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Show LABOR NEWS Of fl I ALL COUNTRIES H Ironworkers in China Earn on an Average 10 Cents a Day Railway j H Carmen Organize Many Unions Long Hours For Metal j H Workers in Belgium Charter For the Federated ! H Railroad Shop Employes Has Been Applied H For to Federation of Labor. I B HorscBhoore at Dayton, 0., recently H formed a union. Hl I Shanghai, China, p3a3terors 'cam M 20 cents a day. B Agriculture employs 4o per cent of M all tho Inhabitants of Franco. H The average earnings of ironv.-ork- Hl ors in Hankow, China, aro about 10 H cents a day. H Tho open shop prevails in most of H tho box factories In San Francisco, H Cork cutters and lightermen are B on atrlko. and business is paralyzed M at Alamada, Portugal. 1 Welsh colHers nrc on strike al m Llanclly, the men refusing to work H with non-union miners. Hl Of all tho so-called dusty trades, Hl pearl button making is considered the H most dangerous. H Carpenters at Portsmouth, N. H. rc- H contly secured an Increase ranging H from 25 to 50 cents per day. H , At Schenectady, N Y., the electrical H t workers have secure 1 tho union shop B ' after a year's struggle H On October 2. at Atlanta, Ga , Tn- H tprnatioual Brotherhood of Black- H ' Ktniths and Helpers will hold its an- H nun convonfion. H The House of the State Legislature H nf Georgia has passed a bill estahllsh- H inp a State Lubor Bureau. H Cement finishers at Sacramento, B Cal., recently secured an increase of ft 50 cents per day, and mixers 25 cents H per day. B During the last quarter the Hail- H way Carmeu oiganlzcd fourtcon now j unions and Increased its membership j by 2,?52. 1 In the mcinl industries of Belgium H nearly half the men work from nine' H to ten "hours and the great majority H of the remainder ten to eleven 1 Labor Commissioner Smith of De- B trolt, .Mich., has declared that women B shall not be employed to work in Do- B. trolt saloons. H The membership of the United So- H ctety of Boilermakers and Iron and H Steel Shipbuilders of Great Britain J has now increased to 55.6S5. H The miners, Jransport workers and v' blast-furnacemen oxnloitin-?? tho iron B oic mines of the Island of Elba have m been on strike for somo time. H The members of the Federated m Railroad crafts In tho Chesapcnkc & B 6hio shops at Peru, Ind., have sc- ' cured a two cents an hour increase. B Stationary firemen In Minneapolis H Jlinn., repo"rt that the scale of SS0 a B nonth, established July 1, Is now bc- Bl Ing generally paid by all tho indus- B During the first six-months of tho Bb present vear tho International Union H of Bricklayers has paid 402 death H claims, amounting in all to SGS.SS0 50. B Application will be made to tho B American Federation of Labor for a H ohartor for tho Fedornted Railroad H Fhop Employes, recently organized in B Sim Francisco, Cal. Hfi Edmonton, Can., bakery and con- Bl fectioncry workers have gained a 20 B r-cr cent Increase in wages and a re- H, duction in hours from four to five it B 'Union streot car men of Des H Moines, Ta., unanimously ratified a B now working contract, which shall bo B in force from October 11, 1911, until B March 4, 191G. The company agrees H to recognize and treat with the union H to adjust all questions and differences. B Winnipeg, Can.. Trades and Labor H Council has forty-six unions affiliated B with it representing a membership of B 5,030, There are a number of un'af- B filiated unions, Including tho railway H brotherhoods. B The San Francisco, Cal , Lumbei B Clerks' Association, the Lumber Han- Bj dlers' Union and several other labor H organizations encaged in practically Bj the jomc industry, are considering a H proposition to amalgamate under one H charter. B Tho National Child Labor Commit- H tee, with headquarters in New York, H has Issued an appeal for funds witlt H which to carry on Its war against the B frightful child labor laws of the Gulf B states next winter. B The union of Glass Workers and B Glaziers of Sacramento, 'Cal., has been H granted an increase of 50' cents a day H under an agreement effective Novem- H bor 13. Tho men will receive $4.50 a H day, with half-holiday on Saturday. H The work of tho label section of the I San Francisco, Cal., Labor Council, In ! pushing the uso of union brooms has ! resulted in such an -increase In de- j mand thnt all broom-makers in thnt j city now aro employed. 1 Thoro are now in the building 9 trades alone in tho United States and B , Canada approximately 700,000 men P who aro working an oight-hour day a and at a wage of 20 per cent higher fl than fifteen years ago. 9 From and after January tho sub- C ordinate locals of the United Hatters of America will discontinue tho con- n ventlon plan for the election of offi- fl cors for tho International body and. H elections will be on the referendum 1 plan. 1 The iron trades unions In San I Francisco, Cal., have spent large sums I of money during the past year in ; aiding the fight for the eight-hour day i In the iron trades all ' along tho Pa- I clflc coast, and In many places have 1 beon successful. 1 A barmen's union was formed at a I big meeting recontly In Tondon, En- 5 lartd. Two thousand barmon joined m tho organization, many of whom aro women, as a protest against working i one hundred hours a week, bad food 1 and low wages. I Seamen sailing out of the port of R New York -will draw $250,000 of an M Increase In wages in one year, as a "4 result of the campaign of the Seamen's Union for higher wages. This amount will undoubtedly be Increased lator Applications for charters for Mexican Mex-ican and Greek laboreru at Bakers-field. Bakers-field. Cal , have been received by the-American the-American Federation of Labor. Armenian Ar-menian and Italian laborers in that section of California will also be organized, or-ganized, this with the Idea of doing away with the Japnnese. Tho tramway of men of Newcastle. . England, have many grievances and unless a satisfactory adjustment la soon reached a strike will take place. Tho principal difficulty is tho long hours requirod of tho men, in some (instances they being compelled to work for thirty consecutlvo hours Since the first of the year 189G. whdn the International Molders' Union Introduced tho sick benefit clause, It has paid in benefits to members on the sick list S1.S70.7R4 It also paid within thq vear 1910 the sum of ?59,-550 ?59,-550 in death and disability benefits and $14G.110 in out of work benefits. The Sheffield, Enci, Molders recently recent-ly demanded an Increase of 25 cents per week, which was intended to bring tip thijflr wages to $10.50 per week, this bcjng the standard before the reduction re-duction of fifty cents made some three years ago. Tho employers contend that trade Is not In a condition to enable en-able them to moot the demand. Tho dispute betwoen tho marblo quarryraon and their omployers at Carrara, Italy, still continues. The latter are firm in their assertions that they tvIII not concede the demands of theworkmen and the nuarryruen are determined not to recede. A general strike Is now threatened which will affect thousands of marble workers As the result of an open-air campaign cam-paign conducted by general organizers of tho United Garment Workers of America tho local organizers from the Central Iabor Union, the union has been firmly planted In Montreal, Can. Three now local unions have been organized, and the workers are giving earnest support to the movement. Butler, Pa., loses 374 out of evorv 1O0.Q00 of Its people by violent deaths In industry; PIttston, 359. McKecs Rocks and McKeesport, 290; Schenan-doah, Schenan-doah, 279; Pottsvllle, with Its diversified diversi-fied population, revels In a violent death rate of 191 per 100,000 people, according ta the mortality statistics of the United States census bureau. Members of the Railway Carmen's Car-men's Union employed by the" Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway company, hnve been successful in their negotiations with the officials of that company, and have secured -a good agreement An Increase in wages and time and half for overtime over-time has been conceded, and other concessions granted. The number of laborers employed in the shot Industry in ' the city of Barcelona, Spain, is about 7,350, of -whom 350 are -women The wages tfalri per week of nine and one-half .hours woikdays in the factories are as follows Foremen, $5 70 to$G25. mounters. 3 SO to $4.75. daj' laborers $2 S5 to $1.75, polishers, $3.80 to J1.7G; cutters, .$3 42 to 1.75; machine operators, opera-tors, (women), S2.5S to $3.42; apprentices, appren-tices, $1.GS to $2.2S. For twenty-five years there has been a man hurt In tho Pennsylvania coal mines oftenor than every two hours on an average. This has gone on day and night, twenty-four hour a dav, Sundays and holidays. Each fourth man injured has died. Only serious se-rious Injuries are counted In this estimate. esti-mate. This may help us to realize the figures of .19.090 hilled and S2.SJ9 Injured In-jured in twenty-five years. The Society of Swiss Railway nnd Steamboat Servants hns beon conducting con-ducting a most active organisation campaign during thd past year with RplondiiJ results. This society had at J the closo of tho past yoar 106 groups, with over 13,000 members, and consists con-sists of sixteen grade societies. A hard light was encountered In nn of-fort of-fort for a new wae, law, but the society so-ciety was successful in securing the results sought. The report of the Transport Workers' Work-ers' nlon In Germany for 1910 shows a membership of 152,954 on December Decem-ber 31, aa against 9,623 on December Decem-ber 31, 1909. Half of the Increase is due to tho taking over of tho members mem-bers of tho Seamen's and Firemen's and or the Dockers X'nlon The Income In-come of the union during 1910 was JS10.000. the expenditure, $715,000, the funds In hand were $27S,920 A. J, 'EISSING. |