The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-09-14
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increase in Boston,, Mass.
The German Metal Workers Union
Is the strongest union In the world
Painters of louisville, KY, have CD
tanned the eight-hour day and an advance
Of 10 per cent.
formed by the Amalgamatcd Sheet Metal
Workers Alliance in the last quarter.
Electrical workers Of Grand Rapids
Mic.i., with the exception, Of three shops,
have been granted the eieht-hour day.
The labor organizations OF America
gained IDA new unions last year. en-
bracing membership Of 100000 indisid-
uals.
During the first six months Of 1903
iifty-three divisions Of street railway en-
pioyes effected written agreements With
employing companies.
The agitation for an advance IN the
wages Of sheeting Scavers employed A
Oldham. England. has resulted in an In
crease OF 3 per cent being conceded.
Even at the increased rate Of wages. 4
h not easy 70 ct spinners and xsasers
enough to allow the New Eneland cstteu
mills 10 gil all the orders they might sst-
TIE union bakers Of Chicago succesded
in establishing new wage scale n evert
shop bat one Ia that city. They r<cetyed
! Fat increase ef 81 per week ovsr the
cid scale.
The antlsweatink cosnmlttee. AppoInfed
b. the Sydnsy tN. s. WI iahar coauciI
promises 10 make astounding rsxesatiens
regarding she sweating tactics - some
Sydney employers
The earliest mention 81 sfrlhe fund
occurred ii the strike x ~ FaFlstAn
stocking weasers. Ia l72<. when ! ERWIN
day was subseribed for every elfiher.
and AL blaeklexx wxf~ boycetteA
Tn ratsernm.keFf AssoeIalIen q IN
Francisro hes returned 70 onteidt -
eiatianx that ecnfribute6 % their - e.
ter tAe earthquake - ~ eent y IL
fund s<at ID. Il vas MT n<kied.
Tia Retail clerkx' International Aseo-
cIatlon viii begin the pAyment cf sIfk
benefit. 10 members Via hAvs heen -
continuoms good standing upan ~ bso1s
Tor q period 81 twelve monfhs &c more.
Ii bombay (Indlsi ccston mills 81
svera3e worker. lsh~flnx shlrteen heaEe :
dag. earns about - CENTS dAs. tA4t y II
mills equipped with the best modern M
chInery and built Ia IA ms~t sppxovst
style.
The average wages a American wotk-
men i. doabie that ~ he Kkxlish sud
nearly treble that 81 fhe German wurk-
nsr. according 10 stasisfids pabiished ~
The Department 81 Iaa,ef, eeverIn< ~
year ID0l
The Commercial Tslssr.pherr rnIon
Of Anefiea has decided - establish :
mutual heneiif department. 4 meftuary
fund win II maintained similar - fheee
# The railroad brotherhood. from NAIca
deafn claims will BE- paid.
rhe Nsw Ysrk Electric club 4 he -
elai end of the New York El<ckrieAi
warkers' Union. IL avewed ohjeef = e.
cultivate and elevate t,e social esndition
ii The organization. The club h4s ~
present Z mcmbership Of 40
There 4 great scarcity of unskilied
iaborers ii IN IrsE and stasl makin8 ee<-
ters Of Pennsylvania. e2 day oelug -
wares Paid. Thousands of men can find
work with xeod pay ~ Through the West.
where mining and railroad buIIdinG Az IT,
progress.
After . strusxIe lsstIpx nlne mouths
and Ave days the strike b Che mAlnts-
nance OF way empioyes 81 The Denver and
Rio Grande railway n Calorsdo and Nov
Mexico has ended. the officials u the road
having conceded the till rate Of pay Tor
foremen that had been demanded ~ The
committee representing tie strikers.
The other dag the gold beakers qult
work at every Boston shop In response 70
the national decision TO estebli&h an In
crease la wages from 70 ) cents per
book for plece work and from SIS To ~
4 week for week workers. also % bring
the foremen Into the union, and 70 eliini-
nate what Ii called the outside shop.
In resume Of the work Of the psst
two years. made In view Of thu approach
Ing biennial convention. which opens IT
Niagara Falls Sept. II. W. ID. Huber.
general president OF the Brosherhood y
Carpenters. says that while there were
many strikes and some ioekoutz, almost
al we're settled secesxfully and salts
lacsorsIy to the men involved. Daring the
past three months e. new charters we're
granted. and 37S 10 all were added during
the past two years.
Progress, q labor organ. says In ifs
last Issue that trade uuienism Is dsinx
more to Amsricanixe the immigrant than
anything else. not excepting tbs church<@.
snd backs up the assertion b stfributing
he statement 70 thu commissioner Of H.
,or. Discussing the matter, Progress says
hat Ii u due 70 trade unionism that the
tmmixraut 70 soon learns the na<lwe 81
be Americas government, because ~ soon
h. be becomes member 81 I union be
sees thaf the term governments II Ne
United States Is not synoarmoas with
oppression, a. Il h In many n ne conn
sriss Of the ola world The trAds union
travis him out "a ths clannIsA spirit which
aerefsfprc not even his reiigion has been
able to ovenome. The article closes "
saying that the labor uHion man aeon
ssmes to realize that ~ best asaiIshle
means 10 save the body and better eondI-
lions i shrsuEh the means Of the union.
The United CIsth Hat and Cap Makers
y America have placed 4 per- Mpisa tan
IL 10 CENTS per year for sspport Of the
tuberculosis sauitariam conducted BY the
organization q beaver for the heneis III
IL members. The same organization has