The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-28
MENACE TO TRADES
NHE PROPOSED ENGLISH SETTLE
MENT ROBES I'LL TO LABOR
UNIONS.
VITAL CHANGE IN METHODS.
isITI ALTON so CRITICAL THERE Is
TALK OF 4 NATIONAL CON-
VENTION.
sockEY TOD SLOANE A CELEBRITY
More Engagements offered the
American Rider Than He Can
Accept This Year.

LONDON, Nov. 27.-The engineering
conference apparently bodies ill to
trades unionism. The essence OF the
provisional agreement is that the mas
ters' union employers federation) is to
be free to introduce into any of the
federation workshops the conditions eX-
listing in any other workshop without
reference to the wishes of the trades
unions. The employers have in mind
the system of piece work, in which the
unions have no voice, prevailing in GER
tain workshops, and it is the right to
substitute individual agreements for
collective bargains which the masters
are asking the unions to sign away. II
this is accomplished, 1t involves such
vital changes in the methods upon
which industry has hitherto been con-
Quoted, as to menace every trades
union in the country Indeed, the sit
uation is regarded as being so critical
that there is talk of summoning a ma
tfonal convention of representatives of
all organized labor to discuss the mat
ter.
The cotton trade trouble, which, it
was hoped, had passed, is again to
the fore The operatives have con-
scented to arbitration, based on the
state
employers desire to make the period
from Sept % to the end Of the year.
The operatives have practically unan-
imously rejected this proposition, and
their vote will be communicated to the
employers on Monday, when they
must either adopt the views of the
men or precipitate lockout.
The newspapers were apparently too
previous in growing over the find OF
alleged important Venezuelan docu-
ments at Greytown, which was imme-
diately hailed as settling the case and
as a useful rebuff to American med
dlers in their neighbors' concerns.
The colonial office now announces that
the value of the documents is be-
heved to be "altogether insignificant
and that they will not necessitate an
alteration in the statement of the
British case, as already submitted.
Sugar beet growing has received a
decided impetus in the report of the
success of this seasons crop in Essex
and Suffolk, where "a revival of thB
erstwhile flourishing industry has been
tentatively tried WIFI most encourag-
ing results. Already a factory at
Greenock has been reopened for the
handling of the product Of the eX-
perimental paintings An analysis of
the root shows 1t to contain 14.01 per
cent of saccharine. against 1897 in
GERMANY,
weighs over sixteen tons per acre,
against Germany's average of thir
teen tons per acre.
The warming of Count Goluchowski,
the Austro- Hungarian minister for
foreign affairs, against "trans-Atlan-
tic competition is much discussed
and is variously regarded as menacing
to America, and as indorsing Emperor
Williams view in the yellow peril,
or, as a warning against British
zollverein. But, probably, it really re-
ferred to the danger of the agricul-
ture Of middle Europe being wiped out
by the excessive production of cereals
and meat in the United States, Ar
gentina India and Australia at the
same moment.
Europe's artisans are already over
whelmed by trans oceanic competition.
The Spectator comments upon the
probability of European artisans of
the twentieth century having sufficient
work, while trans-oceania will not only
feed but will undersell Europe in all
the staple industries.
SLOANE A CELEBRITY.
No American celebrity who has ap-
1oeared in London in recent years has
cut a larger figure in the public eye
than Tod Sloane, the jockey, who con-
finles to pile up phenomenal record
of victories. His desk Is piling up daily
with kilograms from the prominent
horsenen of England, asking him In
Urgent terms to ride their horses for
every race so that he finds it impos-
sible to accept half the engagements
offered him during his stay in England.
He announces that he will finish riding
here about the list OF January and will
indulge in few days shooting in the
country then go to Paris for g. visit,
thence to Monte Carlo for few days,
then home and to the Pacific coast for
the winter racing.
/ or his English experiences and his
reception by British sportsmen, the
American jockey talks most enthuias-
tically He does not, however, indorse
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard's verdict that sport
Is cleaner and more straightforward
IN England than in the United States.
at don't see any difference between
aport in England and in the United