Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-26
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OF a graW total of 4-9S2,314 union
workers in Europe only $1,000 are
women.
St~onecutters' International Onion. the
oldest in the country, has affiliated with
the A. f. of L.
The Labor Temple Association of Kan
sas City, Mo-, has decided to
work on its building.
New Bedford (NIass.) Weavers' Union
has voted not to apply for a charter to
the United Textile Workers.
The next meeting of the Massachusetts
State Council of Electrical Workers
Unions has been called for April IA, in
Boston. .
Boston (Mass.) Cigarmakers' Union
has assessed it's 2,6eO members % cents
each to assist the striking c~igarmakers Of
Antwerp, Belgium.
Carpenters of Stockton, Cal, have no
tilted the contractors that they want $3.50
a day. The date fixed for the raise to
take effect is June 1.
Twelve national organizers of the Unit.
ed Garment Workers Union are to visit
Boston, Mass, to assist in the vigorous
organizing campaign to be undertaken in
that trade.
Exclusive of seamen, the number of
British work people reported as killed in
the course of their employment during
December, 1906, was 26O, an increase of
four as compared with the previous
month, and of thirteen as compared with
December, 1903.
There is no child-laber law in Japan.
and some very young children are work
ed. The mills do not want to work any
under twelve, as it does not really pay,
but in order to get help they often have
10 take the whole family, and so a good
many younger children are employed.
The Union Carpenters Hall Associa-
ton of Oakland, Cal, has purchased a
lot for $4,000. Six of the stanchest
unions in Oakland are represented in the
association. 1t is the intention OF the
corporation to proceed at once with the
erection of a threc-story frame building
containing halls and banquet rooms. The
cost of the structure will be $4,000.
Conditions in the cisarmaking industry
in Winnipeg, Man, have been unsettled
for some time. owing to differences be-
tween the employers and the union. The
local in that city has been unable to
come to any satisfactory understanding
with the bosses, so the international
union was appealed to to send a repre-
sentative to Winnipeg to make an effort
to effect a settlement.
The Prussian authorities have SO i'm.
proved the appliances needed in ceal min.
ing and have adopted so many precautien-
airy measures to protect the lives Of min
ers, that while, on the average, 81 min
ers out of every million annually lost
their lives during the decade 1SS1-1S9O,
this record has been steadily reduced IN
til, in 1905. only Twenty-Five persisted
from explosion by fire damp.
Boston (1iass.) Brass Workers Union
recently withdrew from the metal polish.
ers. buffers, platers and brass and silver
workers international, and formed an in
dependent local of its own.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, is how en-.
gagged in the preparation of the manu-.
script for a work on the origin, rise and
progress of organized labor in this coun.
try, giving a complete review of union
labor and what it has accomplished for
the Iaboring man. In all probability the
work will take up two or three large vol.
umes.
Steps are being taken to reorganize the
boilermakers at Brainerd, Mimi, and a
representative of the State Federation
will shortly visit the place for the pur-
pose Of starting the organization.
Union carpenters of Santa Clara coun-
try, Cal, are now receiving $3.50 a day.
Union painters will ask for an increase
in their wages from $3.50 20 81 n day,
and plumbers will ask for Sc a day.
The eight Brockton (Mass.) shoe firms
which declined to renew their union
stamp contracts on a new basis desire to
arrange with the shoe workers for the
reference of all disputes to the STATE
Board of Arbitration.