Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-23

DBETlIDsldh fAld- al phf9
obtained an increase in wages OF D cents
an hour.
Piano plate molders Of Cleveland, Ohio
hare obtained a 10 per cen. advance On
piece prices.
The newly organized Harness Makers
Union az Seattle. Wash, has enforced
the nine-hour day.
Boston (Mass.) Bill Posters and Bill
ers' Union has begun a campaign TO har'
next years convention held in that city
Organized labor in Brockton, Mass,
NUMBER $4,000. Of which 10000 ar
affiliated with the Shoe Workers Union
Organized labor in Alabama will try t.
effect the repeal of the anti-boycott law
at the coming session of the Legislature
Iron molders at Portland. Me-, hav
gained % cents a day increase on To
minimum rate of wages and q nine-houi
woTkday.
Augusta (Ga.) textile workers have re
5uced their hour from sixty-six to sixty
three hours a week and obtained a slight
increase in wages.
Newark (N. j. trade unionists are to
have a labor temple. In the same cit!
a subscription of $4,000 has been raised
70 start ii daily labor paper.
New York hod hosting engineers have
within a decade, reduced weekly hours o
labor from ffty-three to forty-four, am
gained advance in daily wages from
$3.50 to So.
Fifteen hundred San Francisco (Cal.l
mill workers have gone on a strike, cauS
ing thirty planning mills to shut down an
I'LL - atnr
50 per cent.
The attempt to resuscitate the Britisl
Agricultural Laborers' Union ia maxim
some progress, but it will take a lon:
time 10 bring it to the position it occn
pied in the seventies
From the institution Of strike benefits
in April, 1891, 70 June 80, 1906. the In
ternational Association of Machinists ha.
paid out ~$1,O1S,69I.4O, and for death
benefits, since April, 1895, S110,976.l0.
Iron molders of Victoria, B. c., have
obtained a written agreement with tn
foundrymen for the coming year, which
gives an advance of % cents q day, max
ing the present minimum S3.75 for nine
hours.
The Builders Exchange League OF
Pittsburg. Pa. has declared for the open
shop, or merit system, as it is termed.
This action will affect all workmen who's
labor goes into the construction of build
ings OF all kinds in Allegheny county.
Birmingham (England) iron workers
are reported to be submitting Loyalty to
the new az per cent reduction in a mill
mans wages and 8 pence a ton in pud-
dlers'. occasioned by the new average sell
ing price, although an increase had been
expected.
Another test of the federal e%ight-hour
law was won by the government at Gin
cinnati. when the jury found the Sheri-
dan-Nirk Contracting Company guilty in
the Ohio river dam at Fern Bank. EN-
ployment agencies said it was impossible
10 get men at the wages offered for an
eight-bour day.
Painters district council of eastern
Massachusetts recently elected a commit
tee to discuss a uniform wage scale and
working rules project for the men of all
the unions of the entire metropolitan dis
trict. Jan. / was the date mentioned at
the last meeting as that on which the
agreement would be presented.
The total number of employees of each
nationality on the sugar plantations Of
HAWAI- III lJUo was !. JdpdleSe. ol.i.bD d.
Chinese. 4.409: Korean, 4.6S3; Portu-
guese. 3.00J: Hawaiian. 1.452: Porto
Rican, 1907: Caucasian, excepting Portu
guese and Porto Rican, 1,006; negro.
South Sea Islanders and others, sc.
a decision rendered by Judge Rosalsky
of New York holds that two members OF
the typographical union convicted on the
charge of disorderly conduct for approach
ing non-unicn men upon the street wer-
not guilty. as charged, as magistrates had
no jurisdiction, and as there was no such
crime defined in the criminal code.
In the first six months OF this year
the changes in rates of wages in the
United Kingdom resulted in a net in
crease of about 100000 in weekly wages.
in which $4,000 workpeople have partiri
pated these advances have been chiefly
In the textile. coal mining, engineerina
and s%hipbuilding industries. In the cor
responding period of last year there was
a net decrease in wages of e9.S00 a week.
some 10000 workpeople being invited.
Demands for higher wages and shorter
hours are being made by the heads o.
many railway labor unions, and the off
cials of various eastern trunk lines havt
engaged in conference with the unio.
leaders in the hope of adjusting the diff
o~ulties amicably. The railroad Managers
attribute the demand of their employees t.
prosperous times, and there is a DISPOSE
lion to meet these demands half way. Oh
the Southern railway about 700 to so
men are on strike for higher wages. a.
President Spencer was unwilling to NEE
their demands. B. F. Yoakum of tn.
Rock Island says that an unusual demand
for labor has been created by active bust
ness conditions.
To Reduce Prison Population.
Samuel j. Barrows, president of the
international prison congress. discusse-
this question in the November Charities
and the Commons, saying first, hat We
must stop making criminals and tina,
society must frankly face its own respon'
sibiIity. Among the various suggested
means of preventing the increase of Grim
inals. he mentions vacation schools. parks
Fairgrounds, children's courts and the
probation system. He would abolish alb
s~olutely the fee system under which the
-ounty sherifs are paid 80 much a head
for entrance, discharge and board of pris
oners. He cont , IL that no prison sys
EN- is a success which does not aim al
he education and reform of the prisoner
md, finally, that it is imperative to ex
tend a helping hand to the discharged
prisoner by giving him a chance to inf
mis- proper place in society.
Cuban Rural Guard Extended.
Gov. Magoon announced that it va,