The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-19
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The London (Canada) Labor party
has pronounced in favor of old-age pen
sions.
A majority of the musicians of Santa
Cruz, Cal, met recently and organized a
union.
Organized labor in Seattle, Wash, has
carried out its proposed plan OF obtaining
a coal mine.
Springfield (Canada) miners ask for
another board of Cancellation to investi-
gate the system of weighing boxes.
The building trades of San Francisco
are discussing proposition TO settle on
scale Of wages for three years.
The Central Labor Union of Scranton,
Pa, has decided to build $4,000 tenn
pie for the use of the trades unions of the
city.
At meeting of Engineers local No. ]
of Denver, Colo, the finance committee
reported that increased wages to the MEM
bers of the union during the last year
amounted in the aggregate TO $500. 1t
was reported that conditions ia this trade
are very prosperous.
The total number of men killed while
mining coal in the United States daring
1906, according to statistics gathered by
the geological survey. was 2,O61. The
number Of workmen receiving injuries in
this industry more or less serious but not
fatal, was 4,19S during the same period.
Miss Marot, secretary of the Woman's
Trade Union League of New York, a
.. Hasi m o1 in
which she urged women to organize in ev
ery branch of industry and cooperate in
union agitation, holding that in that way
only can women compete on equal terms
with men in the trades.
The union men of Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
have started a movement to boycott the
beef packers as long as prices remain at
the present high rate.
The Federation of Labor at Springfield,
Mo-. has decided to enter politics next
year. and will put forward its president
as a candidate for the General Assembly.
The Carpenters Union of Winnipeg
Manitoba, has three members who have
been continuous members of the organiza-
ton for more than thirty-six years. Their
years of membership total about 40
years. The union believes this sets a rec
ord.
The average wage paid to the bulk of
the working population of Porto Rico en-
gagged in the coffee and sugar industries
is IL cents and A cents, respectively, for
ten hours work dsy.
During the last year six new districts
were added to the international Spinners'
Union, according to the report of Presi-
dent Urgan Fleming, at the annual ses-
sion, held in Boston, Mass, recently.
The manufacturing jewelers. of Paris,
France, at a recent meeting not only pos
it,yely refused to recognize the union, but
decided to recall the previous concession
of a nine ana one-half-hour day, and to
insist on a ten-hour workday.
The Methodist Episcopal conference of
Erie. Pa, at its recent session by unan-
;mous vote indorsed resolutions favoring
eight hours as a days work for laboring
men.
At meeting of the Woman's Trade
Union League of Chicago a committee on
benefits reported proposition whereby
all women trade unionists of that city can
have the service of a physician for 10
cents q year.
The Co-operative Bank and Trust Com
pany of Oklahoma City, proomted by the
Farmers Union and the labor Unions of
Oh ;ahoma, has been chartered, with a
capital stock of 100000. No stock is to
be sold except to union men.