The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

Canadian foundry and machine indus
tries employ 17,92S people.
Adelaide (South Australia) soap and
candle factory employees have formed a
union.
With almost 1900 members, the Bos-
ton Bakers Union is the largest in the
country.
One of the latest fads in labor circles
is the formation of a Pallbearers' Union
in Alexandria, Va.
st. Paul Ice Wagon Drivers and Help
ers' Union is already at work on a scale
of wages for next year.
At Lynn, Mass, there was recently
held a convention to organize national X.
of l.. Shoe Cutters Assemblies.
More than forty unions of retail clerks
are under course of organization in as
many cities and towns of New England.
Ten thousand men in Ontario and the
Canadian maritime provinces received in
creases in wages during the second quar-
ter of the current year.
The weekly rest day bill, which pro-
vides that all employees shall have one
day of rest in the seven. was approved
by the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
A union of hospital superintendent has
been organized in Chicago, which may be
extended to take in medical and surgical
workers. 1t is called the Chicago Hospital
Association and has twenty-five hospitals
in its membership.
The N;ss;cS;nn; Stoto branob A ~,
Farmers Union is planning to establish
a central bank in Jackson, with a capital
stock of $4,000, and it is also proposed
to establish branch banks in the principal
cotton growing portions of the State.
At the seventh annual session of the
New York State Federation of Working.
men. held recently in Syracuse, the Fed
Grafton pledged its support to the Wom-
ems Trades Union League in its efforts to
organize the women workers of the State.
Durham (England) Miners Associa-
ton has decided by $4,000 votes to 49,
400 against, to join the National Fedora
ton of Miners of Great Britain. Nearly
10000 members abstained from voting,
the aggregate being nearly 10000 MEM
bers.
The law of New York State forbidding
newsboys under fourteen years of age
from selling papers between 10 p. m. and
6 a. m. has been put into effect. In any
event, to sell newspapers at any time, the
boys must have permits from the Board
of Education. Children under ten years
of age are prohibited from selling newspa-
pers at all.
San Francisco retail grocery clerks are
making arrangements to secure the ap-
plication of every such clerk in the city
to become a member of the new union.
New York State Farmers Union will
hold a convention in August at which
steps for organization to obtain better
| prices for farm products will be taken.
An international agreement forbidding
! night work in factories by women has
been sigEed by England, France, Ger
many. Austria, Italy. Denmark, Spain.
Belgium, Portugal, Sweden and Switzer-
land. 1t will be put in practice in Decem-
Der, 1910.
Toronto has been chosen as the next
meeting place for the biennial convention
of the Amalgamated Associations of
Street and Electric Railway Employees of
| America.
San Francisco (Cal.) Women's Union
League is making efforts to obtain the APP
pointment of a woman organizer by the
American Federation of Labor for the
purpose of organizing women into unions.
a gain of 60 per cent. in the member
ship SINCE the meeting in Buffalo was re-
ported by the International Association
of Car Workers of America at its recent
biennial convention, held at Rochester,
y. Y.
Married women whose husbands are
not invalids hereafter may not be employ
ed at cigarmaking in Boston, Mass, ac-
| cording TO a vote taken by the Boston
union. The decision will require indorse-
ment of the international. Other cigar
makers unions will be asked to take SINH
lar action.