Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-05-15

are working in harmony with the
chamber of commerce of that city to
advance industrial growth. The City
Federation of Labor has given the
chamber of commerce 800 and the car
penters have added $50 to the fund.
Daniel j. Keefe, president of the
longshoremen's union, is planning the
formation of labor union trust on the
great lakes, which will become pos
sibly the greatest labor organization
in the world. 1t will include every de-
partment of labor and will control abb
solutely lake business
Machinery for equipping the largest
cotton spinning mill in the world was
delivered recently at the Swan line
new mill at Daub Hill, near Bolton,
Eng. It will contain no fewer than
100000 spindles. The cotton trades OF
Lancashire are now in a most prosper
Gus condition
Officials of the Patternmakers' Lea
que of North America claim that the
organization has gained in member
ship by 1000 in the last ten years.
! The Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America is contemplating the pur-
chase of more automobiles to be used
in case of strikes. The association
has already several machines, which,
its officials claim, have been used ef-
fectively in recent strikes.
The number of women and chill
dren engaged in gainful occupations
in the United States is 5,319,336. OF
this number 2,O95,449 are engaged in
domestic and personal service, leaving
3,223,S77 in agriculture, professional
service, trade and transportation and
in manufacturing and mechanical pur-
suits.
feature of the farmers unions of
the west is their political cooperation
with organized wage earners. In Tex
as, Arkansas and Oklahoma there are
evidences of such cooperation, and the
movement is spreading to other parts
of the country where both farmers and
wage earners are organized.
The proposed Montreal, Canada, la
Dor temple, which it is estimated will
cost in the neighborhood of $500, OOO
will be made the headquarters of the
newly organized Canadian labor party.
candidates in the field at the next gen.
Every city in Canada will place labor
eral and provincial elections.
BOilermakers and iron shipbuilders
report that the wage question on the
Clyde and surrounding districts is not
settled, but negotiations are being car
ried on. AS regards weekly payment
of wages in Scotland there was a very
large majority in favor of strike if
the employers refused the demands
: Of the men.
The honor of having the first labor
: candidate in history is claimed by the
city of Worcester, England. AS long
ago as 1858, the commons Of the city
, put up shoemaker named Collins in
opposition to the nominee of the cor.
poration. The novelty resulted in an
ARRAY and the labor man was sent to
: prison.
A bigger turnout of delegates than
at any time since the Homestead strike
= of 1892 is expected at the coming con.
vention of the Amalgamated Associa
ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
l Il; o1, ~.
: cinnati, 0. There appears to be nc
no opposition to the reelection of the
Il present officials.
E. r. Stackabee, collector of Gus
toms at Honolulu, will probably go to
the Azores as the agent of the terri
> torial board of immigration to secure
laborers for Hawaii. 1t is understood
that he has been offered and has &C
cepted the commission, and has asked
for leave of absence for six months
in order that he may make the trip.
i A fraternity of wage earning girls
has recently been organized as par
I of New York's upper west side. Mem
: bership is open to any wage working
! girl under Is years DID, no matter wha1
3 ind of work she does. Unity and co
operation are the watchwords. Once {
S month open meetings are held for ad
l dresses and discussions on live topics
$ The number of children from 10 tt
$ Is years of age engaged in gainful oc
equations in 1900 was 1,75O. 17S; of this
e number .2644l1 were males and 4S5,
o 767 females. number of the states
e have manifested a profound interes
in the subject of child labor, but theil
investigations are made at differen
l. times and along different lines, exc
5 cuted in different detail, and hence are
d of little value to the general student
e as a source of information from which
to make general deductions.
e STOCkMAN GETS DAMAGES.
D. Failure of the Great Northern to Fur
II nish Cattle Cars.
a Great Falls, May 14.-Peter Wag