St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
OUTSIDE LABOR.
Notes of American industries.

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Gov. Robinson of Massachusetts and DIR.
Gilman of Johns Hopkins university of Bal
more, spoke at the Worcester, Mass. In
duStrial school commencement on WedneS-
day, and argued strongly in favor of more
extended industrial education. The state
has given $50. 900 to the institution on con-
ditiOn that the twenty students living out
side of the county in which the school is To-
Gated shall be educated free. The state of
Mississippi has a very prosperous agricul-
| tural and mechanical college, which pro-
videS facilities for $50 students. A 1000
acre farm belongs to the school, where
scientific agriculture is taught. All pupils
are compelled to work fifteen hours per
week, for which they are allowed cents
per hour. The mechanical department is
yet in its infancy, but it is intended to de-
velOy this branch as rapidly as circumstan-
ceS will permit.
Southern inventors have for years been
endeavOring to perfect something that would
enable them to gather the textile fibre out
of various kinds Of plants. 1t is thought
that this lOng-lOOked-fOr machine will soon
be perfected sufficiently to be introduced.
1t will be a greater boon to the South than
was the cOtton-gin, and when introduced
Will lead to general cultivation of jute and
ramie. The latter fibre is confidently de-
clared to be the fibre of the future in COM
binatiOn with silk, wool, cotton, linen and
jute. European rivals are away ahead of
America in the utilization of this compare
lively new product.
If all those who join unions would ask
what they could DO they would find answers
IN plenty, and unions would become
power. They could discuss subjects of i'm
pOrtance to them in fraternal spirit and to
their mutual advantage. They could help
one another in many little ways which
would strengthen the bond which unites
them. They could, by true cooperation
with each other, solve many of the difficult
ties which beset wage-wOrkers, and
eventually place the union in position to
be of material service, and, by combining
their means, become eventually partners
where they are now working for wages and
liable to dismissal.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
is twenty-fOur years old. 1t has MEM
berShip of over 10, 1000, has paid out 81, 20O,-
600 i'll insurance benefits, and $500, 900 in
charitable assistance to needy members.
Their pay runs from S75 to S15Oper month,
according to mileage made. The Brother
hood of Locomotive FiTemen has 275 lodges
and membership of $4,000, which is
about half the total number in that craft.
These unions are strong. and railway man
ayers think prudence the better part of
valOr in dealing with them ON wages ques-
tons.
Eastern iron-workerS are turning out
enormous tools and pieces of machinery A
Philadelphia firm recently sent seventy
foot lathe to Buffalo. Another firm re-
Gently bought 10, 600 pound anvil, made
in one casting. One large foundry is about
to ship a centrifugal pumping engine, the
largest ever made in the country, and the
largest, with one exception, ever made in
the world. Each pump weighs 165, 600
pounds. is eleven feet in diameter, and has
capacity of 40, 900 gallons per minute.
The Virginia tin mines are attracting a
good deal of attention from dealers in met
ais. Cash Mine No. I produces oxide of
tin, carrying from 40 to 60 per cent; No.
2, 80 to so per cent, and is ten feet thick
and two feet wide. The best ore will pay
profit of 500 per ton for shipment to
England. They are said to be the richest
tin mines in the world. There are thirty
other mines in the neighborhood.
\ commission in France which has been
for long time studying the ACCESSIBILITY of
shorter hours of labor would recommend it,
but for the fact that English and German
NOilpCliilOH I1cliCu WOIk-
men. The French labor Oh nizations are
anxious that the experiment be tried but
the government hesitateS and perhaps has
no notion OF doing anything more than to
show to the wOrkmen a sentimental anxiety
to do what it can for them.
The first attempt to mine coal by cleo
tricity was made in the presence of a num-
Der of Illinois operators and mining experts
at StreatOr, Ill. A chiseled-shaped pick
fastened at the end of the piston does the
work by direct reciprocal motion, instead
of rotary motion. 1t is said it will do twice
as much work as compressed air. The
experimenterS are satisfied with their pro-
gresS.
Experience proves that the trades union
is civiliZing and conservative force Out
RACES are sometimes committed by them.
but these are fewer land cheaper) than
under the regime OF disOrganized and
irresponsible mobs of dissatisfied laborers.
To forbid the trade union is to feed con-
spiracy, and the sO-called shrewd capitalist
should be the first to see it--Chicago Trib-
une.
Director General Burke says Southern
people will succeed in utilizing the negro
labor of the South in mechanical directions.
He says Southern manufacturers intend to
open up to the negro the factories and
workshops, and that they will take the
millions of workers from tilling the soil