| Show WORLD OF LABOR Brunswick Ga carpenters won e > Milwaukee teamntcra k a will organize Ottawa plumbers Struck for better paSt pa-St Paul has sixteen 4 union restaurants Toronto will establish a bureau for farm hands u a J Tho organised marine engineers number num-ber 00 W There are 5319012 woolen earning their own living IhII 4 Los Angeles firemen have petitioned for an Increase In pay O A GravcdljjKers at Cincinnati 0 have perfected 0 plan for C an organisation Baltimore retail clerks will afllllato with the American Federation o of Labor San Francisco boxmakcro numbering COO struck for the abolition of piecework and the recognition of tho union That a general demand upon all railroads rail-roads In tho country for an Increase of 10 to CO pCI cent In the wage scale ii I to be made early In September la I causing anxiety anx-iety to tho railroads 4 To unite labor organizations in the cities with tho Populist movement among the farmers under tho name of tho Allied Peoples party for the Presidential campaign cam-paign of J9CM is 1 the aim of the Populist national executive committee o 0 e Chicago will have a trade union hospital hos-pital In tho near future it will bo known as tho Machinists Sanitarium and will bo maintained by a membership fee of si and weekly payments of 10 cents Only members of the International association asso-ciation will be eligible for eluton wil clI o or membership The shop of the Cooperative foundry at Nashua 1 II aro quiet and deserted by tho workmen employed there Thu shops are closed for the jlrst time In twentytwo years I This Is 1 the t result of the order of the union of moulders OJ000 strong men whose word IB law with all union o i n 0 A pleasant Labor day surprise which took tho form of an Increase In wages approximating 10 per cent for conductors and molormen was planned and carried out by the International Railway company affected com-pany at Including Btiftalo the All motormen told J3 > V and mon con are ductors of tho Buffalo Railway company anr and on all the various lines Included Iii the Inlernatlonl I Railway companys ex tensive system In tho United States there are limitations limita-tions on child labor In thirtylive States and In all the Territories The limit la fourteen years In Massachusetts New York Connecticut Illinois and Indiana In I Rhode Island and Ohio fourteen except ex-cept during school vocations and none work at all under twelve In New Jersey twelve for hors and fourteen for girls In Pennsylvania thirteen Thero Is no limit In North and South Carolina and Georgia nnd In Alabama only a twelveyear limit on child labor In mines in Tennessee and Kentucky tho limit e Is fourteen years Tho localization of Industries measured by the value of products shows that more than f icr cent of tho collar and cuff manufacturing la curried on In Troy N Y moro than HI per cent o the oyster canning Industry in Baltimore Md more than 51 1 per cent of tho manulacturo of gloves In the adjoining cities of Glovers vlllc and Johnstown N Y more than 10 per cent of the coke manufacture lmn the Conncllsvlllc district Pennsylvania more than 17 l per cent of tho manufactirrb of the brass war In Waterbury Coon inoro i than 13 I per cent of carpets In Philadelphia Philadel-phia Pa more than 15 per cent of Jewelry Jew-elry In Providence R 1 and the adjoin Inh towns of Attleboro and North At tleboro Mapg more than 30 per cent of the silverware manufacturo In cent dence R I and more than 35 per cent of tho slaughtering and meat packing Indus try In Chicago II J more than 3 percent per-cent of plated and brlttnnia ware In Meriden I Me-riden Conn moro than 32 per cent of the n agriculture Implement Industry In Chicago and more than 21 per cent of the silk Industry In Pateraon N J Tho number of wage earners engaged In slaughtering and meat packing Irt 1 South Omaha Neb constituted SO per cent of the total number employed In all Industries Indus-tries In tho city that your The Iron and steel Industry formed SO per cent of all tho Industries In McKeesport Pa the pottery industry S per cent In East Liverpool Liv-erpool 0 tho fur hat Industry SG percent per-cent In Bethel Conn thegljisa Industry SI per cent In Tarcnlum lIls the cotton colon goods Industry Sfl per cent In Fall River Mass the boot and shoo bOl 111r Industry 77 per cant In Bro < ton MnssK the silk Induntry 70 IICI cent In Hoboken N J tho jewelry 72 pCI cent In North Atlleboro Mass tho collar and cuff Industry CO per cent In Troy N Y |
