The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-28
Labor World

Five hundred silver workers are
striking in New York City.
Twelve hours in winter and fourteen
IN summer was fair average days
work in the sixteenth century.
Efforts are being made to have a
bill passed in Nevada making the first
Monday in September Labor day.
The shipment of coffee at Rio de
Janeiro is reported at standstill be-
cause of strike of the stevedores.
Three Baltimore Cigarmakers' I'm
ion report 100000 in it's treasury. The
members pay the highest dues of any
union in the country.
After a strike of two months the
workers in the shipyards at Terni,
Italy, have won their demands, includ-
ing shorter workday.
\ labor party has been formed in
Toxic, Japan, and a strong manifesto
has been issued declaring that the ex-
listing labor conditions are deplorable.
The International Brewery Workers
are going to strive to prevent the en-
ployment of children in the bottling
work of breweries in Milwaukee and
St. Louis.
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be employed in a car-building plant
which is to cost $4,OOO,O0O, with a
capital of s15,OOO,0OO, to be located at
Hammond, Ind.
Carpenters in New York City in
1885 were paid $3.50 day and work.
ed tifty-three hours a week. They
now receive $3.50 a day and work
forty-four hours week.
According to many labor leaders and
economists workers today are better
paid by from 10 to 40 per cent and in
some cases almost as high as 20 per
cent than twenty-five years ago.
Probably the first protest ever made
in the United States against convict
labor was in the form of a resolution
adopted at convention of mechan-
les held in Utica, n. Y, in 1884.
The Womans Trade Union league
If Great Britain is now upon solid
foundation and is steadily growing in
numbers and influence. The increase
in membership during the year just
closed was more than 1900.
The recent action of the Postoffice
department in fining two railway mail
clerks in Spokane for public critic
ism of railway is resulting in an
organized effort among the clerks to
secure the right of freedom of speech
Members of the Independent Labor
party in the Tran. yaal are pledged
to oppose every candidate at the COM
ing elections who does not promise to
endeavor to secure for the people a
fair share of the total profits of the
mines.
Officials Of the trades unions of San
Francisco, the labor papers of Cali
fornia and public officials are all au-
thority for the statement that there
are more than enough workers of all
classes in San Francisco to supply the
demand.
The long standing trouble between
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad, and its engineers, owe,
the question of wages is at an end,
the engineers having agreed to accept
scale of wages submitted by the
company.
Japanese powers are urging their
countrymen to give up going to San
Francisco and the Pacific coast and
turn to South America. Brazil gives
greater facilities to Japanese than to
other races, while Chilli holds out spec.
ial inducements.
A statute prohibiting the employ.
ment Of child under sixteen years
of age longer than ten hours in any
one day has been declared by the Ore.
gon supreme court to be an entirely
valid and proper exercise of the police
powers of the state.
Frank P. Sargent, commissioner o.