Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — LABOR WORLD [ARTICLE]

LABOR WORLD

Union barbers of Cleveland, Ohio, are watching all the shops to see that they close on Sunday, according to law. During the last twelve months there was an increase of 55,718 members added to the rolls of trade unions in Germany. The labor movement has taken hold in Egypt. The printers employed on a Cairo paper, Les Fyramides, are out for better conditions. Chicago elevator men have submitted to a board of arbitration a proposition made to building managers for an increase of $lO a month. Miss Anastasia O’Meara of Cambridge, Mass., has the honor of being the first woman to hold an office in the strong Retail Clerks’ Association of that city. She was also the first woman member of the association. T. V. Powderly, known to all older union men as the head of the Knights of Labor when that organization was at the height of its power, has been appointed ehief of the Bureau of Information under the Bureau of Immigration. The National Farmers’ Education and Co-operation Union has organized its first branch in Oregon, in the Hudson Bay country, with a membership of fourteen. It is expected to organize anions in various other parts of the State in the near future. Conditions in the Canadian cigarmaking industry have been unsettled for some time, owing to differences between the employers and the union. The movement for compelling nonunionist miners to Join the union la meeting with success In South Yorkshire, England, and adjoining coal fields. The latest and moat up-to-date form of government Mdi Insurance la being con-, side red by Holland, and la now before the second chamber of the States General. The proposed insurance is obligatory and extends to all laborers employad 'TfgulnrJr.