Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-12
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A movement Is ON foot IA california to-
sorm a State council of esrpeHters.
At the close of 1905 the building trades
n Germany had 26,G53 union members.
The Shirtwaist Makers Union of New
York City is preparing 10 make demands
Tor higher wages and recognition Of the
1nion.
Johannesburg (South Africa) unem-
oloyed are making their presence known
~ daily professions through the streets
IF that city.
The New England convention of the
steam, hot water and power pipe filters
md helpers unions has been called for
April II, at Hartford, Conn.
Boston (Mass.) Cigarmakers' Union
has added a local sum to $3-a-week-out-
>f-work benefit paid by the International
% all unemployed members.
An agitation has been begun to secure
Tor the blast furnace workers an eight
hour day instead of the twelve-hour limit,
% which they have for years been accus-
:omed.
The New South Wales Hairdressers
md Wigmakers' Union is urging the ne
:essity for government inspection and
supervision of hairdressing saloons in the
interests of public health.
According to the opinion of prominent
,abor leaders, the most satisfactory en-
ployment of convict labor would be on
he building of public highways and the
reclamation Of State lands
Some of the Washington Cd. CO. labor
aders are much interested in forming
women's trades unions and in establish
ing auxiliaries to their locals, which are
70 be composed of member of the fair
sex.
Labor unions Of Cleveland, Ohio, have
1 new scheme to build their labor temple.
To add to the amount already raised it
is proposed to nave individual unions sub
scribe for a certain number of shares OF
stock each month.
The average union scale of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees is 231. cents an hour,
the average service day n fraction less
than ten hours, and the average number
Of days worked a year 300.
New Bedford (Mass.) Textile Council
has sent a circular letter to the various
textile unions in New England urging
them to join in asking the manufacturers
10 shut down their mills the last week in
August for . weeks vacation.
A strike has been declared at the Port
land (Ore.) lumber mills owing to the
refusal of the employers to grant a raise
IN wages and to shorten the hours. The
men demand $3.50 for n nin@hour day.
They nave been receiving $1.75 for ten
hours.
According to the American Federation
ist, DAT labor unions, with a membership
Of 1O2,51O, reported 2.3 per cent of such
members without employment in January.
In December the ratio of unemployed was
IL per cent, and in January, 1906, the
percentage was 2
None but American citizens will be
permitted to work as section hands on
-ailroads if a new labor union, embrac-
ing all section hands employed on rail-
roads West and Southwest, succeeds in
getting its demands granted by the gen.
.ral managers committee in Chicago.
The sailors on the great lakes are dis
satisfied with their hours and wages. In
formation from a reliable source states
that they are going to demand better con-
ditions when their committee is called
into conference with the Lake Carriers
Association to make a CONTRACT Tor the
coming season.
The Ohio Federation of Labor has gone
on record against the products Of con-
vict labor being placed In c~sEpet;tion
with free labor. Ohio, Wisconsin and
Illinois ave laws requiring the convict
.abor label to be placed on all goods made
oy convicts. There is a proposed federal
law which would require all convict-made
goods to bear the label also.