Show mom ff IL of labor abor L r news from all parts of the world d of general interest to the worker er indianapolis with a payroll in ex cess of 14 a week because of the several big strikes in the country the international association of machin isis finds itself without funds to carry on the strikes much longer A special assessment which will raise within thirty days has been levied by the international executive board the machinists strikes which have been draining the treasury of the internal atonal organization are principally in new york on the pacific coast and against the pennsyl pennsylvania anta railway company and the baldwin locomotive works in the jurisdiction of new I 1 ork there are nearly 2000 2 machin ests on strike it Is stated that the strike of the pennsylvania of the east could not be carried on without this special assessment recently there have been settlements in several of the western strikes but in the northwest at the present time there are about five hundred union machinists out san francisco the labor party ad ministration of san francisco baa hab commenced the operation of the geary street railway which has been turned over to the city as the result of the expiration of a franchise labor mayor mccarthy has announced that all of the work to be done in rehabilitating the road will be done by union labor abor and that when completed the motormen conductors and cm em aloyes of the operating department will be put on an eighty elgh hour day and a wage rate that will enable the cm ern aloyes to maintain a high standard of living portland ore while portland la Is the center all parts of oregon have their manufacturing enterprises ore gon city with the falls of willamette at its door has some of the largest manufacturing plants in the west in eluding great paper factories and woolen mills in several oregon cities as well as numerous flour mills fruit canneries milk condensers cheese factories and similar enterprises ore gon as a manufacturing state Is gain ing rapidly and its future Is beyond estimation cardiff wales fhe flie seamen s union signed an agreement with the ship owners which brought abou about a settlement of the strike the seamen will be paid 25 monthly the union will be recognized and future dis will be referred preferred to an arbitha tor although other sections of the shipping employed emp loyes failed to arrive at an agreement it was arranged that all should return to work after which their grievances will be considered london eng in manchester and the north of england generally the la boring classes of the population con dinue to favor operative cooperative co societies or stores co operation cooperation in its various phases of industrial and provident so clelles comprised in the report of the chief registrar of friendly societies for 1909 represents a membership of 2 77 with total assets amounting to 40 an increase of about 10 a during the year washington ashington VV I 1 have visited sev eral large penal institutions in the united states where goods are manu fractured and I 1 think our Autra llan law barring prison made goods Is a good one said W 11 barkley of the high commissioner commissioners s office of the corn com mon wealth of australia saco maine mrs melissa hodg eon son aged seventy five who runs four looms in the weaving department of the new york manufacturing corn com pany and claims the distinction of being the oldest weaver tn in the united states began work in the plant 65 55 years ago washington ten years ago 25 cents gold a day was considered a fair wage for a common day laborer in mexico gradually this was in creased to 35 or 40 cents and now the prevailing rate Is 60 50 or 60 cents a day copenhagen denmark the danish parliament has passed a bill whereby abent absent seamen arc ar entitled to par in the elections for parlia ment by power of attorney or by sending in their votes new york the semiannual semi annual report of the united hebrew trades in new york shows that ten new local unions were vere formed and fifteen strikes as aristed tisted only three of which were un successful berlin germany fter 20 years of service all postmasters and clerks in germany receive a pension from the government and after 40 years a full pension in addition to the regular sal ary paris france trance the french stork met s perlona pen lona law calls for a con of about 1 60 a year by each an equal sum by his em and the state adds a third washington ten years ago the requirements quire ments of northern cotton mills materially exceeded the demand of the mills of the south this was changed a few years ago and the mills of the south in 1910 took bales more than did the mills of the north the northern mills still have much the larger number of spindles but the manufacture of coarse cotton in the south while the mills of the north are turning to finer yarns and lighter weaves Is the explanation of the in crea creal ing ng weight of the southern con tu in comparison with the bortt 11 r demand washington this statistical statement tor for 1909 Is ot of interest in show ing the extent to which industrial in aurance has been carried in germany ot of a total population of 63 people 9 males and 3 females were insured against the consequences of 0 nines they were in in 28 insurance offices in all parts of 0 the empire against acci dent were insured 14 males and 8 females against corn com invalidity or inability to work were insured 10 males and 4 females there were 5 cases of illness dealt with 1 cases of accident and fresh pensions tor for invalidity in addition to the existing pensions old age pensions numbered in all the income from insurance was marks tour four marks equal roughly 1 ot of which marks were con tributes tri buted by the employers and by the workmen the imperial contribution was 51 BOO marks the total expenditure was marks washington while the labor unions in this country are largely confined to trades and special callings those ot of australia cover nearly every ble character of work there Is now being organized a rab biters union this organization Is being formed un der the auspices of what Is known as the trappers league the men eligible to the rab biters union un ion as the name signifies are those engaged la the hunting of rabbits for the mar ket already through the efforts of 0 the young organization the minister of agriculture has made arrangements for the freezing and packing of rab bits to meet the requirements of the rabbit hunters tor for the coming season this action on the part of the min ister Is to guard against the rabbit combine berlin germany A thorough and practical system of technical aduca tion Is responsible very largely tor for the success of the shipbuilding indus try in germany there are a dozen schools and colIe colleges devoted almost exclusively to marine architecture and engineering and they are maintained by the government for the purpose of training men to do the work there are a dozen ships tor for training sailors and officers for the merchant marine as mell as for the imperial navy ev cry ery young officer on board a german steamer has been educated edu cited eted tor for his profession as thoroughly aa as a doctor a lawyer or an electrical engineer another international labor union has moved its principal headquarters to indiana the union being the retail clerks international as so sedation clation which opened offices at lafayette august 1 after having maintained headquarters at denver for many years this Is the second international union locating its head quarters in lafayette as that city al ready was the headquarters tor for the Paint painters ets international union loa los angeles cal mrs M A walte waite a dressmaker Is the first em to be convicted in this city of violation of the new eight hour workday tor for women mrs walte waite was found guilty of having employed two girl seamstresses more than eight hour a day in her defense mrs airs asserted her constitutional right to employ women more than eight hours a day it if employers in other states are permitted to do so minneapolis unions affiliating with the minneapolis central body must e their claims as to jurisdiction ove work and they have agreed to submit to the will of the majority in any tub subsequent sequent ruling that may be made so there Is no chance of a ces bation of building operations because of any disagreement between the unions themselves london eng there Is 1 a growing disposition on the part of the ship owners in parlous parts of the world to employ chinese crews chinese sailors and firemen received about 6 or 7 gold a month and stewards 5 to 7 while the aver average ago price paid to other nationalities reaches about 45 gold a month berlin germany the report of the state and municipal employed Emp loyes union in germany shows a membership of 32 at the end of 1910 an in crease of 6 against 1909 the total income of 1910 was the ex pend ture iture funds in hand toronto can the canadian trades and labor congress will hold a con bention at calgary on september 11 paris parts france within the last 40 i years the number of women workers in france has almost doubled havana cuba the cigar industry in cuba employs 3 females washington according to dr ku wada a member of the japanese hou hoye houe e of peers more than two fifths of the 1000 1 factory hands are wo men and children with no laws to tear fear or evade says a writer in sue cess the mill owners are employing 70 children under the ago age of 14 in the match and tobacco industries Indu particularly the work Is tor for the most part done by children and of these many are under 10 years of age washington fifteen hundred em aloyes of the international harvester works at moscow russia are on strike |