The Irish standard., 1903-09-26

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departments employing day laborers
The council passed resolution some
time ago granting men hired by the
city holiday Labor Day, OH full pay.
Col. Rogers objected and as result
none of the men has received any mon
ey for August yet. The comptroller in
formed the city engineer if he sent
down his pay roll including this holi-
day he would hold up the entire sheet
Engineer Rinker suggested it would
be best to make out the one roll for
Labor Day alone and another for the
rest of the month so that the men
would not be inconvenienced, even
though it would over-work his clerical
force. He brought this matter up be-
fore the sewer committee recently and
was instructed to send down the two
rolls, pending a definite decision in the
question.
Representatives of NJ. w. Savage,
Of Minneapolis, owner of the PAGER,
Dan Patch. appeared before the state
board of equalization, Tuesday after
noon, and showed by the assessment
rolls of Glendale township, Scott coun-
ty, that the famous and valuable horse
W;s returned ut an assessed valuation
of $4,000. Mr.. Savage was represent
ed by lis.attorney, Harlan L. Roberts,
of Minneapolis. This Immediately
raised il storm of questions. The total
value of the blooded stock in Glendale
forty-eght horses. all owned at the
Savage farm. Ii Dan Patch was list
ed ut $4,000. said J. G.. Lawrence, was
the remaining $1,000 a right figure for
the other forty-seven horses-an ave-
rage of SO per horse? Mr.. Savage's
representatives admitted that the as
sessment also covered Drectum, On
line, Roy Wilkes, Dan Patch, Jr., and
other valuable horses, but said that
many We're old and decrepit horses,
Which would not be worth more than
s. or $40. The board decided to raise
the full assessment. S12.J0O. so per
cent, OF $4,000, Il total of $225OO.
Lying in IL very weak condition in
ST Mary's hospital, Mrs. William FitZ-
gerald, wife of the man who was killed
on the 10Th inst. at the Tenth avenue
power house and who has passed
through more misfortunes, almost,
than any other woman in the city,
talks incoherently about her husband.
her children and her manifold troubles.
She is suffering physically from the in
juries received i'll the Dassel, Mimi,
wreck. While on the way to her hus-
bands funeral, and mentally she is
suffering agonies because of her mis-
fortunes. Her shoulder was dislocated
and her body bruised. In another
ward in the hospital William O'Brien,
her brother, lies ill from injuries re-
ceived in the same wreck. His in
juries are internal and are said to be
dangerous. The two patients We're
taken to the hospital the day following
the funeral. The wife had attended
the funeral supported by two men and
suffering intensely at the time. She
was determined to go and nothing
could stop her. Her children are now
in charge of her parents at Morris,
Mimi, and will there remain until her
condition is improved. Mr. O'Brien, it
has been learned, is president of Div.
No. 1, A. o. H., of Morris, Stevens
county.
Seventeen flour mills with daily
capacity of over 10000 barrels and
employing 1,GOO operatives were closed
down at midnight Wednesday by
strike of the employees, or else were
attempting to operate with reduced
forces. Most of them ceased opera
tions. When operations will be re-
sumed will be a question which nei-
ther the mill managers nor the oper-
atives can answer. The primary cause
for the strike is the refusal of the
managers of the mill to grant the flour
leaders, the men who load the output
into the railroad cars, an eight-hour
day and ten hours pay-$2. Coupled
with this is demand that the girls
and women who are employed as pack
ers and sewers in some of the mills
at wages of 81 and S1.25 day shall
be given the same wages as the men
who do the same work-$2.25 and
$2.75 a day. The employees yesterday
asked the managers to submit the
question at issue to arbitration, the
arbitrators to report in two weeks.
This was refused by the managers OH
the ground that there was nothing to
arbitrate, that the companies could
not afford to grant the terms demand
ed and rather than accede to them
they would permit the mills to be clos
ed down. In addition to the 1000 en-
ployes directly involved some 5000
persons such as coopers, bag makers
and other kindred trades are Indirectly
affected by the suspension for the de-
mand for their products will be cur
tailed. The issues have been Joined
and a fight to the finish is on. Neither
side shows any Indication of rcceding
from its DOSitiOn and the contest nrom-