The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-06

Canadian trade disputes in February
lost 5,395 work days.
Grave diggers of New York City re-
Gently formed a labor union.
The Salvation Army has monopoly of
the shoe-blacking business in Copenha-
gen.
Canada had 23S Industrial accidents in
February, and of these sixty-four were
fatal.
Boston (Mass.) Journeymen Horse
shoers' Union will be fifty years old this
month.
San Francisco (Cal.) grocery clerks
union will take measures to organize all
clerks in that city.
Mrs. Raymond Robins has been re-
elected president of the National Wom-
ems Trade Union League, with headquar-
ters in Chicago.
San Francisco (Cal.) labor council
has taken up the matter of obtaining the
eight-hour day for the ambulance divers
of the hospital department.
According to the report of the United
States Commissioner OF Labor. women in
buying for the family spend from 90 to
40 pei. cent of the total earnings.
Painters. decorators and paperhangers
have obtained tract of land in North
Carolina for the establishment of home
and sanatorum for their members.
From 1850 to 1860 many national and
international labor organizations were
formed, which granted charters to local
unions and organized new branches.
An eight-hour day and several other
important concessions to labor are pro-
posed in a bill introduced in the Canadian
Legislature by A. f. Fripp, of Ottawa.
In rural Russia. the wages of farm
laborers have advanced about so per cent
in the last twenty years, but the average
is still only 80 cents day. The board
of such a worker is figured at from ,
cents a day up to 10 cents.
Painters district council of Eastern
Massachusetts has decided to reorganize
on lines laid down by the new interna-
tional laws and which will make the
council, and not the locals, the important
factor of control in certain matters in
that vicinity.
The union workingwomen of Boston,
Mass have organized a chorus to sing
the songs of labor. 1t has fifty members,
and is being constantly increased from
the ranks of the women and girls who be-
long to the various trades unions of that
city. Competent instructors are training
the chorus.
Turned shoe work men of Marblehead,
Mass, are to establish a union school to
instruct young men in the business. there
being a scarcity of turn workmen in that
town.
The Women's Trade Union League is
carrying on an active campaign i'm sup
port of the bill before the New York Leg
islature which provides for a State COM
mission on employment.
A tract of 100 acres. situated just cas-;
of and Immediately adjacent to the Union
Printers Home, at Colorado Springs.
Col. has been purchased for the proposed
national sanatorium of the National Let
ter Carriers Association
A district council of longshoremen for
New York City and vicinity, represent
ing about 5000 longshore workers and
twelve local unions. has been organized.
Austria's government has brought for
ward bill in the Chamber of Deputies
making insurance against illness and old
age compulsory on all workmen and do
mestics, and those employees whose an
nual income does not exceed $500.
The industrial death roll in England
in 1908 is thus given by the Home Secre-
tary: In mines, 1,3f3; i'll quarries. % !:
and in factories and workshops Df2
These figures do not include the loss of
life in the mercantile, marine, or on rail-
ways.