Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

The Toronto, Canada,. Trades and Labor Council has recommended the es tablishmeut of an independent labor par ty to be known as the ••Canadian Labe; League.” Masons in the Eibenstock district o. Germany receive from 8 to 9 cents an hour, carpenters from 7 to 8 cents an hour and day laborers from 45 to 00 cents a day of twelve hours. The barometer of the Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia would go to prove a bettering business outlook. *’l feel,” says an official of that company, “that we are on the verge of much industrial activity. A number of the big railway companies have bids out for the construction of locomotives. It is evident that we will soon have to take on some of the men who were laid off. About half of the force was dropped, you know. Indeed, the prospect for plenty of work and better industrial conditions is cheering.” There is a shortage of labor in Oklahoma; wages are good and many men could find employment, as the Interior Department is proceeding with important improvements in that territory. The Central Trades Council of Mobile, Ala., has adopted a novel scheme to form a women’s auxiliary. An entertainment has been arranged to take place on the night the new auxiliary is to be organised. Admission to this entertainment for a man coming alone vfill be 50 cents; if he brings with him his wife, sweetheart, mother, aunt, sister or cousin he will be admitted free.