St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-12

employed in the factory for whom the
state gets 81 cents ps. n1au per DAY.
Warden W0lfer and Mr.. Conley, the
syndicate agent. refused to disclose the
name of the concern employing the cou-
vlcts or VINO are handling the goods.
Neither would they tell who has the
contract with thestate for the convict
labor. Warden Wolfer informed Mr..
Fry that it was idle to ask that the
manufacture OF boots and shoes in the
peniten!iary be stopped. He contented
.mse1f Niti The statement that the
c0nvicts were hired to company by
the state and the state got 80 cents per
head payable monthly In advance. 1t
is asserted by the union here that the
manufacture of boots and shoes in the
pententiary Is injurious to the business
i'll ST. Paul. Ii hurts the trade of four
factories especially and is driving men
out OF work in this city? Tie manu-
taclure of. cOiAnlon- grades lis
hurt, and that, too. very seriously.
There are three factories in this city
that are not especially hurt by the con-
Wet labor. They are the Treadwell
company which makes children's,
misses and women's turned Sewed
shoes and mems hand sewed shoes; the
Columbia, which makes McKay'S work,
wonen'S, misses and chiluren's shoes
and hand turned shoes, and the Anchor
company. which makes a full line of
fine shoes. The union is stirred up
over the result of their efforts and while
not being Informed who are engaged in
hiring the convicts for the Work, yet
they believe st. Paul men are inter
ested in the syndicate and In handling
the goods. The matter will be further
Investigated and will De carried into
politics besides being fought with the
ordinary weapons of organized labor.
johnson Asks why.
To the Editor of the Globe
In today's paper you say that Gov.
Nelson and the Commercial club are
going to have the railroad company
put back the strikers. Now, the rail-
road has all the men it wants here on
its road. If the strikers all come back
the new men will have to be turned out,
and that is not fair. am new man
and do good work. What right has the
governor and this club to get me dis
charged? Am not as good as striker
as long as WORK right? | have wife
the governor nor this cluD. Your paper
might stand by the new men.
st. Paul, Friday, Aug. 10.
L. JOHNSON,
Brakeman OH Northern Pacific Road.
Meetings This Week.
Today-United Brewery Work men
No. 81: president. A. Alien 9erg; score
tary. p. Dipp.
Monday BARRIERS Union No. 81;
president, Nj. E. Murray; secretary,
Frank Kueppers. Boilerniakers' union;
president, III. S. Courtney; secretary.
August Gall.
Tuesday - United Brotherhood of
Carpenters ana Joiners; president. John
Burns; secretary, j. l.. Hughes.
Plumbers Protective association; presi-
dent, j. j. Bailey: secretary, Stephen
Conley. Brotherhood of Railway Car
tary, Thomas S. Deemy.
Wednesday - Paperhangers' union;
president. Ii. De Parcu; secretary, FL.
NJ. Cummings. Tin, Sheet Iron and
Cornicew0rkers' Local Union No. 9;
president, h. Schumacher; secretary,
E. Christopherson.
Thursday-A. r. U. No. ia. Brick
layers International Union No. l;
president,C. FrODerg; secretary, George
z. Mccoy.
Friday-A. R. U. No. $50. Boot and
Shoe Workers International Union No.
ITO; president, j. ID. Fry. Journeymen
Horseshoers' Local Union No. %; pres
ident, William Horrigan; secretary,
Louis O'RiIey. Trades and Labor AS
SemDly. special meeting: president,
John Fisher; recording secretary. John
D. Fry.
Other Meetings.
The walters union met as usual Tues
day evening. with large attendance.
Five new members were added to the
roll, bringing the membership nearly
up TO 100. This includes nearly all of
the restaurant walters in the city. The
work OF organization has been given
especial attention of late. and the meet
ings are productive OF good. At the meet
ing OF Tuesday evening OF this week
officers will be elected.
The machinery wUodworkers held
their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
The cigarmakerS' union held its GUS
tomary meeting Thursday evening.
The retail clerks failed TO secure
quorum for their regular meeting, but
will hold a special meeting this week to
take action as to the part to be taken in
| the Labor day demonstration and to
consider other matters.
Outside Notes.
The book of John Swinton inscribed
Striking for Life; or. Labor's Side of
| the Labor Question:" is on sale at Labor
| hall, as revised edition containing
addenda of two articles on the strike of
| 1894, by Samuel Gompers and Eugene
V. Debs.
The brewery workers will hold
meeting at Labor hall today, at which
| their new banner will be dedicated.
| They will then attend picnic given
| under their auspices at Shades park.
The Knights of Labor assemblies will
| picnic today at Midway Union park.
The American Federation of Labor
committee, of South Omaha, Neb., has
| strike in the South Omaha packing
houses. and asking all workmen to not
interfere by Offering work or extending
| sympathy to the packing houses.
William Brown, OF the bricklayers'
| union, was commenting on the new gov
eminent building yesterday. He said
| there is an 100000 building going up in
| this city, and it is not benefiting the
working people. The granite work Is
| done at the st. Cloud prison. The few
| granite workers on the job have gone out
harvesting because they can get better
wages, and the three bricklayers en-
ployed on the building have worked
themselves out of material. The cree.
ton of the building is not bit OF ben.
eft to st. Paul workmen. 1t would have
been just as we'll to build the editice in
Japan as here as far as working people
are concerned.