St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-04
MINNEAPOLIS LABOR NOTES.
The Trades and Labor Assembly,.
City Contracts.

City Contracts.
The regular meeting of the Trades and
Labor assembly Friday evening was largely
attended. Ii was reported that the Short
Hour league, at a meeting held Wednesday
evening, decided to ask that a days work
shall be reduced to nine hours after May 1.
The league embraces the Plasterers', Paint
ers', BrickIayers', Carpenters and Joiners'
Union No. "a, Stone MasOns', all of whom
have agreed TO make united effort and
TO stand by each other in securing the
reduction. 1t was decided to call public
meeting for the discussion of the proposed
establishment of second state penitentiaTy.
A delegate reported that the Union Stone
and Building company has issued checks 10
its employees for work performed. which
had never been paid. The checks were
issued weekly, payable the 10th of the COM
ing month. No checks were paid after
Oct. 10, and some of the employees were
forced to submit to a discount of so per
cent. in order to get them cashed. Dec. 10
200 checks were presented which were not
paid. The families Of the men were rep
resented to be in a destitute condition, their
children almost naked and crying for bread.
q. W.. Archer, a contractor, took work
amounting TO 81, 600, and is still waiting
for his pay. This statement caused con-
siderable Indignation and lead to a discus
sion of the inadequate protection of the laws
intended to secure the payment of wages.
A committee was finally appointed to wait
upon Ii. n. HOlway, secretary of the COM
pany in behalf of the employees. Similar
complaints were made by the employees of
the Minneapolis Bottle Manufacturing conf
pany, who have been given checks for their
labor in lieu of cash. The checks were
drawn upon the security bank and payment
was refused. In this instance the case was
laid upon the table, it appearing that the
glass blowers were not union men and had
signed contract which forbid their joining
labor organizations.
NEEDED REFORMS.
The following resolutions aimed at a
needed reform in the manner of letting city
contracts were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, A new pumping system is soon
TO be established in North Minneapolis by the
city, and
Whereas, Much OF this work and also the
| work on hydrants, CRATES and water pipe has
been heretofore one in the East at an in
creased expense TO the taxpayers to the neglect
of home industry and the injury of home me-
chanicS, who are in idlen ess and could do the
work as well, ifnot better than it can be done
/ in the East; therefore, be IL
| Resolved. That we condemn the practice OF
having any work for the city done in the East
or elsewhere, that can be as well done by tins
| city by home mechanics. and we earnestly
| recommend that all work of this class done
| by the city in future be given to home work
men when they stand ready to do IL at the
| same or even q somewhat increased expense
over Eastern bidders.
Resolved. That this policy of spending
| public money at home in keeping home labor
| employed, sustaining home manufactures
and increasing the quantity of available pat
ronage to home callers, both in realty and
merchandise, will vastly outweigh il its gen.
eral good effects any apparent gam which
may seem to be secured by sending large
sums out of the city, even TO secure a slight
saving OF expense in the cost OF certain ar.
ticles.
INDUSTRIAL JoTrISGs-
typographical Union No. 10 meets TO-DAY
TO elect q delegate TO the International union
The cigarmRkers OF Minneapolis and St
Paul held q meeting Thursday night for the
| purpose OF consulting about the expediency
of adopting a uniform price list.
A meeting viii be held by the Shorthand
league some time during the week TO arrange
for action in obtaining a reduction to nine
hours as days labor after May1
Edward Hoban. a boiermaker at the Mil
waukee & St. Paul car shops, was severely
scalded Tuesday morning while testing an en-
CINE boiler.
NJ. O'Neill. proprietor of the stone yard al
Sixth avenue north and First street, has com
piled with the demands of the Stonecutters
| union, and have reduced the working hours
from ten to eight and fixed wages at 81 pei
day. Mr.. O'Neill states that hereafter none
but union men will be employed. This latest
accession to the union shops puts all the
shops in the city within the control OF the
Stonecutters' union.
August Ekberg, the blacksmith who wa:
stricken with paralysis, died at st. Barnabas
hospital Sunday morning. The coroner's at
tention was called to the case. and after an
investigation concluded that death resulted
from cerebral hemorrhage. 1t was one OF
| the most remarkable cases on record. De
ceased was a man Of remarkable muscular
development, and had never experienced q
days illness. He was % years of age. The
funeral viii occur on Wednesday.
The funeral of William Chapman, a car &C.
countant in the Office OF the Manitoba road
took place yesterday from his late residence
Twentieth avenue north and Sixteenth street
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