Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-09-18
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Toronto Canada shoe CLERKS 6ave Or
ganized a union.
All the 40 l~amplighters in Boston.
Mass. belong to the Lamplighters' Union.
The Drug Clerks Union of San Fran
cisco, Cal, has opened an employment
bureau for clerks.
The Trades Unionist of Washington, d.
c., has been taken out of the receivers
hands.
Lynn (Mass.) building trade unions are
getting together for one central council
that will include all.
The recent Scottish trade union con-
| gress passed resolutions in favor of old
age pensions and in favor Of compulsory
intervention in labor disputes.
The coopers' local unions will vote on
a proposition to do away with conventions
and adopt the initiative and referendum
system in conducting the affairs of the
organization.
Machinists of San Francisco, Cal, and
those of Oakland have under consideration
a proposition to form a district council
| of lodges of mIchinists of the bay coun-
ties.
At a meeting of the United Hebrew
| Trades Union of New York City, 1t was
| decided to affiliate with the WorkmeA's
| Circle, the national Hebrew labor fed
Grafton.
The Journeymen tailors' general execu-
tive board has interpreted the law relat-
ing to sick benefits to mean that no such
| benefits can be paid to any member
| while outside the United States or Can
ada.
As a result of complaints made by the
Vallejo (Cal.) trades council orders have
| been issued by the Navy Department to
observe the provisions Of the California
child labor law in employing boys at the
| Mare Island n~avy-yard.
An agreement, which it is said will
| end the differences existing between the
| Boston (Mase.l roofers and sheet metal
workers unions 1r many years was
| signed by r~epresentives of both organ
i%zations.
BY a referendum vote the Poster Ar
fists Association of America has de-
cidad to affiliate with the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. The union has passed
its tenth anniversary, and there are To-
calls in every important labor center OF
the country.
Outside of the American Federation of
Labor, the largest labor organization IN
this country are the great railroad
brotherhoods, six in number, wlch IN
clude something like a million workers.
| divided up into thousands OF local
unions.
A period of twenty years in France
and Belgium has not materially changed
the tonnage output a miner employed. but
the German miners have reduced their
output by twenty-one tons in that term,
and the British miners by NO less than
thirty-four tons since 1887.
In the matter of factory inspection and
the health and safety of employees, legis-
lative action was taken n thirty-nine
| States and Territories last year. These
include all States in which mining or
manufacturing employs a considerable
number of persons. In fourteen States
new enactments touching upon this sub
iect were written into the statutes.
Sixteen British trade unions, with 4
membership of 100000, are supporting a
movement to establish a 1-cent eight-page
daily newspaper in the interest Of labor.
Its title will be the Morning Herald. The
parliamentary committee of the trade
union congress will manage the venture.
The suggested capital is $4,000.
The law in Spain which already fixed
the maximum working hours foS children
between the ages of ten and fourteen
years, limiting them to six hours in mills
| and other industrial establishments, and
to eight hours in shops and Offices, and
which further prohibited them from being
employed on night work, has until now
made no regulations against the employ
ment of women and children in certain
| harmful branches of industry.