Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-01
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The ordinary Cuban bricklayer does
well if he can put up 500 bricks Z
day. The American on rough work can
lay 1900.
There are about 1900 carpenters in
Cuba. Good men are paid from $l.5O to
81 a day in the cities; in the smaller
places they work for much less.
Thirty-two new cigar factories were
started during October in Pennsylva-
mia, as against IS in September, 30 in
October, 1904, and 81 in October, 1908.
4 few days %ago'James B. and Joseph
G.. Murphy, merchant tailors of Chicago.
were held for the grand jury for misuse
of the label of the United Garment
Workers. ..vs.t
Nine more companies, employing over
5000 men. are dismissing their working
force and leaving Chicago forever, for
the country, on account of the ceaseless
labor troubles. " ha I'd
Belgian female workers On hand-mads
lace earn but from % to 80 cents a day
of twelve to fifteen hours work. In
eastern Flanders the wages are still
lower, ranging from 16 to 20 cents q
day.
The general membership Of the Broth;
erhood of Painters, Paperhangers and
Decorators by a majority, of 10000 has
voted to hold a convention during the
coming winter. Memphis, Tenn, will
probably be the place. The union has
not held a convention in 0 II years.
Boston lodge of machinists has. ac-
cepted the recent wage increase given
by the N. Y, N. II. s. II. II. r.. and
which will increase the machinists' pay
roll of that system Just SIT 900 a year.
The increase will not interfere with the
increase expected May ! of next year.
it Is said.
The annual report of the New York
State Commission on Prisons for 1904
shows that all inmates able to work
were employed: that the sales OF manu-
featured articles for the year amounted
to $7OS,S2 and that not one dollars
worth of prison-made goods was sold in
the open market. A
The United States District Attorney OF
New York has caused the arrest of elev-
en- heads of manufacturing concerns OF
that city on warrants charging them
with having conspired. through the me-
dunn of an employers association, to
violate the alien contract labor law BY
the importation Of foreign workmen.
The printers have adopted the fotIpy.-.
ing slogan in the present eight-hour ;cam-
paign: 1--WE propose to sell to the em-
ployer 8 hours out of "a, and we will,
do as we please with the remaining IT,.
This Is. the, union printers answer to
the aspersions made upon the union by
its opponents in their effort to east obi
UNI upon the movement of the men for
the shorter workday.
A joint convention of the United Mine
Workers of the three anthracite dis
tricts will be held at Shamokin. Pa,
beginning Thursday, Dec. IA. This con-
vention will formulate the demands to
be presented to the operators next
spring. The chief demands will be as
follows: An e;sh:-ioar wcrLday; wage
payments according to weight; uniform
wages for all employees; a uniform scale
for rock slate, water and e work:
an agreement between the United Mine
Workers and the operators.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men is going to build an international
! home, and $4,000 has been set aside to
start with. The business organizations
| of Colorado Springs recently held =
meeting and decided to make an offer
to the trainmen OF a tract OF land and
such other inducements as will practi-
! cally insure the location of b instr
tuition in that city. In this connec-
tion it may be of interest to know that
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
has been in existence % years, that il
has 72S lodges, with $4,000 members.
$1,56O,OOO in ii its treasury, pays out
$4,000 every 30 days in claims, has
over $S7, 900, 900 insurance in force, and
has paid out $11,512, 636.13 in benefits.
At the close Of 1904, England, Scot
land and Ireland, with a population OF
41,5O0,OOO, had a trade union member
ship of 1902 sos. In other words, 1 in
% of the population was a trade union
ist. In Germany there were 1,276,S31
trade u~nionists in a population Of 56,-
100000, or l in A. In France, with Z
population Of 3 ,3OO,OOO, there are 715..
$40 trade unionists, or 1 to 53. Italy.
| with 80, 100000 population, reports 49,.
23O members of trade unions, or l ia
$50. In Austria the trade unions nave
III ,592 members in a population of 26,-
10000, or 1 to $50. Spain has a pop
ulation Of 1S.6OO,OOO and a trade union
membership of 6 $500, or / to $40. Hun
gary has 81, 40 trade unionists in a pop
ulation Of 1880. 900, or / to 366. In
Denmark the ratio is / to %, and in
New South Wales 1 to q. rae a