The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-06-14
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The Farmers unions of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory have over 10000 men,
bers. The organization is gaining foot
hold in Missouri. ...
Fourteen Chicago printing firms have
broken away from the Typotheta and
signed up eight hour scales with the Typo
graphical Union. raa.a .. ....
Warnings to stay away from San Fran
cisco are being sent out. Workmen are
leaving that city for other points because
of local conditions.
President James NJ. Lynch of the I. I.
q. reports steady gain of Offices to the
eight-hour ranks. The I. L. u. sent $780,
900 to San Francisco.
New and revised schedules were oh.
tanned on "a systems last year by the
Order of Railway Telegraphers and 6,7O0
members were added to the union.
The independent contractors of New
York have agreed to pay So day for
fathers for eight hours work. The Build
ing Trades Employers Association pays
$3.50.
During the past few months three Of
IhC CONSERVATIVE IdUoi iCdutls VI thS Souh-
try have died. p. J. Mcclure was first,
then J. p. Mcdonnell, and now Edwin
Z. Gould.
On the recommendation of President
Urick of the Iowa State Federation of
Labor, the trades unionists of the Hawk
eye State have announced their intention
of going actively into politics.
The Chicago Federation of Labor is
said to have decided to boycott the re-
ligious revival planned by Bishop Nc
Cabe of the Methodist church, on ac-
count of his recent utterance hostile to
oryanized labor.
The honor of having the first labor
candidate in history is claimed NY the city
of Dorchester, England AS long ago as
1858 the commons of the city put shoe
maker named Collins in opposition to the
nominee of the corporation.
Carpenters District Council (Boston)
last week decided to levy another 50 as.
sessmant on every member of the 33 affili-
ated organizations for the council defense
fund. The aggregate membership of the
council organizations is 5000.
A years agreement was signed recently
by committees representing the Diamond
Manufacturers Association of America
and the Diamond Workers Protective
Union, and an increase of about 10 per
cent in wages was secured by the union.
The United States is the largest pro.
ducer of nails in the world. 1t is expect.
ed that the production for the year will
be considerably over 100000 kegs in
wire nails, while the output in the
wrought iron article will exceed 100000
kegs.
Los Angeles shows the largest yearly
increase in labor union membership OF
any city in California, the increase be.
ing Gore than 25 per cent. The member.
ship in skilled trade unions in that city
increased from 3,2S6 to 5,314 during the
last year. a "
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train.
men has been in existence % years, has
72S lodges, with $4,000 members, $780,.
every 30 days in claims, has SS7 100000
insurance in force, and has paid out $11,.
512,63613 in benefits.
The carpenters employed by buildina
concerns In the city of Providence gain
for the summer half-holiday Saturday
afternoons without a reduction in wages,
under the decision of President w. HI. p.
Faunce of Brown university, to whom
was referred the dispute over this QUes.
ton in April. .9 d.
The proposed Montreal (Can) labor
the neighborhood of 100000, will b
made the headquarters of the newly or.
ganized Canadian labor party. Every
city in Canada will place labor candidates
in the field at the next general and pro.
vincial elections.
A union intended to include every ne
gro railroad employe in the Pullman car
service in the United States has been or.
ganized by the porters, cafe and dining
car men running into New York City.
The union Is known as the American As
sociation Of Railway Employees, and none
but negro Is eligible to membership.
In consequence of the lockout in the
metal trades at Berlin and other German
cities, general strike of all skilled work.
men, involving $4,000 union a1i 10000
non-union workers, engaged in the brass
and copper trades, was announced. The
strikers chief demand is minimum wage
scale of 21 marks, or about So week.
John Burns, recently selected for the
presidency of the English local govern.
ment board in the new ministry formed by
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman, but best
known to American trades unionists as
the successful leader of the great dock
workers strike of over a dozen years ago,
has made an appeal to union men to be
temperate, even to the point of total alb
stinence.
Colorado Springs is in the race for tho
S175,000 international home to be built
by the Plumbers, Gasftters' and Steam
filters unions of the United States and
Canada. Over 800 packages of literature
dnsnrir,tira of Cnlnradn Snrinra and pikn,s