The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-07-26
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Building Trades Alliance.
The mayor of Boston has notified the
Electrical Workers Union that the men
employed in the fire alarm department
will be put on the eight-hour basis.
1t has been figured that the strike Of
the Wall street messenger boys cost the
street $1,0o0,0O0, and that 100000
would have paid the increase demanded
for 101 years.
The latest union formation is the Ma
rine Drivers and Tenders Union, re-
Gently organized at Cleveland. Branches
are to be established in ether port cities
on the lakes and the seaboard.
The Boot and Shoe Workers National
Union, headquarters at Boston, has up
wards of 100000 n its international
treasury and has within the past few
years expended 100000 in sick and
death benefits.
Many German concerns own dwelling
houses and rent them to workmen at act
ual cost. They provide restaurants and
meals at actual cost; furnish fuel at
actual cost, and give transportation in
whole or part.
Differences between the Master Paint
rrs' Association of Pittsburg. Pa. and
the unions of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers over the payment of car fare have
eliminated in the declaration by the mas
ter painters of general lockout against
their employees.
New York, New Haven and Hartford
machinists, about 750 in number, have
been granted an increase in wages averag-
ing about one cent an hour. The negotia-
tions were made by the committee Of the
district lodge of the unions. Within
three years the district lodge has secured
the nne-hour day and wage increases
which in the aggregate make the present
wages about per cent more than was
paid for the 10-hour day thres years ago.
John Burns, as president of the Local
Government Board in England, says that
the government will take up the old age
pensions question when the report of the
Poor Law Commission has been receiv-
ed. Personally he considers that it would
be the best, simplest and fairest, in in
augurating an old age pension scheme, to
give everyone a pension of five shillings
per week on reaching the age OF 60, mill
tdrV, uaNui, civil anu muuiClpdi pcusioh-
ers to be excluded.
The Commercial Telegraphers' Union
Of America has decided to establish mu-
tual benefit department. This will begin
doing business Oct. 1. A mortuary fund
will be maintained similar to those of the
railroad brotherhoois, from which death
claims will be paid. The officers of the
;nat half hat tha
partment will prove an attractive feature
to non-members, as they can procure
cheaper insurance through it than they
could in any of the old-line companies.
Details of the settlement of the Ohio
coal miners strike have reached Wash
ington. In the settlement the miners re-
ceive better than the 1903 scale, despite
the declaration that no increase would
be granted This increase amounts to
5.SS per cent. On their part the miners
themselves make concessions in matters of
detail. The district meetings held re-
Gently to consider the Columbus agree
ment have uniformly indorsed it, and it
is stated that all the striking miners will
be back at work soon.
Organized labor in New York took ad-
vantage of the drift of popular sentiment
the other day in novel way. At Coey-
mans and Glasgoe, on the outskirts of
Gotham, there has been intermittent war
fare for twenty years between the en-
ployers and the unions, with the unions a
poor second Recently the employers APP
pealed to the International Brick, Tile
and Terra Gotta Workers, who, in turn,
engaged former State Senator Cantor to
prosecute the brick manufacturers for
violations of the antitrust laws, where
upon the latter capitulated, signed an
agreement with the union and discontin-
ued the alleged illegal practices.
During the first quarter of this year the
average earnings of $4,000 workmen in
New York State, according to the bulle-
tin of the labor department, were $2.33 a
day, or 1912 for the quarter. No women
or miners are included in this statement.
The average wage for this period was So,
as compared with S2.8S for the same pc
riod last year. The extraordinary demand
for labor is not confined to the building
industry, where 1t is most marked, but 10
felt in all lines. The membership in labor
unions now aggregates 394.270, an in
crease OF 11,034 in the half year. The
estimated cost of new buildings in New
York City alone during the first quarter
was SJ0,000,OOO.
Reports from officers Of international
unions of the American Federation of
Labor, made to President Gompers, show
favorable conditions for the bill posters,
blacksmiths, carriage and cement work
ers, elevator constructors (the latter hav-
ing secured new agreement IN Pitts
birg) and the trades generally. In Ala
bama the printers demand for an eight
hour day was won without strike; car
penters have received an increase in wages
in Hot Springs, Little Rock, New Ha-
ven, Dauville, Galesbarg, Granite City
and Tamaroa, ILL.,, Portland. Me-. and
other points. Increases in wages ara also
reported In the other building trades,
GENERALLY hfrher rate f,aid eyervvyhere IN