The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12

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has again affiliated with the United Tex
tile Workers.
The international convention of Steam
filters and Helpers will be held in De-
troit next year.
The International Union of Ladies'
Garment Workers will hold a convention
in Boston next year.
Union labor is renewing interest in the
proposition to establish a magnificent la
Dor temple in Boston.
Thirty-six unions, out of a total of
forty-six in Duluth, Mimi, are affiliated
with the trades assembly.
A special committee of the st. Paul
Trades Assembly is looking into the mat
ter of building labor temple.
Vegetable vendors of Brooklyn, y. Y,
are talking of organizing union to pro-
tect themselves from the middlemen.
Fall River (Mass.) weavers have ac-
cepted compromise that Az yards con-
stitute a cut, and the threatened strike
is off.
In the paper working industry in India
the average wages a day for men is 10
cents; women, 8 cents, and children, 3
cents.
The largest shipbuilding firms are to be
found in the Baltic ports; large firms
have also established themselves on the
Elbe and Weser.
San Francisco (Cal.) Stone Cutters
Union, through its executive committee,
has decided to submit its differences with
employers TO arbitration.
Emma Gruber Foley, elected president
recently of the Native Daughters of the
Golden West, is past president of the
WomenS Auxiliary to San Francisco
Typographical Union No. 81.
All chances of Boston garment work
ers becoming involved in the dispute of
the suspended locals of New York and the
International Union are over. The Bos-
ton unions will support the national Or
ganzation.
Some 10000 Scotch miners have re-
newed their demand for an advance in
wages of 1919 per cent. The present
rates amount to about 6 shillings 9 pence
a day in wages, so that the demand is
considerable.
Corporation laborers at Calgary, Can
ada, have received an increase from 20
to % cents an hour and it has been de-
cided by the City Council that eight hours
shall constitute working day, except in
cases of necessity.
A blind mans union has been formed
in Paris. The members are the blind en-
ployes of the National Institute for the
Blind, who were dissatisfied with their
salaries. They threatened to strike and
received an increase.
The convention of theatrical stage en-
ploycs. held recently in Norfolk, Va, had
before it proposition to establish a sick
benefit fund. also funeral benefit fund.
1t was decided to submit this to the sub
ordinate bodies for referendum vote.
Large crews of men have been going to
the West through the Minneapolis
(Minn.) employment offices for long
time, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Wash
ington and Oregon taking the bulk. The
work supplied is understood to be railroad
building.
About forty employees of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad have
been retired on pensions. The men so re-
tired have been in the employ of the com
pany from thirtyfve to forty years, and
will now receive from SO to 81 week
for the remainder of their lives.
The industries of the United States
suffered less from strikes during 1905
than in any year since 1892. In 1905
there We're 221 CSC employees thrown out
of work by 2,O77 strikes undertaken by
1-E pc7 StriL in toh l;chp 70,
and lasting an average of twenty-three
days in each establishment involved.
The terrible disasters which have re-
Gently occurred in the local coal mines of
Germany and France have directed the
attention of scientists, especially in the
former country, to introducing methods of
protecting the miners against a recurrence
OF such calamities, or at least of dimin-
ishing, as far as possible, the loss of life.
A Pastors Union, composed of all the
Protestant clergymen of La Crosse, Wis,
is affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor. In that town members of the
other trades look upon the preachers as
brother workers. admit their delegate to
the meetings of the Trades and Labor
Council and have a representative of that
body at the meetings of the clergynen.
The organization of employees on the
railway lines of the United States dates
from the organizing of the brotherhood
of the EOotboard, at Detroit, Mich May
g. 1868, by the locomotive engineers,
which association is known as the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers. Other
branches of the transportation service fol-
lowed. from time to time, so that now
each branch of the service is organized.
The Massachusetts, State Commission
on Commerce and Industry, recently ap-
pointed by Gov. Guild, has sent to many
labor men, as well as business men and
trade organizations officials, a request to
send to it before Sept. l statement of
the ways each thinks that the commercial
and Industrial prosperity of the State can