The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-30


citation, has been appointed member of
the Michigan state board Of arbitration.
Chicago carpentefs under the agree
ment reached last week for the present
year, will receive As cents per hour and a
half holiday on Saturday.
Kansas City typographical union now
pays weekly benefit of $40 to sick men,
bers, and has large surplus in its treas
ury. <sz
Journeymen plumbers of Des Moines,
To-, went out recently owing to the re-
fusal Of employers to geoncede the eight
hour day.
The printing crafts in Missouri are ar
ranging for the formation Of state al
lied printing trades council. -
Mechanics and labosers will do well to
shun the Philippines. SlsiIled artisans are
paid an equivalent of sss15 per month in
gold ACCOUNTANTS boekkeepers and
month, and theE eoranlpn laborer about 81
per month in gold s. =
Active preparations are now going on
for the worlds labor congress to be held
that hundreds of delegates will attend
and that every ciyilized,1 country in the
world will be represented.
The contracting sbricklayers of Denver.
Colo, have conceded a raise In wages to
their men from 81 to $3.50 per day, to go
into effect this week
The Great America exposition executive
committee at Omaha has agreed to en-
the eight-hour system in the construc-
ton work for the coming exposition. Car
penters, bricklayers, painters, plasterers,
electrical and sheet metal workers and
roofers are included in the agreement.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters has
corps of organizers at work throughout
the country preparing its unions to make
a general demand for. the sight-hour
erhood has nearly 8G0 local unions in the
United States. and the eight-hour day
for carpenters Is now. in effect in los cities
and towns.
Missouri legislature passed a general
bill to kill department stores. Under the
new law merchandise is divided into
seventyfive classes, and a tax of $500 is
placed on each class, which would mean
a tax of $4,000 year for any store car
rying all classes. If the law stands the
department stores will not suffer an iota,
as the one-liners must also pay their tax.
If anything, the law will act as boom
erang and force the little merchants out
of business all the sooner.
: At the Warren cotton mills, Warren,
discharge of an employe who signed a
paper for the organization of a union
in the cloth department
All records of continuous running in
stationary engine practice were eclipsed
by the performance of a Corliss engine at
the Omaha exposition. 1t was operated
twenty-four hours per day for fifty days,
or 600 consecutive hours, with one stop
markable record it ran eighty days for
twenty-three and twenty-four hours per
day,as the exposition authorities desired,
and it's total run during the exposition
was 1888 hours in 1856 days, or an average
of over nineteen hours per day.
The contracting plumbers in Cleveland
have asked their journeymen to restrict
the union members to the employers as
sociation only. The union rejected the
demand.
Thirty-two years ago this country made
its first steel rails and now it makes as
much as the rest of the world combined.
and can make all the world needs.
Twenty years ago Great Britain produc-
ed so per cent of the worlds supply Of
per cent In this branch also the United
States has taken the lead since 1885, In
1888 this country made nearly 1900, 600
tons of pig iron; Great Britain, S.630000
tons; Germany, 7,4o5, ,00O tons, and France
about 2.G00. coo tons.
The city engineer Of Winnipeg. In his
annual report, gives figures in regard to
the work done by his department by day
lowest tender for the same work by con-
tract, shows very large saving to the
city. He also asserts that the contract
custom before the city adopted the alter
native system, which gives the city op-
ton to award contract to the lowest
is splendid Endorsement of those who
have advocated the day labor plan on
municipal work for the sake of the i'm
proved condition that @workmen enjoy
under it.
One of the difficult problems of car
ryfng on manufacturing operations at
times is to get sufficient light at GER
tain point, such as uppn the die Of a
drawing press, where work must be ac-
curately placed, and very quickly han
died. A light placed close to the die Is
often impossible because it would be in
the way or for some other reason. Hans
Renold, of Manchester, Eng, gets over
the 1difficulty by placing behind and above
a small mirror in such position that the
beams of light reflected. from 1t fall di
rectly upon the spot to. be Illuminated.
it is wanted, the lamp is out of the way.
contributes better to the general lighting
of the shop, and the operator feels no
heat from it.-American Machinist