| Show i IN WORLD OF LABOR I Italy taxes tillers r o Kansas exports eggs a Chicago has 4118 attorneys 0 Australia has lOOOOOCOO shocD Chino has an alum mountain 4 There aro 03000 union carpenters I Now York Slate claims 233000 unionists S i S 4 Brooklyn contains thousands of K of L A famine of guttapercha u Is threatened Frisco Is to havo Chinese W dally paper Vienna washerwomen get 40 cents a day O V Egypts cotton crop A Is 500000000 pounds cIa Oklahomas wheat yield 20000000 bush 4 4 Dayton 0 has abolished bakers night work S 0 Saginaw Mich Ice wagon drivers earn 2 n day ear 4 A copy of tho British museums caIn logue costs 120 1 cat S v Brooklyn painters are paid 3 for eight hours work 0 0 Russias censor suppressed two newspapers news-papers recently 4 4 4 Many Now York Hebrew bakers enjoy the tenhour day 9 S Tennessees Supreme court Chief Justice Jutco earns t3 1 yearS S S 0 Frisco plasterers day consists of seven hours for which they got SI6 0 4 4 Today the Socialists cast a third larger vote thjm any other part In Germany S l S A Japanese member of Parliament ro Pnrlnment 10 ccntly resigned his scat In order to study socialism 0 M v Sacramento bcorbottlcra want S2 per day rjjid tho ninehour day Instead of ten hours and 1 per week o S a 4 o Morehead Ivan has a cooperative ho tel laundry creamery and canning fac tory and a cooporatlVo dlniuglinli wllh several cooperative farms o near by The B tree t rail way employees of Day ton 0 receive 20 cents an hour for mime hours and Z cenjs an hour for all tlmo over nine hours S S S The Socialist yarlles aro n great power In Franco today casting over a million voles and having i tynlno representa ties In time national Chamber of Deputies tcs tcsTher 1 S Thcr6 are nine hrajiches In Now York Stato of tho Womans International Labor League whoso object Is to pcrauiide working len and wiyuen to buy only goods bearing tho union label 0 l A refcrcnduni vole has been taken In Switzerland which resulted In the rejection re-jection ot the Droposuil law for compulsory com-pulsory Insurance I or r worklnxmcit Lynn carpenters have been conceded eight hours S S S Tho Brooklyn Department of sand s-and Corrections has agreed to recognize and pay the new scab 0 1C a day to carpenters being time standard wage scale nnd also agreed lo the Saturday halfholiday S S S A Detroit man IKN perfected an Invention Inven-tion by Which two ihon can do tha work of twontysovcn with a cash saving of 7f poi cent In tho manufacture of brass castings I Is 50 muck in udvanco of the old method that It promises to displace dis-place mon all over the world O r l members of Limo Frisco Muslolann union who did not attend limo funeral I of a former member wj ro fined CO cents each and those who wore ub ont from tho qlly WQIO fined 25 cnts nacho Fines wore also Imposed on thono who left tho lines and on those who appeared without Instruments Instru-ments S 0 Frlsca unionists will vote aKaUist every candidate wbo xvlll lot pledgo himself to support lie anitJnimnoso agitation union refused admit Time Cloakinakcrs rlsell to 11 mlt Japaneso to membership and tho cloak amid suit honw wanting to Inijo dnco time cheaper labor got back at limo union bv looking out Us nioiiihoip Tho result Is a general boycott on tho products I of that Him of thnt 111 4s 4 According to time thirteenth annual report J re-port of tho United States Department of Labor tho coat of making 100 pairs of 10 cr mon cheap boots which was formerly flC lo now f p rcdutllon at n ratio of JZ to 1 nearly Tho labor cost of 1COO yards of body Brussels carpet was formerly for-merly J107 now It Is only U1 I The labor coSt of 100 pounds of sewing colon which was formerly S5E5 Is now only J1JJS 9 S 0 The Fort Worth Register a cooperaf ivo morning paper wa started seine four months ago by eight printers and a pressman press-man on a visible capital of 10 and an Invisible In-visible mountain of hopeful expectations Slnoo Oiin tho Register has bccomo tbo lending Journal In Fort Worth with tho largest circulation of any paper In Texas No one It employed except shareholders and all must be practical workers 1 5 4 The general Introduction of machinery Into tho lanipchlmney manufacluro Is Fovolullonlzliiir tho wage scale In that industry In-dustry In factories where rnm ilncs are operated the plants are all being enlarged while many of thnno employing only band labor are being abandoned It Is said tho MncbothTCvans company wIth plants at TCIwoQil Marlon and other polnls lrt Indiana In-diana has machines that produce thrco times tho amount of ware turned out by hand o S o Time demands of labor which arc proclaimed emanl claimed from tho housetops have their root In that primeval law of equallY heralded her-alded by tbo Declaration of Independence and In that familiar trilogy of common rights which Jefferson put as Its preface Let every man whose hopes are bound upI up-I In the peaceful development of our young I democratic Republic seek for ways of peremptorily righting lie wrongs that rlhlnJ have turned It out of Its proper course ho assure 1 thU lubm ctiiot to utven back fo that Is I time way ot time IlL I Is doomed to advance for thai Is the wuy oC life John Swlniou In New York WorldS S SIn S-In Europe the public laundry and tho public oven are recognized Institutions and they roprfs nt tho COOP JJvO prln I clplo In housekeeping lu this country siiys the Now York World tho lea and tho milk supply which are two of the hnnjesl problems for tho families of lImo wageeurnora would ho much easier if cooperation could bo mad practicable But I Is onp of the contradictions of human hu-man nature hat this bind of equality Is I ono In which the people are Itayt disposed to cooper with each other Just as it is a contradiction that food should bo dearest In tho foodproducing country and that trust should be most oppressive In a laml of freodrvnx where the people IlMvon mako lluir laws and elect their own exec |
