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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
MINNEAPOLIS NIILLERs.

The mills running last week were the Pills
bury A, Phoenix (one-half), Galaxy, Wash.
burn G., Petit, Northwesteru, Minneapolis
Washburn B, Cataract, Holly, St. Anthony,
Columbia, Crown Roller, Dakota, Standard
and Washburn A (two-thirds). The mills idle
were the Excelsior, Union, Zenith, Humboldt
Pillsbury B, Anchor and Palisade. The last
named mill will undoubtedly be started mex
week.
The regular monthly meeting Of the Oper
alive Miller's association will be held to-day
at Window hall. The advisability Of making
all millers of the Northwest eligible to mem.
bership will be discussed.
D. Morrison s. Co. closed the STANDARD ani
Excelsior mills yesterday and advised theil
men to seek work elsewhere. The reason as
signed is inc money in -four" About $50 meI
are thus thrown out of work.
George Alley, Henry Pickett and Thomas
Hill are the new men in the crew of tn,
Standard mill.
j. K. Hare, recently at the Washburn A
has gone to Port Townsend, w. T., to tax,
charge Of a mill there.
The stock of flour stored in the city which
week ago amounted to $50, 000 is being yer.
slowly reduced.
The lease held by Morse & Sammon's on thu
Union mill expired yesterday, and will not bt
renewed.
Trade is dull, and the flour market is I'm
settled by the frequent fluctuations in whe at
The Phoenix mill, it is likely, will be oper
ated to its full capacity this week.
William Smell of the P1llsbury A is tn,
father of twelve-pound girl.
The Head Millers hold their regular meet
ing for May on Tuesday.
The Palisade will probably not start up be
fore next week.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
MINNEAPOLIS COOPERs.

The Hennepin and North Star shops have
received some stock for one-stave barrels.
The wages for making these barrels will be
the same as for hand work.
The North Star barrel company intends to
dispose OF its buildings and grounds, its pres
ent location having become too valuable for
cooper shop.
.. Fl. Watkins and William Erfelding have
sold their stock in the Acme Barrel company
to Frank and George Thompson.
The Cooperative Barrel company is to dis
pose OF its stave and heading factory at
Cadotte, Wis.
The Sixth street shop has closed down its
machinery and is running on hand work for
the present.
The rate on cooper stock from Chicago to
Minneapolis has been advanced from cents
to 1211a cents per 100 lbs.
Chris Larson has withdrawn from the
Northwestern Barrel company.
A. c. Lee and Charles Evers are to withdraw
from the Sixth street shop.
The Northwestern shop is building an ad-
dition to its warehouses.
Henry Pusch has withdrawn from the Hen
nepin shop.
The Acme Shop now emn1ovs forty oooners
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
0TFEE II OPINIONS.
Congressman Weaver.

am thorough believer in the eight hour
law. I have studied the question closely and
have come to the conclusion that eight
hours day is as much as an ordinary man
ought to work and that it is the duty Of con-
gresS and the legislatures of the several
states to pass laws forbidding employers to
require more than that from their men. If q
man chooses to spend more time in work Of
course he ought to have the privilege OF do
ing SO, but because one man out of hum
dred wants to work ten or twelve hours
there is no reason why the other ninety-nine
should be compelled to do the same
and those who work extra hours ought to get
extra pay. By establishing the eight-hour
rule men would be allowed time torecuperate
physically and mentally. They would be
given an opportunity to enjoy the recreation
that all men need, and by reducing the
hours the number Of men to be employed
can be increased SO that there is less danger
of any one going without work The test that
has been made Of the rule in government en-
pioymentjustifesi its extension among private
employers, and believe in encouraging its
adoption everywhere
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02

class. One of the first steps toward
the realization of this will grow out
of the universal adoption of the eight
hour system OF labor, which has bearings
of a sweeping kind not yet foreseen. In
thus touching upon these moral. economical
and mechanical reasons for shorter hours
of labor, have but infringed upon the
edge of question that is OF superlative i'm
portance to the working millions.
But, says one objector. where are you
going to stop the reduction of the hours OF
labor, and will you be satisfied with eight?
Heaven alone knows if mechanism goes on
pushing the industrial revolution as it has
done for the past half century. AT present,
however, it is not necessary for anybody TO
put himself on the trap of the reductio ad
absurdum. JOHN SWINTON.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02

world and its men. He became citizen of
st. Paul in 1880, and, for the past two
years has been quite prominent in labor
affairs. holding several offices in the
Knights of Labor, and now being in the
service Of that order as a state officer
He has always been a very strong
union man. believing in the
effectiveness and necessity of organization
properly conducted. But though in hearth
est sympathy with the ends and necessities
of the cause of labor, he differs sometimes
widely from the majority of the workers and
supporters OF the labor movement in the
means to be employed. He is sensible, just
and considelate in his views. always recog-
nizing to the fullest extent the rights of
others. He believes i'll persuasion. but not
iii coercion and Intimidation and does
not believe that trades union has the right
tn say that union men only shall be EN-
ployed. In his opinion men who have never
belonged to union have equal rights with
those that do. and would cast opprobrium
only on those who have proven traitors to a
cause they have espoused. Strikes he
condemns, and believes that although
the boycott. judciOusly used, is a
proper and necessary weapon In GER
tain cases, it is often carried beyond
the bounds of prudence and justice. He
also believes that the success Of the labor
movement will be necessarily slow, requir-
ing yearssof agitation and education and
that many of the movements of the present
day are premature. He is very intelli-
gent man, self-educated and is gifted by
nature with true and convincing elo-
quence that has done much to advance the
better interests of labor in this state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Hon. Henry Nj. Teller.

believe in the eight-hour law. and while
was secretary Of the interior enforced it
upon the new pension Office, which was then
under construction. 1t worked well, and as
far as I know, as much work was done as if
the men had been kept employed for ten
hours daily. In my own state Of Colorado the
great masses Of the laborers only work eight
hours, and it is the case there, as far as
my observation has gone, that they are bene-
fitted by the short system of short hours. Of
course there are some kinds of labor in which
a man can work longer than in others with
out injury and with profit. In certain kinds
of employment man can work ten or twelve
hours without experiencing any bad results
therefrom, while on the other hand there are
certain classes Of employment in which q
laborer can do as much work in eight hours
as he can do in ten, and in which the last two
or three hours of his daily employment are
almost wasted by reason of exhaustion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
CONGRESSMAN KELLEY
Says Reduction OF Wages to Make
Cheap Gcods is Wrong.

Says Reduction OF Wages to Make
Cheap Gcods is Wrong.
am old enough to have participated in
the struggle OF her working people for the
establishment of the ten-hour system in
Philadelphia. and young enough to re-
member the denunciations that were poured
upon the heads of participants in what was
called that revolutionary movement for the
shortening of the hours of labor [ have
long believed that ii tie eght-hour system
of labor for both man aud machn-
ely prevailed. throughout the in
dustrlal world there would be less
suffering. Il greater average duration OF
life and a higher and more general degree
of contentment among the wealth produc-
ing community throughout the world The
increasingly productive power OF man should
have long since secured to labor larger
Share of its production than it anywhere
receives. The struggle for cheapness.
which is dangerously stimulated by the
competition Of nations Tor foreign markets.
has reduced the ll5oring population OF
| trans 4 tlantic countries to such hard cOndl-
tons and wrought it such
INTENSITY OF Discomfort
as to have unsettled the foundations of
government and individual properties in
those countries. During this century mans
mastery of the forces OF nature has in
creased thousand fold and more, and SO
far exceeds his power to purchase COM
modities as to force hundreds of thousands
of willing workers to spend part OF every
year in idleness. If, as the laborers power
of production increases, his share of the
joint products of labor and capital had
been equitably increased, the terrible con-
trast between the rich and the poor,
which now shocks the observant traveller
in every foreign land and is pain
fully apparent in the large cities and some
other portions Of our country. would have
been impossible. The well-paid and pros
porous laboIers would have made profta-
| BILE home market in every country, and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Local Bits.

The master plumbers of the state, which in
this case is mainly the twin citles organized
at Minneapolis recently and held their second
meeting in st. Paul Tuesday evening. This
is the first state association of plumbers in
the country and the exceptional Interest its
members are taking in it, is due mainly tC
their trouble with the journeymen. Papers
and addresses were listned to, banquet was
disposed OF and the labor situation was dis.
cuSSed until midnight
The smaller contractors of the city, includ-
Ing most Of those not members Of the Con-
tractors association, are to organize the st.
Paul Builders exchange. A preliminary
meeting was held last week at Arion hall and
the organization will be completed this week.
The revised ordinance on Sunday shaving
was signed Friday and is now a law. Most of
the shops will close to-day though number,
especially the hotel shops, will probably open.
The journeymen fathers will meet at Lauer 6
hall Friday evening. All fathers are invited.
The Furriers' union have adopted scale of
prices, which will probably go into effect.
+. J. Casserly will read paper at the Labor
lyceum this evening
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
JOHN j. JARRE TT
Sees in Crushing Competition an
Omen of Universal Hs hin.


Omen of Universal R uin.
The agitation for reduced hours of labor
and higher wages now going on in the in
dustrial world is in the right direction and
in harmony with the social and moral prog
ress and advancement of man, as laid down
by the golden rule: do unto others as
you would have others do unto YOU" The
object sought is the insuring to the work
ingman-to the producers of wealth-their
share of the increased production caused by
the invention and perfection of machinery
and the discovery of new forms or proper
ties and applications of matter. Up to the
present time the actual producers have re-
ceived but a very inadequate portion as
their share of the benefits accruing from
the benefits of machinery and special tools.
Principally these benefits have been abb
sorbed in the enlargement and Capitalization
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02

employers send boys out to take
the journeymen's places, charging the
public the same rate for the boys labor as
they would the practical workman, Now
between sewer gas poisoning and lead poison
ing, VIC would like some one to inform us
what becomes of the old man at the business,
as that is u question we have never had
solved. We do not ask our employers to pay
$3.50 to inferior workmen. We have not been
getting $500 a day for twelve months. we
are lucky il we can make nine months in the
year, which Is an average of $2.4S which at
the rate OF living in this Northwest where
rents, provisions, clothing and other neces-
saries of life are more expensive than in the
East, Is a low wages. The public will please
remember there are always two sides to q
question. If some people only knew the kind
Of work plumbers are required to do they
would all afiree that we are not paid any too
much. Four of the plumbers have already
conceded to the demands of the
,JOITRNEYMEN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
James Redpath.
Whether

I favor the eight-hour work day. Whether
or not it will increase the cost of production,
don't know and don't care. The cost of
production of goods is of infinitely less impor-
lance to a democratic civilization than the
more equitable distribution Of wealth, leisure
and intellectual advantages. Better dear
goods than cheap men. The most important
products Of republic are not its manufac-
lures, but its citizens. Long hours make
ShOddy Americans
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Miss Kate Field,

On general principles favor the eight hour
work day; but there are possibilities to be
considered. With present wages and unre-
stricted immigration, will not the labor mar
ket be even more overstocked than nowi
Eight hours of severe mental or bodily labor
are all that can well be given out OF twenty
four. Nevertheless, where is the man OF
woman of great achievement that has not fol-
long periods given many more? Emphatically,
workm2n need greater leisure for self-im-
provement, but the absence of desire will re-
main lamentable fact in the majority. II
fewer hours of labor mean more hours OF
loafing and dissipation, the change will be
fraught with evil.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Consressman Lax,er.

If the eight-hour system was in practical
operation in the United States, it would be
the means of putting to work the 1850, 0OC
unemployed men. 1t would give the country
a better educated class of workingmen and
make the country more prosperous in every
respect. The best argument that can be
used i'll favor of the eight-hour work-day is
found in the fact that those who work the
fewest number of hours are always the best
paid.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Northwestern Notes.

The Brainerd BARRIERS have asked the coun-
Gil to pass an ordinance prohibiting Sunday
opening. All shops but one have signed the
petition.
A tanning mill factor has been established
at FaribGult.
The journeymen tailors of Eau Claire de-
manded an advance in wages Of 10 to Is per
cent. and got it.
c. w. Stevenson reports the K. of L. order
booming in Dakota, where state organiza-
ton was recently APPOINTED. He speaks in
highest terms Of the master mechanics and
employees Of the Northern Pacific shops ut
Fargo.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02

state than c. W.
Stevenson. He is OF
Irish extraction, a
Virginian by birth
and now 80 years OF
age. He is a painter
by trade, and has,
i'll his career, fol
lowed a number OF
occupations, and has
seen twenty X
states and territories
in the years he has
spent in seeing the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
SHORT.DAY SYMPOSIUM
Opinions Of Several Prominent Men Of the
Country on the Eight-Hour
Movement.
John Swinton Asserts That Those Who
Work Fewest Hours Draw the
Largest Pay.
trtbution of w eaIth Pointed Out
by Henry George.
Favorable Views by Jarrett, Kelley.
Weaver, Teller, Redpath. Law
Ter and Kate Field.

We are forced to curtail local labor news
on account of the publication of the views of
noted men on the eight-hour day. Several!
pertinent communications will appear in
these columns at later date
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Plumbers i'm Print.
To the Editor of the Globe:

The many reports Of plumbers being extor-
tionists and making unjust demands are not
true. One paper say Q that we are asking
$3.50 per day for eight hours labor, another
$3.50 for eight hours labor. Now, our de-
mands are these: We are asking $3.50 per
day for nine hours, five days in the week, and
eight hours on Saturday. In the fall Of the
work nine hours for at least four months,
and by working the balance of the time
nine hours we have uniform working
hours. As soon as winter sets In the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Rev. Robert COlIyer.
| favor the eight-hour work-day.
A SHINING LIGHT.

Something of G. w. Stevenson, the
Eloquent knight of labor.
Few men in the Knights of Labor are
better known or more resnacted in this
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-06-19

We learn that Rev. Suggs, the color
ed preacher who was arrested for muir
der at Marvin a year ago, has been re-
arrested on the same charge by an
eastern detective who claims that the
negro who committed the crime many
Years ago was tattoOed on the breast
Z ne report states that Suggs is Orna-
mented in the same way. We hardly
think the report is correct Rocks,
County Record.
Tkis is the negro that was arrested
by j. A, Rhodes, of this city, at time
and place above mentioned, and he in
forms rs that the tattoo as above de
scribed is incorrect, but that he is doubt
less guilty and the chain of evidence is
becoming stronger every day. There
Is no doubt but that Mr.. Rhodes has q
finger in this pie Alton Empire.
We rise TO remark that the above bit
Of information is incorrect, and fur
Their that Mr.. Suggs is a good peacable
citizen Of this county and now lives at
Big Bend. That man Rhodes always
felt sore because he harked up the
wrong tree and would like to have IT
appear that he was somewhat in the
right.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-06-19
REPUBLICAN Convention.

Pursuant 70 can the Republican
County Convention met at Phillips
burg, Saturday June 18th, at the
school House. Convention called 70
order by j. NJ. Crosier, Chairman
Central Committee. Call read by Sec
rotary d. l.. Smith.
On motion E. W. Warner was elect
ed temporary Chairman and J. D.
Aattes0n, Secretary.
On motion the chair was authorized
70 appoint committee Of five on per
mazent organization; FIVE as commit
tee on credentials and three as q com
mittee to select delegates to the State
and Congressional conventions.
Committee on Organization, Chaplin,
B1attesOn. ElstOn, VanDewater and
Griain.
Committee on credentials, Nipps,
Aliley, Heath, Adams aud BickfOrd.
Committee on selection Of delegates,
Smith, Hebrew and Ham.
On motion a recess Of 10 minutes
was taken to allow the committees
time to make up their reports.
Convention called to order. Com
nittee on organization reported the
temporary organization to be perma-
nent. On motion report accepted and
committee discharged.
Committee on credentials reported
as follows; We the committee on Gre
dentials find the following delegates
from the various townships entitled to
seats in this convention:
Grsenwood-J. NJ. Nichols, L. P. johnson
aud ". n. Colby
Deer Creek-Jaeob Nipps, Jas. Crawford and
&. Gibson.
Valley-G. S. Smiley and j. n. Smiley.
Granite. IL. Hill and L. Pickle.
Arcade-Jas. Crozier, Lyman Kearns and Geo
Whitney.
Phinipsburg- L. smith, H. c. spauldlng,
D. A. Blckgord, n. B. Mccormick, Chas. Fred
riek and vs.. Edwards.
Crystal VIM. Snow, o. E. VanDewater and Z.
D. Matteson,
FFeedom-J, II. Ham, L. ]. seavy and F.
Robinson.
Mound-Geo. Veeh and C. W. Adams.
sumner-R- P. Stewart and 80 Griffin.
solomon l. Muey, n. W, Gibbs, D. C.
Wright and Ed. Murray.
Dayton-C. d. Heath and Willis Hudson.
Kir'gin-J. Scott, A. B. Crosse, Lester Hall, E.
W. Warner, C. E. DonCarlOs, Geo. Chzpin and
G. S. Ingersol.
Bow Greeks. Hebrew and L. S. Stroup
Committee on delegates named for
the state convention, Z. W. Warner,
W. l.. Morgan and C. A. Spaulding :;
alternates, W. H. Mcbride, W. A.
Reader ana J. n. Curl. For the con-
gressional convention, ID. L. Smith,
J. d. N1atteson, Geo. Veeh; NJ. H.
johnson and 1. A1ileyi alternates, John
Bissen, c. d. Heath, I. c. EIston
Geo. Chaplin and ". NJ Colby.
On motion the delegates were elect
cd by reclamation as reported by COM
mittee, by q unanimous vote.
On motion adjourned.
Z. w. WARNER, Chairman.
J. d. N1ATrEsoN, Secretary,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-06-19
Additional Locals.

Presbyterian services were held at
the Court House last Sunday.
We have more rain than we know
what to do with, just now.
Dick COwen and wife have been Wis
iting relatives in Norton county.
0. W. Blckford is building a new
picket fence around his residence.
w. T. S. May has been superseded
as post master Of the Eirwin Office by
c. Z. Monnen.
Mrs. 1. G. Gebhart is teaching q
large class in art embroidery in which
she is said to excel.
CIR. Thacker, Of Deer Greek, had the
misfortune to lose Kentucky Charley a
well bred and valuable horse.
The recent heavy rain has knocked
the bottom out of the road between
here and Marvin and the stage does
not pretend to make it on schedule
time.
The receipts of the entertainment
given by Ella June Meade amou Mt in
all to about $50 half Of which is ia the
treasury Of the Presbyterian Ladies
Society, under whose direction and man.
agement the entertainment was given.
J. W. Kearns made a trip to Oberlin
last week and reports lively times IN
that section. He says the town is kept
under a guard Of about leo men to pre-
vent tho liberation of the Rawlina
county murderer, Pat Fleming. Il
is probable that the people Of that place
win take the fellow out and held a neck
tie party.