Show U ff III y I 1 N im paris france one of the most original lay laws s to safeguard the poor man s money in france Is known as tie the ribot bot law ribot Is a deputy see ing that the average factory hand can in thirty years spend 1400 at the rate of 4 a month for rent without at the end of the time having either capital property or credit he devised t a statute by which the poor man bould 0 uld be abl able e to borrow money with ont t security and buy his own home this act has I 1 since ince been modified as experience suggested and it is now working almost to perfection the law provides that the state may bor row any sum up to 20 at 3 per cent interest this sum it may then lend at 2 per cent to specially t organized real estate firms which in turn thus secured may after invests gation advance money without adoll lional security to factory or field laborers at a rate of interest only slightly more than 2 per cent but t which nevertheless insures against it eventual losses and creates a reserve fund washington the conference of fede federated abed and state immigration boffl ill cfall in session here for the purpose of 0 solving the problem ot 0 distributing unemployed labor to the localities here it Is needed became a per manent organization it will be known as the national conference of gration land and labor officials the conference adopted several resolutions recommending measures intended to induce ce immigrants to leave the con gesund centers alt ners for the agricultural and other industrial districts in creased appropriations by congress tor for the bureau of information of the united states immigration service and the creation at the expense of the states of state bureaus of lion with representatives at ports of entry were favored it was also rec om mended that the states establish tree free employment bureaus and enact i laws safeguarding laborers in search i of employment los angeles cal rate regulation j lor for street cars with a 3 cent fare in sight right will be provided for by the coun colin ell cil at once says the los angeles her aid the ordinance directing the board ot of public utilities to proceed with an investigation having been started on its course through the council recent ly the ordinance will provide that the board shall investigate the books of the railway corpora corporations tiong make an inventory of their properties and plants and return a report showing whether it Is necessary to charge a cent 6 5 fare in order to pay interest on the money invested friends ot of the ordinance and the movement it au th thorl orizes zes assert that a scent 3 cent fare are Is almost certain to result indianapolis for the purpose of bringing about a closer affiliation be tween the united mine workers of america with international head in this city and the western rede federation ration of miners with head at denver a proposal Is to be laid before the american federation of labor convention that a mining department of the A F of L be ere abed this proposal it Is said will receive the unanimous support of the delegates representing the two or of miners gloucester mass the tree climb ers of the gloucester gypsy moth force went out on strike last week they demand a 40 cent dally daily increase in wages at present the climbers re L belve 2 25 a day while the ground men receive 2 24 the climbers in elst that as their work Is more dan berous and a great deal more difficult receive more than one cent per day more than Is paid the ground men the city council refuses the demand new york new york yorks s v a age earn era ere number 1400 of which the workers in factories lead all the rest with a total of the store clerks are next in line with there are laborers and me chanies 68 men in the liquor busl bust ness less 45 office workers forty thousand in the printing trades 24 educators eight thousand church workers six thousand lawyers and five thousand physicians chicago the girl stenographer who cannot make 12 a week ought to gult quit and take up domestic science aid said mrs raymond robins president 0 of the woman s trade union league in urging typists to join the union the union will demand a minimum nage wage of 12 per week after the first of the year classes will be formed tor for the study of german english and french as well as clas classics in gram grain mar and spelling washington all the industries of nova scotia says united states con till sul ragsdale halifax complain because of the inability to procure labor to carry on their work men are bad ly needed to assist in the creation of the new wharves and docks and now that contracts are let for building the halifax and eastern railway the de band mand hlll increase the prospects tor for steady work during the entire winter la Is excellent from present indications no to nan man need go hungry in nova the coming winter for the want c employment london eng leicester england indianapolis the publicity bureau of or the indiana conference ol 01 typo graphical unions has prepared a special bulletin calling attention of all printers of the state to the second an nual meeting of the conference in in diana polls january 14 the bulletin also calls attention to the work that has been accomplished since its in ution in n anderson two years ago seventeen of the twenty seven unions in the state comprising nearly 75 per cent of the membership have alfill abed it Is expected that the others will soon unite in the movement to make it a loo per cent organization the employment bureau has received a bis six months practical test with results gratifying to the officers this feature will become the principal aim of the conference and taken in con lection with the label agitation which Is being waged has caused much favorable comment to reach the ears of the union printers in other states the movement to bring the country employer and employed into touch with each other also Is being started ohio and illinois men have become inter ested and are making efforts to have similar plans followed in their states washington the A F of L has had in operation tor for several 5 3 ears a building trades department a label trades department and a railroad department part ment consisting of affiliations of organizations whose work Is similar in character the miners are now asking that a separate department be created for them this it is pointed out will bring them into closer touch with each other at all times meet ings ing of the different departments ally precede the sessions of the A F of L and quest questions lons pertal pertaining ning to the particular crafts represented in the separate departments are taken up the departments sometimes hold special meetings at times when the A F of L Is not in session the united mine workers of america which in eludes all union coal diggers has a membership of the western federation of miners whose member drawn from among the metal miners has between 50 and 55 men enrolled IN man alan winnipeg s mu power plant at point du bols bois 77 miles from the city Is one of the largest municipal enterprises in mani toba the new plant will cost the people of winnipeg who approved it at the polls nearly 5 it Is designed to convert the waters of the winnipeg river into 60 horsepower of electrical energy sufficient clent so the engineers believe not only to operate the municipal lighting plant but to supply the city with sufficient lelent energy for lighting and commercial purposes tor for some years to come chicago while the chicago fed aeration of labor repeatedly has in equal suffrage the ers and typists union appears chary of spending money for the cause del doi agates of the stenographers at the federation meeting protested against the executive board placing on fale file a request of their union that a petition to congress on the equal suffrage frage ques tion be sent to the rank and file for signatures atlanta ga the adjustment corn com cittee of the american federation bede ration of labor has in hand the long con troverse tro versy between the carpenters and the sheet metal workers which re suited last year in the expulsion of the former from the building trades department it Is expected that the committee will recommend the rein statement of the carpenters under unde r tain conditions pittsburg pa the american association of stenographers has been or here its objects are to in crease efficiency and earning power and promote the general welfare of its members this Is said to be the first organization of stenographers in the country the union Is to include both sexes and branches are to be b a formed in every large city chicago every store factory of 0 workshop where men or women are employed for wages shall not be over crowded and at least cubic feet of air space arshall shall be allowed each per son fresh air shall be supplied at the rate of four complete changes an hour ordinance in new municipal Mupi cipal code condensed by the chicago woman s club committee london eng the employed emp loyes I 1 la n linen mills of the united kingdom number about ninety ninetysix six thousand whose ai average earnings in the pay week of september 1906 were 2 90 for those who worked nor more than full time the average earnings were 2 82 92 brantford Brant tord ont surprise was caused by the announcement of W madison hicks that he had secured the promise of 15 from john D rockefeller tor for the erection of a labor temple in brantford as the home of 0 the newl newly formed independent labor league the gift of mr rockefeller Is conditional upon the efforts of the labor men in raising a like amount for their building brantford Is particularly ticul arly erly an industrial town and this la is one of the reasons the league ha has been launched here the local branch has a membership of several hundred milwaukee the milwaukee jour |