Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
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begun by the retail cieihS u S'"Au'
Ohio.
Z general advance in wages Will be
asked by the operatives in the COTTON mills
In several Massachusetts cities soon'
An iron and steel company at Parry
vile, Pa, has voluntarily raised the
wages of its men 10 and 10 cents a day.
Seventy-fve men are affected.
A contractor on the Western Pacific
railroad in Butte county, CAL, has dis
charged 100 japanese laborers and en-
pioyed whites in their places.
The Carbondale (Pa.) painters strike
has been settled, the contractors agree
ing to the mems demands. Wages are
now $2.75 a day, an increase OF 20 cents.
Members of the local unions of the
United Garment Workers of America
have been asked to contribute to the fund;
for the union label agitation now under
way in Chicago.
American Federation of Labor organ
izers expect to institute several new
unions in Allentown, Pa. within the next
few weeks. Seven applications for char
tiers are now on the list.
Organized labor of Seattle, Wash, with
build and conduct a steam laundry as the"
result of agitation against the present es-
adjustments, which work the help long
hours and give poor pay.
The referendum vote of the Boot anG
Shoe Workers Union was in favor OF
holding a general convention this year.
Milwaukee, Wis, was selected as the place
and June IS as the date for beginning the
session.
The American Federation of Labor
| will work in new fields henceforth. Or
| g%anizcrs have been instructed to devote
| attention to organizing typewriters, book
keepers. Office clerks, rock drlllers, tooa
sharpeners and excavators.
The proposal to build a labor temple
in Cleveland, Ohio, has met with the ap-
prevail of local union men. The commit
tee from the United Trades and Labor
| Council has $4,000 to invest in a site
The temple is to cost $4,000.
Bricklayers n Masons' International
convention referred to the State confer
ences and locals for report a resolution
declaring that no union bricklayer can
work more than eight hours as the regular
workday after Mag I Of next year.
The Australian federal Parliament has,
adopted the union label clause of the
trademarks b;;EH, Under which trade unions
may secure the protection of their labels.
The debate os the proposition was the
longest in the history OF the Parliament.
Members of labor organizations in Chi
cago are troubled by the new telephone
directory, the product of ~non-union Ia.
Dor. These directories have been deliv-
cred to seventy-two labor organizations,
and at least 200 officers of other organiza-
tons must use them.
Contractors and builders in all parts of
Lancaster county, Pa, declare that not,
for many years, has there been such &C
tivity in building operations. Every avail
able carpenter, mason, bricklayer and
painter is at work, with the prospects
bright for a continuance Of steady en-
| ployment during the entire summer and
fall.
D. w. Finn, secretary of the New
Hampshire Federation of Labor, has SUBJ
mitted his second quarterly report, which
shows a marked increase in the number
of affiliations over the last quarter. Since
the beginning of the second quarter Ia
new unions have been organized in the,
State and nearly that number have voted
to affiliate, but have not sent in their
blanks as vet.
After a strike of less than a week,
the union bricklayers, plasterers and stone
masons of Pottsville, Pa, and vicinity
have returned to work. their entire de-
mands having been granted by the employ
ers. The new scale, which is to be bind
ing for one year, gives the bricklayers oOS
cents an hour in wages, plasterers anC
stone masons 40 cents an hour-nine"
hours to constitute a days work. BY the
new agreement the bricklayers receive an
increase of 8 Is cents an hour, plasterers
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Notices are being sent out by the local
unions of carpenters warming men In that
trade to keep away from Chicago, as trade
is not as good as it has been usually at
this season of the year. On account of
the open winter, the work on new build
ings intended for occupancy May 1 a
completed much sooner than usual this
year, and the officers of the union assert
tina there are 1000 idle carpenters in the
city at this time. The increase in wages,
which went into effect April /, has result
ed in hundreds of carpenters going to-
j that city and many find themselves with
out work when they arrive. Similar no
tees are being issued by the carpenters
in Pittsburg, who contemplate demanding
an increase in wages.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has written to Pres
ident Roosevelt, giving specific instances
of alleged violation of the eight-hour law
in the government departments. The.
names of the compliments are withheld
from publication, although a list of them
was given confidentially to the President,
as Mr.. Gompers says experience has
shown that government employees who
publicly complain of conditions are apt
to be dismissed, and especially since the.
Roosevelt order, that employees may pre-
sent petitions only through their chiefs.
He says that there is not a single case.
where a violation of the law was recti-
fed by government officers, notwithstand-
ing appeals made to them. The Presi-
dent has referred the whole matter to the.
Commissioner of Labor for investigation.
The Lehigh and New England Railroad
Company, which has a terninus at Stat
ington, Pa, has voluntarily advanced the
wages of its engineers, fremen, conduc-.
tors, baggagemasrers, brakemen and
switchmen % cents a day, so as to put
them on the same basis as other rolds.
The national union of boot and shoe.
operatives of Great Britain is pressing
forward. Notices have been handed in.
by most of the branches throughout Eng
land and Scotland in order to make the,
demand a national one, and it is likely
to be considered by the board of concilia-
ton on an early date.
Pittsburg (Pa.) labor organizations are