The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12
GIANT TRADES UNION
THREAT OF A GREAT LABOR
TRUST MAY BE TRIED IN
ENGLAND.
CONGRESS AT BIRMINGHAM.
MOST OF IT'S TIME SPENT IN PASS
ING THE OLD RESOLU-
TIONS.
THOUSANDS OF ENGINEERS OUT.
Strike Dragging on with No Settle
ment in Sight-An EchO of Amer
lean JinGOisln.
THOUSANDS OF ENGINEERS OUT.

LONDON, Sept 1.-THE past week
in Great Britain has been marked by
efferYescence in the labor world, the
Quieting in the Indian troubles, with
more or less confession of the govern
ments impotence in dealing with the
ameer of Afghanistan and the defeat of
the Marquis of Salisbury, in the case
Of the German bondholders, in the
dreary struggle over the Graeco-Turk-
ish peace negotiations, which defeat
has been caustically criticised and has
been followed by the sultan sending
winter clothing to the Turkish troops
in ThesSaly.
The Trades Union congress, at Biz
mingham, which has been styled by
Tom Mann, the labor leader, as the
congress of fat heads, adjourned to-
day after a session chiefly notable for
the proposal to form a gigantic trades
union, out of every conceivable trade,
in order to confront capital with the
threat of a general paralysis of all in
dustry, and by the proposal to stand
by the engineers i'll their present strug-
gle. The balance of the time of the
congress was manly occupied with re-
affirming me-honOred resolutions ex-
pressing, as the Morning Post says,
''pious opinions of little value in prac-
teal life"
Even the Daily Chronicle says: We
suppose there is nothing for it TO CO.
pending political rival, but to go on
passing the same good old resolutions. .
The Saturday Review draws atten
ton to the marked development of the
tide of opinion in the Trades Union con-
gress in favor of increased help or
greater restraint from or by the state.
The ninth week of the engineers
struggle leaves $4,000 engineers, $4,000
trade unionists, $500 non-unionists and
5000 laborers out of work with strike
pay amounting to $4,000 ($15500O per
week. Firms depending on engineering
are stopping work daily and some of
the locomotive manufacturers have
posted notices as follows:
Eight hours a day with the present
rate of wages would be disastrous to
the locomotive trade of England, in
the face of American and continental
competition. We, therefore, feel it our
duty to counsel the men to refrain from
any encoura cement or support OF the
eight-hour movement"
The so-called ''jingoism" in the Unit
ed States is 1lnQlnS an eclO HSIe. &Ai
ANONYMOUS correspondent has written
a long letter to the Spectator in which
he attempts to prove that the United
States is really friendly to Great Brit
ain, in spite of theAmerican newspaper
statements to the contrary. The Spec
tator REPLIES to this letter, saying:
while official America treats Eng
land as at present, can any one be-
Iieve in American friendliness?"
John Howard Parnell, elder brother
of the late Charles Stewart Parnell,
and Parnellite member for South
Meath, has written in reference to the
so-called Paris fund, particularly that
portion Of the fund which is said TO
belong to the Parnel estate. He says
that the $1,000 constitutes
political and not a personal debt; that
it is one which should be refunded out
of the general Paris fund, as it was
borrowed by his brother from the Hi
bernian bank and spent for a political
purpose. Mr. Parnen adds: 1T is
disgrace to deprive my brothers estate,
and especially his creditors of money
due"