Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-01

Unions in many of the larger cities of
Minnesota are raising funds on their W.
account with which to pay organizers.
Gas filters are among the best-paid
mechanics in New South Wales. They
receive higher wages than the plumbers.
San Francisco tCal.) Laundry Work
ers' Union has decided to begin an agi-
tation against Japanese and Chinese laun-
dries.
San Francisco (Cal.) Brewery Work
ers' Union is discussing q proposition to
procure a site for the erection of a brew
ers' hall.
Granite cutters at M~aisonneuve, Que
bee, have obtained an advance from $3.50
to SO a day and the adoption of the eight
hour day.
Ar effort is being made to have all ce-
ment workers unite under the jurisdiction
Of the American Brotherhood of Cement
Workers.
Boston (Mass.) Cigarmakers' Union
has levied a local assessment to increase
the out-of-work benefit for the ~unemploy-
ed of the craft.
More than $4,000 members were added
to the rolls of the international Associa-
ton of Machinists in Massachusetts, dur
ing the last year.
Central Federated Union of New York
is carrying on an earnest campaign to
obtain the construction of ships in gov
eminent yards.
During 1906 forty-one of the .sixty-four
unions affiliated with the General Fedora
ton of German Trades Unions at Berlin
paid unemployed benefits.
ns1:kS L. lIa -z cJ1 ~o @,1 80
trade unions in Germany, the bricklayers
and masons are among the strongest, with
1881 4 members at the close of 1906.
Toronto, Canada, is the place, and jan
uary of next year the time selected for
holding the next annual convention of
The Custom Cutters Association of Amer
lea.
Nine hundred foundrymen at Camelon,
Falkirk, Scotland, are affected by a lock-
out, which originated from a strike due
to the employment of several men not in
the union. .5,
Measures for the better payment of
school teachers, the better registration of
vital statistics and provision for old age
pensions are forecasted in the Nova SEQ
tia Legislature.
W. r. Trotter, a member of the Typo
EIdpulCdl OAlOu LII "IhLlPCSs hoS SoiS
to Great Britain as the representative of
the Dominion trades congress in immi-
grafton matters.
Minneapolis Typographical Union No.
~ has taken the first step in a move to
raise a fund from which to pay striking
members a sum equal to that received
while engaged in their regular occupation.
A bill is now pending in the New York
Legislature which provides for the semi
monthly payment of all railroad employees
in the State. The Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen has been
most active in pushing the bill.
The new federal law, limiting the hours
Of railroad telegraphers to nine q day,
was the cause, Indirectly, of putting sew
eral hundred trainmen, who had been
carried as extras to work, besides about
$500 additional operators on the various
roads of the country. The extra expendi-
ture by the reads will probably reach
about 100000 annually.
Leaders of labor unions in San Fran
cisco are laying the foundation for a
movement that will lead to a close scru-
tiny of all persons whe are to become can
didates for national, State and judicial
Offices. Those who have the matter in
hand declare that a review of the past
shows that in the judicial lines the wage
earners have not received the considera-
ton to which they have been entitled.
Labor has two representatives in Con
gress who hold membership cards in the
T~elegraphers' Union. One is Representa-
tive Carey of Milwaukee, a Republican,
and the other Representative McDermott,
Of Chicago, a Democrat. These labor
men are working hard to obtain the pas
sage of labor legislation, and since the
recent decision by the Supreme Court in
the Hatters' Union case nave been seek
ing to have enacted an amendment to the
Sherman antitrust law that willAexempt
labor unions from it's provisions.
The Trades Union Congress of Great
Britain, through its parliamentary com
mittee, is about to go into the daily news,
paper business. Sixteen unions, with an
aggregate membership of 100000, are
pushing the movement, which they pro
pose to capitalize at 100000.
Some idea of what it costs to provide
for the unemployed against want may be
gained by reference to the amounts ez.
pended by Typographical Union No. g OF
New York. during the years 1906 and
1907. In the former year the benefit
board dispensed S~53.651.75; in the latter
year the total was $34,S40.27.