The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-24


cd engineers and firemen on the Illinois
0siieial oelhand an increase in wages.
! The strike of the SatterIv pillow wor,,
i ers at Springfield, ILL.,, has been lost ana
declared off = 49, ana
The Wood Oil Chemical company viii
lie refuse lumber.
Twelve thread plants at Willimantic
| Gem. have been taken over by the
American company.
The Pc PENNSYLVANIA railroad will spend
! west of Pittshurg.
Georgia mill owners say they will fight
any Dill introduced if the state legisla-
ture seeking to prohibit child labor
Sheet and tube workers, Of Youngs-
town, Ohio. are being organized by the
national official Of the Amalgamated as
scciation
Despite President Roosevelt's threats
! OF removal, the postoff1ee clerks in the
Southwest are petitioning for an eight
| hour day.
The Prussian minister of public works
has forbidden collections among employees
for purchasing presents for their superior
| officers.
The Eastern Minnesota Great-Northern
| interests are to erect the largest ore
dock in the world on Allouez Bay, Lake
| Superior.
A new national labor organization will
be formed next week, to be known as the
Sheet Metal Workers National alliance"
Eastern capitalists are to erect an i'm
mense iron foundry. at Stockton. Cal,
| and manufacture mining machinery for
the Pacific coast.
/ The Coremakers' International union
i has appealed to the Iron Moulders' Union
| Of North America for mutual assistance
| during strikes.
White miners Of Colorado are protest
/ iYl1T1o fat
/ labor, and strikes were not infrequent
during the past month.
The subordinate locals of the Iron
Moulders' Union of North America have
voted down proposition to Increase the
| number of apprentices.
Organized workingmen Of Grand Rap
| IDS. Mich, are planning the erection Of a
/ trade and labor temple modelled on the
lines followed by the Y. M. G. A.
A large number of men in the shops OF
Ind have received an advance in nav
1t is said that the advance was not
asked for
The house committee on labor of the
h iratl 1a congress announces that hear
lngs for the consideration of the eight
| hour bill will begin on March and oc-
cupy total Of eight days.
Proctor & Gamble, the soap manufac-
turers, are to erect five cotton-seed mills
| in Southern citIes-Atlanta and Augusta
Ga: Salem, Ark; Memphis, Tenn. and
Little Rock, Ark
Officials of the American Bridge COM
pany refuse to grant a uniform eight
hour day and general increase of
| wages, but there has been no serious
i breach with the workers as yet
The Norfolk and Western. after an ex-
tended conference with representatives OF
the telegraph operators employed by the
| company, has granted the operators an
| increase Of pay.
Edward Boyce. head Of the Western
Federation of Miners and leader of the
recent strikes in Northern Idaho. has
mace a mining strike that has brought
| him an offer Of 81 100000
The New York Central & Hudson River
| has ordered 1000 box cars of $4,000
| pounds capacity from the Illinois Car and
equipment company, and also 1000 from
! the Pullman company.
Members of the Cigarmakers' union en-
/ ployed BY firm at Colorado Springs dis
/ pUted the right of their employers to Sc
lect new men, and a lockout Of the cigar
makers is the result.
The Merchants exchange, of San Fran
| cisco, favors the admission of educated
Chinese, and the labor organizations
score the merchants for their action, and
want all the Chinese shut out.
In spite of the offer of s54 month
| with rations, quarters and medical at
| tendance, few electricians are existing In
{ the United States army for Philippine
i service, according to recruiting officers.
The widely circulated statement that
the French government is to open an in
| dustrial school in this country for the
| EDUCATION Of its youth is denied by the
French consul general in New York
| The supreme court of California declares
unconstitutional an act passed by the
! sanitary condition Of workshops. assert
| ing that it is arbitrary and special legis-
! lation
The. Government Workers Assertion
! OF Britain continues to press forward the
| demand for a higher minimum wage than
| is now paid to laborers IN the various
| government departments. The leaders
contend that 20 shplings or q shillings
| per week is not a living wage.
| TIL Lacemakers' Union Of Nottingham.
England, has adopted a scheme Of old
| age pensions, under which 100 members
sixty-five years of age and upwards have
| been granted weekly allowances. The
funds for the purpose are provided by a
quarterly levy of Is per member
In Spain man who works on farm
receives about Is cents a day. In the
vineyards wages range from Il cents a
day for women and boys to q cents
day for unsl1illed men, and to ~ or Sc
cents or those upon whose skill the
whole responsibility of the raisin crop
rests.
Secretary Morrison's report for the
year 1901 shows an unprecedented growth
of the American Federation Of Labor
Ss4 900 members having been added to the
membership of the Federation now being
more than 100000 wageworkers.
The Chinese are preparing to fight The
re-enactment of the Geary exclusion law.
A a, proclamation has been issued by the
Chinee Six Companies requesting every
Chinaman in the United States to con-
tribute at once the sum of 81 to be used
in the effort to defeat exclusion.
Engineering shops in Australia are
keeping fairly full Of work, despite over
legislation. Still the conditions Of the
factories act are so stringent that one
at LEAST Of the foundries is calculating to
move move loek, stock and barrel, to Biruing-
ham. England, during the present year.
The French Academy of Moral and
Political Science has awarded a prize to
the French railroad mana gements Tor
measures they have taken in the way of
SICK funds. pensions, ETC., for the benefit
or their employees, the railroads being the
first of all French industries TO do any
thing Of the kind.
All tobacco factories in the Philippines
are working night and day. and over
2O0O,G00 cigars are on the ocean on the
way to the United States 1t is asserted
in the trade that by the middle Of March
the world will be consigned to this coun-
try. 1t will have a very significant bear
ing on the interests of American cigar
makers.
It is the purpose of the leaders Of the
textile unions to try and secure an adj
vance In wages in the cotton mills of the
country. The permission which was
granted last Sunday to unions in Angus
ia, Ga, to ask and secure an increase
there, If possible by peaceful means. will
not be withdrawn because wage compli-
cations are likely to arise in New Eng
land within a few weeks.
The Hon. B. r. Wise, state attorney
general for New South Wales. the author
of the act for regulating labor in that
colony, thinks that the act will give
greater stability TO labor. 1t will enable
large bodies Of Workmen to make coll
lective contracts with employers; that