The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-22
,ave been given an advance of 10 per

nave peen given an advance Of 10 per
cent.
Preparations are being made in Eurone
Tor great labor congress to be held in
Farls during the exposition, and to which
representatives OF all trades In Europe
and America will be invited
John Williams, of Utica. N. Y. general
president of the Brotherhood of carpen-
Iers and Jolners, has been appointed by
GOV. Roosevelt to the position of chief
FACTORY inspector of the state
AS an illustration of the, work of con-
centratlon under the trusts and monopo-
hes 1t is claimed that Chicago had no
I1ore 1nSn business fiims in 1888 than it had in
te.o, although its population In these
ttWenty-elSht years had been multiplied
by eight.
a Fittsburg company has received an
,no SuSr eao from the Japanese government for
iuo'ovV pounds of aluminium, to be used
IN the manufacture of rapid-fre shells
ana FOR other Amy equipment
II is not generally known that the ma
uonal bankrupt law provides that wages
que ior labor performed within ninety
Gays Immediately prior to the bankruptcy
snail be In all cases preferred claim
against the assets of the bankrupt.
The Granite Cutters national union
VIII, mlii make a universal stand for the eight
approaches warns it's local membership
that all agreements and bills Of prices
must be framed accordingly
Arrangements are already being made
at the next session of congress, and to
rush it to final vote.
At Fall River, Mass, the advances in
wages H.:,e IN the @ eighty-one mills of that city
Will affect 10000 operatives.
The officials of the Panama canal have
sent to Jamaica for 500 to 1000 laborers
to work on the canal.
Memphis, Tenn, is the most thoroughly
organized trades union city in the South
The employers are also organizing, and
VIII form a builders exchange" during
the coming week.
Kansas City Typographical union has
ieVled an assessment of 81 on all members
for the building fund of the proposad
Labor Temple.
Seventy-eight new labor organizations
were formed in New York state in 1898
The British government, as a starter,
mas appropriated $4,000, QUO for acquiring
the telephone systems of the country
According to the testimony of Edward
mckay, member OF the executive COM
mlttee of the United Mine Workers asso-
claton, before the national industrial
commission, a single firm of coal opera
tors in the Pittsburg district, who employ
l.0oO men, are responsible for the reduc-
lions In the wages of as 900 miners during
the past five years.
Every alderman in Grand Rapids Mich,
who voted for the street railway fran
chise and stood for reelection in the re-
cent municipal contest was defeated NV
the labor vote.
The painters strike at Omaha, Neb.,
has been settled, the contractors conced-
Ing the demands of the men for the eight
hour day at 35 cents per hour and union
men only to be employed.
The British Labor Gazette saws that at
no time since February, 1891, has the per-
centage of unemployed in Great Britain
been as low as at present. One hundred
and twenty-three trades unions and or
ganlZat1onS representing an aggregate
membership of 491, 100, report about per
cent as unemployed in February and 3
per cent in January of the present year.
The Missouri legislature has passed a
bill which practically abolishes depArt-
ment stores, in that state by taxing them
out of existence. The bill applies to
cities of 10000 inhabitants and over and
divides merchandise into 70 classes and
makes 56 groups out of. the classes on
each of which latter a license tax of $500
is placed. Municipal authorities are en-
sired, $500, however, being the minimum
Wholesale houses, auction rooms, ware
houses and manufacturing Establishments
are exempt.
rendered decision upholding the right
of labor organizations to boycott OBJ
noxious employers and denying an in
junction, except upon a showing of sne-
cif1c acts Of a criminal nature.
Ninety thousand people, according to
manufacturing statistics, are employed in
the Enited States in making and selling
bicycies; TWO hundred million dollars is
business, the export trade is over ST.
0O0 annually and 1t is estimated there are
nearly 100000 riders in the states and
Canada.
The Amundson Printing Company of
Chicago, has instituted suit for SIS. 900
damages against the typographical union
Tor ordering strike of its employees. The
damages are alleged to be due for the in
jury to their business by closing down
Organized labor in Colorado, as a result
OF the Fusion movement in that state last
fail, has secured the passage of three very
important bills by the legislature of that
state. One of these is an anti-scrip bill
requiring the payment of wages in lawful
money; a second limits the hours of labor
to eight per day in mines, smelling and
reduction works, and the third repeals
the boycott clause of previous act so
that the law no longer relates to bow
cottlng. The The first two have been signed
by Gov. Thomas, and the last. he states,
will receive his signature as soon as it
reaches him. Other measures passed Sc
cures liens to mechanics. the claims of
laborers and subcontractors upon public
work, and the exemption of sewing ma
chimes and bicycles from execution for
rent.