Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1908-11-26
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Transfers at Emporia, Kan, have
formed a union.
Dye workers at Minneapolis, Mimi, re
Gently organized.
Operative Plasterers' International
Union has joined the a. f. of L.
Retail clerks at McAlester, Okla, have
obtained a reduction in working hours.
Albany IN. " labor unions have erect
ed and opened a tuberculosis pavilion.
The various central bodies of Orange
county, New York, have joined a county
labor union.
A reorganization of the building trades
unions has been brought about in Buffalo,
y. Y, after many years of warfare.
The labor unions of Sacramento, Cal,
are working energeticaIly for the erection
of a building trades temple in that city.
1t has been decided by the leather work
ers to make a universal demand for the
eight-hOur day within the next We years.
United Brewery Workmen of America
have a cash surplus on hand of $97, 622.41
and an investment in municipal bonds Of
100000.
4 new labor law passed by the State
of Oklahoma orders that all school books
issued to the children of that State must
bear the union label.
Additional death benefits of $3.50 for a
membership of seven or more years and
$500 for one of ten or more years have
been established by the brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers.
The Appellate division of the New
York Supreme Court, second department,
has decided that a contract made by a
corporation with a labor union, whereby
only union men shall be employed should
be upheld as valid and binding.
Bakers and Confectioners' International
Union has adopted a plan to fully organ
ize all the large cities of the United
States, with the idea of having a mem
bership of 100000 within a stated time.
The present membership is 14,5S2.
Paper mills, of which there are eight
in India, employ 400 persons, but this
is not at present a progressive industry,
as European wood pulp paper is largely
imported. There is a prospect of the es-
adjustment of wood pulp manufacture in
India.
The Women's Club of Magnolia, Mass,
is said to be the only one of its kind in
existence. 1t has 81 membership of some
thing more than 300, all women employed
as workers in the hotels, boarding houses
and residences Of the summer population
of that resort.
In Russia, where over fifty men are
employed in one mine, it is provided that
every colliery must have a rescue corps
trained to work in irrespirable gases"
that the number of men in each corps
must be equivalent to 4 per cent of those
engaged in the largest pit or shaft work.
and that the number Of completely
equipped sets of breathing apparatus al
each "colliery must not be less than three
The Australian Parliament appropri
ated 100000 for the increase of the
teachers salaries. and the men teacher:
attempted to get the whole amount ap
piled to themselves. The members Of TIT
WOman's Progressive Association, all O.
them voters, did not see the logic of sucf
a division of the appropriation, and OBJ
jected to it so strongly that the men wer'
forced to share the money with them.
There is a movement in the East OF
the part OF a number of labor unions t
eliminate from their respective c~onstitu
lions the clause which bars the discussion
Of politics at meetings of the ~organiza
lions. The leaders in this direction asser
hat they are moved to this action by tn
hanged conditions in the country, an
demand that such a step must be take
cor the better protection of organized Ia
nor.
The Ciearmakers' international Unto
If America will not hold Il conventio,
his year. An amendment to the const
tuition designed to make q convention pc,
>ib!e has been defeated in the refereu
Dum by the narrow majority of 3O6.
The validity of that section of the labo
aw providing that 10 workmen upon pull
&c work shall be permitted or require
0 work more than eight hours in on
-alendar day is upheld by the New Yor
'ourt of Appeals. The court in substanc
holds that a violation of this law is just
ication for the Withholding of payment
TOR such work from contractors.