Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-03-29
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Unions in Switzerland have a to1a'
membership Of Al, 1862.
Boston (NIass.) ladies' garment cutters
formed a union recently.
Eighteen unions in Germany puois"
v newspaper OF their own.
Minneapolis building laborers VIII aSA
for So a day after April /.
A building trades council has oeen
formed in Lawrence, Mass.
A new union of cigarmakers has oeen
organized at Crookston, MINI.
Labor unions of Richmond, Va arc
planning to erect a 100000 temple
The cloth hat and cap makers WI
meet in convention May ! at Ne"
City.
Master horseshoers OF San JOSE OaI'
have granted the journeymen Inc "
raise demanded.
Efforts are being m adeto Organize
thoroughly the Italian tallors anu p
men of Boston, Mass.
The international Butchers Union ~
building up rapidly, forty-two charte''
having been issued last year.
A meeting to form a Massachusetts
State organization of city enpioses
unions will be called in Boston.
Mattresses of Phoenix, Ariz., are on
strike for a ten-hour day. They nave
been working eleven and twelve hours.
The Internationa Brotherhood OF
Blacksmiths and Helpers recently organ
lied a branch local in the thmia canal
zone.
Kanakas, in Queensland, Australia, e1-
empted from deportation, are forming a
union for the protection of their W In
terests.
The Associated Blacksmiths of England
report that this is the jubilee year OF
the society, which was established in Au-
gust, 1851.
The two railwaymen's unions in Italy
nave decided to amalgamate, there being
%, 1913 votes in favor of amalgamation and
4S9 against.
The Cooks and Walters Union of Val
lejo, Cal, is making a determined light
against the non-union restaurants and
hotels of that city.
CUlOu pIlultIS vi Noiloih I" -N'
made a demand for an increase in their
wage scale of s.. so a week. The increase
is based on the increased cost of living.
A reduction of one and one-half hours
a day has been obtained for the Waltham
BARRIERS by the Boston journeymen's
union, which includes Waltham in it's jur-
isdiction.
Union carpenters of Oakland, Cal, are
banding together to build a labor temple.
Articles Of Incorporation have been hled
by the Union Carpenters Hall Assocla-
ton. The capital stock is $ltO,OoO.
Reports from the general headquarters
of the Iron Molders' Union Of North
America are to the effect that 1856 names
of molders and core makers were added
to the membership rolls during 0
Officers of the New York Harbor Boat
mems Union recently announced that
there would be a general strike of tug
boat men unless their demands of $40 a
month increase in wages is granted.
The following scale of wages paid in
China will give some idea Of the daily
returns received for labor done Gin Unit
ed States gold) Laborer, 10 cents; ma
sons, is cents; artisan, 10 to ~ cents,
and clerk, 40 to so cents.
Sacramento is. soon to have a hand
some and commodious labor temple. The
building is to be erected by the Sacra-
mento Labor Temple Association, COM
posed of representatives of the various
labor organizations of the city.
The Operative Bricklayers of England,
with a membership of 10000 men, have
resolved to make their executive a per-
manent body, to meet daily for the trans
action of business. The executive is to
be elected for two years instead of one.
According to a Census Bureau report is
sued recently, women wage earners are
increasing steadily and are engaged in
S16 of 339 industries. The greatest in
crease is shown for the manufacture of
tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. New York
State leads in the employment of women,
with garment-making most prominent.
Chicago, ILL.,, has just formed a new
labor union, articles of incorporation hav-
ing been granted by the Secretary of
State. The organization is known as the
Retail Drug Clerks and Soda Dispensers
Benevolent and Protective Association.
The organization has made no move to-
ward utilization with the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor.
After being organized for nearly two
years without making any formal re-
quests from the lumber companies, the
representatives from unions of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Woodsmen and
SawmiE Workers have formulated plans
for a uniform scale of wages and hours
for the various camps and mills of Hum
boldt county, Colo.
The organized farmers of Colorado will
raise no beets next year. This was de
cided at a convention of the Beet Grow
ers' Union at Fort Collins, recently. The
executive board of the union reported
that it had failed, after negotiating with
the sugar trust, to get the price paid fol
heets last year restored. The trust hac
announced that it would reduce the price
5 per cent.
A committee of five from the Lake
Seamen's Union has met a similar com.
mittee from the Marine Firemen, Oilers
and Water Tenders Benevolent Associa'
ton of the Great Lakes, the purpose be
ing to provide means for closer relations
between the two organizations.
Piledrivers and dock builders of CIeve.
land, Ohio, have signed an agreement for
two years with all contracting firms ex.
cept one, which provides for the closed
shop and the nine-hour day, with the
same pay as received for ten hours. The
new agreement will go into effect on
April 1.
The Retail Clerks International Pro
tectiye Association expended during the
$50