The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04
LABOR WORLD.

A windmill costs about ceats per horse
power per hour.
The St Louis Trades Council repre-
Sents 5000 members.
In the government forest reserves there
are 600 acres.
California stands fifth among the states
as an oil producer.
Tw- nty-fve laundres were osed in Chi
cag0 last week by the trust
"A union of drivers of newspaper Wag-
ons has been organized in Chicago.
Coal brings the highest price in South
Africa and the lowest in China
Five ounces and a half Of grapes are
required TO make one glass of good wine.
1t is estimated that American travellers
annually spend $l0U,0O0,OD in Europe.
Chicago's wheat shipments for Septem-
Der reached the unprecedented total of
6,365, 644 bushels.
J 10. bakers are agitating to Sc
cure the enforcement of a universal ten
hour day on May I; 1901.
a nursery near Mexico, Mo. contaius
-o9,OJe young fruit. frees, pIuned and Gull
tiVated to perfection.
Kansas City has, become the second
hour=making point in the United States.
Minneapolis ranks first.
1t will be shown by the new United
States census that3fully 1000, 900 married
/ wdmelf are employed in Factories. s7iIch
The old agI cement of the iron m9lders
with the st. Louis FoundrYmen'S aSSocia-
ton has been extended to March l, 1901
Such a scarcity Of sailors exists on. the
Pacific coast that vessels cannot leave
port Vessels four deep are tied up to
/ the docks awaiting men.
The locomotive works Of the United
States last yeaF turned out 2,196 locomO-
tives valued at about $23 000.G00 OF the
! total number $50 Were sent abroad
The eight hour %orkday has been
granted to San francisco upholStererS in
all the tWentf-three shops of the city at
an average inorease of twenty per cent
III wages the minimum scale being So per
| day. G1 - ST.
Agriculture in the Hawaiian islands ap-
pears TO be seriously handicapped by the
fact that the land must be irrigated, and
that water for this purpose must be raised
by artificial means.
The new scale of salaries for the presi-
dent. and first, second and third vice
presidents of the Order of Railway tFeleg-
T5tphers has been fixed at $3.660, $780,
Isl 800 and $1,000 per annum, respectively
In future unemployed members of New
York Bakers Union No. so accompanying
the, organization to reunions and enter
taipments, will receive so cents spending
money out of the union treasury. .a
The largest toy factory in the world is
in New York. where piaythings in tin are
; manufactured literally by the million. 1t
Stands five stories high, and turns out
1867 distinct varieties Of tin toys The
output of circular tin whistles Is placed
at 100000 per annum.
After six years of agitation on the part
of tee trades ut1-ons of Cincinnati. free
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pupils in the informed ate grades Of the
hubble schools. is aimed to extend the
system until it embraces the schools of
all grades.
minneapolis dressmakers struck tnat the
hours; of toll shall be from a. m. to
D. M, allowing one hour for lunch. That
ali work done overtime shall be paid as
time and One-half for the first three
hours, and after that double time. That
tue change of tine shall have no effect on
the present rate of wages
from Auburn, Me, to San Francisco,
Cal. there is not a single strike in the
boot and shoe trade under the iurisdic-
tion of the Boot and Shoe Workers I'M
tory of the Organization that month
has passed without strike. The arbl-
ira ton policy is becoming established.
The salary of the members of the
executive board of the COOpers' Inter
national union is fined at 81 a day, in
stead of So. Hereafter the conventions
are to be he'd biennially. The union
adopted the iniative and referendum prln-
chile bv a c.ose vote, and hereafter all
questions will have to be submitted to
q general vote OF the entire membership
before being decided.
II is reported that a party OF MeXicalR,
headede by Senior Don Evaristo Madero,
Ex-Governor OF the state of Coahilla, in
terested in cotton manufacturing, were
in Fall River. Mass, last week, for the
purpose of engaging overseers for his cot
Ton mills He has decided to take up
The manufacture of the finer grades of
cloth increase his manufacturing facil-
tiles and secure competent OverSeerS to
take charge of the various departments.
In the production of iron ore the United
States is leading the world, with 25.000,
ono tons mined in 1S9. With It's lInpor-
tation of 1852 tons Of ore added to this
the country manufacturers 13, 620, 703 tons
of Dlg iron in the same year, ard Of
this converted 10639,S57 tons into crude
steel making 80 per cent of the total
steel supply of the world. Of ore. steel,
iron and iron manufactures, $93, 000, 900
the United States at the head of the steel
and iron producers of the world-a posi-
ton which authorities hold that it must
maintain in the future. In 1899 the world
mined 81, GA 900 tons of iron ore. Ger
many came next to the United States,
with II $50, 665 tons, while Great Brit~<n
took third pace, with only J., 176 928 tons.
the bureau of statistics of the treasury
department says: I'VE are still at the
beginning of our resources both in quaint
ity of ore mined per annum within our
borders and in the economy of methods
of accommodating materials at the center
Of iron and steel manufacturers And
in 1870 the output of ore IN gross tons
was only 3,031 ,S91. The Lake Superior
region. first known In 1885, was opened
after nearly fifty years, and In the SOS
the rich fields of Alabama were uncover
ed so that in 1899 the Lake Superior
country was, producing 726 per cent of
the United States ore and the South was
per cent to the rest of the Union. Only
Michigan and Minnesota surpass Ala
bama I'm the production of iron ores while
Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia are in
the front rank as. producers.