The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-16
WORLD OF INDUSTRY
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop,
Mill, Factory and
Mine.

ports ten women working as wheel
wrghts in the country.
On October Sth, at Milwaukee, Wis,
Ccopers' International union will meet
In convention.
Nearly 5000 women are employed in
the mines of Great Britain; none un-
foreground, however.
NJ. d. Rutherford has been reap
pointed as State Labor commissioner
Of Ohio. He is former president of
the Ohio United Mine Workers.
In recent years many crafts have
established apprenticeship systems
which are recognized and approved by
employers.
The Provincial Workmen's assccia-
ton of Nova Scotia is considering the
question of forming a labor party in
the province.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Freight
and Baggagemen does not believe III
strikes. Its methods are based solely
on arbitration.
Trade unions in Germany are of four
notwithstanding unions, social
list unions and declarations, Christian
| unions and Independent unions.
The American Federation OF Labor
is attempting to reorganize the motor
men. conductors and other employees
OF the street railways OF New York
city.
In 1892 there was a ten-hour move
ment among the shipwrights and
caulkers Of New England, and several
| strikes resulted, which proved unsuc-
cesstul.
The Corporation of Bolton. in Lam
caShire, England, has made substan-
tial concessions to the tramway nell
in. their employ, without any stop
page of work
In 1856 carpenters in New York city
made $3.50 day and worked fifty
three hours a week. They now re-
ceive $3.50 day and work but forty
four hours a week.
The brewery workers recently
passed resolution condemning the
employment of children under eighteen
years old in bottling works in St.
Louis and Milwaukee.
1t begins to look as if the farmers,
at least those in the south, were going
to join hands with the other working
men in the effort to improve conditions
for the producers.
The new French law for securing
one days rest out of the seven that
j constitute {: week is threatened with
| dire opposition by the hotel and res
taurant keepers of Paris.
The department of justice has de-
cided that railroad workers are in the
unskilled labor class and cannot he
imported into the United States under
the alien contract law.
Steps are being taken in Chicago,
Ill.,. for the formation of an arbitration
board of teamsters and team owners,
which will adjust all differences which
may arise in the future.
The supreme court of SaXony has
decided that boycotts and strikes is
wage war are not punishable by law,
and that employers cannot demand
compensation for losses caused.
A proposition that all laboring peo-
pie be entitled to state aid. or pensions,
under certain conditions as to age and
health, will be presented to King
Oscar of Sweden in the near future
Columbia lodge of machinists. of
Washington. d. c., expects to have the
! entire force of 1900 machinists en-
| ployed at the Washington navy yard
enrolled as members within short
time.
In Germany there are old-age pen
sions and insurance against accident.
In the latter respect Austria Hungary
follows the lead of Germany. In Ger
many 10,224.297 persons are thus in
sured.
New divisions OF the Brotherhood of
Railroad Freight and Baggagemen
have been formed at Providence. New
port, Taunton. Fall River, Pawtucket
and Westford ON the n. ", n. H. and
H. system.
The annual convention of the Car
riage and Wagon Workers Interna-
tional union will be held in Buffalo,
n. ", October 18TH The special OBJ
ject of this convention is the framing
of new constitution.
The International Building Trades
council has placed itself on record as
favoring arbitration as better method
of adjusting differences between em-
ployes and employers than the usual
plan of strikes and lockouts.
An international exposition portray
ing the life of the laborer for the past
1000 years, showing conditions sur
rounding him from the time of feudal
slavery to the present time. is con-
templated by the French parliament.
Increases in pay have been given at
Chatham and Sheerness dock yards by
the British admiralty, varying from Cd.
TO Is. per week, according to grade.
on the basis submitted by the super
:ntendent of His Majesty's dock yards.
Word has been received at the Mine
Workers headquarters in Indianapolis,
that John Wagner. fusionist- miner
candidate for congress in the Eigh-
teenth Illinois district, will challenge
Speaker Cannon to joint debate.
The matter will be pushed through the
Miners Journal in indianapolis.
w. ]. Murray Of New York, national
secretary of the Bill Posters and
Boilers alliance. states that the craft
is now completely organized in every
section of the country. and that much
batterment of wages and conditions
has been secured in many cities and
districts.
1t is understood that President Nit
chell will enter into the campaign for
the election of the Mine Workers can
didates in the anthracite field. espe-
cially for 7. D. Nichols. who is to
stand a good chance of winning out.
Mitchell is expected to make series
of speeches. beginning about Octo-
Der 1st
There is at the present time dis
tinct movement all over the continent
of Europe in favor of one days rest in
seven. and the proposal usually is to
make the day of rest the first day of
the week. instead of the seventh,
which is still observed by the Jews in