The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-07-19
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Nearly ZUU,UOO artisans arc ~ seIiAo
at present in France.
Navy yard machinists at Boston have
been granted an advance Of "a cents
day.
Steps are being taken to organize the
hotel and restaurant employees OF Min
neapolis.
Toronto (Canada) electrical workers
have gone on strike. They wish 35 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 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, have established the fifty-hour
work week for the machinist within the
last month or so.
The memorial fund started three
months ago by the United Brotherhood OF
Carpenters and Joiners for the widow
and family Of the late p. j. Mcclure
aggregates nearly $4,000.
Brockton, Mass, the great shoe-work-
ing center, has enjoyed industrial peace"
since 1893, aud has seen wages advance
from 10 10 20 per cent, while the shoe
industry has increased one-third.
Organized workingnen 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 50
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 request
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
sociation from $13 to $14 week.
wes. Virginia Federation of Labor, in
its 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 serious aspect Tues
day, when platoon of State constabu-
larry fired into crowd and injured 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 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 she eight months, as follows !:
Three international unions, 4 State
bodies, 43 city central bodies, Ga federal
lob1 III l.
There are now affiliated with the A. f. of
l.. 11S international bodies, 36 State
branches, GA city central bodies, 100 10
cal trades and federal unions, making o
total OF 26,320 local trade unions direct
| ly or indirectly affiliated.
| As 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 strike, and
! members of the millionaire Dupont family
are engaged in the dangerous task of driv-
ing powder-laden wagons from the mills
to the magazines and storehouses. As
| this company owns nearly all the powder
! works in the country, it is expected that
the strike will soon spread to other places.
The New Zealand Trades and Labor
conference passed a resolution that the
arbitration act be amended to bring ali
State employees under its provisions, re-
affirmed the principle of land nationaliza-
tion, decided to urge the government tc
! nationalize the mineral wealth aad tc
adopt self-reliant policy and cease Dor
rowing except for redemption Of loans
approved universal compulsory hall
holiday, and resolved to support pro
gressiye income and absentee tax ana tht
abolition of duties on the necessities Of
life.
Women cooks to the number of 15(
have organized the Cooks Union, of New
York. All of its members so far ar,
/ rrnrkinr in Yiddish restauranf ON IN,