Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-28
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There are 100000 skilledlaborers in
cents a DAY.
\ recent ruling makes Fargo On. d.
unions eligible to membership in the Min
resota State Federation.
In Harrisburg, H., there are eight
mills using the union label of the Flour
and Cereal Mill Workers Union.
All the road roller engineers are now
in the hosting and portable engineers
union by an international decision.
Union men at Toronto, Canada, assert
that plumbers are being brought from
England to take the places of the Strik-
erS.
Horseshoers employed by the city of
Boston nave been granted the 1907 wage
scale Of Boston J~ourneymen Horseshoers'
Union.
A labor and capital love feast to a
place on July 4 is being arranged by a
number of labor leaders and business men
of Chicago.
Eight hundred union BARRIERS in Chi
cago have been granted a new schedule of
wages and working conditions by their
employers.
The Provision Trades Council of Chi
cago and vicinity represents more than
10000 individuals employed producing
or handling provisions.
\ new organization of vehicle painters
has been organized at Chicago. 1t is
known as the Chicago Carriage, Wagon
and Auto Painters Union.
Lowell (AIass.) textile unions have ac-
.n,t,J Tho ,f,,,i Z -n, ,,,$ ,n or Of
wages under the condition hat it be
granted to all employees of the mills.
On and after Oct. l the members of
the Operative Plasterers' Union of Bos-
ton, Mass, will receive 10 per cent in
crea Sc, which will make their wages $3.50
a day.
Local union, No. 81, Of the Garment
Workers, made up OF women working at
the trade in Pittsburg, Pa, has started
an agitation for the Garment Workers
union label.
United Hatters' International Union
has established an international death
benefit system and also extended It's juris-
diction SO as to include the men who
make mems straw hats.
The labor unions of Minneapolis
Mimi, arc to conduct a crusade against
all concerns which do a Sunday business
in hat city. This is against all con
Germs where labor Is employed sever
days In the week.
Musicians local, No. 6, which has in
its jurisdiction San Francisco, Cal. Oak.
land, Alameda, Berkeley and Point Rich
ncnd, now has about 1000 names on is
membership roll, which includes all
classes OF musicians
The Machinists' Union Of Pittsburg,
Pa, is devotng some time to the better
nent OF conditions in the city. Recently
il appointed q committee to see that q
better car service WIS., established. 1t
proposes to interest all other labor or
CARNATIONS in the matter.
In the Chicago Federation of Labor
there are 40 local unions which, in addi-
ton to the leading industries, has union,
Of chandelier makers, coffee roasters, eg:
inspectors, feather buster makers, golG
heaters, HAIR %spinners, paSsementerie max.
ers, tuck pointers, front cleaners, ward
robe tenders and well drillers.
Plumbers of Omaha, Neb.. have return
eG to work in the closed shop and at an
increase of 80 cents q day in wages. The
plumbers won by the undivided support
OF organized labor. There was no arbi-
tration agreement to the settlement, the
master plumbers agreeing to the demands
OF the union, and the victory was a com
plete one.
During the last year great strides have
been made in organizing the building
trade mechanics of the Southern States.
In cities and towns where last year there
We're 10 organizations at all there are
now lively local unions Of different crafts,
while in localities where a year ago unions
barely existed they are now in a healthy
condition and thriving.
Among the larger labor unions in Ger
many are the clothing industry, with
2I2,0OO workers, receiving SO cents a
day; the Saxon textile industry with
225,O0O workers, averaging IS cents
North German Textile Union, with 1884,
600 workers, wages 60 cents South Ger
man textile union, with $4,000 workers,
wages 90 cents. and the tobacco indus
try, with $4,000, wages 40 cents. The
owest rate of all is paid to the textile
union of Silesia, 40 cents.