The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-13
Many Small items Gathered Over
Country Which are Of Interest TO
Nsokus's laeer
Qnlonisss.
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Rhode Island State Branch VIII Con-
duct Campaign to Elect Men
Friendly TO the Labor
Cause.

! There are now fifteen unions in the
recently organized Building Trades
Council at Winnipeg, Canada.
In ire United Kingdom as a whole,
the average earnings of a hricklayer
for an ordinary week in summer are
$500.
The international convention of the
bridge and structural iron workers
win open September 1s in Rochester.
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Many OF the Building Trades unions
of Chicago maintain automobiles for
the use OF their business agents.
Eighty-seyen new unions affiliated
with the International Longshore-
mems association have been organic
ed in the last fiscal year.
Since the advent of labor TO politi.
cal power in South Australia there
has been general tendency to in
crease wages for municipal workers.
Rhode Island state branch, A. F.
Of l., has decided on political ac-
tivity campaign to secure the enact
ment into law of labor's just requests
and the election to office of men
friendly to organized labor. .'Remem-
Der your friends and defeat your en-
emies,' is to be its campaign slogan.
Western Australia labor men are
out for labor daily with great en-
thusiasm and unanimity. At the Bun
bury congress it was decided to estab-
lish one.
One of the biggest events In west
ern labor circles during the last few
months was the San Francisco laund-
~ workers securing contract for
an S-hour day for three years. The
gain will effect 1,600 members, most
ly girls. Since 1870 to the present
time, period of forty years, the
state Of New York has placed 212 la
Dor laws on its statute books The
greater part of these laws were en-
acted since 1894.
The British Seamen's union is
waging fight for better conditions
for its members and the fiercest la
Dor struggle in history is predicted,
involving every maritime port in the
old world.
The international Alliance of Thea
tricai Stage Employees now numbers
upward often thousand members, and
] is reported to be steadily growing.
with local unions in all the principal
cities of the country.
/ On the wages question the miners
lof France, Germany and Belgium are
all seeking to secure wage agree
ments on similar lines to those OBJ
( tanning in the British coal fields of a
/ fixed minimum wage.
The bookbinders of Berne. Switzer-
land, have succeeded in establishing
/ the 9-hour day, combined with an i'm
mediate increase of 2 per cent, and a
/ further 8 per cent in two years, the
| agreement to run for five years.
The concentration of kindred
! trades goes steadily forward in Ger
many. In May last the three unions,
/ transport workers. 96, 623 lockers, az
I D36, and seamen and firemen, 10,604,
i at congresses held in Hamburg, de-
cided to amalgamate.
4 Labor leaders in San Francisco
/ have been discussing the adyisability
OF establishing banking inEtitu-
ton to be controlled by organized la
Dor. They argue that two hundred la.
/ Dor organizations of the city have
/ sufficient funds in the various banks
to put such an institution on firm
4 foundation.
I Bricklayers In Chicago receive an
hour, 62Hc; in New York, 10 cents;
In san Francisco s71zc. Plumbers in
the same cities, respectively get, 60
621s and rs cents Carpenters in the
same order get 5614, 621a and 62ss
i cents; laborers and hod-carriers in
Chicago So cents, in New York 81
cents and in San Francisco from BIN
to so cents. =.
A summary of the report presented
by the bureau of labor shows that In
forty-six New England mills investi
gated 1913 per cent of all the opera
Il tiyes were females over 16 yeara o.
age and So per cent were children
4 under IS years, while in 152 southern
mills women constituted 81 per cent
Of the total and children 20 per cent