The Saint Paul globe., 1901-04-01
LABOR NOTES.

| The Federation council will hold a
| meeting in Assembly hall this afternoon
The Painters union will hold a speciaI
| meeting in Assembly hall this forenoon
| at 10 o'clock
The following unions will hold meetings
IN Assembly hail Monday evening: EIec-
| tr1caI Workers, Topographic No 13 and
Bu1lding Trades, council
The Butchers union holds it's regular
! meeting Tuesday evening
! The dance held by the Wood Workers.
| union, OF Minneapolis. netted $50.
The Machinists linion, of Minneapolis
| has recently formulated it's demands for
tne coming working year. The contract
SPecl1leS an increase of 13 per cent in
wages and a working day of nine hours
| 1t is thought that no serious objection
| Will be made to the agreement bv the
employers.
The minneapolis Bakers union. work.
| ing IN conjunction with the organization
committee of the Trades and Labor coun-
| Gil, will make an effort to organize all
| the workers in that city in any way con-
| nected with the craft.
While the Wood Workers, of Minneap-
OILS, nave not yet succeeded in coming
| to an agreement with their employers in
! regard to the working schedule for the
| coming year. it is not expected that anv
| serious trouble, such as that of last wear.
! will occur.
organized iaDor or st. Louis had seven
| candidates for tho lower house of the
state legislature, with two tickets and
| succeeded in electing four out of the
| seven-a printer, street railwayman. a
! cigarmaker and a boilermaker
Jacksonville, Fla, organized a union
! were working for SIPS, $150, $1.7O and 50
| for ten hours. Now the contract with
| employees shows them to be working for.
a uniform scale of $3.50 for nine hours
! Jay Fox. a Chicago workingman. who
! made trip to England to study condf-
| tions there, said, in the course of a
! speech, recounting his experience: La
| Dor unions in England are practi xlIIy
clubs, in which there is developed a spirit
! that binds the minds together and makes
| their unions mutual benefit associations -
| A delegate from the Musicians union.
| of Minneapolis, requested that the secre-
| tary be instructed to communicate with
the park board, asking them to employ
only musicians living in Minneapolis to
furnish music in the parks the coming
| summer
Political and religious topics are not
| allowed discussion in a union meeting
hence the questionlfs asked why Social
| 1St should be allowed to air his peculiar
views in a similar meeting particularly
when the same speaker was not long
| since bitter opponent to unionism?
The organization committee of the
| Trades and Labor assembly. of Minne-
I
waist workers. . The 15U members of the
craft in the two local factories will soon
| be organized intofa compact body capa-
BILE of insisting on a fair wage schedule
| Working from ten to twelve hourS per
! day, their wages ssjuSt now are said to
average from but So to Sc per week The
5ewelry workers are also agitating the
organization question.
The Minneapolis Bakers union organi-
cation committee has issued call for a
mass meeting of tcandy and ice cream
makers for Saturday evening" April 6, at
! AIexanders halT. The Trades and Labor
organization conlnaittee is cooperating
with the bakers in their attempt to or
ganize all the workers in any way con-
| nected with the craft. Bakers report a
growing demand for bread bearing their
| label.
At a meeting of the recently organized
! Teamsters' union, of Minneapolis. it was
proposed to increase prices for drays and
| furniture vans 25 cents an hour after
| April J. when spring moving gets active.
| Hauling to Minnetonka, St. Paul and
| everywhere outside the city limits will
be done on the basis of SO much mile.