Show aa 41 I 1 14 cincinnati to meet the objection of the special committee of the amer lean ican federation of labor that tech schools do not fit the students to enter upon the pursuits of work men after they leave school the au an thorit ties les at the high schools in which there is industrial education intend to take the boys in the second year of their course of study and place them in shops where they may be shown how to do the different kinds of work it is proposed that after having watched the others do the work mork they are to attempt it themselves and for this they are to receive ten cents an hour the third year they are to be paid 11 cents an hour and the fourth year they are to receive 12 cents an hour the proposition has met the opposition of the labor men of that city who declare that the system would do away with the regular ap prentice system and create an aagre gatlon gation of youngsters who would be qualified to act as strike breakers in case of trouble new york supreme court justice gerard in granting a permanent in junction against the waist makers union of new york city to prevent it from calling a strike on a firm alleged to have furnished goods to a struck shop has rendered a decision having a wide bearing on future strikes he ile says it is unlawful interference for a union to oppose a proprietor for sell ing goods to a firm against which a strike is in progress and that it amounts to an unlawful boycott beilin germany the imperial sta cal department of berlin ger many recently made an official in to ascertain the income and ex tures of small families and dis covered that the average income of a skilled workman was 83 yearly and the expenditures 71 of which 1 6 per cent was spent for food the unskilled workman on an average earns and expends 70 of which 64 54 per cent goes for food indianapolis the brotherhood of carpenters and joiners has had the greatest increase in membership the last three years and during the same period the international Typo graph leal union has obtained the greatest reduction in the hours of labor the machinists union has had the great est number of strikes and has the statistics show won a larger per cen tage of its contests than any oth er national union new york the new york central railroad made an agreement with its firemen by which 3 get advances in wages averaging seven per cent this action was reached after confer encee lasting over a week the settlement was brought about without the necessity of calling in the services of a member of the grand lodge of the brotherhood of loco locomotive mothe firemen and engl engi nemen montreal canada J A rodler one of the pioneers of the labor movement in canada died recently he was la Is bor editor of la patrie for the last nine years year he ile was one of the organ aizers of the knights of labor 20 3 ears ago providence R I 1 in rhode island the industrial population has received many advances in wages the cotton mills have been running full time not withstanding a curtailment agreement the outlook shows steady employment tor for 40 operatives washington judge william lea char chambers abers of this city was appointed as third arbitrator of the controversy between 49 railroads operating in the territory west of chicago and the brotherhood of locomotive firemen and engi nemen boston doston boston doston plumbers union no 12 announces the establishment by agreement with the employers of an apprenticeship system in the trade by which all apprentices are guaran teed full opportunity to learn the bust ness boston boston labor unions have indorsed proposed legislation to the effect that there shall be inquiry into public utility disputes before either a lock out or a strike may take place boston the members of hebrew bakers union no 45 secured a 1 a week wage increase the union did not insist upon its original shorter work day request san francisco since the adjourn ment of the california state federa tie alon of labor in san rafael last lat oc tober 33 unions have aff hated with the federation frankfort ry the court of ap pe peals als has adjudged in i constitutional the section of kentucky s statutes pro hi hibl biting ting the operation oe of barber shops on sunday boston the boston delegates to the recent convention of tie tl e brother hood of railroad clerks v on the 1912 convention tor for boston chicago the wage dispute between chicago brick makers and man is settled by the terms of an agreement arrived at the men are given ghen an average increase of ten per cent over the scale which ex aired on april SO 30 three thou thousand band brick makers are affected by the set under the old scale laborers received 2 5 a day and journeymen from 4 to 6 a day indianapolis ind the united gar ment workers have filed affidavits barging the american woolen corn com any with using the union label file aill montreal canada the grand arink pacific authorities have decided to abandon the effort to import chinese labor into british columbia to work on the western and pac sections of 0 the railroad for some time it looked as if the managed meant to leave nothing untried to effect its purpose of securing an aban dant supply of cheap and submissive labor it was argued that the supply of white laborers was far short of the demand that white men would not take laborers jobs on construction work most of them being able to do better for themselves in the new coun try why then it was asked should not the compan take a step which would lead to the development of the provinces and the general advantage 9 hace race prejudice however prevailed over economic argument and it was seen that it would be hopeless to put the necessary legislation through parliament chicago freight handlers who have threatened to strike on 23 chi cago railroads accepted compromise offers tor for wage advances from several of or the rail systems four roads signed agreements to pay their employees two cents an hour increase tor for men paid by the hour and 5 a month for salaried men the four railroads which satisfied the demands of their employees were the rock island the chicago great western the chicago eastern illinois and the monon motion roxbury mass the carpet beav ers union strike ended with the return of the women to work under a settlement agreement made at a conference between superintendent steams stearns of the mill national prest dent golden of the textile workers union and a committee of the strikers the matters in dispute were am settled Is the official an no of the settlement by na lional president john golden new york according to the bul letin of the new york state depart ment of labor the earnings of organ iced wage earners during the last quarter of 1909 showed an average of tor for men as against for men in the corresponding period of 1908 while the percentage of idleness for about the same periods in 1909 1908 and 1907 show respective ly as follows 20 6 per cent 28 per cent and 32 7 per cent chicago A new home tor for aged and disabled railroad workers the 4 called broken rails was dedicated at highland recently nearly 1000 1 mem bers hers of various railroad brotherhoods women s auxiliaries of those lations and their friends were in at there were present one legged men men without hands and men who were wheeled about in chairs pittsburg pa the railroads are still slow in placing contracts for bridges as well as tor for terminal tacil facil aties it Is estimated that railroad work calling tor for nearly 20 tons of steel Is being held in abeyance but some of 0 this will probably soon be placed the contracts placed during march were heavy exceeding the february tonnage which was large washington the report of the bu reau of labor upon the conditions at the bethlehem steel works of south bethlehem pa submitted to the sen ate says that 2 men worked 12 hours a day seven days a week A large percentage of these laborers earned only 1212 12 cents an hour new york the united garment workers of america have been great suf ebers as a result of the prison out put of shirts overalls trousers and the like used by working men in their trade columbus O 0 the secretary of the state board of arbitration joseph bishop has announced that all actions for a peaceful settlement of the street car strike here are off melbourne australia at a recent conference of the 48 members ol 01 the australian workers union it was decided to begin the is sue of a dally daily paper cleveland clevelan d 0 the employ ees of the cle cleveland egand railway company have presented demands tor for a flat wage rate of 32 cents an hour denver colo organized labor in denver denier has united in a demand toi for the aumic ownership of the v water ater sup ply for that city Mont montreal canada montreal Ilon treal street railway company tor for the second time in two wo years has granted voluntary tary increases in pay ray cleveland 0 O cleveland brickley bric klay ers hai e decided to organize tl e stone masons and cement block workers aa ashington in australia the fed eral elections resulted in a complete for the labor party san francisco steam laundry N 0 k ers now has 1600 1 members in good brandli g berlin geimann the painters and decorators union in germany recent ly celebrated its twenty fifth hanniver sary having been organized as a cen trailed trall Led ed union in december 1884 when the membership was under 1000 1 the union now has 40 members in the 25 years it has had to fight disputes with a total expenditure of about boston miss pauline neuman ol 01 new york who has been conducting an ag tation campaign in boston re ports that five more large boston de apartment part ment stores have added union labeled shirt waists to their stool s |