Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-05-17

formed a union.
asking for more pay.
Cigarmakers nave unionized another
shop at Rochester, n. Y.
The leather workers of Toronto will
ask for an increase of wages.
The brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
is spreading rapidly throughout Califor-
MIA.
The convention of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor meets in st. Cloud in
1 June.
The Eight-hour League of America has
been organized for the universal eight
hour day.
Salpt Lake City (Utah) plumbers are
on strike for a wage for So a day. The
pay heretofore was $3.50.
All st. Augustine (Fla.) contractors
have signed the carpenters closed shop
eisht-hour day agreement.
Union ship painters at San Francisco.
Cal. have obtained an increase in wages
from $3.50 to $500 a day.
The silver workers strike for the nine
hour day in Brooklyn, y. V. resulted in
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Strikes and lockouts in Holland during
1908 amounted to 49,, affecting 1861
workers, with 1896 strike days.
The Mattresses of Phanix. Ariz,, de-
mand a ten-hour day. They have been
working eleven and twelve hours.
The Structural Building Trades Ali
ance of America has a membership OF
100000 workers outside of New York.
1t is the intention of the international
Photo-Engravers' Union to establish Il
fund for aid of consumptive members.
Members of the Milwaukee Sign Paint
ers' Union have had their wages raised.
The increase ranged from 80 cents to 81
Il day.
The electrical workers of Cleveland
nave presented n new scale, asking for
an increase in wages from 40 to 80 cents
an hour.
The percentage of unemployed in Great
Britain in 1906 was only Al per cent,
or IS less than in 1905, and "a less
than in 1904.
The San Francisco Iron Trades Coun
Gil has decided to allow the question OF
an eight-hour day to rest entirely with
the individual unions.
Drug clerks in the West are rapidly
joining the Retail Clerks Union, and it is
predicted that this movement will spread
toward the Atlantic coast.
st. Paul union painters will receive 40
cents an hour the present season. An
agreement has been signed between the
union and the contractors. " ~
The International Association of Ma
chinists of Greater New York and vicin-
ity, $1,000 strong, has voted to demand
an eight-hour day in the near future.
The March report Of the Mutual Asso-
citation of ~Journeymen Coopers of Great
Britain and Ireland shows a poor condi-
ton of trade, with many men out OF en-
ployment. gt r@ctE" a
The s%witchmen's union of the country
are endeavorihg to bring about the cleo
ton of their national officers by referen-
dunn vote, instead of on the floor of the
annual convention.
Diamond workers, members of the Dia-
mond Workers Union of America, are de-
manding better wages from the diamond
manufacturers of America, the Associa-
ton of Gem Dealers.
The union BARRIERS of Cleveland are
seeing to it that the Sunday closing law
is enforced. Three proprietors were ar
rested recently for breaking the law. They
were placed under a bond.
Much systematic work has been going
on throughout California to form the
retail clerks into trade unions. The lat
est and one of the most promising was
formed in Sacramento recently.
The strike in the hat manufacturing
business of Orange, N. j., has been set
tied. The 1000 men and 100 women
went back to work when the manufac-
turers agreed to arbitrate the difference.
The first trade-union agreement entered
into by the city of Boston, Mass, is that
effected by the music department commits
sioners with the Boston Musicians Pro
~tective Union, which will be in force
for the summer.
The lows State Federation of Labor
and the Amalgamated Association Of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
joined in securing the enactment of a
vestibule law at the recent session Of the
Iowa Legislature.
When the Electrical Workers Union
was organized in st. Louis, Mo-, in 1891
wages ranged from $2.25 to So a day
from sunup to shutdown. To-day the
union has $4,000 nesnbers, who receive
from So to So a day of eight hours.
1t is possible that within a short time
the farmers Of Minnesota and the labor
unions will be working hand in hand.
The farmer and the labor u~nionist have
met on common ground and talked the
matter over, and both are agreed that in
cooperating with each other many untold
benefits may accrue to both.
All the great trade unions now in ex-
istence in England were founded before
1882, beginning with the engineers in
1850. The boilermakers and iron ship
builders, carpenters and %joiners, the iron
founders, the shipwrights, the %tailors,
shoemakers, the bricklayers and others
were ~reorganized in the early sixties, be-
fore the royal commission was constitut-
ed in 1867. The Trades Union Congress
was established in 1865.
San Francisco (Cal.I union freight
handlers are receiving $3.50 a day for a
nine-hour day, and they demand an eight
hour day with a slight increase in wages.
Congress- Spent S20o,OO0,OOo.
Clerks of the House and Senate com
mittees on appropriations have made
THAR animal complete statement of the