The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-12-09

ing the average $3.50 a head.
San Francisco has made wonder
full progress during the past four
years even according to the Times
Of this city, which in two-column
| article Sunday tried to show that Los
Angeles and Seattle are going far
ahead in the race, It is fact that
| almost every city IN the country has
made its great squirt when near the
100000 mark. notably Minneapolis,
| Omaha, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Salt
Lake City, Portland and Seattle. as
jobbing and manufacturing cities ma
turally would cut off much trade
from San Francisco, which Is years
ago, with little of this competition
| and under old party rule. was gain
Ing only per cent year. Under
labor union rule. Notwithstanding all
this competition Of developing trade
centers on all sides, it has increased in
five yers 50 per cent and in building
improvements from 100000 in
1900 to $16,O0O,0O0 in 1906.
A labor paper is an all-the-time
organizer and builder up of union
sentiment. It never tires, it never
sleeps. Do you do anything to ex-
tend its influence? .------,----
Because he worked half an hour
longer than the law allows, p. Fan
ami, a miner employed in the COL
lieries of James Dunsmuir at Cum
berland, B. c.. has been foun\ guilty
by Judge Abrams of violating the
eight hour law and fined $3.50.
The United Hatters of North Am
erica were victorious in their salt
against G. H. Merritt & Son, a DAN
bury non union hat firm, and the lat
ter must now account to the union
for all the profits it derived by u.s.
ing counterfeits of the Hatters union
label upon it's goods It is also re-
strained permanently from using any
more of the counterfeit labels. The
action was brought by Martin Law
lor, of Bethel, secretary Of the Unit
ed Hatters of North America, and,
with few exceptions, all the claims
of the complaint were found by
Judge Shumway to be true. The
Judge decided that G. H. Merritt &
Son will have to pay to the union all
the profits it has made through the
use of the counterfeit labels, which
were first adopted by the firm March
Is, 1904 The exact amount of profits
can only be estimated, but it is
thought to be several thousand dol
lars.
The increase women employed
in clerical work in New York city
during the last five years has been
phenomenal. The United States CEN
sus Of 1900 gives only 3O,622 office
women to the whole of that city.
Upon the basis of recent investiga-
ton, an estimate of $4,000 women
now employed in office work through
out New York city is probably not
excessive.
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ize the advertisers in the Labor
World. We take no advertising from
unfair firms or from those unfriend-
ly to organized labor. 1t is a good
policy for trades unionists to spend
their earnings with friends in place
of with enemies of organized labor.
Always help those who try to help
you.
The first result of municipal own
ership New York ferry was
the increase Of firemen's wages on
the ferry boats from $50 to $40 per
month. Capitalistic. papers bewail
the absence of dividends to the mu-
nicipality because of the wage in
crease. AS if money was of more
value than men. Municipal owner
ship will better working conditions
at the expense of dividends wherever
tried.
The number of employees in the
government printing office at Wash
ington~ varies from 1000 to $500.
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