Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES

A typographical union lias been organized at Fayetteville, Ark. Fainters and bakers at Ogden, Utah, have organized to raise wages and force more steady employment for union men. A campaign is under way to organize longshoremen on the Atlantic coast under the banner of the Knights of Labor. An investigation of child labor conditions in the Chicago stock yards is being made by the State factory inspector. Organized labor in Michigan is pushing a bill to abolish contract labor in that State, legislation on which is now pending. In Denmark the National Central Labor Organization has ten central federations, fifteen local societies and 23,477 members. -r For the first time in the history of New Zealand a distinct labor party will appear at the polls in the election of December next. Several new unions of the mine workers will he organized in the Lehigh, Pa., region. The organizers aye working nightly. Average cash Wages in ISSO for agricultural laborers are given ns ss. IOV-pl. in Ireland and 9s. 3d. in England and Wales. The Illinois Central Railway Company has agreed that oflice clerks and freight handlers shall lie promoted according to seniority. Anthracite miners will demand an eight-hour day and the sliding scale, the present wages, mil a number of minor concessions next year. Carpenters nt Montreal. Can., have made a demand for an increase in wages frijiu 22*4 cents an hour to 30 cents, and •sot a niue-liiur*wort day. A bill has been introduced in the AsHcinbjy of f ltrlti»h | C«ilup>bia to amend the 'master and servout ut-e by making weekly pay days compulsory. Union labor will he employed on the Jamestown Exposition if the ceutral body of Norfolk, Vn„ succeeds iri enforcing its demand Upon the commissioners. While the death rate from consumption among all males in Massachusetts is 2.5, the rate among marble and stone cutters is 3.7. and among masons the rate is 4.1. President Gloeklln of the Hookblndera’ International Union has been honored by the Canadian government with the appointment of labor commissioner for that country. Tiie scale < f the Brewery Workers* Union lias been signed by the various firms in Reading. Pa. There will be an increase in wages of $1 a week,*with au occasional half-holiday. A convention of the Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics will be belli at San Francisco, Cal., on Sept. 5 and 7. Social and economic questions will bs discussed.