Show 1 aw I 1 boston several hundred thousand tho thoi sand operatives ii it mills and factories of basach isetts and rhode island be gan work on a shorter schedule of i orkie g I 1 ours la in consee bence of the new 66 56 1 0 r la Is vs by the last tio aft state legislate leg islat ires tres becoming beg oming effee live tive NN hile the new stat ite applies only to N omen and i 1 inor the manu facture is fird it impossible to separ ate the departments department so tl at J the men can work longcr than the v nen and children and hive therefore brought all a 11 tl gieir air operatives t inder rider t the he new schedule which al alews ov s them to work not more than 6 hours a week reek in rhode island iland I land it is estimated that tl t e 20 operatives ejected ii will III lose a a total of OSO working hours a i 3 ear man of ot tt tl s q great textile in mills III s in lo 10 veil vell I 1 a arenc fall river and N new ew 3 edford had already reduced thel their working ho irs in confora ity to the policy polley of curtailment ot of prod c tion paris france of al statistics ot of th strikes which bocc in france franc lat ear have 3 been issued and they show that there in all 1073 1 in which 99 persons mostly men took part leading to idle days esti mated at the huge figure of 1 20 43 including inc iding lading 2416 6 2 days lost by the fact that 9 1 96 non stickers kers unable to work this Is however an imp ment on when there were 1 strikes with a loss of 3 days and prid a still greater improvement on 1906 when the total number of lost days amounted to 9 it Is ex that the strike mon movement ement has a marked tendency to coincide with prosperous years workmen expecting to obtain more concessions from a thriving employer emi loyer than from one who can just make both ends meet most of the strikes have emanated from the refusal of an increase 6 ot pay V ashington officers of the ame lean federation atlon of labor have issued a call to the 1540 1 members of the organization calling on them to sub scribe to a fund with which a bitter fight Is to tobe the began begun aganet the united S aceb steel corporation the cor horation po ration the caa cal sets forth Is anim ical to both the interests of labor and to the co antry at large and Is termed a bold and daring violator of the aws the sum of will be raised by this first appeal but fur ther calls will be issued as the fight progresses the action Is the result of the conference held in pittsburg on december 13 and 14 between the amalgamated association As oc lation of iron and steel workers the tinplate Ti plate workers protective association and the long Bh sh s and seamen s union chicago committees representing the brotherhood of railroad trainmen and order of railway conductors on nearly forty railroads east of the IIII riol central and north of the chess peake ohio presented new wage schedules to the general managers A standard scale on all 11 lines is asked which would require advances ranging from five to forty per cent about employed emp loyes are interested lo 10 6 motive firemen employed on the ame railroads are also considering a new wage schedule equal to that paid for the same work west of chicago the result will be known knon in a few wool s 1 1 B ston clarence L mitchell tern tem chairman for the brotherhood of locomotive I 1 engineers on the B AT system is authority for the statement organization for the road goad has not as yet met to consider any wage increase cecii ests it Is 19 stated however from a railroad louice that a request for a better arr argement of hours and working conditio conditto condi tio s for the engineers of that system has bea ben b en suggested memphis tenn in char ity 0 a definite and helpful form memphis typographical un on has in corp orated in its book of laws a pro vision that annually an assessment of one half of one per cent on the oc tober earnings of its members shall be levied the sum realized to be d di 1 vided eg ei ally between the day nursery y and the foundling home hom london eng in reference to the workings of the liability laws of great britain the usual plan is weekly pay ments of compensation but under some circumstances as where a work hiyi is incapacitated tor for the work in which he is engaged and he desires to go into other bt sineas an arrange ment is made by which he receives a lump st in boston Nat loial al executive board of the federation of state city and town employers unions has hag decided that the annual convention shall be held at ayi n mass february 6 mount vernon N k john ell the labor leader who was asked by the temple club of this city to de scribe ahat hat he re rega gardea as an ideal relation between capital ar and labor has replied as follows it its is lay my firm conviction that the ideal of trade unionism will be attained when a strong organization of labor supplied with an ample reserve fund and cm em bracing every workman in its trade find itself face to face with an qually strong association of employ rs embracing every employer in the trade the two will then meet on a basis of absolute equality philadelphia at t a special meeting of the hoard of directors of the ph la delphia rapid tran it company held here it was vas decided to give free insurance to all employed emp loyes in th the sen seri ice of the company it was at at 0 de aided to give p of 20 a month to all employed emp loyes who have been 25 years in the employ of the company and h ve attained tte tle age of 65 years A new scale of wages to become et ef festive on july 1 1910 was also adopted adai ted on that date the wages of motormen and conductors which have been 22 cents an hour will be in creased to 23 cents these those wages will be increased one cent an hour every two years yea r s until the tile maximum of 25 cents an bour hour js Is reached A similar increase will be g anted the employed emp loyes of the elevated road the maximum for motormen on the latter line will be 28 cents gents an hour indianapolis four additional paid organizers of the bar hers international union head tto tk of mailen are in this city will tart out in the field next monday he country has been divided into four districts eastern central west ern and canadian and an organizer will be placed in each of the these se dis tracts there will also be a organizer who will travel in these va rious districts the barbers internal lional la Is showing substantial growth having issued ten new charters since november I 1 the charters were Is sued to locals in the following cities anadarko Ana darko ohla columbia mo 11 I 1 eth etharidge bridge alberta new rochelle N Y Charle rooi roof pa mangum obia okia watertown S D birg arg S 0 north yakima wash and hutchin son kan chicago no increase will be grant ed the switchmen in the chicago dis triet unless it should come through h a board of arbitration the managers submitted their proposition to the union committee and in substance it refused every demand which the union made the demand of the men for time and one half tor for over time and sundays was ansA answered ered by the state ment that in the movement of gers and freight the railroads got no extra compensation tor for holidays and that work performed on such days must be regarded as regular work ard paid for at regular rates I 1 south bethlehem pa As a result of a conference between general man ager maguire of the lehigh valley railroad company and a committee of conductors the conductors will re belve substantial increases in their pay ten hours instead of 12 will constitute a day s work passenger conductors will receive 3 90 a day in stead of 3 50 through freight con doctors will be paid 3 50 instead of three dollars and the wages of local freight conductors will be increased from 3 55 to 3 85 about 1200 1 men will benefit san francisco every law pertain ing to or bearing on labor and in to c in cai cal fornia at the present ame has been condensed into one small compact volume by the state labor commissioner this is to meet a constant and increasing demand tor for sl sich ch a publication by lawyers public officials and others interested in varl ous i ays boston five hundred con doctors and motor motormen nien employed by the boston elevated railroad cm C m pany received new lears ear s gifts from the of and 2 dively as a reward for good records in 1909 the coal comiano any distributed this year 76 75 sacramento cal at the next neet ii beet ing 0 the federated trades council an effort will be made to amend the con ution to the extent extent of making it obi batory for eveia delegate to weal a union made hat boston more than delegate will represent new Flig england land at the blenn al convention of the railroad cerks to be held at new ew orleans next ap 11 wah agton A convention ot of the international transport workers federation meets in copenhagen D n mark next august I 1 adamie wyo a state federal on comprising in its membership about 6 miners was organized recent recently y in wyoming 1 nev york organizers are at in this city trying to form an interns dional union of typewriters and raphers augusta me A new eight hour law has gone into effect in the mills and factories of this state the running time hitherto has been 60 hoir ho irb weekly ekly washington hungary Ilung ary has almost trade unionists washington since the adjourn ment of the Amer american ioan rede federation ration of labor convention renewed activity in the ranks of the international AIM mill employers union has resulted in the return to the union of five locals that have not only paid up all arrearages but have been successful in obtaining the ube of the union label for their product boston doston it has been decide 1 that the massachusetts legislature legisla tire be peti tidied to enact a minimum wage law am of 2 25 a day for ajl all state laborers and particular parti cula ly for those employed by the water sewer and nark braidi 1 4 |