Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-07
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Belville (Canada) carpenters are ASK
ing for an increase in wages.
Granite cutters of Hardwick, Vt, have
won their fight for better wages.
A district council of cement workers
will be formed in San Francisco, Cal.
San Jose (Cal.( Street Ger Mems
Union is agitating for an increase in pay.
Laundry Workers Union of Alameda
county, Cal. has made a demand for an
eight-hour day.
Union labor is renewing interest in a
proposition to establish a Tabor temple"
in Boston, Mass.
The San Francisco (Cal.) building ma
terial teamsters' union now has on the
roster 1900 names.
The Winona leather workers union
has affiliated with the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor.
Announcement has been made that all
Italian barber shops in San Francisco
have been unionized.
Leather workers on horse goods at To
ronto, Can, are asking an increase Oh 10
per cent in their wages.
The international Union of Horse
shoers of the United States and Canada
was organized in 1879.
The New York police now desire an
eight-hour day. Several hundred of them
recently met and organized a union.
The Ontario branch of the Canadian
Labor party was recently organized at a
lively meeting of labor men at Toronto.
The Sacramento Labor Temple Asso-
citation hopes to have it's $4,000 temple
ready for occupancy by next Labor day.
Agricultural laborers at Argenta, in
the Province of Ferra, Italy. are on
strike for a more equitable division of
labor and wages.
The New York Labor Bulletin, just
issued by the Department of Labor, gives
the number of organized men and women
in the Empire State as 39S,494.
A new lodge of the Brotherhood OF
Railway Carmen was instituted recently
in Minneapolis. The membership is al
most wholly from the 500 shops. .
There is a movement ON foot to estab-
lish q weekly labor paper in Oakland
Cal. The Central Labor Council of Ala
media county is behind the project.
A special committee from the Mime
apolis Team Owners Union is invesd-
eating the feasibility of the Union going
into the feed business on the cooperative
plan.
Louisville (Ky.) union paperhangers
who voted to strike gained the advance
in wages asked from The wall paper deal
ers, and returned to work under a years
agreement.
No. Akk~-Isa- l.. - h. 0;rar RI South
ern states by the American Federation
of Labor, which is planning to build up
a stronger labor movement in that section
Of the country.
Stogiemakers intead to apply for q
charter from the American Federation OF
Labor. Their application hitherto has
been contested by the International Ci-
g~armakers' Union.
A compromise proposition to end the
strike of the photographers for the eight
hour %workday, and which has been on
since Aug. 4 last, has been sent to refer
endum for action.
Patternmakers' League of North Amer
lea spent $4,000 in organization work in
the Eastern Coast States last year, and
since tha time new members of the union
have received 100000 in wage as a di-
rect result of that work.
Electrical workers, machinists and
blacksmitLs of Great Falls, Mont, who
recently went on. strike. have signed a
contract for five years. All the smelter
employees are now back to work, and all
are bound by fve-year contracts.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has given his official
~sanction to a merger Of the San Fran
cisco Water Works Union with the gas
workers. The organization will be known
as the Gas and Water Workers Union.
Metal Workers Union, at Minneapolis,
is making preparations to institute a
new union composed of factory and as
sortment workers and can workers. The
workmen of these crafts are timers, and
there are a large number employed in the
various local factories.
A movement is on foot by the Amalga-
mated Engineers of England for a fur
Their advance in wages, notices for which
have been given to the officials of the
Employers Federation. The matter will
come before the joint committee at an
early date in London.
Washington Cd. CO. Central Labor
Union recently passed a resolution to
the effect that the various trades con-
nectel with the body, and not belonging
to the building trades, be induced again
to take up the question of an allied coun-
Gil of miscellaneous trades mt form an
organization to be known as the Allied
Label League of the Central Labor
Union.
If present plans are carried out, Chi
cago will have a union hotel, builts5Ay
union men exclusively, all its furnishings
and appointments to be union made, and
every person employed, from bell boys to
manager, shall be members of labor or
carnations. It is believed that the labor
unionists of Chicago, regular residents
and transients, who live in hotels are
sufficiently numerous to make a very
large hotel a success.
San Francisco Plumbers Union is one
of the most progressive trades o%rganiza-
tions in the city. Recently it took an
option on a lot valued at $4,000. If the
title is found perfect the union will pur-
chase the lot and erect a suitable home
for its growing membership.
At the interstate conference of trade
union representatives, held at Sydney,
New South Wales, during the eight-hour
celebration. it was unanimously resolved
to recommend a uniform trade union
label, to be placed on all articles pro
duced under union conditions OF labor
in the commonwealth.