The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03
Industrial Nfotes.


| FRESHMEN and pressfeadare ara A. e4vi,-
| at Springfield, Ohio. VII 0'i ING
Many union plasterers are on s+ri,-o :,
chicago for higher WAGES. iN0 ~
lWo hundred and fifty silk weavers are
| N. j. VASES a. paterson,
| The Brewers and Bottlers' unIon n,s
| gained "a ga, an eight-hour day at Grand Ran
c The briekmakers and pIasterers. Of
! trade union. - 7''IlI1eu d
c Inc Gibson Manufacturing company. OF
| FACTORY this year.
| The organized book and lob printers of
| New York city have been given > sI7b-
| stantial advance in wages
Inc Granite Cutters union, of st. CIoud
M " dd - nave adopted a new wage scale
| OF IS. % per day. ''i0
Inc Baltimore &, Ohio Railroad COM
Pahy is to erect a large machine shoD
at New Martinsville, W. Va |'''p
, haunGry workers Of Hamilton, Ont. are
- Soil IzS uIloef the banner of the Amer
Ican Federation Of Labor
Chicago school teachers are maxine =
utter nght against the proposed % nar
! cent reduction in salaries Pei
| I'll Inc cry Of "scab" is a sufficient cause
for an officer to make an arrest nnde.
the new police order in Boston.
state labor commissioners are irvine. IN
SS93ttIe the strike on the Baltimore &,
NIIo southwestern in Indiana.
nne GanaGan Pacific railroad will build
Immense locomotive and car works in
nohtrael and employ 7,0G0 men,
Inc coal miners at Broad Cove. Cane
10 l44ton' nave struck a second time with
III TWO months for increased wages
Ihe city bureaus Of San Francisco have
peeh forced to employ more men in order
10 comply with the eight-hour law
e. ne nlasons OF Valencia, Spain, are the
nassf''Ii etzatIon IN that country to
n n nirrhf T,~,
The government printing office fast an
proachlng completion, will be the largest
institution Of it's kind in the world.
Helena, Mont. labor unions have ap-
pointed a committee to make plans for
city. ~ 'ii@I
Inc proposed merger of the Indiana and
!lllnolS mining companies covers eco min u
ter. nc "'
Emma Steghagen. Of Chicago has been
eIecLed on the general executive board of
the Boot and Shoe Workers International
A syndicate, headed by joe Letter. plan
TO work the Central Illinois coal fields in
the manufacture of coke, with $1,000 900
capital. ''''''V
The American Chamber of Commerce ~
Manila begs congress to enact a law al
iiC%lng Cinnamon to enter the Philippine
The Sharon Steel FIoop corpanv Shar-
on, Pa, will make additions to its South
Sharon plant which will cost upward of
$l,000,000.
fo About 200 men, practically the entire
force OF the Bay State Ice company, at
Morses pond, Wellesley, Mass, are out
on strike.
The year 1901 was far from prosper
Gus one for the tannery industry Of Ger
many Too much credit has resulted in
many failures.
No compromise has been reached rela-
tive to the demand of the conductors for
Increased wages on the Southern Pacific
line in Texas.
Wholesale reductions in the working
FORCES OF the Brooklyn and New York
city public departments will take place
during the coming week.
Labor difficulties in the morocco fac
tories of Lynn have been practically ad-
justed, although fewer men are employed
than before the strike.
Foreign trade of the United States is
at the rate of $50 per head. That of Can
ada is $40 per head, and in proportion to
population it leads the world.
The Allied Freight Transportation
Council Of Massachusetts has petitioned
the state board of arbitration for an in
xestlgatlon of the teamsters' strike IN
Boston.
The eight-hour bill for government
work Will not be taken up by the house
committee on labor before March /. 1t IS
bitterly opposed by iron and steel inter
ests.
A syndicate headed by United States
Senator Foster, of Washington, is to
erect a million dollar steel plant at Ia
coma, Wash: Several thousand men will
be employed.
The Southern Pacific road has inaugu-
rated a system of merit and demerit
marks for the detention of freight cars.
Trainmasters and train dispatchers will
be held responsible.
San FranciscO's new mayor, elected to
succeed a millionaire, by the labor organ
izations after a long and bitter strike.
is putting none but unionists in control
of the city offices
The report has been widely circulated
that the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road would cut the wages of 5000 en-
ployes on Feb: l. The managers emphat-
ically denied the report.
syndicate of Eastern capitalists is
epdeavoring to secure a site in the upper
Monongahela valley for a large independ
ent tinplate plant, to consist of twenty
mills, all built on modern lines.
Italys cabinet proposes to make a strike
on the railways in that country a siren
uOus undertaking by CHASING such an
action as a strike of public servants,
punishable under the penal code.
The compromise arranged by the Roch
ester & PittSburg Coal company with it's
Pennsylvania miners is construed as
victory for the union, as the strike was
inaugurated upon its orders.
English shepherds wages for 1902 as
settled at the annual hiring fair, Har-
wick, averaged about $40 for the year,
with a COW, three bolls Of meal and pO-
tato land. Men not paid in cash got hf-
ty sheep.
The proposal of Commissioner General
Powderly, of the immigration bureau, to
raise the head tax on immigrants from
81 to SO is meeting with a strong OPP
position at the hands of the steamship
lobbyists.
Employing contractors and representa-
tives of trade unions in st. Paul, Mimi,
are arranging a schedule of wages and
hours to govern future operations. The
builders have agreed to liberal conces-
sions.
Heretofore it has been the custom in
many of the shoe factories using the
union stamp to exempt from member
ship those earning less that 81 day The
wage limit has been removed by the
Shoe Workers union
New Bedford, Mass, weavers, who ask
ed for an advance in wages, have been
informed by the mill owners that wages
paid today compare favorably with the
wages paid as an advance in 1899
strike is imminent.
Washington Cd. CT labor unions have
entered a protest against the proposed
amendment of the copyright law, on the
ground that its enactment would Destroy
the protection now afforded union print
ers and electrotypers.
The vastly increased acreage to be
planted by the tomato farmers Of Ohio,
West Virginia, Delaware and New Jer-
sey during the coming season Will mean
good wages for farm hands and the en-
Dloyment of thousands of men,
The Coal Transfers union of Chicago.
has decided that it's men shall not haul
coal to buildings where gas is used dur
ing the summer months. 1t is rumored
that the refusal is q clever move OF the
coal trust against the gas trust.
Five shiDlcads of American agricultu-
raj machinery will be forwarded from
New York to Russia within the next few
weeks. an excess of so per cent over the
direct consignment made last year to the
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