Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-19
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The American federation of Labor is
attempting to reorganize the motormen,
conductors and other employees of the
street railways of New York City.
The brewery workers recently passed a
resolution cordemning the employment of
children under IS years old in bottling
works in st. Louis and Milwaukee.
In 1886 carpenters in New York City
made $3.50 a day and worked ffty-three
hours a week. They now receive $3.50 a
day and work but forty-four hours a
week.
1t begins to look as if the farmers, at
least those in the South, were going to
| join hands with the other workingmen in
the effort to improve conditions for the
producers.
Steps are being taken in Chicago for
the formation of an arbitration board of
transfers and team owners, which will
adjust all differences which may arise in
the future.
Columbia Lodge of Machinists of Wash
lnSton, d. c., expects to have the entire
force of 100 machinists employed at the
Washington navy yard enrolled as mem
bers within a short time.
The Standard Oil Company has rein
stated the officers of the National Broth
erhood of Stationary Firemen and has
agreed to take up the question Of increase
IN wages as soon as possible.
y proposition that all laboring people
be entitled to State aid, or pensions, I'M
der certain conditions as to age and
health, will be presented to King Oscar
OF Sweden in the near future.
The annual convention of the Carriage
and WAGON WTorkorS' n{arpotiono JTripn
will be held in Buffalo, n. Y, October
10. Thu special object of the convention
is the framing of a new constitution.
An international exposition p~ortraying
the life of the laborer for the last 1000
| years, showing conditions surrounding
him from the time of feudal slavery to
the present time, is contemplated by the
French parliament.
The International Building Trades
Council has placed itself on record as
favoring arbitration as a better method of
I adjusting differences between employees
and employers than the usual plan of
| strikes and lockouts.
| Theatrical employees of Chicago, as we'll
as many of those in the other large cities
| of the East, are formulating plans to op-
| pose the transportation of foreign skilled
| and unskilled labor for American theaters
and will ask a. theatrical organizations
to oppose the importation of foreign
chorus girls by sympathetic strikes.
| In Chicago the weekly half-holiday fight
| started by the Shoe Workers District
| Council has attracted attention. There
| are 5000 shoe workers in the Chicago fac
tories, of whom nearly two-thirds are
| girls. They hope to make the Saturday
| half-holiday a benefit secured by agree
ments with the employers after Feb. 1.
To enforce their demands of 81 per
day and the Saturday half-holiday, 800
members of the New York and New Jer-
scy branch of the New York Metal Trades
Association went on strike, and the en-
ployers promptly decided they would en-
ploy ship carpenters on the open-shop
basis. Steps were taken to employ strike
breakers.
A number of Pennsylvania cigar manu-
facturers were arrested last month at the
instance of the officers of the Cigarmak-
ers' International Union, charged with
issuing and using bogus labels. AS these
labels are well protected by law, the
union will have no difficulty in obtaining
conviction in case the guilt of the persons
is established.
The Columbia Typographical Union of
Washington, D. c., has voted to expel
seventy members who refused to pay long
er the assessment levied for the strike
benefit on account of the strike of the job
printers in the District of Columbia
which has been on since last January. The
dismissed members are all employed in
the government printing office, but Public
Printer Stillings made it known that no
man should be molested because he did
not belong to the union. The unions ac-
ton makes the government printing office
an open shop in fact as we'll as in name.
In the Southern States there are six
teen carpenters unions of colored men.
The brotherhood claims jurisdiction over
journeymen carpenters or ~joiners, stair
builders, ship joiners, millwrights, planning
mill bench hands, cabinetmakers or men
running woodworking machinery. But their
claims to this extensive jurisdiction has
not been undisputed. The Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters, an English organi-
z~atiop, and the Amalgamated Woodwork
ers have both contested it before onren
ions of the American Federation of La
Dor. The enmity of the Brotherhood and
the Am~algamated Society was one of the
4 main causes of the New York building
trades strike in 1908. The American
| II eueId mas NV ySl bSSiuSu LIZ JuliS-
diction dispute, but both sides are now
working amicably under a compromise.
The A~malgamated Woodworkers dispute
the authority of the brotherhood over men
running woodworking machinery.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Interna-
tional Union recently, from January,
1904, to March, 1906, paid out 5000, 900
in sick and death benefits and $4,000 in
aid of strikes. There was at time of re-
port a balance of 100000 in the treas
ury.
There is at the present time a distinct
movement all over the continent of Eu-
rope in favor of one days rest in seven,
and the proposal usually is to make the
day of rest the first day in the week, in
stead Of the seventh, which is still observ-
ed by the Jews in all countries in which
they reside and labor.
Says Cancer Is IncurabIe.
Sir Thomas Barlow, physician to the
British royal family, who sailed from
New York recently, after a weeks visit
in this country, during which he attended
the dedication Of the Harvard medical
buildings, said that the medical profession
was no nearer to the cause or the cure of