Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Labor Wold [ARTICLE]

Labor Wold

Journeymen tailors at Palo Alto, Cal., have organized. In several States the machinists’ unions have increased nearlySOO per cent In membership during the last year. Fourteen new unions have affiliated with the Minnesota State Federation of Labor since the beginning of the year, and five applications are pending. San Francisco (Cal.) union men affiliated with the iron trades council have voted to strike May 1. Over G.OOO men are involved. They demand an eight-hour day. Chicago (Ill.) elevator men have been negotiating with the building managers for an increase of $lO a inbnth in wages and the matter has been submitted to arbitration.

During the twenty-one years of the existence of the United Hatters of North America they have used 270,900,000 labels. Last year the union hatters made nearly 30.000;000 hats.

A new wage scale increasing the wages of the union barbers of Oakland, Cal., is under discussion between the bosses and the employes. The wages will be arranged upon a sliding scale. The International Union of Bill Fosters and Billers have articles of agreement with all circuses and outdoor shows, through which all bill posting and billing will be done by union men. The Musicians’ Union of Cincinnati, Ohio, is in a tangle with the Cincinnati Orchestra Association. The main cause of the trouble is over the desire of the association to draw on European talent to the detriment of musicians in this country.

Many members of the United Association of PtffflWw;'Gas Firters and steam Fitters are urgiug that the organization establish a home for the aged and infirm, along the same lines as the typos. At a meeting held in KeW York recently it was announced that arrangements are being made for the formation of a permanent organization in favor of abolition of child labor. It waa stated that the movement .waa national, and hope was expressed that the organisation would succeed in arousing public sentiment, without which legislation wifi be •f bo use.