Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

An electrical typesetting machine Is the latest. Typewriters with Arabic letters are sow being used in Egypt The Brotherhood of Railroad Freight and Baggagemen of America has been chattered. Detroit lighting commission laborers bad their pay increased from $1.60 to SL76 per day. The German Catholic societies of the State of New York hare declared in fa▼or of the anion label. At Bio beginning of the year there were 10,000 women members of labor unions in New York State. The Boxmakers* end Sawyers’ National Union has decided to hare a national headquarters and office* in Chicago. Miss Mabel McDonald, a waitress tend the candidate of organised labor in Duluth for queen of the carnival, was elected by s majority of 000 rotes. Mayor Hugo presented her whh the freedom of the city and a S6OO plane, 1 A colored man was elected as international vice-president at the conventkm of the longshoremen at Bay City. The longshoremen’s national, with more than 140.000 members, is the third largest trade union In this country. Nottingham (England) municipal development of water, gas, electricity, street railways, markets, baths and cemeteries has showed an average annual net profit of $168,000 for the last four years. Tbs money is applied to the redaction of taxes. In France workingmen have the full right to form associations haring in view the betterment of their condition. This right includes that of forming temporary coalitions for the purpose of enforcing their demands —in ether words, of engaging hi strikes. While a workman cannot ha punished in that country for the mere act of engaging In a strike, there are heavy punishments for abases of the privilege. The Amalgamated Sheet Metal Work-