The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26

pEo,VVo anu paul 9l.I per Qdy, WIleH Tile
contractor paid $1.25 for similar work.
The work was claimed to have been
done better than was ever done under
the contract system.
A letter received from W. E. Nc
Even, organizer for the State Fedora
tion Of Labor for Duluth and the north
ern part of the state, informs an officer
Of that organization that he expects to
have the hackmeh, dairymen, broom
makers, meat peddlers, machinists and
retail clerks organized by the last Of
October.
The Illinois State Federation of La
Dor in convention assembled at Bloom
ington last week, adopted resolutions
| protesting against awarding the con-
tract for printing the national organ
of the Modern Woodmen to the Ne
braska State Journal company, a cor
| poration which is under the ban of the
labor organizations aef Nebraska. The
| federation also claimed that the CIV
ing of the contratttto the above con-
! Germ was in direct violation Of the
| wishes of the head gcamp of Woodmen
Which met at Dubuque To-, in June.
last.Fe 1t is probable that the matter
will be taken up by the typographical
| unions in the fourteen states where
! this order hasealfSothon. The st. Paul
and Minnea polls unions will take ac-
/ ton. in the matter at their next regu-
lar meetings. A large number of the
craft i'm the Twin Cities are members
| of the order and are considerably
worked up over the action of the ex-
ecutive officers in ignoring sssthe ex-
pressed wish of ~gthe head camp that
all printing, as far as possible bear
the label of the allied printing crafts.
The officers of the American Fedora
tion Of Labor as we'll as President
| Ratchford, of the National Mine Work
ers union, consider that in the settle
ment of the coal miners strike at an
| advance of % per cent in wages, one
! of the greatest victories of recent years,
was won by organized labor. Lead
ing members of local unions are of the
| opinion that as a result of the victory
| unionism will. experience one Of. the
! greatest boomss ever witnessed in the
| United States.
The attendance at the meeting of the
cigarmakers' union Thursday evening
was unusually large. Authority was
| unions to declare a strike at the fac
tory of Hirschhorn, Mack & Co., which
employs 225. hands; also at the factory
of the Ell Modelo company, Jackson
vile, Fla, which has in it's employ
twenty-five union land 100 non-union
Cuban cigarmakers The action of the
different unions, of the country in sus-.
tanning the Cubans in their demands
will probably result in bringing all the
cigarmakers of that nationality in the
country into the ranks of organized
labor An amendment to- the consti-
tuition, proposed by Union No. 9, Of
Troy. N. Y, relative to the union label,
prohibiting it's use in the Ninth dis
trict of Pennsylvania, and also fixing
the price at which cigars can be sold
to obtain the same. was voted on. The
proposition of the American Federation
of Labor on the Immigration question:
with the exception of section 5, hold
ing steamship companies responsible
for a term of years for the character
Of their passengers was carried by
large vote.
Three new members were initiated at II
meeting of the. hndery. girls union Mons
Fannie Breen, DISia Belair, Anna Mertens
and Gertrude Naehtsheim were chosen COM
mittee to make arrangements for a card party:
and SoGia, hop to BE- given at Assembly halls
| Anna Nachtsheim, Maud Fontaine, Fannie
Breen and Sadie Cotton were appointed as
committee to assist the bookbinders' union
to make their dance, which is to occur
Thanksgiving evening, a success. A COM
munication from the international Brother
hood of Bookbin1ers Telative, to shorter
work day read and discussed, and finally
| laid over until a future meeting.
The harness makers will give a ball at
| Assembly halls Saturday evening of this
| week.
Circulars are being distributed among the
employees of the butcher shops of the city
/ asking them. to join the organization Of
|: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America, which is af1l-
| lated with the American Federation of La
| Dor.
Thirteen new members were given the glad
! hand at special meeting of the tailors' union
Monday evening. At the preceding meeting
| a still larger number will join the union in
! the near future The scale of wages adopted
| by the union, and which is recognized in
i large number of the tailoring establishments
| of the city, is to be submitted TO the man
| ayers of one of the large firms of ST. Paul.
with good prospects of being adopted, as all
! the employees in the shop have recently be-
| come members of the union.
| The ithographers' union met at Assembly
| halls Saturday evening. There was a good
attendance. The photographers number thirty
four, twenty being employed in Minneapolis
| and fourteen in this city. The meetings are
| held alternatively in the Twin Cities, the first
| Saturday of the month at Minneapolis and the
! third here The Minneapolis members recent
| ly went on strike, tdK enforce the adoption
| of scale of wages They were out just one
| day, when the mafter was satisfactorily ad-
| justed.
The Order Of Railway Conductors of Amer
lea from July 219to Aug. 90 1897, paid for