The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-05
in THE LABOR WORLD
GOSSIP OF The
LABOR WORLD
MEN BACK AT WORK AT zANEs.
VILE POTTERY PLANT-lN.
CREASE WAS GRANTED-soo
MEN WERE AFFECTED AND
WERE OUT THREE MONTHS,

GAINESVILLE, O.. April 5.-Eight hum
aIeu employees of h potteries near
mere have returned 70 work after hay-
ing been on strike since Jan, 1. They
asked FOR an advance Of 25 cents a day
TOT unsk1lEed labor, bringing the wages
up to ~ per day. The MANAGEMENT
refused to accede to this increase and
a strike followed. Finally, however.
n MANAGEMENT and the union entered
mo nesotfatiorrs and a compromise
was erected by an advance in wages
OF l21s cents a day, together with the
establishment of a weekly pay day ill.,
stead of a sefmimonthly one. which had
been In practice heretofore. Ohio pot
teF1es, 1t will be recalled, were included
In the investigation recently made and
reported Tor h government by DR..
Allce Hamilton, in which it wns found
ulat employees work under d~augerous
conditions from lead poisoning.
Tennessee Act.
Memphis, Tenn, April B.-The ho11se
Judiciary committee of the Tennessee
legislature has recommended for pas
sage am act to abolish as a defense the
fellow servant rule in actions for
damages for injury or death of en-
ployes in all hazardous employments
and to modify the defenses of contrib
utory negligence and assumed risks in
certain cases, to define the terms Used
In the act and to make null and void
all contracts or agreements intended
10 eXeInpt employers from liability UNI
der the provisions of the act, II is
believed h a this bill will become a
law.
Crops Help Labor,
Washington, April 5.-The hummer
crops of the last year have not only
enriched the farmer. but they have
served to increase the wages of farm
~laborers. A bulletin issued by the de-
partment Of agriculture declares
wages paid to laborers have increased
about 80 per cent, during the year and
per cent during the last two years.
Since 1902" says the bulletin, 1.-The
increase has been about "a per cent"
irish Wages Low.
Dublin, Ireland, April 5.-The num-
Der Of agricultural Iaborers in Ireland
has steadily diminished, and while the
supply has been falling off reports
show that in the case of permanent
iaborers hired by the ha1f-year or the
year the difficulty of the farmer is not
so much in getting hands as in obtain
ing a supply of efficient labor. The
highest of wages are in the neighbor-
hood of Belfast and Dublin. In certain
cases the wages of the plowmen rise to
$4.S7 per week, but the general aver
o6S ia liz bSJASE ulSlrlCIS may De
placed at 1915 to $3.S9.
Increase at Cleveland.
Cleveland, April 5.-More money is
to Jingle in the pockets of the paint
ers, decorators and carpenters. In
creases asked by these workers have
been granted by employers without
contest. The painters and decorators
are getting As cents an hour for eight
hours time. Double time is paid for
work on Sunday and holidays. and
time and a half for al over time,
Beginning April l, they received so.
cents an hour. an increase of s cents,
with similar provisions covering holi-
days and overtime employment. The
| carpenters obtained the same increase
in pay, taking effect on April l.
Unionists in Congress.
Washington, April Sin the sixty
third congress there will be n
trades union members. Trade union
congressman have been in evidence m
recent times, only inc 1906 But the
first union maj to be elected to con-
| gress as such was Ely Moore, a four
neyman printer, resident in New York
city, elected to the twenty-fourth
congress in 1884, an DIRE elected inI886.