The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-22
Machinists Meets Tonight.
The machinists' union will meet this
evening at Odd Fellows hall.
LABOR NOTES

During the past year the Cigarmakers'
International union has paid out for sick,
death and out-of-work benefits the sum
of 1864, 000
New York socialists operate a night
school, in which are taught the various
branches of mechanical drawing, political
economy, literature, etc.
The Journeymen plasterers of st. Louis
are out on strike, demanding a restora-
ton of their old wage scale, which had
been promised by the contractors.
During the past four years Amsterdam,
Holland, has had in its own hands the
water, gas and telephone systems. It
also owns and operates the street rail-
ways.
The board of education of Cleveland
will erect and equip a factory from which
will be turned out all the school furniture
needed for the school buildings in that
city.
Carpenters Union No. 375, of New York,
has notified all foremen that all overtime
has been prohibited, and that they must
not start work ahead of time nor con-
tinue 1t after hours.
Among. the resolutions adopted by the
Denver board of aldermen was one In
creasing the pay of the laborers of the
city from S175 to 81 a day. and team hire
from $3.50 and 1913 to 81 a day.
John D. Williams, of Sherrodsville, O.,
has patented miners lamp, which uses
gasoline and can be reflled while in USE
1t has vapor burner, and the lamp is
fitted to miners cap.
EHo convention OIL the miners of the
Central Pennsylvania field, held last week
at Clearfield, decided to call a strike at
all mines in that district which did not
agree to pay the. advance demanded by
June I.
Herman Wolff, of New York, has Sc
cured patent on his process for making
artificial fuel, which is composed of coal
dust, pitch, wax taflings. barium sulphate
and benz1n, compounded and formed into
briquettes.
Qnite number of the New York labor
organizations now have telephone con-
nections. This is principally for the con-
venience of employers when they are in
hurry for extra men or to fill vacancies.
Two steamships and six sailing vessels
have been chartered to transport the 35,-
cotton order for steel rails from the
Maryland Steel company's works, near
Baltimore, to Melbourne Australia
Henry c. Prick, of Pittsburg, Penn, it
is stated, has paid $4,000 for the historical
painting of the signiSa of the Spanish
will probably be placed in the Carnegie
Institute at Pittsburg.
The Granite Cutters Union of Toledo
gives out the information that the bust
ness of their craft is suffering to an
alarming extent from the inroads made
upon it by convict labor in the various
penitentaries and state prisons.
Typographical Union 274 has decided not
| to send delegate to the Detroit conven-
| ton of the International Typograp nica1
mon Tor reasons of economy, and has re-
| quested the unions in. Detroit and St
Louis to represent it at the same.
The advance in wages, equivalent to
! about 20 per cent, recently granted street
car men at Pittsburg, Penn. now enables
them to earn $3.50 per day Of IL hours,
which is claimed to be the highest rate
| paid in the country.
Immigrants are again pouring into the
country in great numbers, the arrival of
! York being at the rate of 1000 per day.
| In the New England mill towns and the
| cities on the great lakes there is also
] very large influx of Canadian working
| men.