Show WORLD OF LABOR Japan is in need of skilled labor Chicago freighthandlers will bo organized organ-ized next month The Spanish Government has established estab-lished the eighthour day a Hull England munlclpartramg made a profit of f H000 last year V The Miners union of Ouray county Cob has declared war on Chinese labor Bostons brewery workers want the eighthour day without reduction of wages S The Now York lottcrcarrlers1 uniforms next summer arc to bear tho union label The Trenton N J Coachmens union has decided not to drive at Sunday funerals fu-nerals S Toledos wagonworkers will work nlno hours and get ten hours pay beginning April 7th Indiana union labor will fight contract convict shops at tho Jeffersonvlllo reformatory re-formatory S The Pennsylvania railroad has Increased the pension fund of the road from J230000 to J300000 After a years battle Chlcagoa 1200 Iron raolderg have won their demand of 53 for a tenhour day Carpenters of Springfield Mass have demanded 275 a day an Increase of 25 cents after April 1st a The freight charges for hauling anthracite anthra-cite coal from the Pennsylvania mines aggregate 540000CCQ a year Pittsburgh Labor day parade la to boa bo-a monster affair Fullv 40000 workingmcn aro expected to bo in line England owns 79X of the 14077 steamers belonging to the twelve leading nations of Europe and America Miss Molly Wcltler a shooworkcr of Ohio has been mado a special deputy to investigate child and woman laborS labor-S Glasgow has decided to soak Parliamentary Parlia-mentary Dowers to borrow 3750000 to build houses for tho poor This sum will build 500 tenements of three stories accommodating ac-commodating 3CCO families W S I The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America has now 93009 members mem-bers and something over 1000 local unions Next to the miners this Is tho largest organization in the country I I From Sir Wilfrid Laurlers the Canadian Canadi-an Premier roply to the deputation of labor men it would seem that the principle princi-ple of an eighthour workday Is about to receive Government approval S C S The executive council of the American Federation of Labor has abandoned tho Idea of holding Its next meeting In San Francisco and Instead will meet in Washington D C on April Mth V A bitter fight Is on between the laundry workers and their employers at Lynn Mass the greatest stronghold of organ ized labor in New England Under the auspices of the Central Labor union a cooperative laundry Is to bo established S S r Trade unionists throughout Europe and America number 6000000 to GOCOOOO S S S Tho Wllllnmstown Mass ring r-ing company gave its employees a 10 percent per-cent Increase of wages last week Thn firm manufactures cotton goods and 225 hands are affected The Increase was not asked for and came aa a surpriseS surprise-S I S Denmark Is one of the strongest centers of trade unionism among women Tho number of women organized In trades unions In that country is 7243 of whom 52IJ live in Copenhagen Their organizations organiza-tions embrace fourteen trades and IncluOo about a quarter of the women waYjeearn ers of that country They are bcgt organized or-ganized In tile bookbinding textile and tobacco trades U o UTile U-Tile number of cotton spindles In the world Is estimated as follows Groat Britain 45COOOCO United States 20058000 Germany 8000000 Franco 5500000 East India 4iOO000 Austria 32COOOO Spain 2 C30COO Italy 2100OCO Switzerland 1700 000 Japan laWOOO Belgium 050909 China CSSOOO Canada 55000Q Sweden and Norway 50000 Mexico 491OCHh Holland Hol-land 200000 Portugal 230000 Greece 100000 total 100631000 o e > o Labor Commissioner ODonnell of Minneapolis Min-neapolis has compiled from census ro ports and Stale statistics a statement showing tho condition of manufactures and labor In this State from 1SSO to im The population of the Stats during the decade Increased 333 per cent and the number of establishments devoted to manufactures and mechanical Industries during the same jxjrlod Increased from 7205 to 11111 or iSl per cent The num ben of wapcearners Increased 10121 persons per-sons or 107 per cent Thc average wage paid men was 192 and to women 257 per year S I Carroll D Wright United States Commissioner Com-missioner of Labor talking upon tho evolution of the labor problems says Socialism Is the most ambitious remedy that has been altered The Dccalocuo Is as good a labor platform as any In rc llRion wo find tho highest form of solution solu-tion yet offered Next to religion comes constructive evolution that evolution which believes man la growing Into the coordlnatlvo man Wo are to have a now law of wages growing out of tho re ligious thought The old struggle In for a wider spiritual margin The application of this religious idea is the true solution of tho labor problem The whole ques ion must bo placed on an altruistic basis Alans average conduct Is not bettor than his character Ills treatment of hs fel lows Is consistent with his sense ot jus tice S S o Senator Ilannns record In settling strikes It is predicted by wellinformed labor men throughout tile country will bo ono of his strong Presidential cards Among the conflict ho has adjusted are Settled every strike among his own om ployecn on a bnsls satlDfnctoryvto them Knded the big strike of the NaliQnal Coal Miners association In 1000 by bringing the representatives of the miners ana opera tore together In Now York and arranslns a settlement Ho was the factor that made possible the settlement ot tho blc otcel strike of 1S01 and brought about a settlement when conditions scorned hope less As chairman of tile Industrial de partment of the National Civic fetlera tion hclast week settled the bitter strike of the National Cash Register em ployees at Dayton O Two weeks ago representatives of both sides met Senator Hanna in New York and after a confer once of two days a satisfactory settlement was reachrd Practically settled the strike of tile machinists of the Union Iron works In San Francisco where the Oregon was built by arranging a confer onco between Irving Scott the vlcopresl dent ° c tno company and the national officers ° r thc machinists organization All the elements arc now back at work with ono exception Brought about an amlcablo settlement last week between the Now York Sun and tho Typographi cal union ending a lockout that lasted two years d 0 S Proposals regarding the scale of wages to take effect May 1st have been rejected by members of the union of the Inter national Association of Bridge and Struc turn IronWorkers The proposals como from the American Bridge company and were a counterproposition to the mens demands The union demands 60 cents per hour In these cities Chicago New York Plttsburjr Newark Philadelphia Cleveland St Louis and Wheeling 45 cents per hour In Buffalo Milwaukee Omaha Denver anti Richmond 40 cents per hour in Boston Washington Kansas City Albany Minneapolis Scranton Cin cinnati bait Lake City San Francisco Portland Indianapolis and all adjacent sections In Baltimore and Detroit 350 per day of eight hours Is demanded In return the company offers CO cents per hour in Chicago New York Newark and St Louis IS cents per hour In Plttsburc 10 cents per hour ln Boston Washington Buffalo Milwaukee Kansas City Albany Philadelphia Baltimore Cleveland Mimi neapolls Wheeling Omaha Scranton Denver Detroit Cincinnati San Fran cisco and Richmond 35 cents per hour in Salt Lake City Portland Ore Indian apolis and all other sections not covered bythese districts This offer has now been rejected and makes a spring strike among the Ironworkers a possibility |