The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-29
Brewing company's malt house. n
ceipts, $50 so: expenses. $4.25.
I.ABOR,S INDUSTRIAL FIELD.

St. Louis iron molders now get $265 per
day.
Tonawanda, N. Y. molders now get
$3.50 day.
New York woodcarvers get 81 for elght
hours work.
The Rio Grande has 1000 more freight
cars in use at the present time than
year ago.
to Dawson City. The rate for twenty
words is $4.35.
At Connellsville 1926 coke ovens are
active: 1927 cars were shipped In SIX
days.
A large number of the mills In South
Carolina are making goods for the trade
Of China
A 100000 steel plant. that will rival
in size the Lorain steel works. Is TO re
located at Fairport Harbor, y.
The question of three-penny kilograms
Is now said to be engaging the careful
consideration of the English postoff1ce au-
thorities.
The Holy Synod of Russia has decreed
that the insurance companies are not OBJ
liged to pay losses incurred during anti
Semitic riots.
The employees of the North Stafford
shire district have agreed to allow their
blast furnace men an eight-hour day,
dating from the 23d inst.
The great council, Improved Order of
Red Men. at Indianapo,is last week de-
cided that dealers in liquor shall here
after be barred from the organization.
Attorney General Remley Of Iowa,
says the penny-in-the-slota and the nick
el-in-the-slot and all similar devices are
gambling machines and amenable to the
gambling law.
Frisco boilermakers have been conced-
ed the nine-hour day on all vessels not
owned by the government. On the latter
the days work will be eight hours for ten
hours pay.
At Pittsburg. of the 1000 molders who
went out on a strike about 400 have Sc
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and about $50 to 200 have left the city to
secure employment. The apprentices have
been called out.
On the eve of a campaign to iegislate
the ticket Scalper out of business one Of
the big railroads running out of Chicago
has been boycotted by the brokers of this
city for the non-payment of commissions
on tickets handled.
receive $3.50 for nine hours work l6 20
cents per hour for overtime before mid
night and time and half for overtime
after midnight. The electricians receive
So per day of nine hours.
In New York the tilelayers and their
helpers have secured an advance in wages
Of 50 cents a day. and 81, 25 a week, re-
spectivelly,, without being obliged to strike
for 1t. The tilelayers now get $3.50 a day
eight hours and their helpers $1460
week, with pay for the Saturday half
holiday.
At Des Moines, To-, dimension lumber
is now selling at sci thousand feet. and
Is hard to get at that price, and lath that
g. year ago were worth little over 81 a
thousand are now selling at Sc. 1t is an
nounoed that the p ice of stucco and hard
plaster has been advanced 81 thousand.
1t is now next to impossible to secure
brick in any quantity.
The agreement between the bricklayers'
union of the boroughs Of Brooklyn and
Queens, and the Master Masons' assolia-
ton continues in force until the LIST of
next May. 1t provides for wage sched-
ule of SIS cents an hour, eight hours Ave
days In the week, and four hours on Sat
urday, with double. pay for overtime and
legal holidays. Strikes are prohibited,
Jumping is done away with, and wages
are to be paid weekly.
The wages of coal miners under the set
tlement arranged by the Cancellation
cussion In the Lancashire districts. I'm
der that settlement they receive an addi-/
ton Of 212 per cent, but the men seek
further advance on the ground that the
high price OF coal warrants such adyanIe.
The scheme of settlement placed the
maximum at % per cent above the stand
ard rates of 1883.
The striking street car men in Cleve-
land are determined to carry their fight
against the Traction company to q fl 4 h.
An automatic stock company has en-
formed D. The company will run com
position to the Traction company, and it
Is expected the new cars will be in .op-
GRAFTON IN about six weeks. The automo-
plleS Will nave a capacity IN ADDITION 70
their own weight of 10000 pounds, and, 1t
Is said, will have an average spead Of
twenty-five miles an hour. They will be
finely equipped and heated by system
of exhaust pipes from the motors.
Early next year the Chicago City Rail
way company will begin to equip its lines
with combination summer and winter
cars. The combination car has a double
row of cross seats, with space for stove
in winter. The sch me by which 1t is rem
dered serviceable in hot and cold weather
consists In the window arrangement.
whereby the double sash may be sid
downward inta a casing of unusual
depth, making the car practically an
open car when conditions suggest while
for storms and in cold weather the WIN
doWs can be raised to make the coach
we'll protected. The shutter and curtain
contrivance are rolled Into the car roof
The boom in the iron and steel trades
1t began early in 1896, and we are now
nearing. the end of the third quarter of
1859. This is the longest boom that we
rave had in the iron trade for upward Of
thirty We as. Almost. every manufacture
ing enterprise in the country has either
built new shops or improved and extend-
ed its equipment Probably the manu-.
featuring resources OF the country have
been increased all round by 10 per cent az
least in cons Quence of extended premises
or improved appliances or processes
London Iron and Coal Trades Review.