Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-12-14
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Conductors and Motormen's Unio,
gained 1000 members the last twel,.
months.
As early as 1917 a law was passed +,
New Hampshire making ten hours a ley,l
days work.
OF the $4,000 men employed as switch.
men the brotherhood of Railway Train.
men controls $1,000.
Stationary engineers in New York Git,
are making Il concerted effort to srip.
about an cight-hour work-day.
Montreal (Canada) unionists are pre-.
pairing to erect the finest labor temple in
North America. 1t will cost 100000.
The shorter workday fight of the shoe
workers in Chicago, ILL.,, will be made
this winter, preliminary to the spring
agreements.
The Toledo iOhio) City Council will
soon introduce an ordinance to compel
employers to pay their men in cash in
stead of checks.
A determined effort is being made to
infuse fresh life into the National Union
of Clerks of England, and propa ganda
work is in active progress.
The employing sheet metal workers of
San Francisco, Cal. have voluntarily
Increased the pay of their employees from
So to $3.50 a day of eight hours.
The United Textile Workers of Amer
lea are on record as favoring the ~continu-
ance Of the agitation for shorter hours
for workers in the textile trades.
In twenty years plasterers' wages in
New York nave increased from - to
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hours from fifty-three to forty-four.
Twenty years ago plumbers in New
York City received $3.50 a day and
worked f~fty-three hours a week. Now
they get $4.75 and work forty-four hours
a week.
Cigar Makers International Union has
decided to start suit against the Michi-
gar prison authorities for employing con
victs at the MarCuettc prison in the man
ufacture of cigars.
Their are more thar 10000 men en-
gagged in the carriage and wagon-build-
ing industries, of whom 5000 are mem
bers Of the Carriage and Wagon Builders
Union of North America.
France has been strangely backward
III the formation of labor unions, and,
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that of New York, has less than one-half
as many trade unionists.
As a result of being organized into a
union, the millmcn of Chicago in four
years have cut the hours of labor in two,
and have obtained Il net increase in va ses
amounting to % per cent.
Boston (Mass.) Plumbers Union,
which asked for a 5O-cents-a-day increase.
accepted Il compromise Of a raise OF 40
cents a day after May l next year. This
will make the minimum union scale $40
a day.
1t has long been admitted that Mas
"a chusetts takes the lead in the enact
ment of laws for the protection of labor
from long hours. unsanitary conditions,
and for the protection of the working
man generally.
1t is reported that the Postmaster
General of Great Britain is inQuiring
into the conditions of labor employed in
making postmen's clothing. He seems de-
termined to put an end to sweating cen
ditions in his department..
An all-around increase of so cents a
day has been obtained by the Wood Cary
ers' Union in New York City, and is to
remain III lOrce uutll Tue uiNOie " L y
Thu members work eight hours a day and
a halliday on Saturday.
At Las Vegas, n. NJ, the COW and
sheep herders have organized a union,
the scale of pay being $40 a month and
found in the sage brush or elsewhere.
The sheep herders are arranged IN eight
hour shifts with Sundays off.
The thirty-four brotherhood unions and
a%malgamated branches, which make up
the Carpenters District Council Of Bos-
ton. Mass. and vicinity, will request the
Saturday half-holiday all the year round
and also 45 cents an hour after May l
next.
The bureau Of labor statistics has com
piled some curious figures regarding the
organized labor movement. From them
it appears that there are now upward
Of 100000 wage workers who are active
members of unions. More than 2,OOO,OW
live in the United States. ....v
Central Labor Union, at Washington,
D. c., has proposed to the various unions
making up that organization that a gen
eral defense Juno be raised to meet any
demand that may arise in the future
The matter has been referred to the
unions for consideration.
If the wishes of the railway surgeon.
of America, as expressed at their annua.
meeting, are needed by the railway com
panies, engineers and tiremen experiences
in the service will no longer be discharged
for defective eyesight, but will be allow
ed to wear glasses and hold their posi-
tons.
For some time a movement has been in
progress for an increase in the wages OF
engineers on the northeast coast of Eng,
land. The Amalgamated Society of En-
gineers, the Steam Engine Makers ant
the United Machine Workers Society ar
jointly making a claim Of IS a week ad
vance on time and 5 per cent on piece
work rates.
Textile operatives employed on modern
machinery to-day will turn off more pro-
duction or an average eisht-kour day
basis than they did twenty-five years ago
on a ten-hour day. Nevertheless the
hours of labor have been reduced very
little for the textile worker in compari-
son with the increase in speed of the
machines they operate.
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