Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-09-14
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Woman cooks of New York are forming
a union.
Tile layers have secured a % per cent
increase in Boston, Mass.
The German Metal Workers Union
is the strongest union in the world.
Painters of Louisville, KY, have OBJ
tanned the eight-hour day and an advance
of 10 per cent.
Seventeen new local unions have been
formed by the Amalgamated Sheet Metal
Workers Alliance in the last quarter.
Electrical workers of Grand Rapids,
Mich, with the exception of three shops,
have been granted the eight-hour day.
The labor organizations of America
gained 1,2O4 new unions last year. en-
bracing a membership Of 100000 individ-
uals.
During the first six months Of 1906
ffty-three divisions of street railway en-
ploycs effected written agreements with
employing companies.
The agitation for an advance in the
wages of Shooting WeaverS employed at
Oldham, England, has resulted in an IN
crease of ) per cent being conceded.
even at the increased rate of wages, 1t
is not easy to get spinners and WeaVers
enough to allow the New England cotton
mills to fiji all the orders they might get.
The union bakers of Chicago succeeded
IN establishing a new wage. scale IN every
shop bar one in thai city. They received
a fat increase of 81 per week over the
old scale.
The nnti-sweating committee, appointed
by the Sydney On. S. W. labor council
promises to make astounding revelations
regarding the sweating tactics OF some
Sydney employers.
The earliest mention of a strike fund
occurred in the strike of the Partisan
stocking weavers, in 1924, when a. crown
a day was subscribed for every striker,
and all blacklegs We're boycotted.
The Patternmakers' Association of San
Francisco has returned to outside asso-
Citations that contributed to their aid at
ter the earthquake 45 per cent OF the
fund sent in. 1t was not needed.
The Retail Clerks International Asso-
citation will begin the payment OF SICK
benefits to members who have been In
continuous good standing upon the books
for a period of twelve months or more.
In Bombay Ondia) cotton mills an
average worker, laboriEg thirteen hours a
day. earns about 80 cents a day, that IS IN
mills equipped with the best modern ma
chinery and quilt in the most approved
style.
The average wages OF American work
men is double hat of the English ana
nearly treble that of the German work
men, according to statistics published by
the Department of Labor, covering the
year 1908.
The Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America has decided to establish a
mutual benefit department. a mortuary
fund will be maintained similar to those
CT the railroad brotherhood, from whlcn
death claims will be paid.
The New York Electric Club is the SO.
cial end of the New York Electrical
Workers Union. Its avowed object is to
cultivate and elevate the social condition
of the organization. The club has al
present a membership of 400.
There is a great scarcity of unskilled
laborers at the iron and steel making CEN
tiers of Pennsylvania, 81 a day being the
wages paid. Thousands of men can hnd
| work with good pay all through the West,
| where mining and railroad building are in
progress.
After a struggle lasting nine months
and five days the strike of the malnte,
nance of way employees OF the Denver ano
Rio Grande railway in Colorado and New
| Mexico has ended, the officials of the road
having conceded the full rate of pay fol-
foremen that had been demanded by the
committee representing the strikers.
The other day the gold heaters quit
work at every Boston shop in response tc
the national decision to establish an IN
crease in wages from Z to = cents pei
book for piece work and from SIS to ST.
a week for week workers, also to bring
the foremen into the union, and to elimi'
nate what is called the "outside shop.
In a resume of the work of the pas
two wears, made in view Of the approach
ing biennial convention, which opens .,
Niagara Falls Sept. II, w. d. Huber
general president of the Brotherhood o!
Carpenters, says that while there were
many strikes and some lockouts, almost
all were settled successfully and salts
f ctorily to the men involved. During the
past three months 81 new charters were
granted, and 37S in all were added during
the past two years.
Progress. a labor organ, says in its
last issue that trade unionism is doing
more to Americanize the immigrant thar
ANYTHING else, not excepting the churches
and backs up the assertion by attributine
the statement to the commissioner of la
Dor. Discussing the matter, Progress says
that it is due to trade unionism that the
immigrant so soon learns the nature Oh
the American government, because as soor
as he becomes a member of g union he
sees that the term government in the
United States is not synonymous with
oppression, as it is in many of the coun
tries of the old world. The trade unior
draws him out Of the clannish spirit which
heretofore not even his religion has beer
able to overcome. The article closes by
saying thai the labor union man soor
comes to realize that the best available
means to save the body and better condi
tons is through the means Of the union.
The United Cloth Hat and Cap Maker:
! of America nave placed a per capita tax
of 10 cents per year for support of the
tuberculosis sanitarium conducted by the
organization of Denver for the benefit Of
its members. The same organization ha:
declared for international socialism.
The Mcclure memorial fund for thu
benefit of the family of the late p. J
Mcclure which is being raised by volun
tary subscriptions among the members o.
the United Brotherhood Of Carpenters ant
Joiners has reached $3,755.91. The funt
for the relief of California sufferers b.
this organization aggregates $15,S43.75.
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