Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — LABOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR

The income for the last year of International Cigar Makers’ Union was $828,498.87. Benefits, paid out for the year were $553,832.34. Another -attempt is l»eing, made to unionize the housemaids of' Boston, Mass., and vicinity, and it is said the movement is meeting with success. The school teachers of the State of Colorado, with a membership of 7,000, have decided to apply for admission to the American Federation of Labor. Organized labor is fast gaining in Santa Cruz County, California, Recently' the bricklayers, cement workers, plasterers and carpenters formed unions. Laws have been passed providing for bureaus of labor in Oklahoma and Texas, and changing an existing office in South Carolina so as to give it largely the character of a labor bureau. The labor temple recently opened at 14th street and 2d avenue, Manhattan, by the Presbyterian department of church and labor, has proved itself to be one of the most successful things ever undertaken by the department. Benjamin Weinstein, general organizer for the United Hebrew trades, an organization of 125 Jewish unions with a membership of 70,000, in Manhattan, has issued an order to the subordinates to take a referendum vote on a proposition to levy a $1 per capita tax on all the members to start a fund for a Hebrew labor lyceuaa. I.■ • I ;