Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-03-15
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British Amalgamate bns'h ~
have a membership OF 104.632.
Dockers in Germany increased thelf
membership in 1905 from 5,9OO to o'ooV'
Boston (Mass.) sheet metal workers
helpers recently organized a union.
Montreal (Can.) telephone girls nave
organized in affiliation with the Eiectric
Workers Union. 81
Foundry laborers are making a natlonal
move TO enforce the nine-hour day Where
it does not exist.
Between Jan. 1, 1901, and Jan. !, l-b
there were 29S strikes and nineteen lock
outs in California.
1t is the intention of the lnternational
Photo Engravers Union to establish a
fund for the aid of consumptive members.
MINNEAPOLIS and st. Paul retail clerks
associations are joining hands in an eHort
to obtain the early closing of retail stores
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
are the only remaining Northern States
which permit factory work at the age OF
- years.
Unions of st. Augustine. Fla. are pc
ing sued for $4,000 damages because they
urged dealers not to sell to an unfair
contractor.
The average annual wage of the entire
membership of the Amalgamated Assocla'
ton Of Street and Electric Railway EN-
ployes is 500.
In Colorado during 1906 there were l3s
trade disputes. affecting 26,O94 work peo-
pie and causing a loss in the aggregate OF
4S9, 775 working days.
At a recent meeting of the Fishermen's
Protective Union of the Pacific coast and
Alaska a committee was chosen to confer
with the various Alaska salmon-packing
companies on schedule of wages and per-
centage for the season of 1907.
Building contractors and the Citizens
Alliance of Tacoma, Wash, have joined
hands to fight the unions. Announce
ment has been made that unionism will
not be recognized in hiring men for the
construction of COME of the large struc-
lures to go up during the year.
By way of carrying out the idea of
unity among the seafaring craft, the Sail
ors' Union of the Pacific many years ago
adopted a system of exchange with the
Seamen's Union of Australasia under
which members of either organization may
join the other without payment of initia-
ton fee.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Interna-
tional Union is taking a referendum vote
on the question of holding a convention
this year. The boot and shoe workers
seem to be a little up in the air" as to
what they could do, even if they held 4
convention. The recent election tangle is
still before the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts, with little prospect of a decision
being given for some time.
Representing a combined membership
of $4,000, nine unions in the metal trades
have formed a Metal Trades Council, of
Pittsburg, Pa, and vicinity, to replace the
old Machinery Trades Alliance, which
took in trades only intimately connected
with machinery. The new organization
will aim to combat the efforts of the
Manufacturers Association in the indus
tries represented to force the open shop
principle.
A striking feature has developed in con.
nection with the French Dot and shoe
makers strike at Fougeres, where some
1000 operatives are out. The factories
were opened recently for such as desired
to resume work, but only about 10 pei
cent of those out presented themselves fol-
employment. Great distress has prevailed
in the district by the prolonged cessation
of work. To alleviate this distress French
trade u%nionists in other districts are car
rying out the 'paternar' principles they
profess, and are taking the strikers chill
dren into their homes.