| Show industrial votes notes the number of men employed on british railways is nearly the western Feder federation aLion ot of miners now hag has 80 unions and over 10 members many of the laborers at the league island navy yard at philadelphia are receiving but 1 04 per day there are nearly 8 members of trades unions in peoria III with unions of the various trades over 1000 tobacco workers struck recently on ac int of one of the em players hiring three non union men the threatened strike of miners in the gold mines at victoria col has been averted by the managers agree ing to compromise the journeymen brewers union will levy an asse of 1 per member to create an A F of L defense fund several others of the national unions may take similar action A recent completion comp lation of statistics show that out of 98 chief national in destries dus tries in a given year only 29 gave men employment for days in the year the pennsylvania steel company has received an order for 6 tons of steel rails from the east india rail way company the order was secured in competition with english jurers the united garment workers are stirring up organized labor and insist ing that union men inen before purchasing clothing should see that it bears the union label dealers that do not ban die dle union goods will be looked after by the organizers who intend to pay chicago a visit the east river bridge commission of new yori city has decided that the wage scale of the granite cutters un ion 4 per day is the prevailing alling rate for that region and must under the state laor law govern the stone work being done on the bridge approaches by the contractors the pennsylvania law limiting the hours of factory labor for females to 60 hours a week and not more than 12 on any given day and flag the min icum age of child labor at 13 years has been upheld and declared consal tut lonal ional by the superior court the act prohibiting corporations from dis charging employed emp loyes for belonging to a union was dec ded by the same court as unconstitutional as class legisla tion the united states consul at cha mitt germany writes the department here that workmen there are provided with brick houses of five rooms and parlor supplied with porcelain stoves and beating pipes and the kitchen with wash boiler boller and stone e with yard tor for flowers in front and a garden plot behind with shed for poultry or some domestic animal these houses are to be rented to the workmen tor for 3 65 per month |
