The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-08-23
Labor Notes.

ne OIL ueluS near DelagOa Day, III
Africa, are expected to prove among the
most productive in the world.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Sunday closing law relating
to barber shops is constitutional.
The latest addition to labor's ranks
is the United Brotherhood of Rural, Hor
ticultural and Agricultural Wage Farmers
of America. The headquarters is in Dal
las, Texas.
The Irish laborers' cottage bill passed
its second reading in the British House Of
Commons recently. The bill authorizes a
loan of $22500,000 to provide Irish la
borers with cottages.
At a meeting of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, held in St. Paul, res
elution was passed to stand by the work
ing girls in their demand for an eight
hour day wherever made.
At a meeting of the Carpenters Dis
trict Council, embracing thirtytwe
unions, held in Boston, Mass, it was de-
cided to assess the 6,O00 members 81 each
to be used as a defense fund.
The experiment of building houses to
rent to members which has been tried by
the British Steel Smelters, Iron and Tin
plate Workers Association has proved so
successful that it is to be extended.
Butchers at the Chicago stock yards re-
port the dullest season for years. Cattle
butchers are working only % hours a
week, and most of the other departments
only work two or three days a week.
M. Clemenceau, the French minister of
the interior, estimates that 80 per cent
of the strikers identified with the May
demonstration We're forced to discontinue
work by being afraid OF molestation by
the 10 per cent minority.
Returns relating to the state of en-
ployment in Germany during the first
quarter of 1906 were supplied to the
Imperial statistical Office by trade
unions with an aggregate membership of
1921, 100 Of these, 12,635, or IL per
cent, were described in the returns as
unemployed.
The tobacco trust, to prevent strikes
and its employees from Joining labor or
CARNATIONS, has devised a system Of in
surng the lives of its employees free. All
employees of years standing are entitled
to name a beneficiary in case of their
death, and the beneficiary will be paid the
amount Of years salary, if under $500,
and $500 if the salary for a year would
be greater than that.
Colorado Springs, at which the home
for union printers is located, has offered
inducements to the brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen to locate its proposed in
stitution for incapacitated and INDECENT
~, H., IL
been in existence % years and has 72S
lodges, with a total membership of $4,000
and treasury Of 81 100000. It. pays out
about $4,000 a month in claims, has
over $S7,OOO,O0O insurance in force and
has paid out since its foundation SILL
100000 in benefits.
The temperance crusade among labor
unions started by Stephen G. Sumner,
business agent of the Milk Wagon Driv-
ers' Union, Chicago, has called attention
to the fact that the men at the head of a
number of local unions and some inter-
national organizations are total abstain
ers, says the Chicago Record Herald.
While the milk wagon drivers lead the
procession in tais line, five of the seven
members of their executive board being
worthy of honorable mention" John
Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, drinks nothing stronger
than buttermilk, and +. q. Hopp, fnan-
cial secretary of the same organisation, is
also a total abstainer. p. J. Flannery,
president of the Freight Handlers Union;
ii. J. Conway, president of the Retail
Clerks International Protective Associa-
tion Max Morris, secretary, and X. D.
Hogan, organizer of the same organiza-
tion, are all advocates of temperance and
drink only water. John Mangan, presi-
dent of the Steamftters' Union, lis as
strong an advocate of cold, wafer as is
Sumner and has organized several
branches of the Knights of Father Mat
thew among wOrkingmen. The Milk Wag-
on Drivers Union is known as the strong
est total abstainers' local in the city, hav.
ing 100 members who do not drink intoxi