Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
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A Vienna cooperative society with
700 members operates an immense bak-
cry.
Stage hands of Marysville, Cal, have.
organized a local of the theatrical en-
ployes.
Newark's locked out painters receiv-
ed 1928. They asked 1884 and turned
down 1882.
In Australia the federal elections re-
suited in complete victory for the
Labor party.
Cleveland Lake Shore Railway boil
ermakers obtained an increase Of 21a
cents an hour.
Since the adjournment of the Cali
fornia State Federation Of Labor in
San Rafael. last October, thirty three
unions have afiliated with the fedora
ton.
The present San Francisco (Cal)
Building Trades Council was organized
In 1896, with six unions and member
ship of less than 1000. The present
membership is above the 10000 mark.
The Montreal (Canada) Trades and
Labor Council desires to have all en-
Sployment agencies in that territory
abolished and have one general office
established under the control Of the
government.
The State Federation of Labor OF
Texas has decided, by a large major
ity vote. that hereafter all officers of
the federation are to be elected by se-
cret ballot. and in that way eliminate
politics from that body.
The Bakers Union at Mayaguez,
Porto Rico. is on strike to enforce hy-
gienic conditions in bakeries there It
Is affiliated with the International I'm
ion Of Bakery Workers and the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor.
The strike Of Bradford (England)
wool combers came to an end recently,
an agreement being signed between
points of the agreement are that
joint board is to be framed to deal
with wage questions and other dis
putes: an advance Of IL cents week
to all receiving less than $s.76 week.
and rs cents to all receiving $3.75 a
week and over; two stops Of half-an-5
hour each for night workers.
Monthly returns from 1870 represent
tative trade unions In New York in
which 10000. or nearly one fourth OF
the organized wage earners in the
State, show that at the end of the year
the percentage of idleness was EOS. rs
compared with $50 at the close Of 1908
and 1927 at the end of 1907. Returns
as to earnings of organized wage work
ers In the third quarter of 1909 from
all unions in the State show an aver
age of 1898 for 31s,754 men reporting.
In the corresponding months of 1908
the average earnings for 2S8,1S1 men
reporting was only S207.
The metal workers union in Ger
many had 373.34s members at the end
I of 1909, and has already Increased this
year by about 10000. This huge or.
ganization had an income In 1909 of
1885, 900. In the first quarter of 1909
$325,O00 was paid for unemployed, re-
lief.
The photographers of Europe have at
this time three representatives in the
United States studying the conditions
of the trade with view to preparing
plan that will result In the adoption
of a working agreement between the
organizations of the two countries to
the end that mutual aid may be rem
dered in case of any trouble.
II the French chamber Of deputies
accepts notifications in the w'orkmen's
pension bill just passed in the Senate
by vote of $50 to 8, practically all the
workers of France will be able to draY
pensions from the State treasury after
they have reached the age OF 65 years.
or have spent thirty years in toll.
State employees now are guaranteed
pensions, as are railroad employees,
miners and seamen.
There are now ninety-two labor un-
ions in Lon Angeles, CAL, all housed IN
the seyen-story Labor temple recently
dedicated. In 1887 there were only two
labor organizations in that city, the ty-
biographical and carpenters.