The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
LABOR WORLD.
90 has 5.SoN teachers.

| Chicago has $500 teachers.
England has $1,000 union carpenters.
Sprin gfieldz hasa fruit peddIers' union
| Albany. NJ " painters get $3.50 per
day.
skagway, Alaska, has printers union.
American factories employ 100000
| women
India,s wheat crop is 1874, 0oO, 900 bushels.
Chicago woodwQrkers struck for eight
hours. -.
Stock yard packers of Chicago have
slowed away G00,e0G cases of eggs.
III 1898 the tobacco monopoly yielded
FRANCE an income of 329000,000 francs.
The fnastef @steamfitters Of Chicago
have. Withdrawn from the contractors
association
Striking carpenters at Lawrence, Mass,
purnese adopting "a cooperative system
and will bid against the contractors
Paper was first made about a century
after Christ by q Chinaman named Isai-
J4oun The Arabs introduced it into Eu-
rope
The worlds labor congress will be he'd
in Paris. France, Sept. % to Is. Dele
gates will be present from nearly all
countries. il
A model of the human heart, working
as III life, and pumping blood through
artificial arteries, is the work of CONT
mental physician.
The San Francisco. Building Trades
council has ordered "a general boycott
working more than eight hours.
Fifty new urions and thirty-fve
branches have been organized by We
United Brewery Workmen during the
last seventeen months. Others are or
ganizing.
Hawaii territory's first Labor day was
an unqualified success. The principal
speaker was United States District At
torney Baird Gov. Dole reviewed the
parade.
The. Federation Libre, central labor
| GrganlZa ton at San Juan, Porto Rico.
has asked financial assistance from the
New York unions with which to carry
on strike.
The British government Is the owner
| of over z, coo camels. Several thousand
! are, used in India to carry stores and
| changing quarters.
The Target part of the worlds supply
| Of platinum comes from the Ural noun
talns, perhaps as much DIS IS per cent Of
] in the Russian and Siberian mines or
/ placer deposits of that range.
Delegate James Heggs. of the New
York musicians, secured ,etter Of pro-
I test from the State federation TO Pr ST
| dent Mckinley and to the sec ares Of
war and navy against the competition Il
! government bands with civilian musl-
| clans.
model union city of the South St likes
! are almost unknown and the employer
| and employee work in harmony IN fact,
it has been stated that the leading en-
ployers of labor in Columbus are the
strong supporters of the unions.
he Cigarm9kers' union, of Syracuse,
n. Y, had handsome aeat in the Labor
day parade and would probably have
won a SIS prize for artistic de -oration,
put it was discovered that tho morse,
were shod at a non-uniOn shop, ana tae
H0at was ordered cut of the parade
The Trades and Labor council Of Rich
mona, Va, has. passed resolution re-
guessing the representatives in the state
legislature not to vote for any man for
Judge Of the supreme court who is nor
IN favor of the employers liability bill
and las placed himself on record as sucaI
In Austria the use of cleo real power
distribution, in mills and factories is be-
coming widespread and almost universal
in the important textile industry. re,
Gently plant has been installed at ko>
Veredo, in the South Tyrol in which 400
velvet wearing looms are opera ted ~
polyphase electric motors from central
power station.