Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-21
LABOR NOTES
MONTHLY BULLETIN IOWA STATE fedora.
TON OF LABOR.

Davenport reports that labor condi-
tons outside of the strikes Of the print
ers and tailors are good, all classes
OF labor fully employed, with a scarcity
Of boilermakers.
Sioux City reports a committee from
the Typographical union arranging for
new scale. No fear is expressed over
the outcome, as the relations between
the printers union ond their employ
ers has always been first class.
The Plumbers Union Of Council
Bluffs has secured a scale of $3.50 per
day of eight hours. The Des Moines
plumbers have secured a minimum of
1915 per day Of eight hours, while Du.
buque plumbers have also secured a
new agreement, the conditions Of
which nave not been fully reported.
The street railway employees of Coun-
Gil Bluffs and Omaha secured the fol-
lowing wage scale for motormen and
conductors: First year, 20 cents per
hour: second year, 81 cents per hour;
fifth and sixth year, % cents per hour;
seventh, eighth and ninth years, "a
cents per hour, and thereafter 25 cents
per hour.
Latest reports from Davenport are
to the effect that the printers strike
in that city remains about the same
as reported in our last bulletin. The
same is also true of the strike situation
of the Des Moines printers, bookbind-
ers and book folders.
The May auditors report of District
| Is of the United Mine Workers dds
trict includes all of Iowa and Putnam
county, Missouri,) shows member
ship Of 14,238, and a cash balance on
May i, 1906, of 1929, $3.50, deposited
in sixteen banks of Des Moines, Oska-
loosa Abba, Boone, Ottumwa, Lehigh
and Centerville. This balance was on
hand after meeting all of the expenses
incident, to the making of an agree.
ment extending to March 81, 1908, the
payment of seven death claims, the ap
preparation of $1,000 for the defense OF
members Of the Western Federation OF
Miners and all the usual expense OF
conducting their organization.
The Timers Union Of Des Moines
on June l struck for a minimum wage
scale Of 40 cents per hour, the work te
remain at eight hours, time and one
half for overtime, and double time fol
Sundays, Memorial Day, Fourth Of July
and Christmas. The largest firm il
the city signed the agreement before
4 date of strike. Five other firms have
since signed. The other employing
timers have so far refused to sign, bu
it is not anticipated that the disagree
ment will be of long duration.
The Cigarmakers' Unions of the
state are agitating the formation of {
state association with the purpose IL
view Of more systematic and uni
form agitation and advertising of thei
union label on cigars. Under thei
present plan practically all of the ad
: vertising is done in cities alone tina
have a union, while all Of the smalle
cities and towns are left almost exclu
sively to eastern and trust non-uniol
: firms.
The strike of tb4 Machinists' Unio1
against the SAINT. BE railway, of NOR
than two years duration, Is still on
At Fort Madison, the only Iowa poin
affected, Is of the men who Originally
struck are meeting daily and are as dc
termined to win as they were the frs
day of the strike. The company is re
ported as having just completed tn
installation Of IS new locomotives an
is said to have given an order TO
about 100 more. Before the strike tn
company furnished water for the shop
by their own pump, but is now cor
tracing for their water supply fror
!. the city plant at $500 per month, tn
cause of this being asserted to be tn
incapacity of the machinists emplo!
/ ed in keeping the pumps in workin
J. order.
:, The cities of Burlington, Fort MAJ
e ison and Keokuk have about conclude
r arrangements for a joint Labor Da
l. celebration to be held at Fort Mad
n son. The three cities are also arrans
l. ing a joint political movement in al
d cord with the recent Recommendation
e of the American and State Federatio
of Labor. A Joint nasting Of the u,