St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-28

Suit Department--First Floor.
Monday last, and discussed plans for
future event, particulars of which
will be announced next week. The
union is working away against the
cheap Johns who are cutting prices,
and the agitation committee is well
satisfied with the results of its labors.
The union reports trade good, but few
members being unemployed.
The Socialist Labor party will hold
May day at Labor hall Wednesday
next at D. m. Addresses will be
made by Thomas Lucas. of Minneapo-
lis; DR.. Hircshfield and others.
The vote recently taken by subor-
dinate bodies of the Iron Moulders'
International union as to the advisa-
bility of holding a convention this
year has been cast in the affirmative,
and the union will convene in Chicago
July g. AS this will be the first con-
vention In four years, great interest
is being manifested in the probable
legislation that will come before 1t.
The carpenters, since their annual
convention, have been balloting on
three important questions, with the
following result up to date: For indie
pendent political action, 4,2S7; against,
1851; favoring socialism, 1856; against.
1,792; fayoring single tax, 3,578; against,
2,155.
J. C. Stuhlman, of St. Paul, who rep
resented his union at the recent an
nual convention of the Tin. Sheet Iron
and Cornice Workers International
union, at Indianapolis, was elected a
delegate from that body to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, an honor
which is well deserved, and which will
be highly satisfactory and pleasing
to his many friends.
The walters union held q rafting
good meeting Tuesday evening last at
Labor hall. The names of sixty new
members were submitted for election,
and all were favorably acted upon,
The union is a good. thing, and, under
the guidance of such hustlers as r. A.
Rayney, is certainly being pushed.
period of apathy lasting perhaps for
the past year. which naturally resulted
in the conditions of employment be-
coming less agreeable than when an
active and concerted interest was being
exhibited. Therefore, it only needed a
little hustling to bring everybody into
line, which has been done, and the
union is now in excellent shape-har-
monious, wealthy and enthusiastic.
No change in scale is contemplated.
Election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: President, r. A Rayney; vice
president, Henry Streif; recording
secretary, A. H. Snedford; financial
secretary. j. w. Enright chaplain,
Bert Clark; guide, Charles Mcbride;
guardian, William Blair; delegate to
trades and labor assembly. r. A. Ray
ney. The union meets first and third
Tuesday of every month.
Sol" Jeffries, of Coxey fame, is
about to start on another expedition.
This time he will be accompanied by
nine assistants, and will attempt to
organize the unemployed into a colos-
sal cooperative army.
A special meeting of the Typo
graphical union will be held at Labor
hall this afternoon at 2:30 to discuss
scale question affecting the West
Publishing company. All members are
urged to be present.
A meeting of the Childs-Drexel club
will be held at Labor hall this after
noon at 4 o'clock, at which arrange
wi hps he ho,
to be held shortly.
Installation of officers will interest
the bookbinders at their meeting
Wednesday evening next.
There are some 100 applicants for
city lots for cultivation on the Pingree
plan. Only fifty acres have been Sc
cured, however, to meet the demand.
About 400 half-acre tracts will be
given out, ready plowed. "a
At the opening of the building tradce'
season 1t may be interesting to OBJ
serve that a great revolution has
taken place in the stonecutters' CALI
ing. Greedy machinery now does near
ly all the work in this line, and the
stonecutter is fast becoming a thing
OF the past. In yards where forty and
fifty men were formerly employed, the
work is now done by four or five
with the use of machine planners. The
number of employed stonecutters in
st. Paul has been as high as 400,
whereas now perhaps not more than
twenty-five are employed, and no
more than. fifty, all told, are follow
ing the trade in this city.
The rumor circulated during the
week that the supreme court would
undoubtedly sustain the appeal in the