The Saint Paul globe., 1900-01-28
Worlds Field Of Labor.

| San Francisco, Cal, now has a Chinese
! daily newspaper.
The Marion Qnd) bicycle factory alb
! sorbed by the trust has been closed in
| definitely.
Berlin, Germany, will construct an un-
derground railway to cost 25,00O,000.
Painters in the car shops at Knoxville,
Tenn, are working fifteen to seventeen
hours per day.
Mexico has become one of the largest
importers of sewing machines from the
United States.
Knoxville, Tenn, business men propose
to raise $250,000 to construct blast fur
mace to work local ores.
New York machlnists have succeeded
in inforcing the nine-hour day in nearly
all establishments.
The union tobacco workers, of ST.
Louis, have secured increases in wages
varying from 1214 to rs per cent.
Coremakers are on strike at Syracuse,
N. Y, for uniform wage scale and
recognition of their union.
Cleveland, o., carpenters unions have
raised their initiation to $10 Five hun
dred new members were added last year.
Denver, Col, Typographical union has
declined to vote on the political propo-
endum.
The steamtitters of Philadelphia have
established scale of 40 cents per hour
and the eight-hour day, to go into effect
May !.
A strike involving thousands is in pro-
gress in Bohemia and Austria among
textile workers to establish a ten-hour
work day.
St. Louis Typographical Union No. S
mas LEVIED an assessment of 90 cents per
week on all members in aid of the Kan
sas City strike.
Nominations for officers Of the Interna-
tional Typographical union must be
made at the regular February meeting
to be eligible
Seventeen new local charters have been
issued by the International Union of
Steam Engineers since the recent annual
convention at Boston.
Plumbers at GAINESVILLE, Wis, refuse to
connect bath tubs and other plumbing
material and fixtures not purchased from
local dealers.
Factory Inspector Campbell, of Pennsyl-
vania, reports sixty places in which cloth
ing was made In habitations where con-
tagieus diseases prevailed.
The bookbinders' strike at Nashville,
Tenn, is still unsettled, neither side ap-
parently being inclined to make any con-
cesstons in the dispute '
The striking leather workers at Kansas
City have been served with injunctions
by the courts forbidding them from in
terfering with the new employees.
Eighty thousand men at Pittsburg,
Pa, and vicinity, principally employed in
iron and steel manufacture, shared in the
wage increase which went into effect
Jan. !.
Hardly had the statement been made
that the Chicago building contractors and
building trades had settled their differ
enceS when a report comes that big
sympathetic strike will be inaugurated
A special election for members of the
legislature is about to take place In Win
nipeg, Man. Many Of the unions are vot-
Ing money to carry on the campaign, the
bricklayers donating 500.
Andrew Carnegie has given the sum of
600 to the General Society of Mechan-
les and TradeSmen of New York, to be
used In the fitting up of the society's new
mechanics institute in that city. af
Girls working in the match factories I'M
England become permeated with the
chemicals and minerals used, resulting in
the most painful and horrible deformities
Their wages average $1.50 per week.
Trouble in the Shoemakers' union seems
to be spreading. Haverhill, Mass, unions
following those of Brockton have Sc
ceded, and in the former city the Central
Labor council has sent back It's charter
under the A. F. of L.
The BARRIERS license law In Michigan a
copy Of the Missouri law, excepting that
1t is applicable to cities of 10000 and up
ward instead of $4,000 inhabitants, went
into effect on the 1st. and within three
days over 800 licenses had been applied
for.
Local unions throughout the country Of
the International Association of Machin-
lists are arranging for general and con-
certed movement on May in favor Of the
nine-hour day, and minimum wage scale
of $3.50 per day.