The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-03
s9ndusts~ial Notes.


Under the new rule of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad clerks
! must take their vacations without pay.
Americans will be given an opportunity
to bid on a $3,GC0GJU contract to supply
the city Of Monterey, Mexico, with water
Carriage workers in Amesbury, Mass,
the principal center in that line of indus
try in the United States, have organized
to secure nine-nour day ManuIac-
turers have been given until Jan. in or
de to arjust their business condition to
Wages seem likely to be reduced in
some of the mills of the American Steel
and Wire company. Reductions of 10 per
cent have already been made in one OF
the Chicago mills, affecting only the rod
Marine cooks along the Great Lakes
have organized union land hereafter all
steamboat biscuit will be cooked accord
ing to union rules. Shipwreck and death
insurance will be features OF the organl-
cation.
tween the plate glass combines and the
price war has been aVerted.
Activity in the carpet market-continues
and many orders are coming in on an
unsettled price schedule.
No prospects are in sight for a settle,
ment Of the WeaVers' troubles at Olney-
vile, r. l., in the contest which has
double-lOom system
A n4w cotton mill is to be erected at
r
and capitalized at $45O00O
A large bleachery and printery for cot
ton goods is to be established at Gas
feature of the Southern te&tfle World World "a as
only one other large bleachery and
printery exists there.
Appleton Wis, wooden mills have just
declared their first annual profit-sharing
dividends, and the employees have been
paid an amount corresponding to ) per
cent of their wages earned during the
/ hnI inc fbn IaTpc =
bank deposit out of earnings at the end
of the year will receive $25 bonus.
The trades unions of Alexandria are
to establish a newspaper to champion the
cause Of organized labor.
Union and non union workingmen of
Elwood, Ind, are to nominate labor
ticket, to be voted for at the May cleo
ton.
Al the last meeting of the Garment
Workers union in St Paul there were
60 initia tons and 120 applications for
membership.
Brakemen on the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford railroad have started a
movement to secure a ten-hOur Gay.
The South is slowly supplanting the
North in the cotton manufacturing indus
try. The gains in 1891 over the preceding
year in Southern takings was over 1907
| GOO bales.
1t is the claim Of trade unions that
thousands Of men in the prime Of life are
denied work in their respective lines by
the railroad companies on account of the
age limit
Pickens, Mather & Co. of Cleveland.
Ohio, will build milliOn-doIlar blast
furnace in East Toledo.
Cincinnati Cigarmakers' union is op-
posed to granting any tariff concessions
TO Cuba, claiming that a gigantic
American CORPORA ton is at the bottom Of
the move, and is preparing to annihiIate
tobacco interests in this country
Both the bankers and the labor unions
OF st. Paul, Mimi, stand together in op-
position 10 the new tax code
Contractors of Syracuse n Y threa f.
en- to fight the Team Owners union for
raising the scale of wages from So 20
to 81.
Retail clerks will ask the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor to assist in the fight for
the early closing Of small stores.
IN an interview at New York recently
Carnegie suggested as an epitaDh for
himself: Here lies a man who knew how
to get around men much cleverer than
himself
The Pennsylvania Railroad company is
planning a 100000 depot at Cincinnati
Inc santa Fe Railroad company has
ordered all walters in the eating houses
along the lines not to solicit by word or
act tips from patrons, on penalty of dis
missal - us
The Building Trades Council of BaIti-
ton of Labor.
The ,brickmakers Of Georgia and Ala
bama have organized.
Don't shave till We vim is the
watchwcrd that has gone out among the
striking machiniStS of Chicago.
The shipbuilding industry on the Pa
cific coast is enjoying a period of unex-
ampled activity.
Stock of French and Belgian companies
doing business in Russia has deprecated
nearly 100 per cent, due to the crisis in
commercial, manufacturing and financial
conditions there
The extent of French vineyards was
enlarged 1908 acres last year, which
made in all 42SS.037 acres. The Yield for
1901 was 1,531, 2S0.113 gallons.
The new Oxford, n. c.. cotton mills
will commence operations shortly with
5000 spindles.
Textile combinations in England have
not proven successful. In only four cases
are the ordinary shares quoted above
their par value, and great proportion
are much below par. Securities OF these