Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-01-08
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Galveston (Texas) Transfers recently
formed a union.
Musicians at Charleston, S. c., recently
organized a union.
Postofice clerks lave chartered a new
union at Atlanta, Ga.
Asbestos workers at Denver, Colo, are
preparing to organize.
In October 241 work people in Canada
were injured, and of these seventy-nine
died.
The metal trades department of the
American Federation of Labor is being
formed in Augusta, Ga.
Leather workers on horse goods expect
before 1910 to make a general demand for
the eight-hour day in the trade.
Trade unionists at Little Rock, Ark,
expect to bring up a number of labor
measures at the next session of the Leg
i%slature.
Stationary fremen and stationary en-
gineers at Fort Worth, Texas, have secur-
ed an eight-hour day and an increase Of
40 cents a day.
An effort will be made at San Fran
cisco to effect a permanent organization
of all trades and industries that have a
grievance against Asiatics.
The next biennial session Of the grand
division of the Order of Railway Conduc-
TORS of America will be held in Boston in
May of next year.
In Austria and France the provision Of
rescue apparatus in mines is made COM
pulsory. In Germany it is optional, but
has been voluntarily adopted.
The jurisdictional strife between the
Freight Handlers Union and the Order
of Railway Clerks was adjusted by a joint
agreement, each union giving way on
some points and accepting a compromise
on the membership.
Declaring the Boycott to be unwise and
of general menace to the public, the gen.
eral assembly of the Knights of Labor at
Washington recently went on record as
opposing fatty the program of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
As a result of a meeting of the sheet
metal workers of Lowell, Mass, held re-
emily, the employers voluntarily granted
the eight-hour work day without reduc-
ton in pay from the amount paid for the
previous nine-hour day.
The government plan of old-age pen
sions goes into effect in Australia and
New Zealand on July 1, 1909. The plan
provides that every person Of IS years of
age, who is permanently incapacitated for
work, will be qualified to receive a pen
sion. By proclamation women of 80 years
may be qualified.
In both England and Scotland s~everalu
rescue stations have been organized in
connection with experimental galleries
devised for the purpose of training col
liers in the methods of effective rescue
work in the event of explosions. pit fires
and other underground. accidents.
Denver, Colo, will soon have a union
labor hospital, costing 100000, n ac-
c~ommodating $50 to 400 persons. The
city is now the headquarters for the Ma
tional Union Labor Hospital Association.
which will proceed with the building of
hospitals for members of labor unions in
all large cities of the country.
The Bakers Union of Memphis has
started a label campaign which the mem
bers hope will produce good results. The
idea is to place a value upon bread labels
and thus encourage their use.
Electricians Union No. IL. of San
Francisco, has in its membership the tall
est and the shortest men in the trade.
The former stands six feet five inches and
the latter four feet three inches.
Sixteen locals were represented at a re-
cent meeting to form the proposed metal
trades section of the Boston (Mass.) G.
l.. q. Application was made to the A. F.
of l.. metal trades department for the
local charter.