Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-16
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Nailmakers in England get 50 a week,
aud in this country $50. rs4.
S~hoemakers in Austria get 81 a week,
while in Lynn, Mass, they ge' $l2. Yrs
The National Alliance OF Bill Postecs
and Billers of America will hold it's a.
nual convention in New York Dec 3. s.
1t has been definitely decided by the
Central Labor Union of Scranton, Pa, to
build a $4,000 labor temple for the use
of the trades unions.
The bootbIacks of Montreal, Can. are
organizing, with a view OF improving thaF
condition and enforcing a general charge
of 10 cents for a shine.
In 1904 the unions in the building
trades of Denmark showed the largest
membership, the aggregate tor Ieo uh'ons
being nearly 1850 members.
The remittances to China made by ces-
lies or laborers at work in other countries
l. now estimated to reach SoO.0OO,oUo an
nually. including $5,000,00O said to se
sent home by the indentured coolies IN ehe
Transvaal mines.
As compared with last year, out OF 2t2
British trade unions, with n membership
of 596.O1O making returns, PODS were
unemployed at the end of August, being
only 3.S per cent, as against "a per cent
in August, 1000 big drop.
Not a child is working II any cigar
factory in New England. The New Eng
land conference alone spent $2O,0OO ON
label agitation and advertising. The az
gregate spent by the local unions in ad-
dition is estimated at probably $20O.O00.
The New Jersey State Federation OF
Labor charges that wholesale VIOLATIONS
of the child labor law prevail through
out the State. The employment OF chli-
dren at night work, which is contrary t"
the law, is declared to be a common prae-
tice. e
Rhode Island State Bureau of Indus
trial Statistics has issued its apnua1 re
port for 1905. 1t shows that the number
of wage earners has increased nearly 10
per cent over 1904, with 50,43S as against
4,1S9 the previous year. In the same
period the total wages paid increased more
than II per cent, from $~22.OoO,o3O 70
$"5, 136, 300. An even greater increase IL
shown in the value Of products with a
gain of 16 per cent, the figures showing
~$126,44O,252 in 1905, as compared wth
s1O9.1 49, 1853 in 1904.
A Boston man just returned from San
Francisco says: while it would be a
difficult problem to designate the salaries
paid to the various kinds of labor. [ know
positively that bricklayers get $40 a day
for eight hours work. and their tenders
receive no less than IS for the same hours
of labor. Stationary engineers are paid
SO a day for eight hours, and the unskiil-
ed labor is paid at least So a day. Pfas-
terers demand and receive anywhere from
IS to $40 a day. These are only a few
of the figures. but all the other wages
can be easily estimated from these"
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers Of America, was asked by
a Pittsburg, Pa, reporter what the for
mer thought of the entry Of the American
Federation of Labor into politics. MI.
Mitchell said: being officially connectea
with the Federation, the move certainly
has my hearty endorsement. As it has
been made on a non-partisan basis, it is
one that win, commend itself to the Amer
ican voter, and, consequently, succeed.
We aim in this campaign to stand by our
friends and resolutely to oppose the men
who are allied with the forces that can
be honestly classed as enemies of the
trades union movement I feel sconfdent
that the step taken hS the Federation ID
the only correct way of solving the situa-
zion"