The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-23
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

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Detroit street car employees have re-
ceived an advanced wage scale.'
Twelve hundred New York city
plumbers are striking for $5.25 per
day. -.
The unions of, Los Angeles, CAL, in
creased their membership Is per cent
during the past twelve months.
Employment, in the British build
ing trades shows a general improve
ment as compared with year ago.
Organized labor in France is turn
ing Its attention toward enforcing the
Saturday half holiday. Many strikes
are in progress. 49,
Boston and Maine and the New York,
| New Haven and Hartford railroad
freight handlers have both been grant
ed the 81 day wage rate
Striking ice handlers of Toledo,
Ohio, have started business on. their
own account, and are now. selling ice
in competition with their old emplay-
| ers. :: y
Railway employees in Ireland COM
plain of inadequate wages, excessive
hours of labor, and arbitrary and yex-
atoms treatment on the part of the un-
derbosses. .,
Twelve year ago twenty-three Ger
man cities had a central labor body.
In February of this year there were
in existence SOC in smany cities in
the German empire.
The Indiana supreme court upheld
the constitutionality of the act re-
quirtng manufacturing and mining
companies and firms to pay their en-
playes semi-monthly in lawful money.
From report recently issued by the
British home Office it appears that the
number of persons engaged in mining
and quarrying in Great Britain and
abroad in 1904 was about 100000.
The Labor News of st. Louis has
started crusade against the leasing
of convict labor by the state of Mis-
souri, to be used in competition with
manufacturers who employ free labor.
The Structural Building Trades
alliance recently held a successful
meeting in st. Louis, and reelected
James Kirby of Chicago president. The
next convention will be held in Nor
folk, Va. ... =.
1t Is estimated that there are about
100000 independent farmers in the
German empire, and that of these over
million are pembers of cooperative
societies, the most popular form be-
ing credit societies.
OF the total number of persons en-
gagged in remunerative occupations inn
France AZ per cent are engaged in
agriculture or forestry. and 80 per
cent in industrial occupations, other
than mining and quarrying. 81.
The death rate from accidents at
coal mines in the principal coal-pro-
ducing countries in 1904 were Aus
tralia 80. Belgium SO, France 1.O7,
Great Britain 1.34, Germany 1870 and
United States 3.55 per 100 persons en-
ployed.
President Roosevelt will investigate
at the instigation Of Santiago Iglesias,
Federation Of Labor organizer in
Porta Rico, the treatment by the
authorities of the workers on the
plantations. there who are on strike
against the planters. -
Thirty thousand cotton mill OPERA
tives in New England are working
today under an increase in wages
which places them on schedule like
that which prevailed prior to July 4,
1903, when a general reduction of
IL 1-2 pc cent was imposed. '4
That Chicago workmen are in de-
mand in all parts of the American con-
tinent was shown when the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Steam Shovelers
and Dredge Men sent three men to
Punta Arena, Chilli, and two men to
Skagway, Alaska. recently.
OF the SSS unions in the United
States making returns for May. with
an aggregate membership of 9O,O79,
there were 8 of per cent without
employment. In the preceding month
40 unions with membership of 2S,-
300, reported 2.3 per cent unemployed.
OF 10,S64 children of under 16 years
of age employed In the Belgian textile
industries 1922 earn l franc. (19c),
1859 earn 3-4 franc u41kc). but less
than franc. and 2454. / Ia francs or
more daily. The most general length
of the working day, exclusive of in
tervals. was liz hours.
POstmasters appointed: Hebron.
Morton county. r. Culeman, vice
Charles Weigel. resigned; Lynchburg.
Cass county, N. N. Biever. vice F. F.
Dehn, resigned .,.
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