The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-08-02
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The bridge and structural iron work
ers by vote of 1852 to 1857, have de-
cided to affiliate, with the Structural
Building Trades Alliance.
The mayor of Boston has notified the
Electrical Workers Union that the men
employed in the fire alarm department
will be put ON the eight-hour basis.
1t has been figured that the strike at
the Wall street messenger boys cost the
street $1,000,000, and that 100000
would have paid the increase demanded
for 101 years.
The latest union formation is the Ma
rine Drivers and Tenders Union, re-
Gently organized at Cleveland Brancher
are to be established in other port cite"
on the lakes and the seaboard.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Nationsl
Union, headquarters at Boston, has up
wards of 100000 n its international
treasury and has within the past few
years expended 100000 in sick and
death benefits.
Many German concerns own dwelling
houses and rent them to workmen at act
ual cost. They provide restaurants and
meals at actual cost; furnish fuel at
actual cost, and give transportation in
whole or part.
Differences between the Master Paint
frs' Association of Pittsburg, Pa. and
the unions of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers over the payment of car fare have
eliminated in the declaration by the mas
ter painters of general lockout against
their employees.
New York, New Haven and Hartford
machinists, about 750 in number. have
been granted an increase in wages averag'
ing about one cent an hour. The negotia-
tions were made by the committee OF the
district lodge of the unions. Within
three years the district lodge has secured
the nine-hour day and wage increases
which in the aggregate make the present
wages about 4 per cent more than was
paid for the 10-hour day thres years ago.
John Burns, as president of the Local
Government Board in England, says that
the government will take up the o:d age
pensions question when the report of the
Poor Law Commission has been receis-
ID. Personally he considers that it would
De the best, simplest and fairest, in in
augurating an old age pension scheme, TO
give everyone a pension of five shillinss
per week on reaching the age of 80, mili-
tary, naval, civil and municipal pension
Frs TO be excluded.
The Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America has decided to establish mu-
tual benefit department. This will begin
doing business Oct. l. A morruary fund
will be maintained similar to those of the
railroad brotherhoods, from which death
claims will be paid. The officers of the
organization believe that the insurance de-
partment will prove an attractive feature
to non-members, as they can procure
cheaper insurance through It than they
could in any of the old-lins companies.
Details of the settlement of the Ohis
coal miners strike have reached WASH
ngton. In the settlement the miners re-
ceive better than the 1903 scale, despite
the declaration that no increase would
be granted. This increase amounts to
5.SS per cent. On their part, the miners
themselves make concessions in matters OF
detail. The district meetings held re-
Gently to consider the Columbus agree
ment have uniformly indorsed it, and 10
Is stated that all the striking miners viii
be back at work soon.
Organized labor in New York took ad-
vantage Of the drift of popular sentiment
the other day in novel way. At Coey-
mans and Glasgoe, on the outskirts 81
Gotham, there has been intermittent war
fare for twenty years between the en-
ployers and the unions, with the unions a
poor second. Recently the employers ap-
pealed to the International Brick, Tile
end Terra Gotta Workers, who, In turn,
engaged former State Senator Cantor to
prosecute the brick manufacturers for
violations of the antitrust laws, where
upon the latter capitulated, signed an
agreement with the union and discontin-
ued the alleged illegal practices.
During the first quarter of this year the
average earnings of $685. 600 workmen in
New York State, according to the bulle-
tin of the labor department, were $2.33
day, or $212 for the quarter. No women
or miners are included in this statement.
The average wage for this period was So,
as compared with $2.SS for the same Pc
riod last year. The extraordinary demand
for labor is not confined to the building
industry, where it is most marked, but b
felt in all lines. The membership in labor
unions now aggregates 394,270, an in
crease of 11,034 in the half year. The
estimated cost of new buildings in New
York City alone during the first quarter
was $J0,O0O,O0O.
Reports from officers Of international
unions of the American Federation OF
Labor, made to President Gonpers, show
favorable. conditions for the bill posters,
blacksmfths, carriage and cement work
egs, elevator constructors (the latter hav-
ing secured new agreement In Pitts
burg) and the trades generally. In Ala
bama the printers demand fer an eight
hour day was won without strike; car
penters have received an increase in wages
in Het Springs, Little Rock, New Ha-
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