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Show LABOR NEWS OF L - ALL COUNTRIES v S j ' Compensation Law For Worlcmen Has Been Held as Constitutional I ' ' by Ohio Supreme Court Federal Court Upholds Oregon jA ' '. Ten-Hour-i-Day Law as Applied to Laundries Car- GJl r" penters in Bakersfield, California, to Build 'j&J I , a Labor Temple. i'lir . - m- Vx, There ore 1594 F. of L. organiz- 5 erB. fij.. i Amflterdara has 30,000 diamond fiji workers. i I ' America's Iron and stool mills em- .S I ; ploy 860,000 men. J i Tn DnVRrla women work on the JL&'J k rallrondH as section hands. ft " ' Retail Clorka of Peekaklll, X. Y.. H ; ha'vo nccurcd n reduction In hours. ffi f A strlko of 40,000 women gnrmont Mt makers 1b threatened In New York. 5t ' ' Ono-thlrd of Dn gland's telegraph Xi operators aro women jfe Nelson, B. C, city council has m? adopted the eight-hour day In munl- fti t clp.il works. SMr Trom IS to 20 a Lancashire mill r&it girl may carn anything from $1.S0 p5, I to 5 20 a wook. j New Westminster, Canada, labor j '. 4g unionists have decided to erect a 1 temple as their own permanent home. tt,r T The Ohio supreme court has up- ftj' ' held the constitutionality of the Workmon's Compensation Law. I M Stops have been taken to effect a I V consolidation of the Minneapolis I 1 locals of Stonemasons and Drlcklay- sS er3, 9m A number of clergymen have boon S JBL seated as fraternal delegates In the mm central labor body of Eureka, Cal. 'S In Ias8acnusolt3 i minimum wago nS M 'ftw naQ Decn recommended by a E'; stato commlBsiou created to lnvcstl- '. f gato It. ; In the lact twenty ycara. 30,000 tk'i i men have been killed and 80,000 in- : i- Jured In the coal mines of tho Unlt- f . ed States. Ijj1 " In the manufacturing establish-to establish-to j y monts of New York city more people JS: are employed. It la estimated, than iW ; In all the mills and factories of Mas-5jf Mas-5jf sachusetts. ' Under the now factory laws of 2 - Japan, children . who aro employed a: . In factories must hnvo had six years' ft schooling. m ; Perhaps In no othor country In Eu- N rope has women's competition with HgJ m0n 'n professional, official, coraraer- J f tlal and general business avocations been more progressive than In Russia Rus-sia during the last couple of decades. dec-ades. A cooking school for cooks has been established In tho dining car department of the Southern Pacific Railroad company. British tradfcj unionists refuse to recognize the Roman Catholic weavers, weav-ers, who have organized a union of their own A general strlko of miners 1b threatened In Belgium. Twenty-five thousand in the Borlnage district are out and the movoment Is rapIJly spreading. Plasterers of Portland, Me., have obtained Increase In wages and Saturday Sat-urday half holiday. Tho eight-hour day Is enjoyed in all building trades In Portland The federal court has upheld tho Oregon ten hour a day law applied to laundries but has knocked out the New York sixty hour a week bakery law. JXhere Is oory indication that the Yllson bill for the bettering of the conditions of tho seamen In the United Unit-ed States will become a law. It Is reported on reliable authority that tho Lake Carriers' association hag under contemplation a scheme to educate seamen for the Great Lakes. The carpenters' organization of Bakersfield, Cal , has collected nearly I tho entire amount of $28,000 which Is tobo used for. tho erection of a thrce?story labor temple A campaign Is In progress In New York by tho PInno, Organ and Musical Mu-sical Instrument Workers to unionize various department stores that employ em-ploy piano workers. Organized labor of California will shortly acquaint the women voters with labor's need3, with a vlow to enlisting their support in the Interests In-terests of humane legislation. In twenty-six states laws to limit tho houra of women's work are in force and In Kentucky, Rhode Island and New York similar bills are being introduced this winter. Culinary workers of San Francisco have organized an "Eight Hour Day League," tho alms and objects of which are to eecuro an eight hour day for all restaurant and hotel employes. em-ployes. Social sLili8tIcs of the 'Lancashire spfnnlng industry show that. 13 per cent of the managing directors of the mills, 42 per cent of tho superintendents superintend-ents and 67 por cent of tho assistant superintendents are of working class origin. In the building trades of .Germany weekly hours are oa follows In tho principal cities: Dresden, 62; Munich Mu-nich and several other cities, GO; Berlin, 53 1-2; Leipzig, 53; Bromcn, 54; Cologno, Dusseldorf, Elberfeld and Barmen, 5C; elsewhere chiefly 59 and GO. Trades unions In Norway aro pro-greasing. pro-greasing. Since 1905, when the membership was about 15,000, they have increased to over 60,000, which for a small country with only about two million Inhabitants Is very creditable. credit-able. The first death claim under tho employers' liability and workmen's compensation act in California, which wont into effect September 1, has been filed with the Industrial Accident Ac-cident board. J. 0. Waters, of Victoria, B C, president of the Trades and Labor congress of Canada, will bo a permanent per-manent representative of that body In Ottawa during sessions of Parliament Par-liament to watch legislation affecting labor Interests Street trade laws were enacted last year in a number of states. The least desirable was In Colorado which now prohibits girls under ten in street trades, while Nevada comes next forbidding all children under 10 Tho six-hour day with a Saturday half holiday is rapidly gaining favor in tho east. The minors of Indiana havo declared In favor of tho samo and the Jewish printers of Now York have already granted this concession. conces-sion. A fierce fight for control of the International Typographical Union is impending, and It will create more excitement ex-citement among the printers from now on until next May than this year's election of a Presldont of the United Unit-ed States. A conference of the British Miners' Federation on the minimum wages question has decided on uniform minimum min-imum rates for tho different districts, dis-tricts, varying from 7s- Gd to 5s lOd. No underground worker is to receive less than five shillings a shift excopt in three districts John Mitchell received tho highest number of votes given anv candidate candi-date for office at tho recent election elec-tion of the United Mine Workers of America. He was elected delegate 9 to 1-he American Federation of Labor convcntloniby 107.4S7 votes. engineering and shipbuilding trades at Manchester, Derby, Bristol, Southhampton and Belfast have so-cured so-cured Increases ranging" from 25 cents to 50 cents per week on da latos, and 5 Per ccnt on piece rates; reducing re-ducing thoir time one hour per week, the uniform week now being fifty-three fifty-three hours. On behali of the leading centrnl labor bodies of New York city and part of the stato of Now Jersey, it Is announced that a now central body, to bo known ns the Federated Central Cen-tral body, to have Its headquarters in New York city, has been formed. It will represent approximately 400,-000 400,-000 workers. . -v It is rumored that demands for an increased wago and better working conditions will be mado during the year by the Commercial Telegraphers Telegraph-ers on the Postal and Westorn Union Telegraph companies, tl Is denied, however, that there Is any anticipation antici-pation on'the part of tho men that a general strike will ensue. It Is rumored In anthracite coal circles that a surprise awaits the representatives of the minors when tboy go Into conference with the operators op-erators In Now York, February 27. It Is claimed that the operators have decided to offer an advance of 10 por cent In wages, the Blldlng scale to remain as at present Organizers are busy among the railroad clerkB on all the Canadian railroads. They are organizing them under one head so that they may be able to take In the men In small towns or places where there Is only one man who Is otherwise neglected. The system will be much like that of tho Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Telegraph-ers. The American Federation of Labor Is supporting a bill In the Maryland legislature, prepared by the National Civic Federation, to provide for workmen's work-men's compensation in Industrial employments. em-ployments. The bill obligates to a fixed scale of composition employers employ-ers oC labor in numerous Industries, tho scope of each Industry being comprehensively defined. The labor organizations of MMn-neapollc MMn-neapollc are preparing a general campaign of organization and education, educa-tion, denominating it tho "forward movement." Halls in various sections of tho city havo been secured and prominent trado union speakers havo been engaged to deliver addresses. The movoment opens on April 21, and will continue for two weeks, and then movo on to St- Paul, where the campaign will also be carried on for two weeks. Sweden has a public employment organization (Svorlges Offontljga Ar-betsformcdllng), Ar-betsformcdllng), under the control of tho government, with buieaus and agents in different parts of the country coun-try ,thc object of wnlch Is to provide employers In cities and In the country, coun-try, with the best obtainable help and to negotiate employ mentarlftll'tklnd8 of workers, male and lemale, as well as for minors who havo left or are about to leave school. Applications can be made in person, oi by mall, tolephone or telegraph. Tho United Brewery Workers of America, the lntornational union of the broworj trades, working In con-Junction con-Junction with the United Slates Browors' association, has finally perfected per-fected a ponslon system and compensation compen-sation for Injuries that It Is hoped will prove popular. The fund to meet tho payments Is to be croated by tho payment by each employer of one-fifth of one per cont of tho sum of his pay roll and each employo paying 6 per cent of his wages. The system applies ap-plies to all persons employed by tho browers, Including tho salaried officers offi-cers of tho union. In short, tho plan comprehends a complete recognition of the union as a logltlmato organization. organi-zation. Tho association employs about 40,000 workers and about 30,-000 30,-000 clerks, salesmen, collectors,' ot al , some of whom are not undor tho union's Jurisdiction, but all nro embraced em-braced In tho Joint plan. Official statements mado In Washington Wash-ington as to conditions among employes em-ployes of the United States Steel corporation cor-poration vindicate the claims made by organized labor so stavtllngly as to make labor's claims apopar mild. No labor advocate has dared uso the language now a matter of official record rec-ord In tho hands of Uie government for fear of beln.5 charged with exaggeration. ex-aggeration. These statements are not from labor sympathizers, htu are mado by collaborators of cold facts for government use. One of the mildest mild-est of these statements is that G5 per cent of the steol workers In tho PlttB-burg PlttB-burg district, embracing hundreds of thousands of men, by working 365 days a year, twelve hours a day, can earn a maximum wago ?1.50 less than the sum estimated a year at;o as barely sufficient to sustain a family of four, without wasting a cont, which estimate was mado when food prices were much lower than now. This Is tho model openshop corporation in America. A. J. EISSING. nn |