
ton against Riel.
There is considerable alarm in the Cum
berland coal-mining region over the proba-
bility of strike.
The Manitoba legislature has passed
law providing that the owners of buildings
can be held responsible for unpaid wages.
An order compelling them to work ninety
IlllulcS HlolC pei udy lids OCCdSlOll6u llluCl
dissatisfaction among the Signal Service
corps.
A meeting of the Ohio miners will be
held at Columbus shortly to consider
whether or not they will submit to reduc-
ton of wages.
A seaman's union was recently formed
one night on one of the wharves in San
Francisco. In five weeks 1,600 members
had been enrolled.
The Photographers brotherhood, it is said,
has almost doubled membership since the
strike two years ago, although it is now
much more secret organization, then its
members not being known as such to out
Siders.
The boycotting resolutions against Mar
tin B. Brown, who is candidate for the
port collectorship at New York, have been
rescinded as Mr.. Brown, although himself
non-union man, is employing only union
printers in his office.
Of each dollar made by the Western
Union Telegraph company, 81 cents goes to
capital principally Water) and 3 cents to
labor. OF each dollar made by a Kansas
farmer, "a per cent. goes to pay labor, and
only 6 per cent. to capital (none of it water).
yet the Western Union company pays no
taxes at all in Kansas, and the farmers
nearly three-fourths of all taxes paid
Anti MonOpolist.
The celebrated of the twenty-tirst ami
versary of the English Cooperative Whole
sale society was memorable event i'm the
history Of cooperation, and, indeed, it
GEMS not too much to say, in the history
of labor movements. The coming of age
of the Wholesale, as it is briefly called,
was observed with appropriate ceremonies
in Manchester, on Sept. 20, 1884, and
on Sept. IS of the same year in New
castle and London. In 1868 this society
was founded to connect the various retail
! cooperative societies and to furnish
them goods at wholesale with
out the Intervention of the ordin-
| airy trader. The beginnings were so
modest that its report for the first twenty
weeks of 1864 showed shares to the value
of 3d. 15 only, while deposits and loans
equaled 0, sales e51. S51, and profits 92O7.
Turning to the report of the first twenty
weeks of 1884, this very different picture is
presented: Shares, e145, 61S: deposits and
| lOans E4S2, T29: sales, So, 149, 242, and
profits, 923, 1852. The sales have thus
reached the enormous amount of 95, 000,
900 per annum, while the yearly profits are
about e50,O0O. All this vast business has
| grown up in comparative silence, and no
public celebration of this achievement was
held until the recent one, when the assured
success of the 'sWholesale' was fittingly
brought to the attention of the world.