St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
General News.

making in France. In Germany this indus
try has not prospered as well. In England
the industry has gone down in some quar-
tiers and prospered in others. The Chem
nitZ manufacturers in France refuse to ad-
NIT English and American visitors to their
mills. The Saxon embroidery industry is
so bad that manufacturers are Offering to
sell their machines. Silk manufacturers
advanced the price of silk thread and twist
10 per cent In Crefeld the situation of the
silk and velvet industry is becoming worse.
A house 100 years old and running l, 500
hand-looms has been obliged to introduce
machine-weaying. The 5 per cent. reduc-
ton in the wages of the Oldham cotton
spinners goes into effect one week from to-
morrow.
The most powerful district of Knights of
Labor is No. so of Massachusetts,, with POI
assemblies and 20, 900 members. The other
day 1875 assemblies were represented ar
Lowell by $50 delegates. The order is
spreading through South Carolina. North
Carolina and Virginia Last Sunday 500
candidates were initiated in the Tailor's as
sembly at Boston. All the industries are
falling into line. The sailmakers among
them. The clerks in the dry goods houses
are following after them. The building
trades of Albany are being cOmpactly organ
lied, and the towns along the Hudson are
coming in.
The Hooking valley miners have estab-
lished nine hours as days work, and have
succeeded in establishing wages. A miner,
in commenting on the numerous strikes in
that valley during the past two or three
years, says: 'ShOuld a famine ever come
upon this nation it will find the Hooking
valley miners in good condition on &C
count Of the training they have had for the
past two years"
Jacob Reese has just returned from
Birmingham, Ala, where he has been fig
uring out the cost of iron and steel-making.
He says that by selling some of the by
products. the net cost of making steel can
be reduced to somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of S13 to SIS per ton. He proposes
10 organize a company upon broad fOun-
datiOn and manufacture iron and steel at
unheard-of-prices.
A new silk mill is to be erected near Pat
erson, n. j., to employ 200 hands. The
demand for domestic silk is rapidly grow
ing. The manufacturers are busily devils
ing new machinery to produce better re-
suits. A recent patent for finishing silk
fabrics better than existing methods is a
wonderful ingenious combination on steam
heated rollers.
An English paper says that the combina-
ton of tin-plate makers was broken up be
cause of 1.-THE improvements now in pro-
gress in America" The placing of g
twenty-thOusand-to order for steel rails in
the English markets creates excitement
The restriction policy IN the Welsh tin-plate
trade has been definitely abandoned.
Foreign iron and steel makers are meet
ing with heavier demand for pig-iron and
unwrought steel. The board of trade re-
turns just published in London show that
the demand for hardware of iron and stee
has improved in all foreign markets, Amer.
lea showing the largest increase.
Leather manufacturers are petitioning
congress to take steps by which branding
of cattle can be prevented. Thew STATE
that the leather and other industries di-
rectlY dependent upon the cattle grower are
being seriously crippled by such waste
which amounts to from Is to 80 per cent.
of its raw material.
In several New England towns workmen
are demanding an advance of wages.
Weekly payments are being made by great
many manufacturers, and legislation To
that end is probable. A state board of ar
bitration is proposed in Massachusetts,, and
bill to that end has just been presented.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive en-
gineers and firemen has had committee in
session in Richmond for several days work
ing for restoration of a 10 per cent. re-
duction made eight months ago on the c.
q D. road.
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Workman
says that while last year the Knights Of
Labor assemblies of that city were con.
stantly being importuned for aid from al
parts of the country, such requests are rare
this year.
The Buffalo organized laborers have in
duced the common council to compel the
natural gas company to increase the rate Of
wages from 81 to S1.50 per day, and en-
ploy only men who have been in the city
one year.
A labor correspondent writes: 'If 200,.
900 cigarmakers in New York city will take
81 each out of their whisky and beer money
every week, they can set fifty factories al
work in a year, with a capital of $50, 00C
each"
A good many assemblies are moving out
of their cramped quarters into larger halls
The boycott of a certain make of PhiIa
delphia hats has extended to Montgomery
Ala, and is working well throughout the
West
High-class cutlery Is not hurt by German
competition, but in the lower grades of cut
lery and tools the highly-protected Ger
mans undersell their free-trade English
competitors on their own ground.
In Philadelphia there are 5000 girl mem
bers of the Knights of Labor; New Yorl
has 1,500; New England, from 1000 Il
1000; Texas 1000; Washington, ID. c.,
several hundred.
Some Pennsylvania manufacturers wen
to Boston the other day and purchased ;
sheet-mill, and will remove the machinery
to one of the natural gas towns in Western
Pennsylvania.
The protest against the passage of Mr.
Hawley's copyright bill at Washington wa
signed by over 10000 members and 26(
unions and labor organizations of various
kinds.
The Farmers Alliance and the Knight
are preparing to put up 500, 900 Touring
mill in Tarrant county. Tex, and the
farmers will open cooperative cOttOl
yard.
An assembly of working girls has been
formed in Wheeling. The hod-carrier
there have also organized. In southwest
ern Colorado the order has taken root.
Gen. B. F. Butler thinks the boycott ;
poor weapon. The workingman's prope
weapon is his vote. United the working
men could make the laws of the land.
Efforts are being made in Baltimore t.
organize the car-driyers, and reduce thei
hours of labor from sixteen to twelve.
The bakers are meeting with success IL
reducing their hours of labor from sixteer
to twelve.
Assembly No. S,562 Of Bradford, Conn.
has $50 members, one-fourth of them girls.
The Montana cowboys are organizing a
Knights of Labor.