The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-08

me laDOr unlOnlSCS or Tennessee
favor legislation which will require
the labelling of all prison-made goods,
A national union of wire workers Is
suggested by the Boston local of that
craft, and it has elected a committee
to work to that end.
After discussing the subject at con-
siderable length, the Utah State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor decided against the
field Of politics as an organization.
The United Cloth Hat and Cap Max
ers OF America have placed per capi-
ia tax of ten cents per year for sup
port CT the tuberculosis sanitarium
conducted by the organization at Dem
YER for the benefit of its members.
The Wcman's Trade Union League
of Great Britain is now ON a solid
foundation and is steadily growing in
numbers and influence. The increase
in membership last year was more
than 1900.
To discover to the last cent just
what it costs family of five to live in
these times of high prices is the chief
object Of an investigation, plans for
which have been announced by the
Charity organization of New York.
The Australian workers are in earn
est in making move for the six-hour
day. At recent meeting of the Carl
ton Trade council motion prevailed
that the American and British labor
bodies be invited to join in the six
hour movement.
The Boston plumbers who made a
demand for an increase of fifty. cents
a day have compromised on forty
cents, the raise to take effect after
May 1. The scale will then be $4.4O
a day.
The Boston Y. M. G. A. is giving a
winter course of talks to shoe work.
ers. The aim is to give to the many
shoe operatives in that vicinity a Wild
er and more thorough knowledge Of
the shoe industry.
Chicago retail clerks, in a big meet
ing recently, voted to demand a nine
hour day, with double pay for over
time. Clerks in the smaller stores
say they are working now from seven
ty to seventy-five hours weekly.
Arrangements are being made to
hold conference of representatives
of blast furnace and coke workers en-
ployed in the mills of the Mahoning
and Shenango valleys at Cleveland,
o., when demands will be made for
an eight-hour day.
The master blacksmiths of Denver
have been notified that the scale will
be increased on May /, so that the
minimum wage will be $3.50 day, in
stead of $3.50 as at present. Only the
men in the so-called commercial shops
are included in the agreement, which
does not include the blacksmiths in
the railroad shops.
The hours of labor in Belgium are
very long. The laborer begins work at
a. m. and ceases work at p. m,
with the usual breaks for meals. He
is paid on an average of z to 9 cents
an hour for ten hours, and Is per cent
more for two additional hours, MAX
ing his daily wage "a cents to $1.0S
for IL hours. Numerous factories
have been established there by British
firms, owing to the very low rate at
which labor can be secured.
The $4,000 members of the Brick
layers and Masons' International I'm
ion who for the third time are taking
a referendum vote throughout the
country on the question of joining the
American Federation of Labor are
likely this time to vote in the afirma-
tive. The concrete question is becom-
ing more and more menace to the
trade, and the masons want the aid
OF the International unions If there is
to be a fight on the question.