St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-29

reduction. The Staunton men were reduced
from 60 to 40 cents ton for mining, the
Belleville men still lower. About 1000 men
are concerned.
The strike in the Travis shoe factory at
Natick, Mass, is settled by the firm agreeing
to the Lasters' union prices. The men have
all returned and the non-union men dis
charged.
No man could for single week go around
among the leaders of the workingmen and
not be very deeply impressed by the spirit of
self-sacrifice and love for their fellows that
animates many of their number.
The skepticism which modern science in
culcates with regard to the physical science of
antiquity is paralleled BY the skepticlsm
with which workingmen now regard the cur
rent doctrines of political economy.
The attempt at settlement of the difficult
ties between the South Norwalk, Conn, hat
tiers and the bosses has fallen through.
The Irish-American league has censured
Gov. Marmaduke of Missouri for calling out
the militia during the recent railroad strike.
The strike of coopers in the Standard Oil
company's refineries is confined to Pittsburg,
Penn. The trouble is likely to be settled
soon.
There is some talk of national congress
of workingmen and others interested in co
operation to discuss that very important sub
ject.
The New York city house painters intend
to insist on So. so for ten hours work after
the first Monday in April. The journeymen
tailors have inaugurated a sick benefit fund
Independent of their union.
In Philadelphia, hosiery mill and knit
goods operatives are doing well, many work
ing over time. The foundries are increasing
their forces slowly, and hundreds of founders
are seeking employment at from $40 to S12
per week. Machinists are better employed,
and steady work is probable. The carpet
mills are running, with still better out
look
In New York the Federation of Trade and
LABOR unions is preparing circular for Eu-
ropean circulation warning labor against
coming to this country. There are more
idle carpenters in New York than ever before
during the winter. Agitation for fewer hours
per day is being pushed.
There are 10000 telegraph operators in the
United States, $4,000 of whom are on rail-
roads and Ii, 900 are in private and CONNER
cial corporations. Several schools have been
started to teach people the art of telegraph
ing, promising situations ranging from S45
to S125 per month, when com paratively few
of those employed now exceed the minimum
figure. There is already surplus of opera
tors.
The workingmen of Massachusetts are
pleased with the opening which Labor Com
missioner Wright has made at Washington
Mr.. Wright lectured last Tuesday before the
Boston evening high school on the topic of
machinery.
In Cincinnati the cigarmakers' strike is
eleven months old.
The winter stagnation of industries con-
tinues in Chicago.
There are now labor bureaus in thirteen
different states, and efforts are being made
to establish labor bureaus in four more. All
of them are more active than they were at
the outset
Throughout Pennsylvania it is still custom
airy to discharge miners who refuse to deal at
the companies stores, where outrageous
prices are charged.
The large manufacturing establishments
of Massachusetts, are opposing legislation re-
curing men to make weekly payments.
Large delegations of laboring men from
manufacturing towns have urged the passage
of the pending bill, but the legislature de-
clined to do so, at the instance of the en-
ployers, who claim that the expense and
trouble would be too great.
For some reason or other the cooperative
movement in the United States is of slow
growth. In Great Britain its growth has
been marvellous. In 1862 there were go, 900
members of cooperative societies of the
United Kingdom; in 1881 the number had
increased to 1890 The estimated num-
Der at present is 100000 In 1862 the cap
ital invested was about 100000. 1t is
now between S35, 600, 900 and $40, 600, 900,
and the sales are over 1925. 600, 600 annually.
The condition of the members of these socie-
ties has vastly improved. There Is room for
cooperative growth here, but very few efforts
are successful.
There are over 100000 females in the
country engaged in agriculture, nearly all
of whom are the colored people of the South.
Over one half of the total number of women
engaged in the manufacturing industries are
producers of clothing in some form or other
The proportion of females engaged in domes-
tic service has steadily declined since 1860.
In all of the United States there are only
nine women in mines
Thomas j. Curran, president Of the Inter
national Brotherhood OF Boilermakers and
Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of the United
States and Canana, will soon start on a tour
of organization throughout the country,
reaching the Northwest late in the summer.
The New York Amalgamated Society of
Engineers is giving IS, 500 week to mem
bers out of work, thus virtually supporting
$4,000 persons, and the Legal Protective
Association of Cigar Manufacturers imposes
a fine Of 800 on the members for non-at-
tendance at regular meetings.
An appeal has been issued by the. execu-
tive board of the Journeymen Tailor's union
to members of the trade throughout the
country, calling upon them to organize.
The railroad coal miners held cohven-
ton at Pittsburg last week which was largely
attended and reports from delegates were
encouraging to the strikers. This was the
second week of the strike and it seems no
nearer a settlement than when 1t begun.
There are 10000 men idle. Coal is getting
scsrcer every day, and number of manu-
facturies have been compelled to close for
want Of fuel.
Rutland, VT, has year old baby weigh