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Cooperation.

In an article on cooperation, the Toledo
News gives utterance to more sound, prac-
teal wisdom in few words than is usual Y
found compressed within the same limits.
Ii says that successful cooperation among
the wage-wOrkers would do more to change
the tone of monopoly than all the resolu-
tons that could be passed by organizations
in year, and thinks that if its advantages
were understood thousands would engage in
il who never gave il thought.
Each one of the following seven points
embOdies fundamental truth of the highest
practical concern to every one who depends
for his living upon his own labor:
Cooperation elevates labor by giving it a
knowledge of business.
1t retains the profits of labor in the hands
of the laborer. the real producer.
1t enables the laborer to accumulate cap
ital.
1t makes the laborer independent by en-
abling him to be his own employee.
1t gives the laborer the benefits Of labor
saving machinery.
Itprevents the wage worker from becom-
ing mere machine, by opening up new
channels of thought to him.
1t ultimately destroys the power Of mo-
nopoly.
AhC SuCCCoS VI CO-OpcIdtlNe uhucTIdkiI9,
however, depends upon the intelligence and
honesty of those who engage in it without
which life is not worth living and govern
ment is not worth maintaining. If these
cooperative projects were successfully
carried out, as very many of them have been
in Europe, the road for a cooperative pro-
ductive system of society would be made
easier; we should hear less about labor not
having brains, and there would be less dis
cussion of nonsense.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

from every fire, but they fail to properly
carry off the smoke and the men work in a
dense cloud of smoke and dust all day. The
city health department will this week re-
quest that the trouble be remedied.
Arrangements have been made by the
Bricklayers' unions of the two cities bv
which workman can work at either pIaee
and enjoy the privileges on his working card
alone. This is convenient arrangement
which will be appreciated by union brick
layers.
Last Monday the foreman of the Mani
toba boiler shop DISCHARGED two men. putting
common laborers in their places. The men
quit in a body and refused to work AGAIN
until the men were reinstated, which was
done.
Five. delegates from the Minneapolis
Stonecutters' union attended the meeting of
the 81 Paul union last night in the interest
of eight-hour labor.
There will be an adjourned meeting of
typographical Union No. 80. at K. of l..
nan, No. 391 Jackson street, to-day at
$3.50 p. m.
There will be labor discussion at G. A.
H. nan on jackson street this evening.
The Boilermakers' union will reorganize
as Knights of Labor assembly.
The prospects for local bricklayers for the
coming season are good.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
Child Lahnr.

According to the United States census of
1880 there were then at work in the mills,
shops and factories of this, the richest
country on the planet, no less than 1,1sO,-
600 children under Is and 16 years of age.
the number having increased in the ten
years previous about 55 per cent. If the
census were taken to-day there would be
found million and half of these little
ones employed at manual labor of the
hardest kind, and most of them working at
least eleven to twelve hours per day. Child
labor has grown to enormous proportions
within the last twenty years, it being al
most unknown before the war. During the
same period wealth 70 the amount of $780,
600. 600 had been accumulated by twenty in
diyiduals. Nothing shows so clearly the
pernicions results of our system Of industry
which kills of tens of thousands of our
children every year, and causes the men
and women of the coming generation TO
grow up in physical as well as moral de-
generacy, utterly unable to discharge their
duties 10 the state and to society.-Me-
chanics' Journal
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The Constitution and the Street Ca
Drivers Receive Attention.

Tne Constitution and the Street Car
Drivers Receive Attention.
The meeting of the Trades Assembly
Friday evening was exceptionally well at
tended. Twenty-Five were present, many
of whom were new members. President
Harroun did not arrive until after the meet
ing was opened, and in his absence G. a.
Lafayette was called to the chair.
The credentials of thirteen delegates
were received and the delegates obligated.
The delegates represented Labor Assemblies
Nos. 1898, 4O31 and 1905, and the cigar
makers, ironmoulders' and bricklayers'
unions.
The committee on boycotts reported their
action as published last Sunday. Since the
boycott had been declared eight or ten retail
dealers in the city had returned goods to
Mr. Grunhagen in accordance with recon-
mendationS of the boycotting resolutions.
u. A. Lafayette, Of the committee on
council meetings, reported that Aid. Kain's
resolution was on the shelf at present, but
would be brought up again in due time. A.
IL. Robinson of the committee appointed to
confer with the stOnecutters on the eight
hour question reported that he had addressed
a letter to each contracting stonecutter
III the city asking their views on certain
points, but had received no replies as yet.
The election of officers was deferred until
the next meeting.
Reports on work in the trades were as
follows: Cigarmakers. fair; carpenters
slack; ironmolders, picking up, few idle
and prospects better than ever before; shoe
makers, satisfactory; stonecutters, prospects
bright; steamfitters, dull, but prospects good
for the coming season.
The assembly resolved itself into a COM
mittee of the whole to consider the clause
III the new constitution providing that no
delegate shall represent an organization
more than one year in succession. The
discussion of the vexed question was con-
tinued for some time without arriving at
any definite conclusion. Upon the dis
charge of the committee, the roll of dele
gates was called on the adoption of the sec
ton in question, resulting in its loss by a
vote of 10 to 3. The roll was then called
OH the adoption of the constitution with the
section stricken out. The vote was ayes
20. noes 2.
A resolution was introduced by G. A.
Lafayette cOndemning the unjust treatment
OF street car drivers by the company and de-
claring that boycott would be declared
unless the hours of labor be reduced. On
motion the matter was laid over until the
next meeting and committee appointed to
investigate the grievances of the men and
report thereon.
The establishment of a union book and
job printing Office by Fisher 81 Stevens was
announced and the assembly adjourned.
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STATE NOTES.

Bridgeman is an enterprising little place
on the Hinckley division of the Manitoba
road. and things are booming in the indus
trial line. The hardwood lumber trade and
manufacture gives the place its prestige.
c. w. Stevenson, state organizer of the
Knights of Labor, when at home, sits in an
elegant easy chair, presented to him by the
h. of l.. of Hudson, Wis.
Times are rather slack with the cooper
trade at Faribault. All are employed, but
at short hours. About ten barrels a day to
the man are being made.
c. w. Stevenson takes pleasure in exhib-
iting copies of the GAINESVILLE Times, which
runs an interesting labor department.
The main industry at Dundas is barrel
making. Work is slack in that line there
as elsewhere.
The trades are in good condition at Wi
mona.
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A Minneapolis Students Lesson in
Political Economy.

A Minneapolis Students Lesson in
Political Economy.
To the Editor of the Globe:
VIII you please print the following quo
tatiOn from Working People and Their En-
ployers" by Rev. Washington GLADDEN. of
Springfield, Mass, for the benefit of some
workingmen who appear to upbraid the
church for its supposed lack OF sympathy?
His words meet my hearty Endorsement and
l commend them TO the readers of the
GloBE. Mr.. GLADDEN. says:
Almost all the legitimate objects that you
seek in your various social organizations, the
church, if rightly viewed by you, would aid
in securing. If companionship is what you
want, the church is the fraternity whose
bond is closer and more sacred than any
other; if you desire culture, you will find that
most churches in these days recognize the
fact that knowledge is one Of the Christian
graces, and strive TO enrich the minds as well
as TO purify the hearts of their members; IL
you crave diversion, that, too, is provided for
to a sufficient degree. For the church must
have for its aim 10 build up the whole man
symmetrically-to give every human faculty
its appropriate nutriment that the Imam OF
God may be perfect and entire, wanting
nothing" II you seek opportunity for be-
nevolent work, am safe in saying that more
of this is done by the churches of the land
If you wish to better your condition in
worldly point of view, your safest course is
10 study and practice those principles OF
Christian prudence and morality which it
is the Office of the church TO teach. So long
as the New Testament is its charter, so long
as faith in the man of Nazareth and loyalty
to Him is its foundation, it must be a mighty
power for good in the world. You may think
that am talking professionally now, but
am not. go right back in my thought 10
the day when / was mechanics apprentice,
alone and almost friendless in a large town;
and speak solely from my memory OF the
help. the solace, the stimulus that Christian
church then gave me. i never think of that
church. of the dear friendships 10 which II
introduced me, Of the quickening that IL gave
me mentally as well as spiritually, of the bet
ter purposes of living into which it led me
without the deepest thankfulness. II fur
nished just the kind of influence that needed,
at a critical time in my life; and 1 owe 70 its
sacred association more than shall ever be
able to tell.
l hope the intelligent, honest and indus
trious working men, who read your admira-
bic Sunday paper. will give Mr.. Gladden's
remarks the consideration they deserve.
A STUDENT.
MinneanOliS Feb II
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force. When the church says to an OBJ
pr essor, You should not do this wrong" "
the labor unions must make it more en-
phatic by saying, ''YOu shall not do this
wrong" The man who rails against labor
unions evidently is either dishonest or he
does not understand their true nature. objects
and functions. In this cause we want men
who are broad enough 10 understand what
is needed and earnest enough TO take hold
of the work. The men who stand az ais
tanee. with kid gloves and sanctimonious
visage, and raise their hands in holy horror
when the ''groundlings" u believe that is
what they are called) show any evidence of
thought. are not the men to advance this
movement nor TO augment the forces of
progress.
'Tis not the wide phylactery,
Nor stubborn fast. nor stated prayers
That makes US saints, or judge the tree
By what it bears
And when man can live. apart
From works, on theologic trust
know the blood about his heart
Is dry as dust.
JOHN LAMB.
Minneapolis, Feb 10, 1886.
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set up the beer in Tom. Dick and Harry's
saloons; he must sign every petition or sub
scription that may be handed to him; he
must resort to double dealing, lying, con-
nlylng. gin-swilling and backbiting of every
variety. The professional politician will
hold up his hands in holy horror and say
'Powderly is slandering the people, But I
say no. 1 am not talking of the people
but to the people who sit at home and per-
NIT three or four men in each ward to rep
resent or rather misrepresent them. 1 win
oe told that in speaking so plainly l am
digging my political grave. Well. if speak
ing the truth will dig my political grave 1
am satisfied to not only dig the grave, but
to shovel the dirt in after the corpse is de-
Gently laid away
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
MINNEAPOLIS COOPERs.

Northwestern Miller: Philip Uyrich of
the Northwestern Barrel company thinks
that he now has his patient paper barrel
lining at point where its use is practical
bic, and is making number for trial by
the mills. He thinks that he can furnish
the lining at cost of about cents per bar
rel.
There is no change in the situation with
Minneapolis shops. except that cold weather
no longer interferes with work. The sales
of barrels last week were 1880, against
45. 900 barrels the preceding week, and
33. 900 barrels for the corresponding time in
1885. Barrel stock Is ll-Northwestern
Miller.
j. A. Smith, ex-president of the Co-op-
erative Barrel company, left Thursday for
Lead City, Oak, where he will engage in
mercantile pursuits with his brOther-in-law,
Charles Buneman. Many friends will re-
greet that ne has left Minneapolis.
The wife of Edwin Crawford, member
of the Hennepin Barrel company, who re-
Gently died at st. Barnabas hospital, has
come on from Grand Rapids, Mich, to look
after her interest in the deceased's estate.
which is valued at 81, 600.
Will Reed has returned from a visit TO
GAINESVILLE, Wis. He reports coOpering there
10 be ruined by the use Of secondhand bar
rels. which the mills buy at Chicago at
small cost.
Jacob Altman, one of the "old-timers'
of the North Star shop, has sold his stock
to the company and will engage in farming
at Aberdeen, OAK.
Mike Wall, who does the hauling for the
Northwestern Barrel company, treated the
members of the concern to a sleigh ride re-
Gently.
Seven carloads of single-stave barrel
stock have been received by the Sixth street
shop and will be made into sample barrels
Hugo Mattallath. president Of the Anchor
Single Stave Barrel company of Detroit,
Mich. is expected in the city shortly.
William Young has sold his membership
in the Phoenix shop and has bought stock
in the Tight Barrel company.
The Hardwood Storage company has re-
Gently put in six Champion heaters that are
giving great satisfaction.
The membership of the late Mark Nor
ton in the Northwestern Barrel company is
offered for sale.
o. j. Kibbey has taken charge of the
machine department of the North Star
shop.
Ed Carlin of the North Star skip removes
shortly to New York state.
The Acme Barrel company Is now SUD-
plying the Standard mill.
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Needs OF the unemployed.

LONDON, Feb. 1S.-It is rumored that the
government remains undecided as to the ad-
visibility of prosecuting the socialist lead
ers, who are deemed responsible for the IL
citing which followed the Trafalgar square
meeting last Monday. The better classes
of London have been thoroughly aroused to
the needs of the unemployed. OF the e2O,-
600 subscribed during the past three days
for their relief, nearly all has been contrib
uted by metropolitan merchants and bank
ers. The general public has scarcely given
anything TO the mansion house fund as yet.
Police summons have been issued return
able Wednesday next against the socialist
leaders, who are blamed for melting the
riots of Monday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
THE JOINT SNAKE QUESTION.
An Iowa Man Settles IL Beyond a
Doubt.

Scientists and others have doubted
whether there was such thing as a joint
snake, which, when struck, would fall in
parts, and afterwards unite and become as
good as new. The Chicago Inter
prints an account of man writing from
Otterville, Ia, but formerly residing in Hi
nOiS, from which We quote the following
extraordinary personal experience conirma-
tory OF the statements of others:
LAS was walking one day in the fields
1 saw small snake, which, from the de-
scription previously given me, concluded
was joint snake l was carrying in my
hand small stick, and with this hit the
snake two or three light blows, and in q
moment, to my infinite surprise. 1t separated
into several parts. After regarding it for
some minutes with mingled curiosity and
establishment and perceiving no indications
that the parts would unite again, l left
them and resumed my walk. On my return
/ thought l would pass that way and see
how it Jared with his snakeship, but on
reaching the place no trace of the snake
was to be seen. Thinking perhaps hawk
might have found and made meal of it,
was about to pass on, when noticed in the
grass near by snake appearing to be ident~
ical with the one first seen. Whether it was
the same or another snake had no means
of knowing, but l resolved that if another
occasion should present itself when
was more at leisure l would investigate the
matter more to my satisfaction.
1T was several years before I had the
opportunity, but it came finally. One
morning as l was going to my orchard for a
basket of apples was agreeably surprised
to see large joint snake lying near the
path. Now was my chance, thought, to
prove the truth or falsity of the stories that
had been told me. So, getting a stick, in
twinkling / had him nicely dissected.
Without disturbing the head and tail joints,
1 carefully placed the others in the basket,
and. stepping aside a few PAGES, put il
beside me on the ground. While contem-
plating the curious structure of the joints,
which seemed to fit one into the other likG
those of the prairie rush, my attention wai
arrested by slight noise. and,
on my looking up, to my ut
ter amazement / saw the snakes
head with the tail in its mouth coming
directly toward me. l quietly drew back
to watch results. After crawling few
times around the basket it stopped, appar.
antly much disappointed and perplexed,
and put down the tail it was carrying. Ev-
identity it was suffering considerable pain
and distress. l now took the parts mad
in the basket and placing them near me
others anxiously awaited developme IT'S,
nor did wait in vain, for the several pats,
drawn by some mysterious attraction. M
mediately united, and the snake gllded
away, seemingly as sound and contented as
if nothing unusual had happened"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
st. Paul, Feb. Is, 1886.
minnesota Labor Legislation.

To the Editor Of the Globe:
Dear Sir: Can you inform me whether the
Minnesota legislature has ever passed bills
relating to trades unions or the difficulties
between labor and capital.
@. S. BENNETT
Evanston, H., Feb. 8, 1887.
No bills of the nature mentioned have
ever passed the Minnesota legislature.
During the last session Senator Truax in
troduced bill providing for arbitration in
cases of difficulty between employers and
employees, but it was indefinitely postponed.
During the same session, bill intended
to abolish contract labor at the state prison,
met with like fate ON motion OF G. IL.
Lineau.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
LIFE AND LIlIR.
A Needed Law Proposed by n Min
neapOlis Lawyer.


The following is the text of the life and
limb law, the passage of which was so elo-
quently advocated by Judge William Welch
in his address before the Minneapolis
Trades and Labor assembly Wednesday
evening:
Whereas, To more effectually guard against
accidents in operating the dangerous machin-
cry and appliances on railroads, in mills,
manufacturing and other establishments and
to define the duties of the owners or operat-
o rsof such machinery ard appliances,
Be it enacted by the legislature of the state
OF Minnesota:
Sectioul- All corporations, copartnerships.
associations and persons owning or operating
machinery of any kind in this state. and
which is propelled by water, steam or cleo
tricity, in whole or ia part. and employing Ia
Dor in and about the same, are hereby required
TO cover, secure and enclose the same so as
TO avoid accidents therefrom 10 employees
and persons working and operating the same.
whenever such covering and guard can be
made without seriously impairing the proper
use of such machinery, and the neglect or
omission on the part OF any such corporation,
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persons to so cover, secure and enclose the
same shall. in case OF injury or accident to
any person or employed working or operating
such machinery. De taken and deemed as con-
elusive evidence in all the courts OF this state
Of negligence and want of proper care on the
part OF such corporations co-partnerships,
associations or other person or persons
Section /. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
PowderIy ON Polities

T. V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman
of the Knights of Labor, who has been
talked about as a candidate for congress, is
quoted as saying: The man who aspires
to Office now must stoop to a great many
things that strictly religious people do not
dream of. He must start out, after dark.
of course; 20 to the Thirty-frst ward and
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ST. Paul Notes.

The eight-hoar committee appointed by
the Trades assembly visited number of
contractors and employers yesterday. In
nearly every case they and their proposition
met with favorable consideration, though
some, and among them Mr.. Breen, asked
for time to reflect before giving an answer.
The prospects are good for the establish
ment OF the rule, among the skilled trades,
on May 1.
The boiler and blacksmith shops of the
Manitoba shops are very unhealthy places
to work in. Patent exhaust fues extend
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I'm Trouble with the knights.

PALESTINE, Tex. Feb. 1S.-The Knights
OF Labor yesterday declared a boycott
against the Howard Oil company of this
city, alleging discrimination against this
organization. The mills have shut down.
The trouble arose over the discharge of an
engineer
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MINNEAPOLIS RED-Hors.

From the number of meetings that are
being held it is obvious that the cause of
labor is receiving increased attention. while
the Knights of Labor. just as t. V. Pow
DERBY says. lis growing like mushroom. ("
So
HJudge William WEIGH in his lecture
Wednesday evening could not understand
why the laboring people did not discuss
these wrongs, decide upon remedy, and
carry it out
He was undoubtedly surprised when j.
p. McGaughey informed him that this was
exactly what the workingmen were doing,
and that one section of the platform of the
Knights of Labor which leads as follows
covers everything he advocated: The abb
rogation of all the laws that do not bear
equally upon capital and labor; the removal
of unjust technicalities Of justice, and the
adoption of measures providing for the
health and safety of those engaged in min
ing. manufacturing and building pursuits.
-
Bradstreet's Is still telling why the boom
so often promised does not come, and when
il will come. When the masses get well
paid there will be boom and not before.
-
Edward Atkinson says that 50 added to
the weekly income of each laboring family
in the United States is necessary in order to
create demand for an extra billion of
products. Why not add the So pittance and
more than get it back out of the billion?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

The tinseI gauze fans are extremely
pretty, and those in black gauze with silver
tinsel are much affected by young ladies.
Plain crimped gauze fans in all black are
among the coming novelties.
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If we would have powerful minds we
must think, if faithful hearts we must love,
if powerful muscles we must labor; if we
would get rid of bad cough we must take
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
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FROM SHOP AND MILL.

Street Car Drivers and Company One Of
the Topics Before the Trades
Assembly.
A Plea For a Change Prom the Present
System of Pay Days Once
Month.
John Lamb Discusses the Relation
ship Between Churches and
Labor.
Bits OF News and Gossip From the
Shops of the Twin Cfties--
General Notes.