The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-03
Trades council and Electrical Workers,

Trades council and Electrical Workers
union meet
The scale for the present year with the
MINNEAPOLIS painters has not yet been
settled, as the master painters consider
that the union is asking too much. In
1898 the painters were getting from 20
cents to 2212 cents; in 1890, 271a cents, and
In 1850 we gave them 80 cents, and this
year they want 35 cents, which the mas
ter painters claim is TOO rapid an in
crease for the amount of the business
that is being done.
AT the last meeting of Woodworkers
Union No. IA, Minneapolis, the initiation
fee was reduced to 81 and the reinstate-
ment fee to. 81 so, until April 1. By this
will add to it's membership at least 500
new members. A special effort will be
made to organize the boXmakerS and car
riage woodwOrkers under this dispensa-
ton
The sunshine has broken through the
clouds which have recently obscured the
relations of the WoOdworkerS and the en-
ployers at Minneapolis. Louis Hansen,
the business agent of the union, says
that all but one Of the sixteen factories
of Minneapolis have agreed to sign the
woodworkers' agreement without amend
ment.
The Master Timers Association of Min
neapolis has notified the Timers union
that the working agreement this year
will stipulate,. among other things, that
the union shall sever its connection with
the Building Trades council.
COoperS' Union No. %, Minneapolis now
numbers $50 members and promises to
become the strongest union of the kind
in the United States before long
Machinists all over the country are pre-
pairing to inaugurate the nine-hour day.
The organized employers are favorable
to the new move, but they insist that the
independent concerns should be organized,
and the machinists are working valiant4y
to bring the non-unionlsts in line
A new apparatus to turn out electro
engraving is being put on the market.
One man can do the work in fifteen
hours that formerly required a month,
ard the most delicate details created by
the hand Of the artist are preserved.
Miners of Nova Scotia have won their
fight for IL per cent advance. Miners Of
Pennsylvania are demanding an increase
OF wages and hot fight is promised in
the national convention to secure an
Endorsement.
Jacksonville, Fla, organized a union
May S. 1900. There was no scale; men
were working for SIPS, $3.50, $1.7O and 81
for 10 hours. Now the contract with en-
uniform scale of $3.50 for nine hours
That is not SO bad for f;vc months work.
Although Illinois has a law prohibiting
the employment of child labor in fac
tories, the annual report of the state
factory inspector shows that nearly LOCO
children under the age Of sixteen years
j. Walker was admitted a member of
the union by travelling card from Chi
cago. Trade was reported as being good;
all members Of the union Being employ
ed. Receipts, $35; disbursements, SIG.
The Pressmens union held meeting
last night with President You'd in the
chair, when the following officers were
nominated: President, Thomas You'd, F.
Boyle; vice president, E. Goeki, F. M
Daggy; recording secretary, j. j.
O'Rourke, J. N. Schroeder, John Jondek;
secretary treasurer, o. c. Driscoll, N.
Schmidt, J. w. Murnam F. NJ Rourke;
executive committee Give to be elected,
N. Marsh, c. Wenzel ]. w. Murnane;
Ayers; delegates to Trades and Labor
assembly Qour to be elected), Thomas
You'd. w. Crawford, f. ]. Boyle, James
gates to Allied Crafts, o. Hammergreen,
c. Sattler. E. Gokie, r. NJ Daggy; dele
gates to internati convention, r. M
Roefer G. p. Olson, F. O'Rourke, Fl. P.
You'd, Thomas German, o. c.. Driscou.