| Show WORLD OF LABOR SpiLls Imports American ralla A JBoston has a Newsboys Protective union I 0 e Richmond bricklayers earn 50 cents an hour 0 o S Camden Ark bonsla of 7Gpound watermelon 1 wa-termelon S S I Germany Isto have n cooperative shoo i factory 4 Munclc hid municipal laborers now I cant 20 edits per ton 0 f There arc forty women holding office by virtue of election In Kansas e Fort AVavnc barbers have gained nn I advance In I wages averaging 1TJO per week I Tho British Typographical association reports 16179 members and a fund of lGtoO I e Philadelphia has a negro bank officered by negroes and with negro stockholders i t I vAt I At Birmingham Ala the trade unionists union-ists are preparing to erect a labor tern 1ple iI < S I New York United Brewers No 6D has I I donated 5100 to the Metal Polishers union at Dayton O 0 I In Cincinnati an expelled clgarmakor has brought suit for 25000 damages I against tho union 00 S p Stockton Cal longshoremen v secured an advance of 50 cents per day recently I after a strike lasting ten days 4 S SIn S-In Scotland 70000 miners have had to submit to a reduction In their wages of C t pence per day after arbitration I S S 4 A merchant tailor of Peoria Ill was i I fined 5100 and coals for fraudulently using the union label S S S Tho next convention of managers otl i free employment offices will bo held In New Orleans In February 1002 I o o oAt o-At St Catherine B C carpenters succeeded I i suc-ceeded In reducing their working hours I from GO to 55 per week without strikeS I strike-S S I I The leather workers of Lowell Mass have secured recognition of their union I and a wago Increase aggregating JSOOO I a year S S S The eighthour workday has been gained at all coopering points In Texas and the ninehour day at Portland OrS I Or-S S S The secretary of the Michigan Federation Federa-tion at Labor has been Instructed 1 to prepare I pre-pare a bill providing for UioTstabll3h ment of a State printing office 0 5 0 I The workingmen of JCowancc 111 are preparing to start a cooperative otoro I with a capital of J5CK divided Into 500 shares at S50 each t 0 SOn S-On January 1st there I were 9000 members mem-bers In tho International Journeymen Barbers union and now tho organization has 13000 paidup members S 00 The Journeymen butchers of New York city fluid K700 nickels out last Sunday to see that the Sundayclosing law was enforced en-forced Time boss butchers propose lighting light-ing tho law S S At Marlon Ind plumbers were locked out for ten weeks but tho master plumbers I plumb-ers llnally signed the Journeymens agreement agree-ment and now everything Is In satisfactory satisfac-tory shape I S S I Montana seems to be the banner union State of tho country The Legislature I has just passed a law establishing the eighthour law among the miners and smelters of tho StateS State-S t 4 The making of abar of soap In the early years of tho century took twenty times lie labor that Is required today Tho labor cost of making 25000 pounds of laundry soap Is 323 now against 1320 of former years S The French National Metal federation has Issued a circular proposing a general gen-eral strike of miners on November 1st unless tho Government and the mining companies grant an eighthour day and a pension of 2 francs a day nflor Lwenty live years of service > 9 Over 100 delegates attended tho rccqnt annual British Trado Union congress When It came to a L show of voting strength compulsory arbitration was rejected re-jected by C7COOO to 3GGCOO votes Better national education old age pensions a wide workmens compensation act and the extension of tho suffrage to all adult men and womcnworc asked The trado union Is founded upon the broad basis of human rights It stands ns the mighty protest against all forms of wrong and injustice It Instills courage manhood Independence fraternity time love for Ihe good and tho true It lives In the hearts and minds of the lollers and must live It will not die American Fedcrallonlst a 4 S Trade unionism Is productive of friendship friend-ship fellowship fraternity It creates a bond of sympathetic Jellowfcollnjy one for another an agreement of affections Increases the feeling of hove and Rood will for others less fortunate Inspires a spirit for the exercise of tho greatest of all virtues vir-tues charity for all mankind Sam Lef flngwell n American Federation S S S From the annual report of the labor bureau of the British Board of Trade It appears that during tho year 1900 there was a gross gain by British wage earners earn-ers of considerably over 1000000 a week for an aggregate of 11357i > persons The annual addition lo time Income of the working classes Is estimated at fully 531 000000 and while the Increase In pay has not been evenly distributed throughout all trade there baa been a general upward tendency i S e S The Stenographers union recently formed In Chicago proposes to open a I free employment olflco for tho members I They will have tho cooperation of all I tho typewriting concerns thai now run employment olllcca In connection with I their salesrooms They will be opposed I by the Humorous colleges that turn out stenographers by tho hundreds promising promis-ing them positions when they complete their studies The bureau will gunranlco tIme employer that help furnished from the union olllco will bo competent in ovcry respect S S SAt S-At Frisco Cal the following Improve menls In wages and hours havo been seem se-em od without strike Painters minimum wage of So per day as against a sliding scale of 51 IJ and up Plumbers and gns litters eighthour day Plasterers eight hour day Mortar mixers and hodcar riers eight hours and 50 cents per day raise In wages leathers an Increase of ffi cents per 1000 Mcatcullers and butchers butch-ers r I oclock nnd Sunday closing Retail dorks C oclock closing Boot und shoe workers general raise In repair work Barber l 7 oclock closing and all 10cenl shop raised lo 15 cents Carpenters and Joiners adopted the eighthour day Later some of tho principal contractors formed Ian Ian I I-an association to fight the eighthour I movement AVIth the aid of the brick layers and the contra council tho CHI peiuora won out and tho eighthour day Is now thoroughly accepted 1 |
