The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-01
In L~abG>r's
Field.
LOCAL LABOR NOTES.

The following unions VIII meet Mon
day night, Tailors, Electrical Workers
2 Musicians, Topographic No. 13 and Build
Ing. Trades council.
The Carpenters union, of Minneapolis
has nearly 900 members, and practically
every carpenter Of any standing in the
city is a member of the union.
Coils Lovely, who visited Assembly hall
Frday night, is waging warfare against
prison made boots and shoes When here
he strongly urged the members of the
d1fferent unions to see that the footwear
they purchased was not made by prison
an Eastern firm. whose shoes were made
by prison labor, was now on his way to
goods. - ~.
give one of those popular dances for
which the union is famous, in Sherman
na1l, on the evening of Wednesday, Oct.
81. thoroughly good time is guaran-
teed by the committee of management.
Whlch IS composed of the following: O.
6erg M Abrams, r. Bliss, n Albrecht,
~ sOhme, Il. ,Beclkper and W. EclSbarg
Music will be furnished by the Citizens
A systematic attempt will be made To-
eally to close Minneapolis barber shops
instead of at o'clock, as is the rule
now, except on Saturday nights The
promoters Of this scheme believe that
while an earlier closing would be of vast
penent TO the Journeymen BARRIERS, It
would give the bosses as big a profit az
they. are now making.
Rev. Willard S. Ward, of Shiloh Pres
byterian church, MINNEAPOLIS and an n. n
member of organized laLor, has been in
x1ied to addIess5 the. Plumbers and Gas
ftters unions, of Minneapolis, upon the
New Zealand Compulsory. Education
Law at the next regular meeting
The total number of organized workers
in the United States on May / last was
estimated by the United States depart
nent of labor to be 1.S68,S00 persons On
May l the American Federation of Labor
mad an enrolled membership of ], 004, 600
and the railway -brotherhoods 1880 In
the building trades $50 600 men are organs
lied on independent lines.
There are connicting reports concern
ing the success sof the new underground
electric road in London. The most salts
factory parte Of the. whole business is
American innovation. It's tWentyeight
torpedo-shaped engines were built here at
cost of M4,599 each. Our elevated rail
road choppers for tickets have been in
troduced, and after the style of Amer
lea, the guards are required to call out
next sta top. As in the United States
there is no disposition of passengers first
second, and third-class carriages hayine.
pany to charge one fare fer all dis
tances, the amount being only four cents
Thomas c. Wak5hs secretary of the
executive board of the Associated Car
penters and Joiners. of New York. saws:
THE initiation fee of the Association
Carpenters. and Joiners of Manhattan is
W. The union scale of wages so cents
an hour, No deviation that would lead
to forfeiture of the Saturday half hoii-
day to be eNens't Thought, of. No eccentric
scale of wages that will permit a person
to work for anything he --ean get and
hold a card to be dreamed Of None but
carpenters and joiners are eligible for
membership That the two oarpen ters'
efganiza tons, viz: the ~An1algamate6 and
the Associated carpenters, are working
in unison and long for the day when the
few carpenters that are outside their
unions will come into the fold of true
trades unionism and by concerted effort
advance the cause of unionism.''