The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913. TRADE UNIONISM IN CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 40, 17 October 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913. TRADE UNIONISM IN CANADA.

[The annual report on labor organisation in Canada, recently issued by the Department of Labor for that Dominion, reviews tho trade union movemcnl in Canada during 19.12, and shows that, in common with other .activities of industrial life in Canada, trade union membership increased considerably during 1912. At the end of 1911 the membership was reported at 133,132, while at tho close lot L 912 it stood at 100,120. The report, which refers to the tendency to internationalism in trade unionism, shows that in all 148 international trade unions operating in North America have one or more local branches in Canada. It is noted that a movement known as industrial I'nionisin, and which has for its object the closer federation, or actual consolidation, of all craft unions has; been endorsed by the Trade and Lalor Congress of Canada. The report shows that there art' 1,638 local, branches in Canada of international! organisations, having 136,380 members a'mong Canadian wage earners. 01 Canadian Central organisations there tire 217 local brandies, having a total membership of lo.tilt'i. In addition there are 28 independent bodies, of which 16 report a membership of 811."). Thus there art* in all !883 local unions in Canada. The total number of wage earners in Canada is placed at 1,300,00(1 and an analysis of the comparative, strength of organised labor shows thai a large

number of unskilled laborers, apro simately 88 per cent, of tho whole remain untouclied by organisation. I

is however, pointed out that the total of 160,120 union members will bo Sound, no doubt, to include the large majority of effective members of skilled crafts in the Dominion. ~ ~„ ~,.. „_...■, - ,