St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-07


theater for a concert to be given in behalf
OF the Labor lyceum. The West sidestreet
car drivers have been allowed their terms
OF Twelve hours per day at So. District
Assembly No. IS is negotiating with all the
street car companies for the same terms
but the reply is that the terms will strand
them. The International union has already
paid $4,000 to the striking cigarmakers.
Three Indignation meetings were held last
Tuesday night The painters are organic
ing and Will strike for nine hours.
The steadiness that exists in so MANY
lines of trade is due, in the opinion of the
manufacturers and jobbers, to the old
fashioned practice of ordering goods in
more moderate quantities. On this solid
and conservative level business does not
always seem to be as hourishing as it ac-
tually is. The boot and shoe makers are
not yet working to their fullest capacity
although the market is improv-
ing. The belief is that the years business
will go ahead of last year. There are
12,O2S retail shoe dealers in the United
States. There is an abnormally small de-
mand for high-priced leather goods. Some
OF the largest manufacturers are remaining
out OF the market, but are filling orders
which come to hand. There are 500, 600
men engaged in the boot and shoe industry
IN the country, besides 1000 convicts.
The Knights Of Labor are everywhere
active. The latest assembly organized was
at Pittsburg, by the statesmen, and was
numbered 4907. A great many of the as
semblies under No. 1000 are defunct, as the
organization terms it The painters, gas
and steamttters and half a dozen other
branches are organizing. Nearly all tina
glass houses are busy. Organized labor is
boycotting the only merchant tailoring es-
adjustment outside of the union
Fifty-one operators from the bituminous
mines OF the West met in Columbus, Jan.
~, TO prepare for cooperative effort by
| which harmony can be restored to the coal
trade and friendly relations be maintained
between themselves and the miners. A
| state convention of miners will be held i'm
| Springfield on Feb. 9. The miners are fall
ing into line ali over the country. Mass
meetings are being held at frequent inter-
walls in the anthracite coal region, and a
spirit of harmony prevails which has not
been known for fifteen years.
! The Illinois State assembly at its recent
session passed resolution advising its
members to not vote for any prescribed
classes for any political Office The speak
erS said IN substance. "'What is the use of
| debarring lawyers from our order and still
continue to put them in pOwer?" The res
olutiOn will be adopted by other state as
semblies, and ultimately it will beattempted
to put the resolution into practice as far as
| possible.
Large sales of coal and timber lands are
being made in Pennsylvania. In some of
the Western states rich coal veins are being
discovered not far below the surface, which
experts say can be mined at reduction
over the cost of existing deeper mines, and
that this economic fact promises to stimulate
! industries in those neighborhoods.
Several assemblies have been organized
in Boston. among them the trunk and bag
makers, the electrotypers, and the jewellers
and goldwOrkers. The Tailors' assembly
has initiated 113 girls and 1877 men, and It
is now so large that it will have to be SUBJ
divided. The Painters and Decorators as
sembly numbers over 200.
Manufacturers of textile fabrics have
long regretted that fashions originate in
Paris. They have seen that if an American
| style could be developed it would be money
IN their pockets and work for their looms.
American taste is being developed and an
American style is coming.
A cooperative shoemaking concern has
been started in upper Michigan, with $780,
900 subscribed. Regular weekly wages are
paid, and 46 per cent. of the profits are paid
to capital, 40 per cent, to labor. 5 per cent.
for educational purposes, and per cent. to
dealers handling their goods.
Three-fourths of all the silk mills at Pat
erson are working over time. Ground was
broken last Wednesday for an addition to
the largest silk mill in Paterson. New
looms are being constructed and the pro-
ducing capacity of that town is being rap
| idly increased.
An assembly composed exclusively of
! girls was organized in Galveston, Tex,
and the seventy-two delegates in the recent
convention there are each acting as an or
ganiZer to spread the principles of the or
der.
Officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company say that already more than half of
the men in service of the company have
applied for the benefits of the relief de-
partment.
| Some of the Western railroad companies
are interested in developing manufacturing
| towns along the lines OF their roads, and
are lending all the assistance they possibly
| can.
| The National association of stove manu-
| facturers met in Louisville last Wednesday
to advance prices on stoves. and various
other matters of trade interest.
| The brickl ayers unions throughout the
| United States are rapidly indOrsing the
action of the national assembly in adopting
the nine-hOur law.
Boycotting has been started in Maine
| against the shOemakers who moved from
Lynn and other Massachusetts towns.
Thirty assemblies were represented at
the semi-annual meeting of the Ohio knights
at Canton.
| In short time six Bessemer steel worKs
will be in operation in the vicinity of Pitts
| burg.
Last year Patterson, n. j., produced 30
| 600, 900 yards of ribbon, worth So, 600. 600.
Sixty-fve delegates met at Angus, Ia,
last week. representing 6, 900 knights
Six hundred members belong to the
Knights of Labor in Portland. Or.
The jewelers. league at New York now
numbers 3,00S members.
The Michigan assembly will hold a con-
vention on March o.
Two assemblies have been organized In
Savannah, Ga.
In Washington. d. c., there are two dis
trict assemblies.
The Canadian wooden mills are crowded
with orders.
There are four knights in the Virginia
legislature.
| The Toll Gate Mans Hidden Grief.
Arkansaw Traveller.
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