Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1907 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

The London (Canada) Labor party has pronounced in favor of old-age pensions. * X • A majority of the musicians of Santa Cruz, Cal., met recently and organized a union. Organized labor in Seattle, Wash., has carried out its proposed plan of obtaining coal mine. Springfield (Canada) miners ask for another board of conciliation to investigate the system of weighing boxes. The building trades of San Francisco are discussing a proposition to settle on a scale 1 wages for three years.' Central Labor Union of Scranton, Pa., has decided to build a $50,000 temple for the use of the trades unions of the city. . . At a meeting of Engineers’ local No. 1 of Denver, Colo, Hie finance committee reported that increased wages to the members of the union during the last year amounted in the aggregate to $6,500. It was reported that conditions in this trade are very prosperous.

The total number of men killed while mining coal in the United States during 1906, according to statistics gathered by the geological survey, was 2,061. The number of workmen receiving injuries in this industry more or less serious, bwt not fatal, was 4,798 during the same period. Miss Marot, secretary of the Woman’s Trade Union League of New York, a short time since delivered an address in which she urged wotaen to organize in every branch of industry and co-operate in union agitation, holding that in that way only can women compete on, equal terms with men in the trades. The union men of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, have started a movement to boycott the beef packers as long as prices remain at the present high rate. The Federation of Labor at Springfield, Mo., has decided to enter politics next year, and will put forward its president as a candidate for the General Assembly. The Carpenters’ Union of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has three members who hays been continuous members of the organization for more than thirty-six years. Their years of membership total about 110 years The union believes thio sets a record. « • ** .* A