Show NEWS h W y 11 T w U na U OP 9 I 1 II 11 WORLD 0 11 minneapolis among the laws en acted by the minnesota legislature which are regarded as good ones by the labor men are the following the amount that may be recovered for death by industrial accidents was in creased from 5 to 7 the women a 10 hour law was amended by the addition of a penalty for viola eions by manufacturing and tile establishments A new compel eory gory education law makes the maxi mum age limit 16 years wages of 0 workmen were given additional pro lection by an act that makes invalid any assignment of them unless ac cepter by the employer in writing and signed by the wife it if the assignor is married the act also provides that all such assignments must be record ed in the office of the city or town clerk two laws were passed at the instance of the organizations of rail road employed emp loyes one of these holds railroad companies responsible tor for forest fires caused by locomotives not equipped with spark arresters heretofore the engi nemen were held re tor for all such fires the other law passed at the request of railroad employees permits men to vote away from home for state and national claas st louis the retail merchants of the state have been conferring among themselves with a view to contesting the women s nine hour labor law which will become effective june 19 no definite plan has been evolved merchants in kansas city st louis and st joseph have told the country merchants to go ahead and make the fight the city merchants will look on in sympathy but they have union labor to deal with and do not like to antagonize a very considerable part of their patronage they figure that in the country the public desires the stores to be open late in the evening because farmers often do their buy ing ng after dark the longest summer days besides there is no organized labor in the country to make a dis tur bance no country merchant has volunteered to lead the fight but it is understood that the associated re jailers of bt st louis will arrange for a contest of the law as soon as it be comes effective hartford conn the connecticut legislative labor committee has report ed favorably on a bill which specifies in part that no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed in op aerating or in assisting in operating picker machines or machines used in the picking of wool cotton hair or upholstery material calendar rolls in rubber manufacturing or laundry ma chinery also that no child under six teen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work at adjusting or assisting to adjust any belt to any ma chinery or to assisting in oiling wip ing and cleaning machinery also that no person under sixteen years of age shall ahall be employed or permitted to op erate an elevator either freight or I 1 passenger running at a speed of more than feet a minute cleveland ohio john gutt for merly brakeman for the pennsylvania railroad is the first cleveland work man to bezie benefit fit under the provisions of the norris employers liability law he ile got a verdict for 3 damages from a jury in judge nett neff a court tor for the loss of one hand while employed by the company the jury returned the verdict after judge neff had stated that gutt would never ul ti recover anything tor for the in jury indianapolis where the seven day week tor for printers was formerly in vogue and was abolished by requiring members who were viere employed on a sev seven enday day schedule to give one day tach week to the first obtainable sub statute the wages for a six day week are now in excess of the wages tor for merly paid tor for the sev seven enday day week the german branch of the trade has deduced ted the days from six to five with similar results washington at the election tor for of fibers of the international association of machinists in july james 0 con nell the incumbent president who has held the office many years will have a hard contest because of the candidacy of william 11 johnston president of district no 44 which has in its membership all the machin ests employed in the united states navy yards spokane wash girl employed emp loyes of a laundry struck tor for 14 cents an ho ir it instead of piecework the piecework plan is believed by them to be intro deuced in the associated laundries to offset the new state law limiting worn wom en a work to eight hours per day boston boston bricklayers union 3 has been presented with the pen with which governor foss signed the so called fines bill it was a case against the bricklayers union which brought the decision declaring unions did not have the right to fine mem bers bets and which caused the agitation lot we law new york A strike begun here four months ago by a union of bank clerks employed in private banks on the fast side has just ended with a victory for the strikers they se cure a 52 hour working week and a 15 liper per cent increase in wages indianapolis teamsters local un ions all over the country are respond ing readily to the call for money for the defense of john J mcnamara ot of the structural iron fron workers says D J tobin international president ot of the teamsters union who has returned to indianapolis after a month in the east many small unions are demanding international headquarters be removed from indianapolis says tobin this is true in our organization and I 1 know it to be true in others it is also being urged that at least we withdraw our deposits from India indiana nap olis the typographical union has about 1 1000 on deposit here the barbers have other unions have similar amounts it Is being point ed out that some of the men who bor hot row the money we have deposited are turning around and fighting unionism perhaps the storm will blow over after a while but the socialist pa pers all over the country are hammer ing away the result is that in some sections they think we are a bunch of cannibals in indianapolis sent ment among union labor men through out the east strongly condemns andl anapolis ana polls authorities tor for the manner in which mcnamara was removed from this city vv washington strike talk has caused the disruption of the he national civil service improvement association ot of the business men of the united states recently formed to help government clerks get higher salaries four lead ing business men of this city vice presidents of the organization re signed because of recent statements by fulton R gordon president and joseph W buck duck secretary now mr gordon announces that he will resign and will take steps to abolish the or and abandon a national meeting of business men he has ar at ranged to be held here the vice presidents resigned because they ob ejected to a public assertion by gordon that unless relief soon was given to government clerics clerks they would strike nor could the vice presidents concur in a sentiment expressed by mr buck duck that members of cUp congress gress who in creased their own on pay would not in crease that of government clerks should be horsewhipped washington in the eleven years brou frou from 1894 to 1905 the employers ha ability companies of the united states took in 99 in premiums from american employers these companies paid out in the settlement of cams claims ot of injured workmen 48 46 99 oa a 43 per cent of the amount they took in ot of the 43 paid in the settlement of such claims it is sate safe to say 35 per cent was expended by the injured workmen in the payment ot of attorneys tees fees and court expenses so that in the final analysis the injured work men received less than 30 out of the paid by employers in that period in premiums to liability companies seattle wash the eight hour law in washington applies only to those performing manual or physical labor but t include those in whose la Is bor hot mental effort Is dominant over physical says J T S lyie lyle in an ion given to S F hubbard state labor commissioner it is held that the cope ot of the statute Is limited and that the act was wag passed tor for the pro lection of those who engage in phys leal ical labor tor for the thio public rather than to apply to clerks bookkeepers po linemen and the like london eng labor leaders throughout the british empire are arranging for a new ne departure I 1 in policy and one bound to have an important bearing on the interests of the work ing class through the summer the colonial labor statesmen who are aro to be in england will meet the labor lead ers ot of the kingdom they will decide it if possible on a uniform course to be taken by labor all over the empire chicago brewery workers have negotiated a new three year agree ment with the brewers which gives all the workers an advance in wages the drivers formerly belonged to the international brotherhood of team but transferred their allegiance to the brewery workers Intern atlon al at union W ashington plate engravers in the geodetic gea detic detle survey department at washington ashington get an increase of 12 per cent to take effect july I 1 they are members of the local union hold ing a chatter from the A F of I 1 L new york president lynch ot of the typographical union brought suit tor for damages against john kirby and the manufacturers association for blaming the typographical union tor for the los angeles times dynamiting new york twelve thousand union machinists in the borough of queens labor leaders claim are preparing to join their brooklyn brethren in ing for an eight hour day it Is claim ed that more than 10 machinists are now on strike in manhattan the bronx brooklyn yonkers and hudson county new jersey new york wages paid in the east ern provinces of canada are bially the same as those paid in the eastern states in new york tork michi gan and ohio the average monthly wage Is 22 50 in new brunswick J quebec and ontario 22 48 |