Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-07-20
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at present in France. .
NAVY yard machinists at Boston nave
been granted an advance OF "A cents a
day. e
Steps are being taken to organize the
hotel and restaurant employees OF Min
Eeapolls.
Toronto (Canada) electrical workers
have gone on strike. They wish 80 cents
an hour, the present pay being 271a cents.
A new union of quarry workers has
been organized in Mankato, Mimi, under
the jurisdiction of the Quarry Workers
International Union.
Skaters at Bangor, Me-, who have been
on strike for some time, recently succeed
ed in defeating a move to operate the
plants with strike breakers.
The first member of Boston (Mass.)
Newsboys' Protective Union to go to
Harvard under the unions scholarship
fund will begin his studies this year.
Fourteen more machine shops, some OF
them the largest in the vicinity of Bos-
ton. Mass, nave established the ffty-hour
work week for the machinist within the
last month Or so.
The memorial fund started three
HlO1luS dSO ny lhO ~
Carpenters and Joiners for the widow
and family of the late P. j. McGuire
aggregates nearly $4,000.
Brockton, Mass, the great shoe-work-
ing center, has enjoyed industrial peace
since 1898, and has seen wages advance
from 10 to 90 per cent. while the shoe
industry has increased one-third.
Organized ~workingmen of Reading, Pa,
have about perfected their plans for the
erection of an icemaking plant to fight
the ice trust. 1t is thought operations
will begin about the beginning of next
year.
Boston Bricklayers' Union, which has
declared GO cents an hour, and the Sat-
urday half-holiday as new rules, has so
few men on strike for the new conditions
that it is not even maintaining a strike
headquarters.
The executive board of the Massachu-
sets State branch of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has decided to requestt
Gov. Guild to select one member OF or.
| ganized labor for the proposed technical
| trade school commission. ..
| Plans are being made by the Baggage
| and Parcel Delivery Drivers Union, at
! Chicago, to increase the wages OF single
wagon drivers employed by firms in the
Expressmen's and Furniture Movers As
ISOLATION from $13 to $14 a week. :
West Virginia Federation of Labor, in
it's Wheeling convention, recently passed
resolutions giving permission to delegates
to enter politics and to have committees
in each county for the purpose of in
vestigating the assertions of all political
candidates.
The strike of street car men at Allen
town, Pa, took on a serious aspect Tues
day, when Il platoon CT State constahu-
larry fired into a crowd and injured a boy.
A mob gathered and threw stones at the
police. The two men who were accused of
firing were locked up and charges prefer
red against them.
Pittsburg reports a reaction from the
speculative in favor of the industrial mar
ket, to the discomfort of the brokers, but
to the comfort of the rest of the COM
munity. The payrolls are said to be
larger than ever before, and would be
higher if workers could be obtained. This
is especially true in the steel and coke
industries, and negroes are being imported
from the South as laborers.
The A. f. of L. issued 215 charters
during the eight months, as follows:
Three international unions, 4 State
bodies, 43 city central bodies, Ga federal
labor unions and 1O1 local trade unions.
There are now affiliated with the A. f. of
L. 11S international bodies, sc State
branches, 674 city central bodies, T2O To-
cal trades and federal unions, making a
total of 26,320 local trade unions direct
ly or indirectly affiliated.
As a result of the Dupont Powder Com
pany's refusal to grant an eight-hour day
to it's employees, the works at Wilmington,
Del, are badly crippled by a strickland
members of the millionaire Dupont family
are engaged in the dangerous task of dri-
ing powder-laden wagons from the milN ~
to the magazines and storehouses. Al
this company owns nearly all the powder
works in the country, it is expected that
the strike will soon spread to other places.t
The New Zealand Trades and Labor
conference passed a resolution that th
arbitration act be amended to bring
State employees urder its provisionsl
affirmed the principle of land nation
ton, decided to urge the governmeL!
nationalize the mineral wealth and
adopt a self-reliant policy and cease Dor
rowing except for redemption of loans,
approved a universal compulsory half
iuOlludys liz iesol'Su ~ SuppOIL d piVl
g~ressive income and absentee tax and the
abolition OF duties on the necessities Of
life.
Women cooks to the number of 80
have organized the Cooks Union, of New
York. All of its members so far are
working in Yiddish restaurants on the
East Side, but the leaders are hopeful
that before long all the women restaurant
workers of the city, and eventually of the
country, will be organized. A careful in
quiry is made into the character of apple
cants, and none but ladies' are admitted.
The good so far accomplished has been
to reduce the hours from 16 to II, and
to "unionize" in every way the restani
raEts in which the union cooks operate.
A basket mailing machine has been in.
vented which promises to do away with
the present system of mailing by hand.
The basket frame r~evolvesi at the will OF
the operator, who has both hands free to
place the bands and sides, while a rtreadle |
worked by the foot m~anipulates the ham
mer, which is a strong magnet. The tacks
axe fed to the machine through a slot,
heads up. The hammers by operation,|
picks up the tack and drives it. The aver
age basket mailer will not put up. more
than $50 baskets in ten hours, while with
this new machipe, it is believed, an aver
age of 100 per hour can be maintained.
An agreement has been reached where