St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-25
MINI LABOR NOTES,
News of the Week From the Differ
emf Trades.

J. P. McGaughey of the knights of Labor
has received a letter from the secretary of
the woman's exhibition of cooperative goods
recently held at Cincinnati, and he pays a
very high compliment to the barrels fur
nished by the cooperative cooper shops of
this city and the flour from the Pillsbury A
mill with which they are filled. The flour.
the letter states, was dealt out in five and ten
pound packages. and bread baked from il
placed on exhibition. The -four was pro-
nounced by everybody the sweetest and best
they had ever used. The assembly under
whose auspices the fair was held conducts a
coo perative store, and prices are asked for
from Pillsbury & Co. with a view to placing il
on sale, in which case preference would be
shown it. The barrels were nicely made and
received especial commentator. Mr.. Nc
Gaughey states that the representative of the
Knights who is to make the purchase of flour
spoken of some time ago, is now in Detroit
and will be in Minneapolis next week.-North-
western Miller.
A movement is on foot for the organization
of a BARRIERS protective association to include
both bosses and men. The matter has been
extensively discussed among the craft, and
all but three or four shops will join the union.
A leading barber said to-day that there are in
Minneapolis fully 200 men who make their
living by welding the razor and shears ST
Paul, which has fewer BARRIERS has an asso-
citation of about eighty members. One out
growth of the union is likely to be a move
ment for Sunday closing. All but two shops
those ct the West and Nicollet hotels-are
understood to be ready to join the movement.
The BARRIERS appreciate, however, that they
can do nothing without organization.
The fourth annual ball of Boilermakers and
Iron Shipbuilders' union No. l3, occurs Mt
the Leland rink on the evening of April 80.
The following committees have been ap-
pointed: Floor managers, W. S. Courtney,
Thomas Cummings, NJ. Salraski, joseph Glea-
II Earr
King, Thomas Gallagher; reception, Thomas
Farley, Edward Cortland, Charles Hoppe, NJ.
w. Blakely, George Longfellow.
At the meeting last Monday evening of the
Scandinavian Workingmen's union at Freya
hall, the address of the Joint executive board
of assemblies 101, 80, IL, Knights of Labor
issued at ST. Louis. April 6, was read in
Swedish translation. Mr.. Nymanover, the
| translator, in commencing the address read
by him, eXhorted the Scandinavian working
men to consider the cause for which the
Knights are striking, and saiu that il was of
| just as much concern to the Scandinavian
| workers in America as to the knights of
! Labor themselves.
J. P. McGaughey, state master workman of
| the knights of Labor, recently made a tour
of the state and reports the order in splendid
shape all over Minnesota. The work of or
Fanizing new assemblies will be resumed next
| Thursday, but will proceed very slowly. no
| new assembly being left until it has been
| thoroughly instructed. The work of orVani-
cation will be begun in st. Paul and Mime
apolis, in each of which places two or three
assemblies will be instituted. Towns in the
southern part of the state Will be visited
next.
A cooperative fair opened ut Cincinnati,
March %, under the auspices of lady factory
operatives, has proved a grand success. Ex-
hibits were invited from all cooperative in
dustries. Each of the cooperative barrel
companies sent a barrel, which were filled by
c. A. Pillsbury & Co. ]. p. McGaughey, gen.
eral secretary of the cooperative board.
knights of Labor has just received a letter
pronouncing both barrels and -four the finest
ever seen in the Pork City.
A well-attended meeting of the journeymen
plssterers was held in one section of Freya
hall Monday evening and arranged for a con-
sultation with the employers in regard to
wages and other matters of interest to the
| craft. This meeting was preliminary in char
acter, but is expected to lead TO decisive &C
| ton.
Union "a, carpenters and joiners, met Tues
day evening and admitted thirty-two new
members and received twenty-six applica-
tons. On account of press of business the
meeting adjourned until Friday, when the