The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Boilermakers and iron ship builders
have gained twenty new organizations
during the summer.
Eugene Debs writes that he Is too busy
TO reorganize the American Railway union
just now.
former union Of boilermakers and
iron ship builders at Cincinnati was re-
organized last Monday.
Carpenters of Dallas, Tex, have mott
ned employers that after May l, 1900, they
VIII demand an eight-hour work day.
Last weeks convention of the knights
OF Labor at Boston decided to give the
general officers full power in ordering and
managing strikes.
Trade disputes in New York city be-
tween the board of delegates and the
Building Trades council prevent the
amalgamation Of the two bodies
George N. James, a firemen on the
Peoria, Decatur & Evansville railroad,
residing at Nation, Ill, has fallen heir
to an estate of $2,OOO,oO0 in England.
A SO-cent per capita tax will be levied
by the United Hatters of North America
to pay the expenses of the next national
1900 '
Three thousand miners are idle in the
enforce a demand for an advance of $40
per month and yearly contracts.
over 400 employees of the Illinois sugar
refining refining works at Pekin, H., went on
or skilled mechanics We're being cut from
time to time and cheap labor was also
introduced.
Di Fires were started the past week in the
PIttsburg plants of the American Glass
company. Glass will be turned out from
some OF the factories at least during the
first week of December.
Congressman Gardner. of New Jersey,
is the choice of the American Fedora
tlon OF Labor as chairman of the com
nllttee on labor and that body will ask
the speaker OF the next house to reap
point him to that position.
twenty-five employes#of the LeSh Man
uIaclur1ng company, Warsaw, Ind. went
on strike last Saturday Tor an increase of
., cents per day in wages. They claim
Iney cannot live on the present wages of
S1.lO per day.
State Labor Commissioner Rixey of
MISSOURI, has started the United States
| district court at jefferson civ moT1ine
in an endeavor to wipe out the circulation
or metal company store" money in the
mining camps of that state
The labor movement is progressing in a
! general way in San Francisco. Nearly
every union but the printers ia on the
gain there; many new unions are being
formed and old ones resurrected Iast
week unions OF cement workers, long
organized. VI
The Atlanta Constitution says that in
the course Of a very few months South
Carolina, in the number of looms and
splndles IN Its cotton mills, will stand
next to Massa chusetts as a cotton manu-
featuring state. The day is already in
sight when all the cotton grown in South
CAROLINA will be manufactured in its own
mills - -'' wv
The. vote of the Iron Molders of North
America Will decide whether or not the
system of piece work is to give way to
an elght,hour day. The polls are left
open until February next and each mem
Der is expected to record his desire, in ac-
cordance with instructions issued by the
Indianapolis convention
According to the agreement pooda u,
October, 1898, between the three interna-
tional unions in the printing crafts and
the National ,Typothetae of America, a
general introduction of the nine-hour
work-day throughout the United States
and Canada went into effect last Tues
day. Nov: q. Reports from all over the
country indicate that the printers and
| allied craftsmen have been successful
! everywhere except in Kansas City, No.
the only city of any consequence where
! a strike occurred.