Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-10-02
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more than 800 O0 in its emergency fund.
There is IA movement under WY to or
ganizc a building trad" section Of the
American Federation of Labor in Fargo.
n. d..
The 1,2OO bridge and girler workers on
strike at Wolverhampton, Eng. recently
resolved not to return 10 work on the
terms offered.
The international brotherhood of
painters and Decorators of America has
increased its membership more than 6,skbs
since April l..
San Francisco carpenters will exert
strong efforts to obtain the convention OF
the United brotherhood Of Carpenters
and %.J0iners i'll 1910.
According to a recent report OF the As
>ociatcd RlacksmithS' Society of Great
Britain, the surplus funds of the organ
ization amounted to over $12O,090.
Belfast Irc!anfb employers have civ
Ell notice OF n reduction of > shillings a
week in the wages of iron molders. 1t is
rurnorcd that the men will resis; the re-
ductiOn.
Under the revised law governing the
employment of women and children in
Italy, night work is forbidden for all fe-
males and for males of less than fifteen
full years.
There is a movement TO organize all
the unskilled workingmcn of Montreal,
Canada, into a big federation along the
lines of the Knights of Labor which ex-
listed in that city about twenty years ago.
NV ,-... 800 -J-,,.,~ fnr
the establishment of a home for their
aged and INDECENT members. 1t is pro
posed to acquire a tract of 800 acres near
Fort Scott, Kan, as the location for the
institution.
Swansea carpenters and joiners have
made q demand for an advance in wages
of q penny per hour. As Cancellation
! boards now rule the rates of wages in the
British building trades, the matter will
| doubtless be settled by Cancellation or ar
bitration.
The officials of the International
| Brass Molders' Union, which was organ
lied in October. 1904, report that their
membership has now reached 10000 in
this country. The union has established
a sick benefit fund and also a death and
burial fund.
Sacramento, Cal, wishes to have a la
| Dor temple. and has sent to each union
a COPY of the plan to raise funds to erect
| the structure. 1t is proposed that each
member of a union shall buy $50 worth Of
stock and pay it in sixty monthly in
stallments of % cents.
In Denmark several stoppages of work
have taken effect. Owing to the litho-
graphic workers insisting ON eight hours,
which the employers did not see their way
clear to comply with, they went out, to
which the employers responded by lock
ing out the men within the printing Tex
cept the daily press), and the paper in
dustries and bookbinding, the men in
their turn striking at all the daily papers
In the country, except the socialistic.
The Frick Coke Company Of Pittsburg
having decided to start up at once rs per
cent of all it's ovens, and requiring 5,o0O
men for that purpose, has sent word to
the cokeworkers who returned to Hun
gary last fall that they are now wanted.
The FricA people claim that their efforts
to man the ovens with home labor have
proved fruitless. Nevertheless, labor
leaders say that they will force the con-
tract labor law into action to prevent the
unemployment of the men from Hungary.
Socialists and members of labor unions
thorough the country are taking up
the case Of Jan Pouren, a Russian revo-
lutionist who recently was arrested in
Philadelphia on the demand Of agents OF
the car that he might be extradfted and
tried in Russia for high treason. Peti-
lions are in circulation pointing out that
Pouren, being q political refugee, should
not be sent back, and urging che federal
authorities e release him. Delegates
from various labor bodies are to present
the petitions to the president.
President Lewis o. the United Mine
Workers signed an order calling off the
strike in the coal district OF Birmingham,
Ala, Thursday, the chief reason given be-
Ing that Gov. Conner had prohibited the
| use. OF tents to house the striking miners
This and other severe measures employed
by the authorities had discouraged the
strikers. The owners said that most of
the 1900 men would be taken back on
the open shop basis. The 800 militia on
duty for the two months during which
the strike existed were sent home.
AT Dunmore, Pa, near Scranton, when
the managers Of the Mountain shaft Of
the Pennsylvania Coal Company were
| taking to WORK SO STRIKE breakers 10 take
the places of men and boys who had gone
out Us a protest against the discharge of a
breaker boy, and because Of excessive
docking, a fight took place between the
strikers and the state troops, who had
been called to protect the property Of the
company. Several volleys were fred be-
| fore the angry worktnen would disperse.
and two women, one carrying a baby,
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Labor unions were almost unknown in
Newfoundland up to 1892. Then the
only organization for the protection of
the employed was the Typographical
Union. Since then. and especially of re-
cent years. unions and societies have
sprung up on all sides.
Owing to the failure of the coal oper-
ators in Wyoming to reach a scale agree
ment with the United Mine Workers, all
the miners were called out on the 3Gsh
to the number of 1000. The operators
had demanded a reduction Of Is cents a
day for some classes of workEnen and 10
cents for others.
British coal owners in the federation
area nave given notice of a 5 per cent
reduction in wages; the matter will. in
due course, como before the Cancellation
board. If the parties are snable to agree,
the dispute will probably be referred to
Lord James, of Hereford. as umpire by
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