The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-10-18

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s-rIkes. Its methods Ire based solely on
Gr55-rzrian-
ND. Rathart0r7 has been reaDDoi1ted
a. STATE Labor e0al nEssi9-sr 0t On.1- lie
X ! s9-z-er Dresi3-z.r ot Cls ONO United
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Ca-eyru have srn3GEc~d tA@i- concesslon
eE r5a principle q ~ ei-ar-aoar day for
slPJoyes IN IL d@2a-Cl@1;s-
Tbs Ar-zr5ear FsJ5aratioz Of Labor is
rt---g.E - r~o-ga1iz= H. noC0rnenr
c0zt1e-o-s and oca@r employees OF Tos
street raLxays oE NeE YORK City.
Tle b-eE7Ty workers recently pass=d
resol-c59n cr3z5@lai-g tA@ employment o.
-zigLraa urt~- - y=ars Old in 5'g--lins
E9-zs Il - Louis and Milwaukee
IN 1856 ca-p.utrrs IN NeE York City
a1a6e so 4 day and worked 6fry-thre=
koE-s a Ee~k. They n0s receive $50
lay and work bat far-y-toIr AoGrs
week
Il hsgTzs ID Iook a. IL the farmers az
leasc tho~e IN the South. =pre going 70
j9En hands With he OcL@r vo-ziugLen IN
a. @Eorr % improve conditions for th-e
f-od1cers-
Steps are being taken in Chicago for
IT, formation 0s an arbitration board Of
faanSters and team owners, which Will
adigs- ali differences which may arise IN
the future
Columbia Lodge o: N1ch.nists OF Wash
iryC0a- d. e. eIpeg-s 10 have the encira
fore Of 1890 nAchiniscs employed AZ the
Washington navy yard enrolled as nam
bers within short tine.
The Standard OIL Company has rein
STATED the officers Of the National Broth
erhoOd Of Stationary Firemen and has
agreed 10 take up the question OF Increase
IN wages 90 soon as possible.
\ proposition that all Iaboring people
b. entitled 10 State aid. or pensions. IN
der certain conditions as TO age and
h~aI'h. will b. presented TO King Oscar
OF Sweden in the near future.
The annual convention Of the Carriage
and Wagon Workers International Union
will b. held in Buffalo. y. Y. October
-. The special object of the convention
Is the framing OF a new constitution.
An international exposition portraying
the life OF the labOrer for the last 300
years showing conditions surrounding
him from the time of feudal slavery TO
the present time, is contemplated by the
French parliament.
The International Building Trades
Council has placed itself on record as
fayOring arbitration as a better method OF
adjusting differences between e.apioyes
and employers than the usual plan OF
strikes and lockouts.
Theatrical employees of Chicago. as we'll
as many OF those in the other large cities
OF the East, are formulating plans to op-
pose the transportation of foreign skilled
and unskilled labor for American theaters
and will ask all theatrical organizations
10 oppose the importation Of foreign
chorus girls by sympathetic strikes.
In Chicago the weekly half-holiday fight
started by the Shoe Workers District
Council has attracted attention. There
are 5000 shoe workers in the Chicago fac
tories, of whom nearly two-thirds are
girls. They hope TO make the Saturday
half-holiday a benefit secured by agree
ments with the employers after Feb. /.
To enforce their demands OF 81 per
day and the Saturday half-holiday, 500
members Of the New York and New Jer-
Eey branch OF the New York Metal Trades
Association went on strike, and the en-
plOyers promptly decided they would en-
ploy ship carpenters on the open-shop
basis. Steps were taken 10 employ strike
breakers.
4 number Of Pennsylvania cigar manu-
facturers were arrested last month at the
instance of the officers of the Cigarmak-
ers' International Union. charged with
issuing and using bogus labels. As these
labels are we'll protected by law. the
union will have no difficulty in obtaining
conviction in case the guilt Of the persons
is established.
The Columbia Typographical Union of
Washington, ID. c.. has voted to expel
seventy members who refused to pay long
er the assessment levied for the strike
benefit on account of the strike of the job
printers in the District of Columbia
which has been on since last January. The
dismissed members are all employed in
the government printing Office, but Public
Printer Stillings made il known that no
man Shouiu NC Aoitstcu DcSduSc ne uIu
not belong TO the union. The unions ac-
ton makes the government printing Office
an open shop in fact as well as in name.
In the Southern States there are six
teen carpenters unions of colored men.
The brotherhood claims jurisdiction over
journeymen carpenters or joiners. stair
builders, ship joiners, millwrights, planning
mill bench hands cabinetmakers or mon
running woodworking machinery. But their
claims to this extensive Jurisdiction has
not been undisputed. The Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters, an English organi-
zation, and the Amalgamated Woodwork.
ers have both contested it before conren-
tions of the American Federation of La
Dor. The enmity of the Brotherhood and
the Amalgamated Society was opa Of tha