St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-03

cific car shops at Brainerd, is now in charge
of the shop of the Union Pacific road at Ev-
anston, Wyo.
The boilernakers and railroad engineers
are very decidedly of the opinion that one
of the three boiler inspectors recently APP
pointed by Gov. Hubbard should have been
practical boilermaker. Steps are being
taken to present protest to the governor,
and it is hoped that he will see the advisa-
bility of making change in at least one of
the appointments. 1t is but right and just
that at least one of the three inspectors
should understand his business.
The employees of the Milwaukee car
shops last week raised about $40 for Ben
jamin HaberbuSh of the machine shop, who
had his right arm terribly crushed six weeks
ago. In an emergency like this, where a
man is disabled and prevented from pro-
viding for his family, the boys evidently
believe in extending helping hand rather
than the faith cure"
FHE CoOPERs.
The Northwestern Miller objects to the
statement made in last Sundays GLOBE to
the effect that Charles McC. Reeve, man
ager of the Hall Il Damn shop,
refused to enter into a con-
tract as Inaccurate, and as doing Mr.. Reeve
grave injustice" Nevertheless the in
formation came from the president of one
of the cooper companies and the GLOBE
has too good an opinion of him to accept
the assertion of the Miller that his state
ment was either false or inaccurate.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Minneapolis school furniture factory,
corner Twenty-seventh street and Thirty
fourth avenue south, has just made its first
shipment. This enterprise employs thirty
five men, has q capacity of from 100 to $50
seats per day and starts off with very en-
couraging prospects ahead. Everything is
running smoothly and they have more orders
than can be filled. The president and
treasurer Is John Paulson, the vice presi-
dent and the secretary, &. A. Merrill. Their
seats are highly spoken Of.
The present city council seems to have
for its motto ''the rich, richer, and the
poor, poorer" 1t has cut down the salaries
of the policemen S. month, and doubled
the salaries of the city attorney and his
deputy. The Republican party in Mime
apOlis seems to be eminently the working
mans friend(?).
Some of the dude clerks in stores who do
not get sufficient pay to allow them to en-
joy three substantial meals day, object to
organizing for fear that they will be con-
sidered ''working-men." So long as they
are ashamed of the fact that they have to
work for living they ought to suffer.
The COopers propose to impose fine Of
so cents upon delegates who fail to attend
the Trades assembly without a good eX
cuSe. If the other unions will follow the
example there will be much better attend
ance.
The street commissioners, with only one
exception, commenced paying $1.75 for
labor on the streets, and So. so for teams, on
Friday, the list of May. These prices it is
understood are to hold for the balance of
the season.
One trouble in organizing the street-car
drivers to protect themselves is the fact
that the men do not have sufficient time al
lowed them to spare the half-hour or so that
would be necessary to hold a meeting. This
illustrates very forcibly the present con-
dition of this class of labor in Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis glass works shut down
Wednesday for two months. This step was
rendered necessary by the fact that a new
furnace is needed before the works can be
successfully operated.
The strongest argument in favor of i'm
posing license upon newsboys and boot
blacks is that the boys, that is the ''profes-
sionals," seem to be almost unanimously in
favor of it. ~
The mortgages on farming property in
the state of Minnesota are said to amount to
$40, 600, Goo. If farmers can prosper, as most
of them do. under the burden of these i'm
mense liens, it is hard to understand why
cooperative farming should not prosper
when the agriculturalistS will get their land
free and will only be required to pay inter-
est on the money necessary to purchase it.
The Iron Moulder's Sociable club will
give their first annual ball at the Adams
school roller rink on the evening of May 8.
Music by McDermott's band. Tickets so
cents. All are invited.
The Knights of Labor have recently re-
ceived good number of recruits from
among the workmen of the car shops.