The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-10

granted other employees of the govern
ment 90F
Twenty-one labor unions in Milwauke
INSIST that the present wage schedule
r,Itdt Win Ine 5I brewers which expires in May
st must oe renewed, and that the workmen
must De granted an eight-hour day.
The amount of the cotton crop brought
INTO sight for the five months from Sep,
TEMPER to January, inclusive is 372. coo
paIes over last year, 1054, 900 over year
oefore and 1O06,000 under 1890
7Employes of the New York Rubber
works, at Matteawan, N. Y, We're given
Two weeks pay for one last week in ap-
preclatlon of it's skilled labor. The Dla3t
mas been in operation for fifty years.
American capitalists have proposed "a
the Paris municipality, says the Vic
f;tnt F;lnanclere. to build gas works for the
city and supply the illuminapt at DrineS
varying from I'd to I'D per cubic yard.
The consolidated road, New York. New,
Haven q Hartford, has agreed on a uni
form schedule of wages. Train engineers
VIII hereafter receive $3.50 q day passen-
ger train fremen, 50; freight train enpj
neers, "a. and freight train firemen, 50. 50 a
day. T-0' "
Ninety per cent of the printers of Ger
many are organized, making the strong
est union In that country The total rnen9
bersmp IS 28,S3S The receipts for 1900
were $4o3,062 the expenditures $50, 1926. and
$948, ,124. 'li0 "''iihA
In Johannesburg there is a considerable
feeling Of independence. One laundress
mas tried in every direction to get help,
cHer1ng from Shillings to 7 shilling
pence day, but with no success A
young woman was offered light employ
ment and promptly replied: st don't go
out under 25 a week"
President T. J. Shaffer, of the Ama1ca-
mated association, says the organization
went into the last strike with the United
steel corporation with $4,000 in the treas
ury and spent 100000 IN the fight Tt viii
go INTO the next convention
in the ereRsury.''
The Louisville & Nashville company
mas just finished at its shops 250 new fat
cars Of $4,000 pounds capacitv and 10 inst
about ready to begin on an order for 500
dump cars of 100000 pounds capacity.
Ihe shops now have on hand orders for
1850 new cars of different designs
RibbQnmakers on the continent say tgh9t
their industry has suffered greatly be-
cause OF the popularity of the bicycle
Women who ride the machine wear hats
which nave no other trimming than the
single band, generally of black, and the
picture hat is adorned with feathers to
the exclusion of ribbons.
The Pennsylvania, Baltimore &c Ohio
and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
companies have completed a readjust-
ment of wages of trainmen which will re-
suit in an advance of from 4 to II per
cent 1t is stated that the increase VIII
amount to $l,000,00O on the Pennsylvania,
to $3.50 coo on the Baltimore & Ohio and
to $4,000 on the Lake Shore.
The Berlin electric tramway conductors,
or ''wattmen," as they are called on the
continent, are subject to special ailments
one is an ophthalmia, caused by the air
current; another is an inflammation Of
the knee, due to ringing the alarm bell,
and summer disease is a kind of sun
burn with blisters on the hands owing
to their exposure to the sun in control
ling the car.
The new Civic federation. led by Sen
ator Hanna which has announced as
ffc crcAN Flow k@f-
strikes, and which is already engaged IN
eTdeavorfng to settle the teamsters' troll
bleS in Boston, will meet on Feb. 10 to
determine the scope of organization and