The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-16

a working day of eight hours, with
wage of So.
New York has a Hebrew bakers union.
Inman, Ga, is to have . $200,00Q co ton
Tnill,e
New York. negro walters are organiz-
There are $1,000 Brotherhood carpen-
New Yorks, Store Clerks union de-
maiads a tcr-hour day.
The average annual rice crop Of Japan
is 49,, 215, rs bushels.
During the past ten years shipbuilding
in Germany has become a great indus
try.
It is said that there is tea grown and
gathered in Japan that sells for much
as $40 per pound.
australians. hold a worlds record in
tea consumption. drinking nearly eight
pounds head yearly
An agricultural settlement near New
, York supplies the Celestials of the East
ern states with their diet.
A course of lectures for icu:neyr1en
electrical workers has been arranged to
be given at the New York trade school.
1T is estimated that the value Of the
cotton grown i'll the Southern states this
year will be nearly, if not quite, $780,
000,C00.
Labor men ir Vancouver. r. c., are
urging the imposition of n heavy tax on
male domestic servants, the object being
to diminish the employment Of Japanse
and Chinese.
Union carpenters in San Francisco have
fully demonstrated what can be done by
organized labor when acting as a unit
They have union planning mill in full
operation, giving employment to 2,100
union men.
From clerk to .nillionaire-from the
drudgerY of dried apples and sugar 10
1hp l11XnrV n a ol1cP p2r-fTNTi
week to $1,000 a month: that's a leap
made by a Kansas bov-Joe Chans,er-ln
half a dozen years or less.
1t is understood that John e W'4ite, %
chairman Of Athe legislative committee of
thr Indianapolis Central Labor unicn,
will vote IN favor of his own decapita tion
on the proposed constitutional ane0d d.
Tnent making ineligible for membership
In the Central Labor body all persons not
working at the trade each represents ana
those occupying or running for political
Office.
One hundred years ago it was eztimlt-
ed that population Of 6i0.0ole09 exchang-
ed goods valued at $3.50, 0000 9j. Since
that time the population has increased
155 per cent. The trade, which at The
centufy's beginning was only $231 for
each person. has now increased to $i3.z7.
The advance in the decade from 1890 to
railway, was more than twice as amid
as that of the ten years previous to the
| railway era. The telegraph system in
trQduced in 1874 has spread uRtil- now It
embraces 1,0G0,900 miles of wire, with no.
COO miles of submarine cable. A large
proportion of the 100000 land MESA ges
sent away every day are commercial In
character Other factors in the growth
of commerce have been the increase in
the cultivated areas of the world from
800 GOG 900 to nearly 100000 acres; the
advance in coal production from 11.000CG0
to 600, 000.6 600, and in pig iron, from 40 90
to 100000 tons.
Did you ever give a thought to these
men? They build our sky-serapers,
bridges and trestle work. They fasten
together the steel beams and girders that
form the bones and muscles of our high
buildings They wear no uniform No
band of music plays when they go to
work Not one of them has ever re-
received a medal or stripe upon his
sleeve No editorial writer probably ever
has commended them as patriotic citi-
zeTls. The city has never given a ban
quot in their honor or even passed 4 vote
Of thanks for their services. And yet
these structural iron workers risk their
hives every week day in the year for the
country's sake Several hundreds of
them were killed or disabled in this state
they live after beginning their work is
ten years. The motto of their craft is:
1--WE 90 not die; we are killed. The
best part of their bravery is that Il is
not self conscious and spectacular It
is their days work; that's all. The
majority of them. especially the outside
workers run as great risk every day as
Roosevelt did at San Juan-HearSfS Chi
cSgo American.