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Show littloii scalers 1r fritter result t than st present. Prof. Ctoffe wet engtaed by one of the big Monthly magatlnet t "rite this ttrtet, hot when tbewm that this column reached iaoh a uattirads ef laboring people he readily contented to eoafina ait writing to the International Labor 2e Bureau. Hit flrtt article will be upon the subject ef "bt DeTelopmeat." The International Labor 5ws Barest would like to hear fren reader of thit column, col-umn, in order that it may bo determined jut bow fully Frof. Goffe'e writings are appreciated. In the World of Labor BAKERS IIUXE AO&MENT. . Tor several yaars the "haadi eerote tie sea" aeatiaeat ba beea gnmitg atrenter among labor uoi.na. bat the Bakery ami Con-faotioaary Con-faotioaary Worker' Ialeraaiiooel union baa brought practical remit oat of it. Recently the takers hre perfeeted aa arranfement with the- Operstiva Bakera of Scotland thronfh which each will recorolie the carda of the other and admit meober ea either aide ef the oeeaa to all rifht and privile(ea without initiation. Similar errentemerit are beiof made with the baker in German?, Denmark, Den-mark, Norway and Sweden, bnt the negotia-tiona negotia-tiona here not yet reached completion. - The English and the Iriah baker hare refuted to fall in with the idea. OFFOSS CHILD LABOR. The campaign againtt child labor ia at last slaking itaeif felt among the cotton mills of South Carolina. More than two-third a ef the ipindla of the State have agreed to redues the working hour of employees from sixty tiz to aisty-four hour a week, tnd to aixty-two aixty-two hour in 1S0S, aad alsty hours ia .1910 -wages to remain at aow. CAfiPENTERS CONVENTION. Ia hit biennial report frank Duffy, national na-tional tecrotarr of the Caited Brotherhood of Carpentera and Joiner, stated thai 11.842 members hare been addtd to the roll during th last six month. Thi gala it conaidered phenomenal, la addition to the 170,13 member in good tttnding, theft art more thta 40,000 other who art ia arrttrt for three month or atort. Thttt bring the niemberibip up to a total ef more thta 310,-ooo. 310,-ooo. Tha tree rarer' t retort thowtd a balaoet oa hand of $169,94.4$. The income for tht lait two ytara wtt 1311,099.86, and tht disbursement! dis-bursement! amounttd to $11,439.69, leaving a surplus for tht two Ttart of 917.358.67. Tht financial condition of tht orgauiiation it regarded aa strong in every respect. General Prtsideot W. O. Huber. ia hit report, re-port, ttid that whilt there Wert maa ttflket and torn looktntt, all were settled satisfactorily. satisfac-torily. During tha pttt three months sixty-three sixty-three ntw charters were granted, tad S7S in all wtrt addtd during tht past two yean. LABOR FIGHTER TTONS. Secretary' Htca of the Chietge Typotht- i tat haa rtsigned his position to become man ager of one of the largest nnion printing es-tabliihmenta es-tabliihmenta in Chicago. The Typothetae ia the organixation of employing printert which it Sghting the Trpographical union. In his former position Mr. Hama's duties were to endeavor to disrupt the union; in hit new plaet he will be obliged to treat union men trite courtesy and work in harmony with tht tnitn. Formerly, Mr. Hamm wtt tailing the ptoplt that non-union labor wtt superior to union r he will now retract hia earlier utterance utter-ance and proclaim that all skilled craftsmen crafts-men art member of tht union. Within an hour hit opinion on tht cloaed shop aa a harmful inatitution wtt changed to the belief be-lief that tht open shop represent! all that it repreheneiblt in tht industrial world. i Tht International Labor N'twt Bureau does not attempt to judge as to which of. hit opinions Mr. Hamm thould adhere to, but cites th cast tt an examplt of what woa-. woa-. tart- money can work ia eomt lattaaeet. TJNUORM STRIKE-BREASLXRS. TTord coves from ta Ctttern city that tht ttvertl ttfike-breaking crewt new In the tout try will shortly he uniformed. Tht oh-feet oh-feet in that clothing tht men ia to prevent their being approached by union pickets, tnd In order that tht police may eaaily Veep them to riew. I. is also claiatd that the men annet tt readily desert their ttrtkt-bretkiag tomradea, at thtir uniforms would brtnd them at non-unionists. Tht men will be obliged to pay for their own elothtt and ftw f taeat faror tht propottd change. BLACKSMITHS GET INCREASE. The tcale comaiftat appointed by tht Siaoksmitht' International union report that the Great Northern and Northern Paoiflo have algaed a new tehedul Of wagea, with tn increase ranging from SS to 40 cent a lay. Thit it tat first time thtt a uniform schedule bat been agreed to on tht wholt lystem of both rotda. Tha action la expected to make for tn in-rtu in-rtu throughout tha Uaittd atates. FOREIGN. (Olncial Correspondence to tht lattrattioatl Labor Newt Bureau.) OESMAN LABOR SCARCE. . A. eorrtspoadtat of tht Iatertatioasl Lt-hor Lt-hor Ntwt Baretn write of tht txtrtordlasry tctrcity of workmen now prevailing in tht Rhlntltnd tau VTtttphtlita districts of Germany, Ger-many, which turpatttt thtt of toy prtriou rr. This scareity Is noted aot only ia the iron, ttttl tad eotl I du tries, for which these district dis-trict turptt all ether la Germany, bat in MUNICIPAL IRON FOUNDRIES. Tht lnttrnttioetl officers ef tht Iron . - sfolders onion tre hard tt work On t plan establish municipti foundries In thttt ntitt where the organisation's members art ea strike and locked out. Tht employing ' foundrymea hat t supplanted quite a ftw of . :hir men with machines which tht atriktrt plaint art not practical. Tht municipal Menu are to f'.rt tmploymtat to men on ttrikt tnd demonstrate the superiority of hand ever aaechint labor. Tht project hit 6et a hearty indorsement from Chicago's tyoT. who wtt eiteted upon a municipti rwnsrship ticket. Two amall plant will sooa v ta tttrted ia Milwaukee aad lit. Louis. tht building trtdtt st wtll. Tht activity in tht latter trtdtt it especially espe-cially noteworthy. It it stated thtt ia all cititt of thttt regleat old buildings art found to be inadequate for prtttnt dtmandt atd art giving wty to ltrgt modern buildings, requiring re-quiring thousands f workmtn in thtir construction. con-struction. Employees tn tht building trades sre for tht most pert German olUstnt, while ta public works, ia mining, tt., ltrgt Bum. bar of foreigners find tmploymtat, nttlv labor la-bor btiag wholly latumolent to tupply tht demand. Complaint it heard agtiatt tht methods of tgtntt .-rough whom foreign workmen are induced to temt to Gtrmtav, tht claim being made thtt retort It had la aoat cattt to false reprtttntatioat trd improper Indnotmtnts. Tht eutsiioa of whtt it to become ef thit Urge foreign element thould tht prtttnt business busi-ness activity tubtidt la regardtd a aostewhti grtvt oat. . SWITZERLAND. Tht great buililag trtdtt ttrikt ef Switt-trlatd Switt-trlatd it at lttt tided : it has resulted in a complete victory for tht employers. But for tht uovtrsmtnt the ttrikt would probably hve been prolontrtd. T$t vovernffltnt, tfter tht men hid had a three months struggle, inquired into the matter and decided that tht tmployert wtrt In tht right. It thtn arrttt-ed arrttt-ed aad expelled from the country thoea leaders lead-ers who proved to bt all foreigners and tnti- militarist. ; i . t , CANADIAN " UNIONS. Canadian trtdt union circle art aow be-ag be-ag eurred by a eropotitioa to form an aU-Santda aU-Santda body, which would tec salt tie their ritbdrawtl from tht American Federation of - liaber. According to the rocerdt of tht Determent De-terment of Labor, tht total number of laser la-ser organisation ia Ctntdt it 1(00, tht argttt number. 196, being in Ontario, fol- : owed by 237 in Quebec, 194 in British Co-umbla, Co-umbla, 117 ia Nova Sootia, and th othert littributtd in the vtriout provinces Tht determent de-terment hat not ofScially investigated tkt eembership of the variout organisations, but rom available information It it approximated hat tat total membership of tht 1609 organ-tauoee organ-tauoee tt 00,000 SCIENCE OF UNIONISM. Ktlt week thtrt will be published in this ' .eluma tht flrtt of 'a series of short articles by Prof. W. T. Goffe of Cantda upon tcience ' tt applied to labor organisation! and their embers. Prof. Goffe is ont of tht foremost scientist of th Dominion of Canada, and a eoogniied tathority npoa industrial matters. Ha wilt itll i thtt just at agriculture hat dtvtloptd from a laborious method of tow ing aad uncertain reaping to a plan whart arid land art tntdt ferula tad sterile soil prcduotivthy the application of science--t may tt M libsring men tnd labor orgtn- 1 |