The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-03
LABOR NOTES.

Typographical Union No. 80 and the
Musicians union meet this afternoon
and on Monday evening Topographic NO
|, IS, Building Trades council and Electrical
Workers Union hold meetings.
The St Paul Lodge No. 112, Tnterna-
tiCnal Association of Machinists, will give
their thirteenth annual ball in; Sherman
hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, and every
great success under the management Of
the following committees: Arrangement,
N. c. Bettenburg, George R. Yorke, Wal
ser snS oor Geoe a4 r. G5 opFs
G. Lamberg, w. MalCney, Paul Horn,
George Schirdeldecker ard Fred Spur;
reception, Walter Erskine, Joseph Hard
Parker and W. Brown. Music will be
furnished by the Citizens orchestra and
Gre his will serve supper.
Monday evening, Feb. 3, the Hack and
Cab Drivers union will give their tenth
annual ball in Assembly hall, and every
one who has attended these famous balls
sin the past knows that the union has
nothing to learn in the art Of giving
the past, the committee is determined
that this will be better Could anything
more be said in it's favor?"
TIE Sheet. Metal Workers, of Minneap-
Oils at their meeting at &c Washington
avenue south Monday evening, will con-
slider the proposition of employing an in
strpctor in pattern making and blue print
reading.
In Minneapolis the carpenters want an
increase of 1 cent per hour; bricklayers
want so cents an hour, IN place of 45
cents demanded last year, and the plas-
present schedule of 49, cents. Painters,
decorators and paperhangerS will insist
on an eight-hour day at so cents per
hour.
We're received at the meeting of the Team
Drivers union in Minneapolis Thursday
night. The total membership is now ZOO
The union will depend on legitimate COM
owners in the same city have at last been
organized by the Trades and Labor coun-
Gil organization committee. They will
aim to regulate prices and correct abuses.
They decided not to Join interests with
the team drivers.
Nearly zoe servant girls attended the
meeting of the recently organized Serv-
ant Girls Protective association at Alex
ander's hall, Minneapolis, last night. A
local labor leader advised the girls to do
all in their power to strengthen their
union.
Tie British Beard of Trade, in it's re-
cent report on the trades unions OF the
United Kingdom, gives comparative sta
tistics of membership for the period from
1892 to 1899 for 1855 unions. The number
compared with 1918 at the end of 1892.
The membership of all the unions at the
end of 1899 was 1,S02,51S, against 1.503.2S2
cent in eight years. During 1899 the to-
tai number of trade unions decreased
from 1910 to 1892, the decline of eighteen
being due to the amalgamation of that
number of smaller unions with larger
ones. The total membership of trades
unions increased during the year from
1,649, 2S1 to 1,SO2,5lS, an increase of 15S,2S7,
or 8 per cent. The largest increase was
in the unions engaged in the mining and
quarrying industries.
The membership of the Carpenters
union of Minneapolis, has received large
additions since the adoption Of the rule
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The bartenders of MINNEAPOLIS held a
meeting in Alexander's hall Wednesday
evening and a number of new members
were taken in. The union has elected
ated under the American Federation of
Labor
On Feb. 9, at Assembly hall, the North
western Furriers' union will give a
be awarded. For the best lazy and
gent, best group, and the most comic
lady and gent.
number Of unions are encouraging
leagues. That's a move in the right d.
rection. The woman does the buying
for the family. and can make things in
teresting for the local dealer who doesn't
handle label goods.-Eva Mcdonald
Valesh.
New York German-American Printers
unicn No. Z gave each unemployed men,
Der $40 as a holiday present. This was
extra. This union, of course, supports
its unemployed members from a regular
fund.
One woman to every ten men worked
for wages fifty years ago, but now the
ratio is one to four. If the increase con-
tiEues for fifty years more, what will
the men be doing?