Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-19
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Agriculture reports nearly nine
millions of the Inhabitants of the
German empire.
The British Trade Union congress
to he held this year has been fixed
for September 2 and following days
at Newport.
More than forty-f1ve thousand tail.
ors in various parts of Germany who
have been on strike for an increased
wage won a victory carrying a 9 per
cent increase.
The International Moulders' Union
has voted to hold general conven-
ton in Milwaukee in September.
This will be the first convention
held by the union in five years.
A journeyman carpenter who is an
ardent trade unionist, a Presbyterian
minister and a lawyer will comprise
the workmen's compensation CON-
mission of Michigan.
Employees Of Morris & Co., Chica'
60 packing house, who are sixty five
years old may retire and receive an
nually 2 per cent Of their salary for
each year Of service to the corpora
ton.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers has adopted pension plan
which will pay beneflciaries from $40
to $50 month up, disability or re-
tirement at the age limit of sixty
years.
A bill for the establishment of free
employment bureaus in all the prin
cipal cities Of the state has been
drafted by the law and Legislative
committee OF the San francisco labor
council.
With view to making farmers
daughters more content to. remain
at home, schools of housewifery have
been established by the government
of the Netherlands in various parts
of the country. Other branches will
eventually be added to them.
California, connecticut, 1llionis
New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin
have made laws requiring physicians
to make reports on occupational
disease. The diseases specified are
anthrax, caisson disease or the
bends" and lead arsenic and mer-
curry poisoning.
In Australia Cancellation courts or
wages boards are generally estab-
llshed. Any strike or lockout after
an award is made by the court or
the commonwealth law a penalty may
be imposed OF $500 in the case of an
organization or union. $3.50 in the
case of single employer and $40 IN
the case of a worker.
The issuance of individual labels
by the several organizations that
have such is very expensive. The
advertising cost the garment work.
ers between sixty thousand and sew
enty thousand dollars year, while
the cost to the International Typo
graphical Union which advertises the
international label Only, is estimated
at about $4,000 a year.
Because of its failure to accept the
terms OF amalgamation with the
United Association of Plumbers, Gas
Filters, Steam Filters and Steam Fit
ters' Helpers, the International AS
ISOLATION of Steam and Hot Water
Filters and Helpers is no longer
recognized by the American Fedora
ton of Labor. ALI central bodies in
the United States have been instruc-
ted to act accordingly.
Hungarian law requires that all
articles used by the government, by
state institutions, railroads. induat-
ries, etc., and by industrial and other
subsidized by the state
shall he of Hungarian manufacture,
except when it can be shown that an
article needed is not made in that
country or is not procurable in Hun
gary in q suitable quality and at a
price.
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