The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07
LABOR NOTES.

Typographical Union No. 80 meet today
at Assembly hail.
The printers union at Minneapolis has
| appointed "a committee to procure a lol
In Hillside cemetery for deceased mem
BY assessments and donations the la
Dor unions of San Francisco expect to
raise $4,000 wherewith to maintain the
| striking mill men in their contest for
| the eight hour day.
The International Brotherhood of EIec-
| trtcal Workers have gained over 5000
members since January l. 1900, who are
| enrolled in nearly 200 unions.
Jacob Fischer president of the Jour
| neymen BARRIERS union, has announced
| that the international convention, to
| have been held at Saginaw, Mich, In
| October, has been postponed by the ref
erendum vote of the local unions to. next
! year. The postponement, it is claimed,
| will save $4,000 to the unions.
| A committee has been appointed by
! the Wood Workers union to assist the
| business agent to get a resolution passed
| by the school board and city council Tor
| the advancement of the Wood Workers
| union label
The laundry workers of Minneapolis
are agitating for the organization of a
union, and the beer bottlers are agi-
Il tirg in the same direction.
The Carpenters union Of Minneapolis
reported 1854 members who had paid UP
their dues.
The Minneapolis Plumbers union has
voted to levy an assessment on its mtm-
bers to aid tile locked-out plumbers Of
Chicago. A referendum vote is being
taken as to whether the assessment shall
be 10, % or IS cents week.
An effort is TO be made 10 bring about
a. consolidation of the various organiza-
tlons in ST. Louis that are known as
shop societies. An utilization of them all
unite about 10000 members under one
common head.
Victoria, Australia, has built seven lc-
cal railways on the cooperative principle.
The railways were estimated for by con-
tract at R547, $685. but by working the CO.
operative principe they were completed
for e25l ,2l1.
In Vienna telephone call boxes. or
booths" are provided With with napkins
bearing the request, Wipe, il you
please" The cloths are frequently chang
ed, and the practice of wiping the mouth
piece of the transmitter is saEit-ry
precaution.
The East River bridge comm ssion has
decided that the wage scale OF the New
York Granite Cutters union, 81 a day, Is
the prevailing rate for this region, and
must, under the labor law govern the
stonework beng done on the bridge APP
prOacheS.
London are demanding straight wages of
% cents All hour, with 10 cents extra per
hour for all time over eight hours day,
and so cents an hour for work done be-
morning.
Commissioner Gilbert. of the New York
state board of arbitration, testified in
Washington, before the national indus
trial commission that. in his opinion, the
greatest cause of strikes in that state is
the opposition Of employers to labor
unions
Chicago ornamental glass workers new
wage scale runs from $1.75 per day for
glass Jewellers to So for wheel cutters.
glass painters and designers. Provision
is also made for the employment of union
engineers at So per day, and firemen at %
cents an hour.
In his principles of Economics" Prof
Marshall says that perhaps $500, 900 coo an
nually is spent by the working classes,
and $1,000, 900 by the rest of the popu-
lation in ways that do little or nothing
toward making life nober or truly hap
pier. Mr.. Atkinson has estimated that
the waste OF food in the United States
from bad cooking alone Is over 81, 900, O00,-
coo year
The International Wood Carvers, asso-
citation convention has proposed bill for
presenta ton to congress authorizing the