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Show SjjMa I inn .1 iji .. I eMIl II II ill I iirrnTTinwnriii iiinmiTr irnnri mil rinnr nirri f v-i' "f-TM - "-" " I ALL COUNTRIES B Russian Laborers Near Fresno, California, to be Organized Ex- B . press Workers Poorly Paid Co-operative Grocery Store and R Meat Market Started by Union Members Selected Men B and Women to be Induced to 60 to Victoria, Australia K Threat to Close Factories in Presidential Year to H be Legislated Against. Hi Stono masons In Shanghai, China, H& sarn 15 cents a day. Tlamllton, Can., teacherB have pe- HjT UUoned for salary Increases. H? Seamen in Sweden recently recelv- H; ed an increase In wages. m A union of carpenters has been M formed in Nashua, N H. m New York bhlrtmakors will demand H a 10 per cent inoreaao In wageB. K There are more than 2,000 union 'B carpenters unomployed in San Fran- Hi cisco, Cal. B Guolph, Can., carpenters want an :H increase from 25 to 27 1-2 cents an ,H. hour to 35c. ,B ize the" Russian laborers in the vicin- lB ltv of Fresno, Cal. Wi. The United Hobrew Trades in Now flf York city is planning the establish - vBf ment of co-operative . bakeries. fK Ninety per cent of he laborers on dff the plantations and in the mines of sH Cuba are Spaniards. ,oE Horeshoers at La Ctosso, Wis., have K Increased their wages to $3 a day and iK secured the nine-hour workday rm The private omploymont agents at 'IqH' war against the State Frco Employ- !2l ment Bureau of Minnesota. IdH Street rallwav employes at Otta- K wa, Can., have 'received a voluntary H' Incroaso in wageB of 1 cent an hour. Sm Express workers in the "United K States aro paid an average of $190 por 3K annum by their kind-hearted oraploy- !aH: crs. C,H, A number of firms in tho north- TiiHr west recontiv signed the agroeraont ': providing for tho eight-hour day for SH machinists. H A co-oporatlvo grocery store and JlijH' meat market has been started by tho oJJK union mombors of various trades at sH' Sioux City, la. H The entiro police force of Soralyo, m Hungary, has gone on strike for mora r2jfl pay. At present its members receive VB $10 a month. H The Waosteg strike has ended and 2H the 5,000 mon affected aro to return 'Ilra to work. All the non-unionists have fcjSiBKj; joined the federation. 'PKPL The cost of the Tecont international aUgKP convention of the United Mine Work SigK,1 ers was more than $180,000, an aver- jffiBfrg age of more than $7,000 a day. $$8& Manchester, Eng.. dock workers re- 191' contly went on strike because the irtftKI- shipping companios continued to om- Sjgm Dloy non-union labor. A general strike if: of tho transport workers is threatened. threat-ened. The wages earned last year by Spanish settlers in South America amounted to about 25,000,000, according accord-ing to 0 statement by Chilian consul In London. Tho govomment of Victoria, Australia, Aus-tralia, is arranging for the emigration emigra-tion of over 2,000 selected men and women workers from Scotland ana England. Twenty-eight successful "BanlUiry strikes" Involving no questions of hours, wages or union lecognltlon is tho record for one year of the Cloak- miilroro' nnlnn nf Mri- "Ynrlr During lie past sixteen years the total amount of sick, death, out-of-work and disability benefits paid by the International Molders' union was $3,0GG,821.15. In the steel mills of Nova Scotia and tho Soo, men are not only compelled com-pelled to work seven das a week, but also have to work in shifts of eleven and thirteen hours. Congress will be asked to prohibit employers, during presidential elections, elec-tions, threatening to close factories or reduce wages should certain candidates candi-dates be elected. A systom federation of the empkn es In the operative department of tho 1 Denver & Rio Grando railroad, numbering num-bering approximately 3,000 has just been effected. Japan recentl tasted her first organized or-ganized strike in tho form of the strike of conductors and motormen of the municipal trolley car service of Tokio, in which the employes wero victorious. Slnco 1883, the International Carpenters' Car-penters' union has given an eight-hour day 'to C8D citle3, and caused a nine-hour nine-hour day in 804 cities On account of tho reduction of hours, 30,000 more men havo gained employment. Tho labor movement of South Australia Aus-tralia has been defeated In the general gen-eral elections, according to recent returns. re-turns. The opposition has been returned re-turned In control of the parliament by n majority of six seats. The electrical workers' controversy in Boston, Mass., which was referred to an arbitration commlttoe, haB been settled. Thp olectriclanB received a ralso from $-1 to 1.40 a day.,, t, There are so few experienced farm laborers in Saskatchewan that the pro- ' viuclal 'dopartment of agriculture is 1 i r prepuring to assist the immigration of experienced framors from Great Bu-tain Bu-tain The journeymen tailors of Wash- : ington, D. C, havo galjied an eight-hour eight-hour day with an increase in wage?. Including time and one-half for oei-tlme. oei-tlme. They al3o secured the "week work system ' Vital" statistics ascribe short lives to printers, on the average, but tho l recent report of the public printer J states that there are employed at pros- 1 cnt in the government printing office I at Washington 250 porsons over 03 years of age. Stops are being taken for the formation for-mation of a federation of a)l employes of electrical workers for 'corporations In the territory of California, Nevada. Oregon, Washington, Arizona and British Columbia. Industrial disputes were less numerous nu-merous In New York stato in 101.1 than in 1910, the bureau of mediation and arbitration having lecorded 215. strikes and lockouts In 1911 as compared com-pared with 250 In 1910. That tho strike of the Now York laundry workers against thp conditions under which thev have been compelled compell-ed to work wa3 In every way justified was tho report recently made to the state department of labor by the committee com-mittee named to investigate this matter. mat-ter. Changes In weekly hours of labor Lining encci in ureal joruain in i;m affected 105,537 working people. Of theso 4.337 had their hours increased by 13.905 per week and 101,200 had reductions amounting to 57-1,140 hours per week Of the nearly 900.0QO women operatives opera-tives in textile Industries In England about one-third are employed In the Lancashire find Cheshire cotton mills. Girl operatives may earn from $5 to $5 50 a week a relativelv high wago rate for women in "British Industries. Two thousand doctors from all parts of the United Kingdom, at a meeting held recently in London, passed pass-ed a resolution to boycott vigorously Chancellor Lloyd-Georgos Insurance scheme and not to treat tho poor un der its provisions unUl Hhc demands of tbo medical profession wero grant- Sixty-six shops of tho Pennsylvania railroad, employing 50,000 mon, havo been equipped with safety appliances and tho result has been a decrease o? accidents from an average of 300 .1 month to about 100, Bulletins havo also been Issued to the employes showing bow to avoid accident and these havo had a helpful influence A dispute arose recently between the scourers and the employers in the needle trade of London Eng Tho demand de-mand was for a minimum avoso and a bonus of 25 per cenL The Needle Trndo association agreed to an Increase In-crease in wages amounting to an all-around all-around advance of 10 per' cenL It is stated that tbo locomotive engineers en-gineers of all railroads in tho Eastern territory have mado demands for a general increase in wajes, nulglng from 15 to 25 per ceut, Tho demands Involve all railroads east of Chicago , and north of the line of' the Norfolk & 1 1 Western railroad" and of the Ohio tiver In tho 394 British trade unions with a net membership of 78S.9SG, making returnB, 24,074, ,oj" 3.1 pei cent, were roturned as unemployed at the eno of December, 1911, compared with 2 0 per cent at the end oi November, 1911. and 5 per cent at tho end of December. 1910. Mrs Medill McCormick reports that raan girls aro working in Chicago for icsa than ?4.50 a wc-ek. She recently re-cently appealed, to tho clubwomen of Chicago to tako. definite steps toward tho formation of a m.nlmum wage commission for women and minor, in tho suite of Illjnois. Tho Chicago Woman's club Is now planning to foim such a commission. The British Minors' Fedeiation has decided to appeal to the miners on tho continent of Europe to boycott all attempts to export coal to the Unltcl Kingdom In the event of a national strike being declared. There ib no doubi that a similar request w.U be made to American miners,, and -should the proposed restricted action be in-ctfeethe, in-ctfeethe, the foreign miners will be asked to stop work. Representatives of Kghthouso keepers keep-ers throughout Canada had an Interview Inter-view with the government recently They number one thousand and the averngo salar. 1c now $450 a vear, although al-though some years ago it was $50'). In view of tho cot,t of living, it Is represented rep-resented that the pay. is insufficient to enable a man to bring up a familj, and a 33 per cent Increase with re-establishmeut re-establishmeut of pensions, Is askod The delegation got the promise of serious ser-ious consideration. Journeymen compositors, machine tenders, conectors, stereotypers and electrotypors in Germany have a system sys-tem of five year contracts in operation opera-tion with the Journeymen Book Printers' Print-ers' association A new five year period per-iod under a readjustment of tho scale of wages bogan recently. The Bcalo ol wages varies in differont citios in Germany, Ger-many, a 10 per cent increase bolng the minimum secured by the printen, and ranging as high as 14.8 per cent increase, those figures covering fifteen fif-teen of tho piinclpal cities in Gor-iuuny. Gor-iuuny. A J. KISSING. |