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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-07
MANY SUFFERERS.
Working People Severely Feeling
the Cigarmak ers' strike.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The Progressive
cigarmakers agree to the terms proposed
by the manufacturers and accepted sched-
ule of wages based on the average price
paid by all the shops last year, and 4, 900
people will be relieved from suffering,
which is beginning TO be severely felt. In
many of the trades more or less connected
with the cigarmaking industry the strike
has produced stagnation and a consequent
discharge of working people, who not being
members of the cigarmakerS' unions. are
not entitled to relief from these bodies.
Boxmakers label printers. etc., are out of
work in consequence of the strike, and do
not know where TO turn for relief. The
Central Labor union has too many demands
on its treasury at present to put these peo-
pie on its rolls and much suffering results.
1t Is doubtful if the International union,
which bitterly denOunces the conference
between the Progressive members and the
manufacturers. will be able 10 hold out long
after their rivals return to work. for they
do not want members of the Progressive
union to get employment in shops which
the International union has heretofore con-
trolled. About 500 cigar makers, includ-
ing women, have left for San ranciscO
since the strike began, and are expected to
contribute something to the support of their
suffering comrades in this city when they
get there. 1t will be some time, however,
before the heavy expense of the trip can be
paid out of the earnings on the Pacific coast
and a surplus sent to New York
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THE GOVERNED NEVER FREE.

From our oppressors hope no terms
save such as Jay birds grant TO worms;
The swollen leech knows thirst unquenehed
I'LL from his hold by force is wrenched.
our blood can ne'er their palates pail
Till in their graves untitled they fail.
Greeds stomach holds what his teeth tear
A shark won't vomit for prayer
dis claim Is, what he don't possess,
His right is, what he can Cypress;
he reaps where he never has sown-
He gathers where he ne'er has strown:
Each dollar Of his Ill-got wealth,
BY profit wars with public health"
Death feeds upon the .'neans of Iife''
when legislation sanctions strife,
Twixt brain and muscle earning bread.
And money by their products fed
Greeds gold, Ike gnomes in haunted mines,
Unceasing works, new treasures find,
While the toiler sleeps, tossing on his straw,
The hours allotted him by law.
Too happy, IL he can in dreams,
Forsake his tired and aching limbs,
His rented mountaineering home,
And through green fields and pastures roam,
Until the angry changing bell,
Recalls him TO his opened hell;
Then weary wakes. with heavy moan,
To roll again his Slsyphan stone.
OH labor-blindedi toll. dull-brained,
Living your sordid life, mud-stained,
OF petty aims, and abject fears
Whose very laughter tells of tears
As peasant, vassal, wages slave,
Hopeless and cowed from womb to grave
Are we groveling herds. subdued by shams,
10 work-begging, as though craving aims?
Whose long hours toll for paltry wage,
Mammon rewards with pauper age;
Deformed in limb and married in face,
Were told our pleasures vice, our thoughts
are base,
And by the force or Mammon's law,
Must yield our grain and reap its straw.
Robbed OF the wealth our hands create
Their appetite we ne'er can safe.
From our long centuries sleep-awakel
The manacles that bind us-break!
Till laws that make our wrongs, their right
Like phantoms fade before our might
Minneapolis, Feb. 9. &C. LII.
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to submission any and all firms that refuse
to recognize the just demands of organized
labor.
Resolved, That we do issue an immedj-
ate boycott on all goods manufactured by
said Grunhagen and ask the patrons and
patroniZed of labor TO assist us in these our
Just demands against an unjust opposition.
Resolved, That we deem it the duty of
all men that are patronized by laboringmen
to assist them in the furtheranee of their
boycott against such men, and we will
withdraw our support and patronage from
any and all business men that refuse TO CO.
operate with US in these and all other like
demands in the future.
Resolved. That il is the duty also of all
workingmen and business men to cease to
buy or handle the goods manufactured by
Mr.. kuhnen of Davenport or Grunhagen
OF 81. Paul. and assist in enforcing this boy
colt, here and everywhere, where the goods
OF tneIr factories are sold or may be found
until such time as they shall have acceded
10 the reasonable demands of the Cigar
MAKERS unions of Davenport and st. Paul,
as well as the International union.
Resolved, That the Trades and Labor
assembly and the labor organizations of st.
Paul indorses the action of the Cigarmak-
ers' unions of Davenport and ST. Paul, and
Will lend every assistance in their power 10
remove the goods Of said Kuhnen and Green
hagen from our markets, and will cease to
patroniZe any man that is now or may be
patronized by them that refuses to return,
or cease 10 sell goods made by, or in the fac
tories of the said Kuhnen or Greenhagen.
and call upon them TO return any and all
goods now held by them from those firms.
Resolved. That we are determined that
all reasonable measures shall be brought in
force to chastise any offender against the
rights of labor, now or hereafter.
Resolved, That so far as we. the laboring
men of St Paul, are concerned. nothing
that can in reason be accomplished shall be
left undone to make this boycott an assured
success.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted, and after brief remarks by Mr..
Fisher and A. L. Robinson, the meeting
adjourned.
Mr.. Greenhagen's factory is No. 1872, and
among his brands are Gen. johnson and
Columbia. The number of Nicholas KUN
mems factory is IA, Second district of
Iowa. His brands are Pappoose, Lasso,
n. K, Old Time, Baby and Junior.
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An Engineer Talks.

Every few people are aware of the in
cessant strain upon our nerves while we are
performing our duties" said Jerry Emer-
son, one of the oldest and most competent
engineers on the Manitoba line, to GLOBE
representative the other day as he got off
his engine at the union depot, having just
arrived from the North. ''During this cold
weather there are innumerable dangers that
threaten the lives of the passengers, but of
which they are in ignorance, the engineer
alone being aware, and the care upon him
in conducting them TO their destination in
safety is so great that in comparatively
short time the nervous system of an engin-
eer is apt to break down. In a snow storm
with the engine running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, and nothing to be seen but
the white flakes as they sweep confusedly
against the engine, the engineer does not
know but that the next instant his machine
may come in contact with some obstruction,
or that bridge may be down and he be
precipitated in the chasm. All these things
are running continually in the mind of an
engineer while on duty, as he has the lives
of so many people in his trust. | know
engineers who have accidentally killed
man that have never recovered from the
shock and their lives are now wasting. If
people only considered the responsibility
that engineers arc under their work would
be more appreciated"
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ONE SOLUTION.
A Minneapolis Writer Tells why
LabOring Men Shun the Church.

A minneapolis Writer Tells why
LabOring Men Shun the Church.
To the Editor of the Globe:
The clergy seemingly have awakened from
a long and pleasurable sleep and are begin
ming to inquire, where are the laboring
classes and why do they not attend church?n
Before formally arranging the inquiries in
this lesson we realize the importance of first
plucking the mote out of our own eyes so
that we may see clearly to analyze the beam
that is in our brothers. AS in the material
so in the-spiritual everything must have a
cause producing its effects Therefore, if
the streams be impure, its source will be
found corrupt also.
AS said the Great Teacher, 'By their
fruits We shall know them; do men gather
grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? For
he that soweth to the flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption" This is a breach
loading, double-barreled, back acting doc
trine, and those that disregard its sacred
maXims will be sure to reap the full reward
of their indiscretions, The most casual OBJ
server on entering many of our churches
will at once be convinced of the seed that
has been sown by the looks of the harvest
that has been gathered in; and now the
product of their labors, like a frighIful
nightmare, has aroused them from their
happy slumbers. Before the theological in
cubator was brought into use men were
called of God to preach. But how is it to-
day? Our colleges are turning out
hundreds of young men yearly.
scarcely out of their teens, with
Rev" attached to their names, a word
that occurs but once in the whole Bible an
appellation that applies to God and to Him
alone. Observation forces us to the conclu-
sion that preaching with this class is re-
duced to mere matter of dollars and cents.
1t would seem their only animus was to
please and amuse, TO court and be courted
They are the ringleaders at church fairs and
in church gambling. which, in its effect has
produced a fashionable and backsliding
church. The eXcluSiveneSs of these dan
dies and the paraphernalia that hovers
around the very threshold of the church
speaks to the poor laborer with no uncer-
tain sound, and as long as grass grows and
water runs and the law of grayitation con-
tinues to act, the old adage will prove true.
birds OF feather will flock together
and boys and men will be known by
the company they keep. Do the par
sons visit the laborer at the shops and in
the fields ? Are they frequent callers at his
humble home, and do they sympathize and
advise with him in his poverty and sorrow?
Do they recognize the poorly clad laborer
on the street and make haste to extend
friendly greeting. How will wife and
daughter appear at church clad in their
plain calico amid the perfumes of fittings
and flirting of rushing silks and satins as
they are passed by the naughty throng with
their heads bedecked with feathers and
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EIeHr iiofRs a DAY.
The Benefits which n Minneapolis
Workman Sees i'm Its Adoption.

Workman sees I'm Hts Adoption.
To the Editor Of the Globe:
If the eight-hour law goes into effect, /
think the following benefits will accrue:
First-It will give the tOiler an hour with
his family before leaving home, and a good
chance TO see his children out of bed before
he leaves.
Second-It will permit him TO reach home
before his little ones are asleep.
Third-It will enable him TO give needed
help TO his Overworked wife about the nee
esSary chores of the house
Fourth-He will have some strength Of
body and mind left for good reading and
quiet thinking.
Fifth-He may live farther out; keep his
cow, perhaps. save rent, and yet get to
his work in good time.
Sixth-It will give employment 10 some
member of his own family. or TO some
needy friend or brother. In either case the
amount paid out for wages will be increased
and the demand for products stimulated.
Seventh-rhis additional demand 0for
goods in market will create an extra de-
mand for labOrers. This secondary effect
will be an important help TO a tagging
trade.
Eighth-It will lesson the demand for
stimulants that so many tired men now
feel tempted to use.
Nine-It may. at first, and for some time,
lower the wages of some classes of work
men, but the aggregate wages paid out will
be greater from the inception of the move
ment, and the beneficial effects felt at once
by everybody.
Tenth-It will not injure the business Of
our mechanics, manufacturers or traders,
generally, but will most assuredly be a
source of profit to all who live by exchang-
ing the varied products of this continent
and who need customers with money in
their pockets LIVE AND LET LIVE.
MinneaDolis Feb G.
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On Monday the mills change of under
the pool. and at noon to-day there were
Is running whose maximum capacity Is
over $4,000 barrels, producing in the neigh
borhood of II. 900 barrels per twenty-four
hours. The power since Monday has been
rather poorer than last week, few of the
operative mills being able to run to more
than two-thirds full capacity, while one of
the smaller class was forced to shut down
entirely. One steam mill of 1.2OO barrels
was closed down Tuesday, leaving about
$500 barrels that are being produced by
means of that power. The flour market is
quiet Patents are moving freely, but
other grades are dull.
Northwestern Miller: The pool to control
the operation OF the mills in accordance
with the supply OF water, went into effect
Thursday, the basis of its formation being
the closing down of half the capacity oper-
ated by water power on the west side of
the river. The firms operating more than
one mill were allowed TO offset one against
the other, though the capacity was not
always equally balanced in this way. A
hrIn under this arrangement, having the
option. usually runs its larger mill. aud for
this reason the pool has not been satisfac-
tory to all
The meeting Of the Head Millers' assOcia-
ton Tuesday evening was lightly attended,
and aside from the election of Jacob Stucky
OF Brainerd to membership and fish stories
by MeSSrs Tamm and Helfrich, only rou-
tine business was transacted.
The regular monthly meeting OF the OPP
eratfe Millers' association will occur at
Window hall next Saturday afternoon at
$50 O'Clock. Every member is urged to be
present, that the session may be represent
alive and fruitful of results.
Peter Knurr, second miller of the Pali-
SADIE mill, has traded a mill site and water
power he owned in Wisconsin for the Me-
dina mill. located seventeen miles west of
Minneapolis. The mill has three runs of
stone and steam power.
A channel several hundred feet long and
twenty TO fifty feet wide, leading TO the
East side canal, has been cut for the benefit
OF the Pillsbury A mill, though other par
ties on that side of the river share the bene-
fits derived.
Timothy Kinneally, foreman roustabout
at the Anchor mill. slipped while entering
an empty grain bin and got fall of sixty
feet, dangerously injuring him.
Joseph MOntour, the well-known engi-
neer, is TO build pleasure boat. which he
will operate on Lake Minnetonka next
summer.
A manufacturing agency of the Sperry
feeder and McAnulty system of distribution
of stock in mills is to be established in the
city.
Richard Rolleau, millwright employed
in the Pillsbury A mill, had the ends of two
fingers nipped off in a pony planer Mon
day.
G. W. Simons, superintendent of the
Bemis Bag company, was recently married
at Waterloo, Ia, to Miss Josie G. Kent.
The exports of -four by Minneapolis mills
for January were 11S, $40 barrels, against
9S, 600 for December.
Thomas Pouches of the Washbum C has
returned to Shakopee on account of sick
ness.
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being decided in the negative by the merest
majority. Miller.
Many shops are so uncomfortable that the
men are not able to work until well into the
forenoon, and even then they often labor
with benumbed fingers and at a great disad-
vantage.
The Sixth street shop will use wooden
tress hoops on the bilge of its machine bar
rels. instead Of iron hoops as in the past,
the same as the North Star is doing.
The Minnesota shop is running on a stint
this week. Louis Sees, Isaac Rafter and
John johnson are members that have just
Withdrawn from the company.
Fhe coopers are patronizing the cooper
alive store literally.
The Phoenix shop is running on full time.
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st. PauI Time,

The efforts of certain representatives of
the local ministry to connect themselves
with phases of the labor agitation are GER
tainly praIseworthy in themselves and
worthy of every encouragement as long as
they steer their course Alright. but there are
questions and facts of a practical nature
which cannot be ignored. There is Scilla
and Charybdis which discretion only can
avoid. The Knights of Labor and work.
ingmen's unions are not religious
societies and the matter of relig-
ion cannot be introduced into them,
with safety for several reasons.
Let the pastors in their good work direct
their efforts towards the worl1ingmen as a
class, recognizing or seeking to affiliate
With no organization. Let the matter of
creeds entirely alone and let conferences be
held in halls rather than churches. Let
humanity, not creed or organization, be the
object of philanthropic labor.
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the despots that have ever trampled on the
liberties of men have always called
it. The words sound well. but
sometimes, when most sweetly spo-
ken. it means tyranny. And /
say that any man of proper spirit will be
careful how he puts his neck into the yoke
of this ''discipline;;" and will resist unto
blood rather than suffer it to be bound upon
him by any power whatsoever.
Ii IS just because all my sympathies are
with workingmen that want to see them
abstain from questionable and suicidal
methods. They Will never prosper by
violence or injustice. Light and liberty are
their only true allies a STUDENT.
MinneapoliA Jan: 9s
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Traveller

Arkansaw Traveller.
A traveller stopped at the toll-gate and
asked the keeper if he had good, cool water.
''John," said the keeper, turning to his son,
''fetch me the gun-the one loaded with
buckshot.
''Hold on" said the traveller, st mean no
harm"
''Well, then, I'll let you off,"
The traveller rode on, wondering why the
question had caused offense. He stopped
at a house and asked man if he could tell
him why the gatekeeper became angry.
Yes, L can tell.you. He has to carry
water about mile and half, and it's al
ways warm by the time he gets home with
it. Every one that comes along asks if he's
got good, cool water. He scarcely hears
anything else from morning until night.
The man who kept the gate last year went
crazy, but this fellow seems to stand it bet
ter. He is rather even-tempered, ana, al
though he has kept the gate several months,
he has only killed two drummers and Grip
pied boy. L kept the gate once"
did the people annoy yOu?"
mot much. l only had to knock down
one man and stab another one, but only
kept the gate a week"
''Why don't the fellow dig weil?"
Now, look here, thousand men have
asked me that question. Stranger, Ireckon
you'd better m0sey."
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Hat. Must BE Labeled.

New YORK, Feb. 6.-The Knights of
Labor have issued orders to labor unions
not to purchase hats that do not bear the
National Union label. Some of the unions
have ordered fine of 81 imposed on any
member having hat minus the label. The
rules of the union provide that the union
label shall be placed in the crown of every
hat so that the buyer can tell at a glance
whether the hat was made by union men or
not Since the rule went into effect /. 0O0,-
0o0 of these labels have been distributed
among the manufacturers, and no charge is
made for them by the union
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THE PLAsTERERs, UNION.
Another Labor Organization started
--Officers Elected.

8 largely-attended meeting Of plasterers
of the city was held last evening at the
Northwestern exhibit and builders ex-
change. at which the Minneapolis Plasterers'
union was organized with membership of
fifty-ive, the following officers being
elected:
President. Robert Clements; vice president,
Daniel Mccall; recording secretary, Charles
Rolander: financial secretary. William Weir;
corresponding secretary, Sandy Gray; treas
urer. John Dougherty-
The question. of wages was discussed at
considerable length, but no definite action
was taken. Several bosses have lately re-
duced the pay of plasterers from 35 cents TO
80 cents per hour, and while this was con-
sidered unjust, it was decided not TO take
any steps at present. Another meeting Will
be held next Friday.
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ST. Paul Notes.

On Tuesday of this week Mr.. James A.
Johnson, well known to the organized labor
interests of this city. will take unto himself
a wife. Miss NJ. Thornton of Winona is
the happy bride and will become a wife at
her home in WinOna. Mr.. j. p Cronn
and Miss Sarah Kelly, both of st. Paul,
will act as best man and bridesmaid. A
reception will follow the ceremony, and.
after tour through the South, the couple
will take up their residence in st. Paul.
-
A bakers union has been organized in
this city.
80
Thirty laborers and twenty teams have
been employed by the ST. Paul Ice COM
pany in getting out ice on the river. The
men get 81 day.
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Preparing For a Fight.

MoUNTPLEAsANT, Penn. Feb. 6.-The
strikers are massing this afternoon to march
to the Alice mines and bring out the men
working. The police have been notified
by the operators and are concentrating at
the Alice works to protect the workmen.
1t is feared there will be a conflict if the
strikers persist in carrying out their pro-
gram.
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Now Let other. Follow.

EAsToN, Penn, Feb. 6.-The en-
ployes of the Glendon Iron company were
notified yesterday that their wages had
been advanced to the scale paid by the COM
pany in June. 1888. AS two reductions
have been made since then, each reduc-
ton of 10 per cent, the raise is the largest
at any iron works in the Lehigh valley for
several years. The company has another
furnace ready to be blown in.
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liveliest building year Minneapolis has ever
known.
Workingmen, don't forget Judge Welch's
lecture Wednesday evening at 4. o. II.
hall.
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Minneapolis Co-operative store.

The cooperative store at 1924 Seventh
street south, established by the Minneapolis
Mercantile company about three months
ago has thus far been successful beyond all
expectation. All members are required to
pay cash for all purchases, and at the end
of each quarter receives interest at the rate
of 6 per cent for all stocks paid in, to-
gether with profit according to the amount
of his purchases at the store. Shares are
placed at SO each and each member sub
scribes for not less than three shares nor
more than five. Memberships are, how
ever, issued for s1.25 and weekly assess
ment of % cents thereafter.
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flowers? And do you still inquire why the
laboring classes do not attend church?
G. S. BRANCH.
Minneapolis, Feb. 9.
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ona on WiIliam NIorris.

A hen that cackles when she's laid no egg.
Resembles. surely, in certain way,
Sweet William Morris, for he says that he's
1.-THE Idle Singer of an Empty Lay"
-Roxbury Advocate.
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FROM SHOP AND MILL.

Two Boycotts Unanimously Declared at a
Rousing Meeting Of the Workingmen
of St. Paul,
At Which Nearly All the Trades Were
Represented-Some ofthe Resolutions
and Speeches.
q Further Discussion of the Relations
of the Worktngman and the
Church.
The Eight-Hour Law--The Labor
Situation In the East--General
Notes.
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n ers without any cash.
DUR UAdvertise for a change of hash.