St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-09
SALTWATER NEWS
PRISON MANAGERS DISCUSS EN-
PLOYMENT OF CONVICTs IN
THE SHOE FACTORY.
A PROTEST FROM POWERS.
LABOR COMMISSIONER THINKS
THE LIMIT SET BY LAW is
BEING EXCEEDED.
NUMEROUS PAROLES ISSUED.
Lawyer Madigan and Others Civ
en- FreedOm-Weddin on
the Tapis.
NUMEROUS PAROLES ISSUED.

The board of prison managers met
in their rooms at the prison yester-
day, and it was expected that some
thing would be done relative to the
matter of the employment of con-
victs in the boot and shoe industry,
but the labor commission apparently
had no proposition to offer and no
action was taken. The board was
busy with it's usual batch of bills
when Labor Commissioner Powers
came in, and they Immediately de-
ferred their parole matters until Mr.
Powers could be heard. He stated
that a number of boot and shoe
manufacturers had appeared before
him, claiming that the state was
employing more convicts in the boot
and shoe industry at the prison than
allowed under the clause of the law
which provides that the state shall
not employ more convicts in any one
industry than is equal to 10 per cent
of the free labor employed through
out the state. Mr.. Powers was asked
if he had any direct proposition to
offer the board for consideration, but
replied that inasmuch as Mr.. Schur-
meier, another member of the COM
mission, was absent, and no meeting
had been held recently he had no
proposition to make. The boot and
shoe men of the state claim that
the number of convicts now en-
ployed by the Union Shoe and Leath-
er company exceeds 10 per cent, but
Mr.. Temple and other members of
the board say they have figures show
ing that more than 1000 persons are
engaged in this industry in Mime
sofa, not including cobblerS and shoe
members. The question of the COM
missions duties was discussed at
some length and the conclusion ar
rived at was that it was appointed
for one particular object, viz: To
see that a greater number of con-
victs are not employed in any one
industry than the number allowed
by law. The board suggested that
it would be we'll for the commission
to secure reliable statistics of the free
labor of the state employed in the
shoe industry, and after this is done
to present a proposition, if it is seen
fit This would give the board some
thing definite to consider. Mr.. Pow
ers remarked that the commission
had no funds to draw on, but be-
lieved that he could get the data.
PAROLES.
The following paroles were granted
in the afternoon: Richard Darling, re-
ceived from Mobiles county, Nov. 20,
1894: M. M. Madigan, received from
Redwood county, March 13, 1894; Robert
L. Schultz, received from Ramsey
county, Nov. 12 1894; Frank Clark, alias
Frank King, sent up from Hennepin
county, Oct. 25, 1894; r. P. Stanton, re-
ceived from Ramsey county, and Jo-
seph La Jambe, received from Polk
county, June 20, 1894. Bills were au-
dited and the customary routine busi-
ness closed the session.
A very happy event will occur in
Saltwater next Tuesday, when E. ].
Sawyer, an employe in the ticket de-
partment in the st. Paul union depot,
will wed Miss Minnie Webster, of this
city. Both of the young people have
wide circle of friends and acquaint-
ances here.
David Belisle received a sixty days
term in the county Jail yesterday for
breaking into a store.
Saltwater is soon to have another
industry, contracts having been let for
the building of a packing house near
Browns creek. The promoters Of the
industry are three brothers named
Wilson.