Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Labor World [ARTICLE]

Labor World

France has 4,625 local unions, with an aggregate membership of 781,344. Blacksnake whips, whip lashes and riding quirts are practically all prison made. Detroit, Mich., secured the 1908 convention of the Steam fitters’ and Helpers’" Union. Plasterers of the Pittsburg, Pa., district have been granted a half holiday on Saturday. "Wages of the carpenters of Stockton, Cal., were increased 50 per cent recently. The scale is now $4.50 a day. Drug clerks throughout the Atlantic States are forming.unions and joining the Retail Clerks’ International Union. As a result of the ’-longshoremen’s strike at New York, the exports from that port dropped $0,944,980 in one week. The proposition to establish an oldage home for miners was defeated by the lowa mine workers on a referendum vote. The Electrical Workers of Cleveland, Ohio, have asked for an increase of 5 cents'an hour. The present pay is 45 cents. The “Patriotic Association of Labor Unions” .has been formed at Hamburg, Germany, as a means of opposing Socialists in the labor movement of that country. The superintendent of colonization has received from the Ontario (Canada) Canners’ Association an earnest request for help to keep their canning works in operation. A government bill has been introduced in the Hungarian Parliament prohibiting employes of State railroads from participating in strikes, under pain of instant dismissal. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters during 1906 paid benefits amounting to $107,000, and the death and disability claims daring th&t period amounted to $218,202. » San Francisco, Cal., laundry workers Have all returned to their respective posts and the statement is made that for three years all will be quiet in the laundries of San Francisco. Since the workmen's compensation act came into force in Great Britain, the members of the Dockers’ Union have received by way of legal awards for accidents $185,871.20. Cigarmakers’ International Union is now combating a lockout in Georgia and a strike at Mobile, Ala., the latter for an Increase of wages. There is also a strike at Havana, Cuba. Boilermakers and iron shipbuilders on the northeast coast of England have renewed their demand for an advance of It 6d per week on time wages and 5 pel cent on piece work rates.