St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Industrial Items from the Wi
World.

| shut down last week.
Labor bureaus have been established in
| fourteen states and in the District of
Columbia.
| All business in the Saginaw Valley,
Mich, is reported dull and 5000 idle men
are looking for work.
| All the railroad companies running out of
| Pittsburg are making reductions in the num-
Der of employees OF cutting wages.
Prominent labor reformers generally are
moving for a vigorous agitation of the mat
| ter OF reduction of the hours Of work.
The telegraphers of st. Louis employed
| by the Western Union, following the ex-
| ample of their brethren in Chicago, have
| obtained restoration of extra pay for over
| time.
| The acceptance of the Turkish mission
| by Hon. S. S. Cox is deplored by wol king
men generally, in that they lose one of
| their stauncheSt friends from the halls of
| congress.
Buffalo, N. Y, has school of instruc-
ton established by the journeymen plumb
ers, gas and steam filters. The school is
doing excellent work in promoting sanitary
plumbing.
The manufacture of textiles is increasing
in the Southern states, as well as all other
branches of manufacturing. In 80 there
| were $50 cotton mills in the South, while
now there are 314.
George W. Childs of the Philadelphia
Ledger, invited the printers in convention
to visit his Office. and put special train at
their disposal to carry them from New
York to Philadelphia.
The Rhode Island senate has passed the
ten-hour labor bill, which had already
passed the house. This is another victory
for the knights of Labor. The next step
should be to secure the passage of bill
prohibiting the employment of children in
mills.
Kentucky wOrkingmen are agitating the
importance of state bureau Of labor sta
tistics. There are such bureaus in fifteen
states, and the probability is that all the
states will eventually have them.
The actual contributions to the Hooking
valley strikers amounted to S97, O73. SO.
The Cincinnati cigarmakers received $780,
600. These two strikes cost in round num-
bers $500, 900. There is a growing DISPOSE
ton to support fellow craftsmen in their
strikes.
At meeting of the Trades assembly of
st. Louis a resolution was adopted indoors
ing Mr.. George Clark of that city for public
printer, and the Nebraska repreSen tativeS
in congress were asked to cooperate. MI.
Clark was president of the International
Typographical union for two terms and is
widely known anon the craft
The upper house of the Illinois legislature
passed an important bill on Thursday morn
ing, the intent of which is the discontinue
ance of the system Of contract labor in state
penitentiaries. The act provides that in
the future the entire government and con-
troll of the Illinois penitentiarieS shall be
vested in the penitentiary commissioners,
the governor being an eX-OfficiO member of
the board. The work of the convictS is to
be confined to such labor as may be required
by the state.
There are now over 5000 Knights Of
Labor assemblies and over 1000, 900 per-
sons have been initiated. The order is now
extending in the New England states and
in the Southwest. In Colorado there is one
assembly with 200 girls. In some towns
local tickets are put up. In Lawrenceburg,
Ind. all but one candidate on the Knights
of Labor ticket were elected. The organ
| ization has charm which never entirely
| loses it's influence.
By degrees the iron manufacturers are re-
suming operations, although the shutdown
| is still widespread. The Amalgamated as
| ISOLATION and the mill owners are holding
| frequent conferences, but the meetings do
| not appear to have accomplished anything
| as yet The conference of yesterday was
| expected to develop something. AS far as
| can be Judged, the Amalgamated assOcia-
ton appears to be gaining Roadway, or at
| least the outlook is more hopeful than it
was several days ago. Other labor troubles
are reported in various sections, but interest
| is concentrated on the great iron strike.
| While the indications are that settlement
will be had eventually, there is really but
little change in the situation.
| According to the statistics published in
| the third biennial report of the bureau of
statistics of Illinois it appears that in eighty
! occupations the average earnings are over
| $500, and in eighty-three occupations less
| than 5000; that "a per cent of the working
| men own the houses they live in; 80 per
cent. of all families are supported by the
| head of the family, and Is per cent. require
| the assistance Of the wives and children.
| The average earnings Of working wives is
25 per cent, and of the working children,
SO per cent of the total family income. 1t
also appears that AZ per cent of the family
expenses go for food, % per cent. for rent
and fuel, 81 per cent. for clothing and IA
| for miscellaneous expenses. Illinois work.
| ingmen spend more money for clothing than
do those of Massachusetts. Fifteen per
cent of the werkingmen are insured, land 20
per cent. belong to labor organizations
which cost them $3.50 each. The earnings
of those connected with labor organizations
are found to be larger than those not con-
| nected.