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

mand and enforce justice at the hands of
their employer.
All stone cutters who have not done so
should attend the next meeting and register
themselves The union will meet every Fri
day evening at NorInanna hall, on Wabasha
street, between Third and Fourth.
STONE CUTTER.
SUBURBAN IMPROVEMENTS.
Good Friday was pleasant thing for work.
ing men as it gave them a little rest. If the
Good Friday arrangement could come more
frequently and the pay continued, it would
be more pleasant still.
The work on city improvements will soon
commence, and as they will be very extern
sive, employment will be given to good
many workingmen.
When the st. Paul & Northern Pacific
road gets to work on the shops out near Ham
line it will cause that portion of town to be
very active. These works will be commenced
very soon and will continue all summer.
About one million dollars will be expended
at that point and small army of men will
be required to perform the labor. The grad
ing OF Como avenue 100 feet wide will
also promise employment to large number
OF laborers. If the improvements around
Como are made in accordance with the plans
laid out they will be on a scale that will re-
quire vast number of laborers of all de-
scriptions. The building will be quite
extensive, lasting all summer and late into
the fall. In addition to the work on the st.
Paul q Pacific shops and at Como there is
much other work that is to be done out in
that vicinity. The st. Anthony park prop
erty that is being laid out and improved,
beyond Como, will also require consider
able number of workmen. A pretty large
gang OF men will be required to do the work
contemplated in that vicinity. In Union
and Merriam parks very large number OF
dwellings will be erected this summer. Few
people have any knowledge of the large num-
Der OF private houses that are contracted for
in these two localities. The lots have been
bought and according to the contracts of
sale for the land dwelling houses must be
erected upon them. 1t will be busy hive of
industry at Hamline, Como, St. Anthony
park, the transfer and in Union and Merriam
parks this summer. The work, too, will be
varied, so that all kinds of laborers will be
required. Excavations will have to be dug,
stone walls built and houses constructed.
This means work for the shovel, the stone
mason, the carpenters, the bricklayers, the
plasterers and various other artisans. As it
will be in the locations spoken of the same
may be said of West st. Paul, Dayton's bluff,
Arlington hills, East st. Paul and within all
parts of the city proper. Add to this the
large amount of sewers to be put in all
through the city, it must be admitted that the
indications are that very large number of
laborers will be needed, and that all can OBJ
tain work who desire to labor.
LABOR AND POLITICS
A committee appointed by the Trades as
sembly to consider the political situation,
met last Tuesday evening at the assembly
hall, on Jackson street. The committee has
been delegated with full power to act, and is
composed of the following assent lymen: A.
L. Robinson, iron-moulder's union, chair
man; E. r. Harroun, typographical; Peter
Mandler, cigar-makers; c. Stevenson, K. of
L., 1898; G. A. Lafayette, brick-layers; H.
O'Hern, boiler-makers; A. C. Taylor, shoe
makers and K. of L., 1882; j. A. johnson,
carpenters and ioiners; James Mclaughlin,
plasterers; 7. Hourihan, plumbers. At the
meeting the political situation was pretty
thoroughly discussed, and it was believed that
the laboring vote was strong enough to secure
at least two aldermen. 1t is thought that the
workingmen can secure a representative
from the Second aldermanic district of the
Second ward, and also one from the Third
district of the Fifth ward. After pretty
thorough canvass of their probable strength
it is estimated that the labor vote in the sew
eral wards are as follows: In the First, $50;
Second, 300; Third, $50; Fourth, $50; Fifth,
300: Sixth, 200; Seventh, $50; Eighth, 80.
This gives a total of /, $50 votes, and would
determine the result if welded as a unit.
ST. PAUL NOTES.
The cigarmakers' union will give ball at
Turner hall on Monday evening next.
T. V. Powderly, the grand master work
man of the Knights of Labor, is headed this
way and will be in st. Paul in a few weeks
NJ. Joseph Daily has been elected by the
typographical union of this city to represent
that body at the international meeting in
June next at New York city.
The additions to be made to the st. Charles
Street Polish church, besides being extensive,
indicate that our Polish fellow citizens are
increasing in numbers. It's just such i'm
provements as this one that give employ
ment to very worthy laborers and helps all
classes of citizens.
Nearly one hundred teamsters are engaged
removing dirt from the Wabasha street hill
to Central park, between Wabasha, Bluff
Robert and Thirteenth streets. They move
about two thousand yards per day. This is a
job that furnishes a good deal Of work for q
good many men and teams.
The colarmakers say in reference to the
recent trouble between them and their en-
ployers that they were treated arbitrarily.
After they had returned to work at the re-
duced price there were some murmtlrs among
a small faction, whereupon they were ordered
out as body from the establishments. 1t is
reported their places will be supplied with
men from st. Louis.
The st. Paul Typographical union will
elect its officers to-day. The main interest
is in the election of president, for which
office there is considerable electioneerng.
The present incumbent, NJ. J. DAILY, who has
served two terms, has been elected as dele
gate to the international union and Is not
candidate for the presidency. The two con
testants are NJ. F. Kahn of the Herald, and
G. w. Sheldon of the Pioneer Press
Friends of II. w. Topping, employed in
the st. Paul foundry, rendered that gentle
man a very graceful testimonial Of esteem
on Thursday, on the occasion of his severing
his connection with the company. The tes-
timOnial took the form of a rich Office outfit,
consisting of an elegant folding desk,
cherry ide-board, revolving chairs, a library,
leather upholstered lounge, on each of which
articles was tastefully engraved: Presented
to II. W. Topping by his friends and en-
ployes of the st. Paul Foundry company,
April 1, 1885"
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