| Show world of aabol news from all parts of the world of general interest to the worker I 1 chicago official announcement Is made that a pension system will be put into effect the beginning of next year for all officials and employed emp loyes of the rock island system the pension system will be under the management of a board and in connection with the system the rock island has 1 fished an age limit which shall govern original employment e in no inexpert limore encee Pers person more than 45 years of age will be taken into the service of the company no pension is to be less than 20 a month and none more than a month all officials and employed emp loyes who have reached the age of 75 years must retire and the em aloyes who are in the operating ice may be retired at 65 years of age in order to be entitled to a pension an ark employed must have been contina bously in the service for 20 years fall river mass the fortieth semi annual profit sharing dividend was paid to the operatives of th bourne mills the rate Is tour four per cent on tl e total wages earned by the operatives for the last six months of the year in july 3 per cent was paid the late george A chace was the to fo inder of the plan to pay a tain percentage of the profits earned bv br the mill hands the schema was put into effect in 1889 and obly grice once has a dividend been omItt omitted edl daring the strike of 1904 to secure a co opera tive five dividend an employed must per form faithful and continuous service for six months before the declaration of the dividend the dividend de dared meant a payment to the op era tives of about 15 boston L frank moorhouse pres ideria of boston painters union 11 was elected a delegate of the A F of L by the international convention which completed completed its sessions at C in cinnoti recently the convention de aided that wherever an A F of L building trades section exists the lo 10 cals of painters decorators and paper hangers of tl V e jurisdiction must aff afflic it ate with it pi pt ring the past four years the int ernat onal has paid in death benefits and for wives funerals the new system will require at least 40 per cent of the entire per capita tax I 1 it was stated that during the past four years the international re were werd 3 and the ex tures london eng fighting ting against the opposition of men workers in all trades and many other almost ansur mountable odds the women of great britain have formed an organization known as the woman s trade union league with which women were affiliated in 1907 reform in the truck and living in systems under which romen were treated unfairly by payment in goods and lodging in stead of money better wages and few strikes are some of the things the women s organizations have accod i while they have gained depre i ben tation in the trade union con i go gress which represents the entire la i bor class lass of great britain i carbondale pa nineteen employ es of the Ie delaware laware hudson rail road shops were discharged because they weigh less th thai pounds and it is expected others under this weight will lose their positions the men declare that an order recently has been issued from the headquarters at albany for the discharge of all shop employed emp loyes who weigh less than pounds or are over 45 years of age the weight limit is said to have been fixed owing to the idea that i mature man w we ahing less than pounds does not possess the he physical strength to permit him to do a nor mal man mans s daily work philadelphia the john B stetson hat company gave to its 4 employed emp loyes to each pt of the 1192 1193 girls there were given a box of candy and a pair of glove 10 to lo men who have families 1964 1 turkeys were div en to those who are in need of homes and had shown thrift were pre dented shares of building and loan association stock at a share the gifts included 65 gold watches and 57 7 gold chains and fobs with the new year more than two thirds of the employed emp loyes find that they have an in crease 0 of f ten per cent in their wages new york the new york city street car employed emp loyes who have been unorganized for years are now be ing organized by the amalgamated associations of street and electrical railway employed Emp loyes boston considerable progress Is being made in the formation of a new hebrew custom tailors union in this city ottawa canada twenty six rail raj employed emp loyes were killed and 44 in lured in canada in october butte mont striking switchmen men who returned to work a week ago quit again this was the result of warnings given the switchmen by 10 lo al labor union committees several mines closed throwing hundreds out of work traffic in the freight yards Is paralyzed san francisco san francisco steam fitters union has appointed i t committee to look after the men of its trade employed at mare island and endeavor to obtain for them the wage paid throughout the state which is 4 80 a day the pay at the yard s only 4 16 pittsburg Pitts bur g without any suggestion do from the workmen the master build ers as ocia tion of this city voted unanimously to increase the wages of carpenters from 3 50 to 4 per day the increase goes into effect on april 15 next the date was set because the opening of the spring season will see spring contracts well under way and the masters want to prepare all builders for the advance the mas ter builders said the advance was granted to the carpenters because of the friendly spirit shown by the work men and more so because of the in creased cost of living the present scale expires april 1 15 the carpen work eight hours a day and the increased wage rage rate is for an eight hour day new york hopes of the striking shirtwaist girls tor for a settlement of their difficulties with their employers through arbitration and for obtaining by such means recognition of the union were shattered by I 1 B hyman president of the waist and dress manu facture rs organization he lie informed john mitchell and morris hillquit the strikers representatives that the manufacturers will never sign any union agreements negotiations have been broken off and the 8 girls are still on strike some of the girls however are reported to be preparing to return to work under old condi eions it Is expected hundreds of girls will fight to the last boston on september 30 1909 out of an aggregate membership of representing unions report ing to the massachusetts bureau of statistics 5 or 4 80 per cent reported idle there has been a de crease in the amount of ment of 1 56 per cent as compared with the returns for june 30 1909 and of 5 82 per cent as compared with the returns for september 30 1908 nashville tenn A committee from the nashville Vish ville trades and labor coun court oil cil recently organized the city era ein bl bireau reau with mayor howe as chairman the idea of the organ is to get a operative cooperative move ment started between the mayor and the trades and labor council and do everything possible to get men work who are not able to ob ain aln aj tj sitione themselves buenos aires argentina the ar workers federation has issued an invitation to the organized workers of south america for a congress of south american trade unions to be held in this city on april 30 1910 A number of national organizations among them brazilian have accepted it is expected that a delegation from the A F of L will also attend london eng the weavers and textile workers wo T kers union in great bri tain is taking up the question of half ime labor and is seeking the support of M all organized bodies in an effort to abolish it altogether bradford Is still the principal place in yorkshire for he the half timer and will probably con dinue to be until the legislature puts in an end to it washington samuel gompers president of the american federation of labor publishes a vigorous editor al at in the against both the action of the supreme court of the district of C columbia and the becom Amen emendation dation in president tafts taft s mes sage to congress with reference to the necessity for notice and hearing before injunction writs are granted washington recent decisions by the national board of the A F L building trades department gives the jurisdiction to the bridge and tural iron workers over the fabrica fabrics tion erection and placing of steel and iron used in reinforced concrete and cement construction the marb e workers union is given jurls jurisdiction diction over slate trades lead S D the executive commit tee of the lead and central unions of the western federation of miners called out all union watchmen e n and others employed by the home stake company this order affects about men who have been allowed to work since the lockout by the mine management toronto canada the profits of the toronto labor temple company for the first three months of the cur rent year amounted to 1000 and prospects are that this will be in creased during the second quarter the unions that own stock will re belve a dividend thereon ottawa canada eleven industrial disputes affecting 68 firms and 4 employed emp loyes took place in canada dur ing october oakland cal bakery wagon daiv ers have voted to affiliate with the state federation of labor washington members of the ho house use committee on interstate and foreign commerce believe the prospects tor for amending the sherman anti antitrust trust law under which the supreme court of the united states in the celebrated dan bury case held that labor eions come within the law as applied to restraint of trade are anything but bright leading lawyers in the house and senate say that the sher man law as it now stands is as near perfect as a law can be fashioned and to amend it would upset the business of corporations engaged in interstate commerce com merre |
