Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-24
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n new union OIL "Oou"OTf ETS HAS be'N
formed in Milford, n. ii.
The Sterling Ull.) Labor Council has
started a fund for Il city hospital.
international Association of Machia-
lists has $1,000 in the treasury.
A new unior of inside metal workers
has been organized in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hotel employees have been active re-
Gently, nine unions having been formed.
st. Louis policemen are framing a bill
for a three-shift system and eight-hour
day.
San Francisco unionists demand that
the building trades recognize the steam
filters.
An official labor paper, TO be published
weekly, is contemplated by the Union
Labor Council of Minneapolis.
Three new butchers unions are to be
established in California, one each in
Sacramento, Stockton and Vallejo.
The labor unionists of Tennessee favor
legislation which will require the label
ing Of all penitentinry made goods.
Labor organizations Of America have
1904 new unions this year, embracing a
membership of 100000 individuals.
The Cincinnati. City Council is con
sidcring an ordinance making So a day
the minimum wage for city laborers.
The Massachusetts street car mems
State convention, held i'll Boston. decided
to make the request for a nine-hour law.
Internationa Union of Carriage and
Wagon Workers of North America head
quarters will be located in Washington.
Minneapolis Bartenders' Union is out
after the 1908 convention, n a COM
mittee'is already in the field and at work.
Minneapolis labor unions will make an
attempt to obtain old city hall for a
labor temple, Thc estimated cost is $780,
900,
A movement for the formation Of a
State Federation of Transfers Unions
is quietly progressing throughout Cali
fornia.
A national union of wire workers is
suggested by the Boston local of that
craft, and it has elected a committee to
work to that end.
The California State Federation of La
Dor reports that there are 227 unions
affiliated with the federation, represent
ing 10000 union wage workers.
Active work for the IS a day wage
rate in the Greater Boston district has
been ordered by the Painters District
Council of eastern Massachusetts,.
, An eigbt-hour day has been establish
ed for the repair men in the Boston fire
alarm service. Previously they worked
eight-hour day shifts and took turns on
a ffteen-hour night shift.
1t is stated that every retail clerk in
Anaconda, Cal, is a trades unionist.
There is perfect harmony and an entire
ly satisfactory understanding between the
merchants and the employees. m~ea r..
Painters District Council of eastern
Massachusetts has directed every %affiliat-
ed local to begin at once the conferences
with the employers regarding the estab-
lishment of the So minimum wage rate
on May 1.
Chicago retail clerks, in a big meeting
recently, voted to demand a nine-hour
day, with double pay for overtime. Clerks
in the smaller stores say they are work
ing now from seventy to seventy-five
hours weekly.
Unions affiliated with the Iron Trades
Council of San Francisco have been lay
ing their plans with the object of secur-
ing an eight-hour day instead of the
nine-hour shift which exists under pres
ent conditions.
Boston sheet metal workers nave voted
to establish a So a week sick benefit,
and passed a law f%orbiddins any member
of the union working with %non-union men
or for other than union wages and full
union conditions.
A crusade is to be made against those
concerts which do a Sunday business in
Minneapolis. MINI. 1t will be conducted
by labor unions. and they hope to close
all concerns where labor is employed
seven days a week.
The 'Longshoremen's District Council
of Boston takes the position that all
lighter captains and engineers, who are
not compelled to have United States Ii
censes, do 'loncshore work, and are long
shoremen and not mariners.
Women clerks in Spokane have been
invited to join the Clerks Union, and
an active anvass will be made to take
every woman into membership. 1t is
stated that many Of them have express
ed a willingness to join the union.
Arrangements are being made to hold
a meeting of representatives of blast fur
mace and coke workers employed in the
mills of the Mahoning and Shenango val
ieys at Cleveland, Ohio, when demands
will be made for an eisht-hour day.
The officers of the better managed and
most successful cotton mills of Japan
pay a good deal of attention to the i'm
provement of conditions among the help
and to increasing the facilities for edu-
cation, especially education along textile
lines.
A statute prohibiting the employment
of a child under sixteen years of age
longer than ten hours in any one day
has been declared by the Oregon Su-
preme Court to be an entirely valid and
proper exercise of the police powers of
the State.
Stationary firemen in the office build
ings in Chicago, controlled by the Build
ing Managers Association, obtained an
increase of / cent an hour in wages by
the decision of an arbitration board.
There is a rupture in the working
agreement between the Locomotive and
Firemen's Union of Great Britain. repre-
%senting some 1900 men, and the Anal
gamated Society of Railway Servants.
San Francisco Riggers and Stevedores'
Union claims the distinction of being the
Oldest labor organization in the United
States. 1t was established in 1852 and
never in it's existence has il had a strike.
At the last meeting of the Sacramento
(Cal.) Council of Federated Trades it
was announced that the cigarmakers had