St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-31
General news.

hOlgntS or Labor. ORGANIZATION IS de-
clared to be blooming" all over the country.
1t is proposed to organize district assemblies
in congressional districts. but it will be
some years before this can be generally car
ried out Throughout Illinois and Ohio
the order is growing steadily. The Cincin-
natl Knights will give a grand fair from
March % 10 %. Five assemblies were
organized last week in Portland Or Boy
cotting is vigorously pushed in Nashville
against storekeepers selling condemned
goods. In Springfield, o.. the question is
how to hold members in the organization
and educate them. Labor lecturers are
going over the country. A revival is in
progress in Wheeling. w. Va
The joint committee on labor Of the
Massachusetts, legislature recently consid-
cred the question of weekly payments and
good many employers and wageworkers
appeared before the committee. One mer-
chant testified that he not lose nearly as
much from bad bills under the weekly sys-
tenn as he had under the monthly. The
Investigation showed that employees were a
unit in favoring the weekly system and en-
plOyers also thought it the best. If corpora
tons were compelled TO pay weekly the
operatives would be more independent, aud
the retail. dealers would be benefited. Im-
moral effects Aise from the sudden acqui-
sition each month of large amount of
money. 1t makes men extravaganza takes
away their desire to save, and has bad
effect morally.
The improvement of machines in cooper
ing work is such as To threaten a serious
displacement of manual labor Caskmak-
ing is done by nine machines. A thousand
twelve-and-a-half-g gallon casks can be made
in week by the help of fifteen boys and a
foreman. Cabinetmaking is subjected TO
the same revolutioniZing tendencies. Cheap
furniture factories are sprnging up near the
lumber regions. Steam saws, steam planners
and steam joiners cut out and shape the
stuff. Machinery puts nearly all kinds OF
furniture together. Boys feed the planners,
girls do the glulng. and few immense con-
Germs are mOnOpOlizing the cheap work OF
the country.
The twentieth convention of the Work
ingmen's assembly of New York closed on
Friuay, after four days session. Sixty
nine trades were represented. Everything
produced by cOOlie labor was bOycOtted. A
resolution was passed TO oppose the entry OF
electro or stereotype plates free of duty. in
order to cut OFF the trade of publishers who
go to England and have their type-setting
done there. The convention resolved to
boycott all machine-made boxes after a
given date; also certain makes Of shoes and
certain watch cases. Discussion Of politics
In trade unions was recommended.
a Textile manufacturers are beginning tC
recognize the tendency of the textile indus
! try TO scatter itself over the country. They
are endeavoring to determine the most de-
; sirable locations. The cost OF building q
sheeting mill for No. Is yarn would bt
about $40 per spindle. and for finer yarns il
would be less. The Implications on new
machinery would be about SIS. The South
has several advantages in the nearness o.
good lumber supplies, but it has disad
vantage of freight rates on machinery
|. bought in the North, amounting to about q;
cents per 100 pounds.
The New York carpenters to the number
of $50, representing fourteen branches il
: all. discussed the eight-hour question ant
decided to compromise upon a nine-hou
rule for five days in the week and eigh
4 hours for Saturday; wages TO be So. so pc
: day. Monday, March 8, was fixed as thu
C time for the new scale to go into effect.
+ dnI0The Wheatstone transmitter. an Englisl
n telegraph device, which works automatic
n ally, is now used between Chicago, Kansa
City and New Orleans. and also in some c
the larger Eastern cities. Each instrument
sends out 200 to 800 words per minute, @
r nearly ten times the working speed of
skilled operator.
q Congressman Waite of the Connection
d legislature says: l agree in the genera
% views expressed as to protecting labor
# Thesaouestions are pressing to the front
: and action must soon be taken. They ar
of weg hty consequence to society, an
> must receive the earnest, intelligent cor
i sideratiOn of both state and national gov
ernments.
y The Republicans of the Massaehusett
= and Connecticut legislatures are opposing
"a as far as they dare. nearly every measuT
n pressed by the labor interests. The Demo
- cratic strength of those states Is rapidly II
creasing by reinforcements from the rank
% of labor, and their day of supremacy
- probably not far distant.
N In the Connecticut senate bill was in
- troduced prohibiting employers from chars
~ ing discount for advances of wages
10 workmen before the regular pay day. This
~ another step toward the measure the wOrl
n men i'm the factories of the state are s
- earnestly urging-that of weekly payment
to The New England manufacturers are pr
c. pairing for season of unprecedented acti'
ity, and are basing their preparations upo
le reports received as to the condition of traC
al at distribution centers, as well as from the
IS travelling agents, who keep them notifie
20 BY telegraph daily.
~ At recent meeting Of the Chicago Eigt
- Hour association. mass meetings were II
dOrsed as the best means OF educating Il
public in the doctrine. An open letter W;
addressed to the ministers of all denomini
tons asking for their cooperation.
u At the last meeting of the Essex count
lg Trades Assembly at Newark, n. j., q
or delegates, representing thlrty-five labor o
xt CARNATIONS and membership of 500
or handled the labor questions of New Jerst
&c with energy.
The Butler Hard River company, ne;
Patterson, n. j., offers cash prizes to i
=, employees who keep their houses and su
rOundings in the best condition for the Gu
no ture of flowers
y. The rumOrs of threatened troubles
Ii tween the Grand Trunk railway and
go Montreal employees are likely to pro-
at groundless. The men disclaim all ideas
~ a strike.
ne The Cooper institute of New York a
~ nually graduates class of young WONT
20 engravers, who do good deal of chez
81 work for pin money, and thus cut dow
p, rates.
nd The clothing trade has resolved hereaft
H on making goods to order as fast as pOssibl
nh rather than stocking up on the mere
tie guess-work as to what the market W
re take.
Says Connecticut Catholic bishop: -
l had any fault to find with the knights
labor I would condemn them from t
pulpit of every church in Connecticut"
n. The California workingmen are organi
nd ing. and will petition the legislature
er abolish all laws allowing convict labor
nv compete with honest labor.