St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28

have been assigned 5000 acres of land
ny the governments.
Texas federation wants national
banks abolished.
A La Crosse plumbers supply com.
pany shares Its profits.
St. Louis has Vehicle Owners Pro-
tective association.
Detroit reports movement to close
theaters Sunday.
st. Louis retail grocers protest against
unlicensed hucksrers.
The California Winemakers' corpora
tlon has been formed.
New York Italian marble mosaic
workers nave a union.
Early closing OF stores is gaining
ground at Jersey City.
Cleveland. O., has been dubbed the
graveyard OK unienism."
Type machines have displaced $500
men Ia the United States.
Texas Federation Of Labor wants post
masters chosen by popular vote.
Cleveland (O.) bakers sent financial
AID 10 Phlladelphia's striking cigar
makers.
Alexandra Dumas advocates a tax
upon dlners-Out for the benefit of the
poor.
Texas unions want United States
senators bOycOtted who will not stand
by labor.
London. shares Its profits with its em-
plOyss.
Omaha women are organizing laun-
dry In order to provide work for uour
women.
Knights of Labor claim that boycott
caused the assignment of a 81. Louis
clothing concern.
The Amalgamated Society of Car
penters and Joiners of Great Britain
and ireland Is thirty -four years old.
Baltimore Knights of Labor are agI-
tatlng in favor Of the election of United
States senator's by popular vote.
Detroit machinists in brass and iron
works WON a strike against making one
man do the work of two.
Four Denver Republican machine
operators have issued a challenge for
speed contest for 500 side.
1.-The Catholic View of the Labor
Question" was the title of an address
by Father FurlOng, of st. Louis.
The Cooperative CONSTRUCTION and
supply company has been organized at
Norwalk, o.. with capital OF $4,000.
Seventy-seven per cent of the bakers
and nearly all the tailors in st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth are of foreign
birth.
Cardinal Gibbons says in eight years
strikes have cost laborers S7S,OUO, 900,
white the employers lost only half that
amount.
New Orleans mounted letter carriers
have been called down for insisting that
the people should come to the curbstOne
for their letters.
English trades unions expended about
S2,OO0,00O i'll out.Of- wOrk benefits during
1882. That's why English unions are
almost impregnable, Mr.. Amer.can.-
Cleveland Citizen.
The.Market Gardeners Association of
st. Louis intends to eXterminate the
Office of inspector of weights aud meas
ures, but the Retail Grocers' ass, cia-
ton will give battle TO the gardeners OH
tais question.
The mayor of Milwaukee welcomed
the convention OF the Amaigamated
Association of Street Railway Employees
of America. There We're six strikes
during the year. Reductions in wages
that would have reached 100000 year
were successfully resisted IN Detroit
and Ohio. I'd the association has Sc
cured the adoption of the vestibule law
III Ohio, Minnesota and Maryland.
The census of 1890 gives the statistics
OF labor and wages in $3.50 manu-
featuring establishments employing an
average of 4.7l1,S32 wage-earners of all
classes. These returns show that of
the total number 8. 49l. 456 were classed
as operatives, lncluding in that de-
scription both skilled and unskiled
labor. and that the average earnings
were S455 per year. or 1878 per week. A
separate return of 759327 doing piece
work gave the average yearly earnings
as 1898, or 7.55 per week
When Rome went down 1880 men
owned all the world. When Babylon
went down per cent of her population
owned all the wealth. When Egypt
went down 2 per cent of her population
owned 81 per CT Mt nf her wealth. There
are about 50.000,00O people in England,
Ireland and Wales. and 100000 own all
the United Kingdom. In 1860 there
were but two millionaires in the United
States and no tramps. To-Day there are
$4,000 millionairps and 1.0UO,000 tramps.
In the United States three-firths of the
entire wealth of the country is owned
by $1,000 persons-less than one
twelfth Of per cent of the population.
Farmers Tribune.