Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-19
notes FROM THE
LABOR WORLD

The textile factories of Prussia and
Saxony employ over 400, 900 women.
There are more than $4,000 wO-
men teachers and professors in the
United States.
Poseph n. Weber of New York, has
been reelected president of the Amer
lean Federation OF Musicians.
Big manufacturing plants that have
decided to locate in Calgary, Alber.
ia, will employ about 10000 men.
1t is estimated that the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen will save
more than $1,000 a year through its
decision to hold triennial instead OF
biennial conventions in future.
Janitors of public buildings and
carctakers of public Fairgrounds in
Philadelphia have organized a union
with the hope of securing an eight
hour day and an increase in their
salaries.
The United brotherhood Of Carpen.
tcrs and Joiners of America reports
gratifying progress in the campaign to
organize the wOrkmen in the bax-
making industry in Iowa, Illinois, Wis
consin and Minnesota. #
Labor organizations in the Pacific
Northwest are discussing plans to pre-.
vent transportation companies or 9TH
or interests from bringing an unde-
sirable class of European Immigrants
to their section upon the completion
of the Panama canal.
Z. A. Perkins, who has been made
chief of the Bureau Of Inspection of
the State of Indiana, has resigned as
president of the state Federation OF
Labor of that state, a position which
he has held for several years. RE
also resigned as president of the In
dianapolis Typographical Union.
This is the greatest building sea-
son in fifteen or twenty years, &C
cording to Frank Duffy, secretary OF
the United Brotherhood of Carpen'
tiers and Joiners of America. Mr..
Duffy says there is more carpenter
work in the country than there has
been for years and less trouble be
tween employers and employees.
A monument was unveiled recently
in St. Mary's Cemetery, Beaverdale,
Pa, to honor the memory of DAME
+. Gallagher, father of the miners
certificate law, who is buried there
The monument was erected by the
United Mine Workers of America
who have been greatly benefited il
the past by that law.
State Labor Commissioner Clary o
Arkansas has induced the Owner Q
%laundries in Little Rock to sign al
agreement by which the minimum
weekly wage for girls has been rails
cd from 81 to Sc, with a reduction O
the working hours to nine hours {
day. It was further agreed to short
en- the working day gradually to eigh'
hours.
The Boston Central Labor UnioI
has voted against the proposed Philip
pine tariff clause in the bill now be
for Congress. The protest wa
made on the ground that because ci
gar making is chiefly hand labor thai
American labor, with its shorte
hours, higher standards Of living ant
higher cost Of living, cannot compete
with hand workers in the far East.
Trouble among the members of tn
bricklayers union and the contractor:
in the provinces of Alberta, Mantle
ba and Saskatchewan is expected
within a short time, as a result OF tn
stand taken by the contractors, refus
ing to deal with the bricklayers a
a union. The contractors have OF
fcrcd wages of 20 cents an hour, while
the members of the union demand I;
cents an hour.