The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
ON INDUSTRIAL LINES.


Pittsburg tilelayers want piece wo1k
abolished.
The horseshoers' union in Boston won
its fight for $19 a week for filters and SIT
q week for drivers.
Some Montreal firms have conceded the
molders' demand that $3.50 per day shall
be the minimum wage.
The Finland women have the right of
Suffrage; but they also work as carpen-
ters bricklayePs, paperhangers and bak-
erS.
All the union beer breweries in Brook
lyn borough have renewed their agree
ments with the brewery engineers and
f1remen's unions.
1t is probable that the convention of
the AmalgaInated Associa ton of Iron and
steel Workers, now in session at Detroit
will insist on an advance of 81 per ton in
the wages Of peddlers. This will carry
WIN II an aoXance ranging from 10 to Is
per cent in all branches of the finishing
departments.
The Wheeling Street Railway company
has posted notices at the car barns in
creasing the wages of its employees from
10 cents per hour to tn the rate they
have offered to pay the old men,, This
makes the wages of the new men. 81 10 per
day, for II hours work, as against 81 90
hours. 49, -
The May day strikes Of the BUILDING
trades In Pittsburg, Allegheny and vi
cinfty have not proved as Serious. as anti
clpateo, owing to the demands of the car
penters, bricklayers p1asterers and other
traces being conceded by many of the
leading contractors Not more than 500 of
the 7, building mechanics in that city are
mo surer index of Industrial condi-
tons, says the New York 8Com1nercial
Bulletin, "can be found than the move
me men OF people between Canada and the
n mn towns Of New England. For fve
years past this movement has, on the
whole, set toward Canada. 1t is now de-
cldedly tending this way"
Labor legislation and laws as enacted
IN "a several Western states are more or
less farce, and excite ridicule and con
tempt. The California legislature has ra.
Gently enacted new eight-hour law for
pampered public employees only. and. on
! the 0tner hand, the state supreme court
knocks out the mechanics lien law a
unconstitutional - ~
The total capitalization of the big in.
dustrial trusts chartered in New Jersey
IN the past month was S44S 800 O06
Twenty-Five of these corpora tions he%,O wv o.
capital of $4,000 900 and over each The
companies incorporated in New Jersey
alone since Jan. have in round figures
1tal of $1,500,00 600.
indiana Will open warfare on the vari-
GUS industrial combinations by institIt-
ing proceedings in the courts under the
s san;. Jaw OF dSSl, which declares that or
carnations. firms or individuals operai-
ing under rules designed to limit the ont
put of their factories or regulate and or
55itrarliy fx the selling price of their pro
uucts TO the consumer or the trade re
conducting business in restraint Of the
natural laws Of trade, and are liable to
heavy penalties. -
chicago contractors are formulating an
oreanlZatlon on the lines of the Journey
mems building trades council. The fol
lowing bodies will be included in the new
associations: Carpenters and builders,
ASSOCIATION, masons and builders ex-
a ar rl1IJ
ntters, sewer builders, cornice manufac-
turers, painters and decorators. cutstone
contractors, employing plasterers' asso-
clatlons and the architectural iron league,
49, Al a ate meeting. Of the Springfield
typographical union it was resolved that
hereafter representatives of the press and
employing printers who NAV choose 10
a az enc snail be admitted to the meetings
OF the union. This action was taken aft
er discussion which brought out the adj
vantages to be derived by trades unions
from publication of the truth about their
work, ana by disabusing the minds Of
methods of conducting union business
This is probably the first trade union in
the United States to adont sncb a., ora ~,
policy "-- opei'
The great army of labor in England
emerged from the year 1893, on the whole.
better off than it entered upon II r.
Judge Judge from the fifth annual abstract OF
of trade. In all $4,000 work peonle re-
ceived increases Of wages, and only 12 00C
were affected by decreases, according to
this return; the net result was an aver
age raise of Is SID per head per week.
Moreover, $1,000 people worked on an
average OF two hours and seventeen min
utes week less, while only 800 suffered
under Increased hours
The carpenters of Chicago a wear 400
broke away from their old-time custom
of signing agreements with the master
carpenters association, which bound
them to work for only mebers of the
posses association and compelled ali
contractors to join the master carpenters
or hight the union. Last year the carpen-
tiers went on strike for an advance of two
and one-half cents an hour and wo1,ld
work for any contractor that would sign
the agreement. The plan was so satis.
Iactor1ly that this year the union asked
Tor further advance of cents an hour
which makes the scale 421k cents and
after short strike of less than one week
won, and work was resumed
National prosperity does not consist ir
great aggregate of wealth, no matte,
how large 1t may be. Trusts and monon.
| olies may be capitalized at billions of dol.
| lars, and prosperity still be afars off. The
| proper standard by which prosperity car
| be measured is the condition of the mass
| of the people. If all the people be EN-.
| ployed at a wage that procures the com
forts or life then prosperity may properly
| be said to abound. Any movement TEND,
| ing to bring about this condition in
however, small degree Is in the line OF
| progress, and a benefit to the nation Thr
| most potent factor now operating In the
| economic world for the distribution Of
wealth Is the trade union movement am
the patriots and statesmen who seek :
/ remedy for our national lila will do wei
TIC study Its operation and note its effects