REPORT OF FLOUR MILLS FOR YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1900 :62,800 88858 9,000,000 400 3,180,000 10,000 325,600 18,000,000 3,820,000 60 54885 250,000 10 000 none Value of flour produced by three concerns, $410,860.80; Value of feed produced by three concerns, $62,221.00; Total, $473,000.00 52 20,000 3,000 5 01532 12345 Organized Labor And Its Conditions. Since issuing the sixth annual report of this bureau, organized labor in the state has not experienced any reverses, nor has it had any conflicts of particular moment, but it has secured, through concerted action, some changes in previous conditions that will prove of inestimable benefit to large number's of its members. One of these conditions is the adoption as an established custom of 6 o'clock closing for mercantile establishments. The rule had been previously adopted in several of the smaller towns of the state, but is now in force as well in Butte, Great Falls and Helena. As a direct result of the organized effort, all of the mercantile forces now have their evenings for rest and recreation, and both the clerical forces and the owners of the mercantile establishments are experiencing and acknowledging the appreciated benefits. Another step was made in the right direction, and one that will prove the initial effort to a successful conclusion, when Mr. F. Augustus Heinze, for the Montana Ore Purchasing Company, and Senator W. A. Clark, for his properties and industries at Butte, granted their laborers an eight-hour day. During the campaign of the past fall the subject was agitated, and as a result the platform of the Fusion forces-Populists, Democrats and Labor Partypledged themselves, in case of their election, to secure the enactment of an eight-hour law for all miners and smeltermen, and as these forces were victorious by a very decided majority, and have an equally pronounced majority in the assembly, there could be no doubt that the eight-hour law would be placed upon the state statutes. These forces, according to promise, have at the moment of going to press enacted their pledges into law. The eight-hour laws that have been enacted by a number of states may be shortly stated, as follows: California.-Eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work, unless it is otherwise expressly stipulated by the parties to a contract. A stipulation that eight hours labor constitutes a day's work must be made a part of all contracts to which the state or any municipal corporation therein is a party. But in the case of drivers, conductors and gripmen of street-cars for the carriage of passengers, a day's work consists of twelve hours. Employment of minor children for more than eight hours per day is absolutely prohibited, except in vinicultural or horticultural pursuits, or in domestic or household occupations. Colorado.-Eight hours constitutes a day's work for all workmen employed by the state, or any county, township, school district, muncipality or incorporated town. |