Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-12
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organized in Philadelphia.
There are in the limited States about
5000 female iron workers in foundrics,
furnaces and rolling mills.
The British admiralty is instituljnr q
universal 4S-hoyr week for the rmDloyes
in the government dock yards.
There wcre labor unions char.
tered in Amorico last wear. embracing a
total membership of 100000,
Strikes of coal minors orn on in wolos.
where 11OO mon nre affected. and in
Hungary. whore 1000 are ont.
T., C,,oa, ,ooo,,o+i,o o,r,,oor eats
50 so for 1OO miIas In rho J-ni,ad States
he receives 81 o1 for 100 miles
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IN Tho cotton Mills in Ron,Lar r,dio oro
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fry
cool from ,hnir .a1n,ins Nh Iossn, ,n tho
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an 'nIioIr L'Ile hours ny inc rover co"ls
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500 " VA
nNc 'houSnhu hale wage earhers Afe
80 VI "olA "l III present. tnne IL N'c'
pG"4 u.' INuSlialla' ana oo'ooo people III
'N'0'1' l eNAs'lns oeio" poNel's ihe'
Inc department OF Justice has decided
labor class and canDnt ho mnortnd into
the Tnitad S+otoc nndar +bo allan contract
law.
n1"s s"ltcnhheh are threatening
He - ieGrn' uen'ahuS are ho' COM
do,s Turor+, raInaoI. ao ~
voi,,od
an
All u lHe solu peasers III AuleFlc" aIc
~" oct on S,i,N 5 32' ~ increase o.
"'SeS lloH 80 10 %-l Il week. 10 r4Hh'-
49, hoo ;n.a o. SlN 'N1 80
AS d result Oh being onsaniAeu 'hto u
"nioh' III hHlh,nen o. Cn1C"So al ioul
years nave cut inc noufS Oh !'ool IL TWO
AL" nave secured IL net increase III
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Inc lliioiS Tree tHploS hlehI omces
""' 1S'Ne' Inc seventh annual 1.Poit ~
'"eli opeln'lonS' anu the Iecofo . !'''
SHOWS a.! Increase III huI'Der Oh Posltlon'
Niteu . ''0'f as conpaleu with loof'
Inc average wages OF american WORK
men IS uoupie mat OIL tne fhsl!ShnleN
anu "e"ily 'IcDie tn"I o! !he Ge!ni"n
"olh-nGn' ACCORDING 10 S'atiStlcS puoliSheo
ny me department OF Laoor' covering the
year I'oo'
An International exposition portraying
the life of the laborer for the past 1000
years. showing conditions surrounding
him from the time of feudal slavery to the
present time. is contemplated by the
French Parliament.
Word comes from Hawaii that there is
a well-detned scheme on foot by the plan
tatlon owners to get laborers from Eu-
rope. Already a thousand Portuguese
families are being imported by the Sugar
Ilanters Association.
Mayor John +. FITZGERALD of Boston
has issued orders to all of the officials
in the various city institutions ordering
them to see to it that the eight-hour day
law in so far as it relates to stationary
engineers is enforced.
Tho hill i, +bo Ero,,b cbonhor of
Deputies, making it compulsory for en-
ployers to grant their employees one days
rest IN seven, was passed with only one
dissenting vote. lhe Senate has also APP
proved OF the measure.
Gov. Curtis Guild of Massachusetts, at
the close Of the Labor day parade in
the world, and in all probability any other
State in the Union, could be seen such a
wonderful display of loyalty to a cause
as was presented by the paraders, who
marched past the State House that day.
Ihls was the unanimous opinion of every
person VINO witnessed the great demon
stratlon ana Will mean much to labor
unlonlsm the coming year.
There are five miners who ora ca,di-
dates for Congress- under thn American
Federation of Labor nIan for +ho entrance
of trades unionists into politics.. They
are: w. B. Wilson, national secretary
treasurer, of Blossburg, Pa; John Walk
err, vice president of the Illinois district ::
Y. D. Nichols, Scranton, Pa, president
of the first anthracite district; w. II.
Dettry, Hazleton, Pa, president of the
seventh anthracite district, and John Fa-
icy, pieS'uen' :" 'Ne h'n'n ah'nraclte
ui