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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
MlNN LABOR NOTES.
Organized Workingmen Gain Tw
VjctOries--Other Movements,

Organized Workingmen Gain Two
VjctOries-sOther Movements.
The street car drivers all struck to man
| last Sunday because of an order forbiddiug
| them to sit down while driving, q privilege
they had been allowed to exercise in the SUI
| burban portions of the city. The men were
out two days and behaved in an exemplary
manner. Public sentiment was so strongly
with the drivers that the company finally
backed down and gave the seats back to the
men.
The Barber's brotherhood won quite a vic :
tory last Thursday. Upon the complaint of
of the secretary of the brotherhood several
BARRIERS employed at Scheig Bros West hotel
shop were arrested for shaving on Sunday
and were found guilty. This settles the ques-
ton of Sunday closing of shops, and BARRIERS
will hereafter rest on the Sabbath day in Min
neapolis.
The basis upon which the difficulty between
the master painters and journeymen has
been settled is that the latter shall receive
22% and 20 cents per hour for nine hours
work instead of 271% cents and 25 cents. This
concession was made by the journeymen,
who realized that the master painters could
not compete with outside firms at the old
prices.
The journeymen plumbers are still out, and
are more determined than ever to stick to
their demand for short hours and an appren-
now running and is doing a good business.
The master plumbers have succeeded in i'm
porting only few journeymen thus far.
The leading grocers of Minneapolis are
closing their stores at s O'Clock, in order to
release their tired clerks, who have heretofore
been working from 6 a. m. to 10 p. M The
movement is only opposed by two or three
grocers, who are willing to sacrifice flesh and
blood to save a few nickels.
The Bricklayers' union Tuesday evening
elected the following Officers for the ensuing
year: George Henderson, president; John
Cunningham, yice-president; N. w. Nelson,
recording secretary; John LAWN, financial
secretary; A. r. Cosner, treasurer; Peter
Johnson, conductor: Miles Chandler, door
keeper.
suit of the trials OF Fred Schroeder and f.
Schumacher for selling fish without license
before any further action will be taken in the
premises. A committee has been appointed
to arrange for barbecue in September.
A concerted effort has been made by the
master painters to compel the men to return
to the ten-hour system ut former wages. Sew
eral conferences have been held for the pur-
pose of arriving at a compromise that will
avert a strike.
The discharge of foreman and the in
equality of wages paid accustomed considora-
BILE dissatisfaction among the shovelers en-
plOyed by Fitzgerald 81 Kennedy last Monday,
but no strike took place
Richard +. Trevellick, general organizer of
the Knights of Labor viii deliver lecture
this evening at Market hall aud tomorrow
evening he will address the assembly
Frank Hoover, delegate to the International
Typographical union at Pittsburg, returned
Thursday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
MINNEAPOLIS COOPERs.

The Northwestern Miller is responsible for
the following: At the meeting of the Coop
ers assembly Monday night vote is said to
nave been taken on the question of the jour
neymen and co-operatives separating into
two assemblies, and resulted in favor of this
being done. Some journeymen, however. say
that they were not properly represented at
the meeting or this would not have been the
case. The jourheymen state that they do not
want separation, but if the co-operatives
desire it, they can withdraw from the old
organization and form u new one by them
selves.
Minneapolis shops last week more than lost
what they had gained the preceding week,
but this was partly traceable to the mills
making less flour. Their manufacture of
parrels however, showed slight gain, the
number made exceeding the sales. The
greater portion of the shops are fairly well
employed, few doing comparatively heavy
work.
The coopers will probably hold picnic this
year as usual, and a committee composed of
representatives of the different shops, has
been appointed to make arrangements
white Bear will probably be selected as the
place.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
MINNEAPOLIS MnLLERs.
The Flour Market is Quiet With
Prices Firm.

There was a falling off of 2s, 900 barrels in
the output of the mills last week, but this
was not unexpected, there being total idle
ness throughout the milling district Satur-
day. The flour product of the week was IT.
200 barrels-averaging 200 barrels daily
against 145, 200 barrels for the preceding week
and S9,29S barrels fer the corresponding time
in 1885.
The direct exports of flour from Mime
apolis for the week ending June ~, were A.
400 barrels, against $4,000 barrels for the
week ending June II; 1880 barrels for the
week ending June 5; and $3.50 for the week
ending May 49,
The seventeen mills running last week were
the Pillsbury A, Phoenix, Palisade, Anchor,
Cataract, Columbia, Crown Roller, Dakota,
Holly, Minneapolis, Northwestern, Petit, St.
Anthony, Washburn A, and and Pills
bury B.
Six more Morse bolts have been ordered for
the Pillsbury A and three additional centrifu-
gal reels have been added.
The employees of the Phoenix mill attended
the wedding reception to Joseph ]. Hohler
Wednesday evening.
The Galaxy and Humboldt mills closed down
Wednesday out of respect to the memory of
W. f. Cahill.
Head Miller Scott of the Humboldt mill is
entertaining his brother, Walter Scott.
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OUR SCHOOLS.
A minneapolis MAN Has No Hope.
We Are Too Busy.

We Are Too Busy.
To the Editor of the Globe:
The report of volunteer committee on the
condition of our schoo-houses presents a
good many discourag1ng facts.
We have been Boosting of the excel ent
school system of Minneapolis. That it was
ahead of anything to be found in the land,
was part of our creed that all orthodox
Minneapolitaus believed in. The heterodox
were cornered, and dared do no more than
whisper Or growl They could not get the ear
of the public without mourning dire anathe-
mas.
1t is true that our late superintendent, who
had been highly eXtolled as being about the
only man IN the country for the place. had
declared emphaticaliy on his return from his
Germanic home. that many Of the teachers
were not half what they should be; that the
course of study was all wrong; that he in
tended to KNOCK the bottom out of it, and
to reconstruct things on new foundations,
but the generous public would not
believe even Prof. Tousley when he
was Grating and gesticulating in his most
elegant and emphatic style against what he
had built up, as the good people supposed.
aud made perfect. They said it musrsbe all
right if man who can manage schools 5000
miles away was at the helm.
Now it turns out that the most important
things pertaining to q good system of instruc-
ton were in a very bad way. Some visitors
had used their olefactory organs and their
powers of observation to such an extent as to
find out the truth long time ago. But they
could not get a chance to say anything to
effect, and felt it best to keep silent.
What are we to believe? What can we do?
So far as know, we may as well keep quiet,
for the good reason that not one man in ten
can take time to examine any question of i'm :
portance that does not Immediately affect
himself AS for ventilation" what man
whose lungs enable him to do business, would
listen to the most sensible or eloquent dis
course on 1t? He leaves that dry subject to
men who can make money by selling some
expensive clap-trap furnace. He leaves his
children to take their chances of life or death.
There is no hope. The man who would
work for the public good honestly, find the
burdens of doing SO too great. The people
here are too busy; they can't give up bust
ness even for a day-that is, nearly all of us,
give it up. There is no hope.
Minneapolis, June 10. MIsANTHRoPE.
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THE 7sABY,s Drawer.

There's little drawer in my chamber
Guarded with tenderest care,
Where the dainty clothes are lying,
That my darling shall never wear.
And there, while the hours are waning,
Till the house is all at rest,
l sit and fancy baby
Close TO my aching breast.
My darlings pretty, white garments!
! wrought them. sitting apart,
While his mystic life was throbbing
Under my throbbing heart,
And often my happy dreaming
Breaks in a little song,
Like the murmur of birds at brooding,
When the days are warm and long.
finished the dainty wardrobe,
And the drawer was almost full,
With robes of finest muslin,
And robest of the finest wool.
folded them all together,
With rose for every pair,
Smiling, and saying, ."Gem fragrant,
Fit for prince to wear"
All, the radiant summer morning,
So full of mothers joy!
ssThank God, he's fair and perfect,
My beautiful, newborn boy"
Let him wear the pretty white garments
Wrought while sitting apart;
Lay him, so sweet and helpless,
Here, close to my throbbing heart.
Many and many an evening
sit, since my baby came.
Saying, What do the angels call him?'
For he died without name;
Sit while the hours are waning,
And the house is all at rest,
And fancy baby nesting
Close to my aching breast.
Mrs. I. T. Butts
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
MINNEAPOLIS CRED Hors.v

Mayor Ames has been harshly CRITICS ed by
st. Paul morning paper as the wrong
kind of mayor because he did not order
his police to use violence in assisting the
street car company TO run its cars. The
mayors position was that of an arbitrator
He simply asked the men what they wanted,
then told them to go home and keep quiet,
which they did with commendable prompt
ness. Then he went to the street car man
agement and told them that they owed it to
the public not to insist upon the enforcement
of a frivolous and unreasonable order. Mr.
Lowry, the president, had the good sense to
see the point, and yielded so gracefully as to
almost remove any appearance of defeat.
~
The men did not boast of their victory. but
went quietly to work. There were no mobs
on the street, no threats of violence. But
what might have been the result if the mayor
had ordered his police to dispense all crowds
with clubs and supplied the cars with guards |
The city would have been in an uproar. The
excitement that would have ensued would
have turned the heads of men ordinarily cool
and well disposed. The hundreds of hood
lums, tramps, thieves and vicious people
would have seized upon the opportunity to
crafty their worst impulses, and under the
guise Of aiding the ''canse of labor' would
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
THE BOYCOTT CASE.
Legal Action OH the Local Case.-
I'm

The Law.
The demurrer entered by the defense in
the boycott case was last week sustained by
the court, but the four men were immedi-
ately reindicted by the grand jury. and the
defense will endeavor to have the case
tried during the present term of
court. The new indictment is for conspir-
acy and specifies the act Of distributing
handbiiis. The old Indictment did not allege
any specified act. The defense will prob
ably be that the printing and distribution
of the handbills in this case was merely an
act of petition. the right of which is guar
anteed every citizen by the constitution of
the United States. The penal code of the
state, in defining conspiracy, says:
The orderly and peacable assembling or CO.
operation of persons employed in any calling
trade or handicraft, for the purpose of OBJ
tanning an advance in the rate of wages and
compelling or inviting such advance is not
q conspiracy. No agreement except to CON-
NIT IL felony on the person of another, or to
commit burglary or arson, amounts to
a conspiracy unless some act besides such
agreement be done to Offset the object thereof
by one or more of the parties to such agree
ment." 1t will be shown that the distribu-
ton of the hand-bills for which the arrests
were made, was not an overt act but was
done peaeeably and quietly without conflict
ING with auy law
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Local Bits.

The Stonecutters' Union held a special
meeting Friday evening to consider the West
job on Third street, the brick work of which
was reported to have been let to non-unfon
contractor. a committee was appointed to
look into the matter.
The Trades Assembly went to hear Trevel-
lick Friday evening, without holding ses-
sion. meeting will be held next Friday
evening.
The contracting piasterers have thrown
overheard the scale of prices adopted earlier
in the season, owing to the sharp competition.
Work is still dull with steam fitters though
an unusual rush is expected towards the last
of the season.
A new schedule of prices will be put into
effect by the Cigarmakers union July l.
O'Halloran will do the stone work on the
GLOBE building.
The decision in the BARRIERS case has not yet
been given.
The BARRIERS union meets weekly at Siga's
barber shop.
But few men are idle in any of the building
trades.
All street cleaners are now paid S1.50 per
day.
F. j. Casserly has returned from the East.
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r. r. TREVEILICK

and China. During the next five years he
spent considerable of his time in Australia
and New Zealand, helping to organize the
eight-hour league at Auckland and figuring
in the successful eight-hour movement in
Melbourne. For several years he worked
at his trade along South and Central
America and in the Gulf of Mexico in the
employ of the United States and Spanish
governments and the Pacific Mail Steamship
company. While on the Gulf of Mexico he
was president of the Ship Carpenters and
Calkers' union and took part in success
full nine-hour agitation. In 1862 he
CAME TO NEW YORK,
becoming for a time foreman of the Marine
railway, then constructing. On leaving
New York he came to Detroit, which he
has since made his home. In 1865 he was
elected president of the Ship Carpenters and
Calkers' International union, and from this
time his most active work in the cause of
labor dates. He organized the trades of
Detroit federating them into trades as
sembly, and soon becoming a national figure
in labor conventions and labor movements
He was one of the most prominent agitators
in the Greenback movement which had it's
stronghold in his state. and was delegate
to two national Greeback conventions He
became identified with the K. of l.. in its
earliest days, and for year or so has
served the order as general lecturer and or
ganZer. for which his eloquence, interest
in the cause and ability have peculiarly
fitted him.
The Traders Exchange.
The building mechanics and traders ex-
change, corner Third and St. Peter, have in
vited all contractors associations and trades
unions to make its hall their hea ldllarters at
$1.50 per night for four nights in the mouth,
and So per night for bi-weekly meetings. So
far the boss piasterers' and bricklayers' asso-
Citations and the plumbers, fathers and plas-
terers' unions have located there and others
are expected 10 shortly. A free
register viii be kent for u1employed
workmcn in the building trades and con.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
A seasonabie Diaiogue.

She-I never cared for progressive euchre,
though think there's lots of fun in pro-
gressive tete-a-tete.
He-Progressiye tete-a-tete. What on
earth is that?
She-Why. don't you know? lisa sum-
mer-resort amusement where everybody
tries to be as entertaining as possible for
points.
He-And do they change partners?
She with emphasis
He-But / don't understand what regu-
lates the game OF how the winners OF losers
are decided.
She-Oh. those little matters always ad-
inst themselves-if the season is long
enough.
He-Something like Irritation, isn't it?
She-Yes, it does go by that name some
times.
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Discharging Employees.

SToNEHAM, Mass, June 26.-Fifteen of
the shoe firms here are dlscharging men
daily. the bosses telling the men that work
is so dull that they will not need them for
five or six months to come. Most of the
men who have been discharged are mem
bers of the Knights of Labor organization
and were prominent in the late strikes.
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HE HAS A RECORD.
Richard HI. TrevelIick, a Prominent
Worker Among the Knights

Richard III. HreVeIl1cks a prominent
Worker Among the knights.
Richard Fl. Trevellick, who has acquired
an inviable fame in connection with the
labor movement, is a native of the Selly
islands, on the southwest coast of England.
and was born in 1880. Early in life he
came with his family to New York and a
few years later returned home with his
father. When yet boy he went to sea
with his father and in his 18th year began
an apprenticeship in shipyard, At the
age of 20 he again went to sea as
ship carpenter, visiting Africa, India and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
FROM SHOP AND MILL.
Hungarians, Poles and Englishmen With
Socialistic Proclivities in the Penn
sylvania Coke Regions.
Something of the Career of Richard T.
Trevellick, Prominent Knights
of Labor Organizer.
Stonecutters of Minneapolis Make
Charges of Unfafrness Against
Certain Company.
City--Gossip Picked Up Among
the Workingmen.
Social T4eyOlutiOnists.

Special to the Globe.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, June 26.-lt
the statements of the police authorities OIL
Chicago are reliable, there are as many So
cal revolutioniSts here in C0nnellSvllle
coke regions alone as there are in Chicago.
A safe estimate of the number is about
5000. While public attention has been at
tracted to the anarchists of New York and
Chicago, those in COnnellsville coke region
have drifted out of notice. That organ
lied groups exist in WeStmorel and Fayette
counties was first aScertained about year ago
when the discovery of circular furnished
the address of officers of groups i'll this
section. Since then the notorious Parsons
and the blatant GorSuch have visited the
region. Der Frieheit and other anarchistic
literature circulates freely. The compost
ton of this proletarat, as they like TO be
called, is exclusively foreign. Hungarians,
Poles and few EngliShmen. The Amer
leans, as a general thing, keep aloof.
since the close of the last strike they have
been restless and under the name of organ
lied labor have forced the coke operators
to take back some of the most desperate
and bloodtl.irSty of their number who We're
leaders in the riots last spring. 1t is not
generally known, but Steve StanniX, the
nelCulean WIZ ISu IilC
and then was
COMPELLED TO FLY
to Ohio to escape arrest, is back again to
Norwood mines. The operators were
compelled to give him his old position to
prevent another strike. Other similar
instances are common. The court of West
land county was appealed to to prosecute
the strike leaders. but they escaped with
little or no punishment, When the late
labor excitement was at its height, and
bands of armed strikers were patrolling the.
religion a photograph of II. c.. Prick, the
leading operator and member of the coke
syndicate, was passed from hand to hand
in their secret meeting so that they might
become familiar with his face. for his
features were unknown to most of the
foreigners. He was a marked man,
and threats against his life were frequent.
The firm of II. e. Prick & Co., as well
as some others, gave out that they were
tired of Hungarian labor, and would get
rid of it as soon as possible. Since that
time there has been slight boom in coke.
The entire region is at work, and the
foreigners are as busy as ever digging coal
in the mines and making converts outside
10 the doctrine of destruction. The pres
ence of a large armed force, known as the
coal and iron police, exercises unusual
vigilance in this region. and thus keeps
men of the most desperate character under
control. AS whole the class of men
composing the groups are vicious and the
lowest type of mankind.
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schiIIing,s Trial.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 26.-The trial
of Robert Schilling on charge of boycotting
the cigar factory of II. Zegnitz & Co. has
occupied the entire day at the municipal
court. Herman Zegnitz was the principal
witness. He testified that Schlling had re-
peatedly threatened to ruin his business by
means of the knights of Labor. Other
witnesses corroborated the testimony of
Zegnitz. The case went over to Monday.
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Thex Were s.Spotted. ,,

CLEVELAND, o., June 26.-By special
orders sent out from the company's head
quarters some days ago. twenty-five passen-
ger conductors on the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern railroad, and its branches be-
tween Buffalo and Chicago, were dropped
Among them are many of the oldest men on
the road. The cause is still kept secret
at headquarters. but is supposed to be the
result of ''spotting." The division super
intendents claim to be wholly ignorant of
the reason, and the men themselves claim
innocence of having violated any rule or
pepulatiOn of the road
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tractors will advertise for men and teams on
he bulletin boards. A canvass is being
made to secure exhibits of raw and manu-
featured materials used in the construction.
decoration aud furnishing of buildings
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Gingham q.

Our Bingham sale has been unprece.
dented; over 10, 600 yards sold. For few
days longer at 81 cents, at McLain's, ss4
Wabasha street.
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No DOubt About 1t.
What? Those silks McLan is selling TO
is cents per yard. Go and see them before
they ali disappear. 3S4 Wabasha street
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haveoommitte depredations of serious

havecommitte depredations of serious
nature.
~=*
But all this was averted by the GOODNESS
and good sense OF one man who chose to pre-
serve the public peace in peaceful manner.
Whatever faults Mayor Ames may have as
an Official or q man, certainly no one should
gainsay the credit that is due to him in thus
avertfng a great calamity. which the working
men would regret more than all others.
~
by the way. does it not seem as though
some people rather desire the pleasure of
seeing the workingmen shot down in the
streets for daring to attempt defense of
their rights?
~
Richard f. Trevelick of Michigan will de-
liver an address this evening to the laboring
men of Minneapolis at Market hall upon
1.-The Principles of the Knights OF Labor"
Mr.. Trevelliok is a labor orator of long and
high Standing and the cause owns no better
advocate. He is comparatively little-known
In the Northwest, but through the mines of
Ohio and Pennsylvania and among the iron
workers of the Ohio valley his name is known
at every shaft and forge. He will say some
thing worth hearing, and is sure of large
audiences. Tomorrow evening he will de-
liver an address to the assembly.
NJ
Is the labor holiday to be observed this
year Or not. IT so it is about time for labor
organizations to be moving.