Show AMONG THE WORKERS ITEMIZED NEWS FROM ALL OVER THC WORLD ribot law in france des ened to enable factory hands to borrow money on easy terms no union for postal clerks washington in 1906 six trade unionists were elected to congress the tall fall of 1907 saw the number in creased by the addition of tour four more trade unionists making ten in all the congressional elections ot of 1910 still urther further increased the number by 50 per cent there being fifteen mem bers hers of congress actively affiliated with the trade unions as follows W B wilson coal miner blossburg Bloss burg pa richard E lee blacksmith potts ville pa john A martin lococo live tive fireman pueblo colo nv william illiam I 1 cary commercial telegrapher mil mt waukee walkee victor L berger typo graphical union milwaukee william hughes textile worker paterson N J frank buchanan structural iron worker chicago james T mcder mott commercial telegrapher chi cago david J lewis coal miner cumberland md charles B smith sinith railroad telegrapher buff buffalo alo carl C anderson Ander sou musician fostoria 0 isaac R sherwood typographical union toledo E E roberts metal miner carson city nev john R farr typographical union scranton and james P maher hatter batter brooklyn indianapolis since the arrest and removal to california of john J me ale namara secretary and treasurer treasur pr of the international association of bridge and structural iron workers 11 II S hockin ot of detroit a member of the executive board is acting as secretary and treasurer ot of the organization hockin also is the acting editor of the bridgemen a magazine the official pub li catlon cation of the association and expects to get the magazine out the latter part of next week which is the usual time tor for its appearance it Is likely there will be a full discussion in the mag azine of the arrest and extradition of mcnamara chicago save one fourth of what you earn no matter how small or how hon large your salary give the square deal to the men you work tor for the men you work with and the c cultivate a cheerful cheer cheerful kul courteous de meaner meanor and in general make houi personality as attractive as possible do all the work required of you and then a little more those are the golden rules of success put forward by jacob L kesner who has risen from a chicago cash boy to be the multimillionaire multi millionaire proprietor ot of a large department store washington organization of a la a bor union by the postal railway clerks would be a public peril says the sec see ond and assistant postmaster stef general he lie modifies this general statement by par his objections to the proposed organization the objections are that this union would exclude of fibers cind and supervisors of the depart ment nold secret meetings employ secret passwords and refuse to permit department heads to take part in its deliberations sydney sidney south Au australia strlla A sum ct cf is to be provided annually by parliament for the use of men who nho desire loans to enable them to build a dwelling house or enlarge one al ready in their possession or to dis charge mortgages on their homes the law requires that those who ben befit by this fund shall earn four fifths of their income by actual personal exertion and that they shall not have an income of over 1 1500 a year philadelphia A bill has passed the pennsylvania legislature prohibiting the employment in coal mines of boys under 16 this Is one of the steps showing the real progress of the age with the regulation of child labor and the greater protection in every way of childhood morally and ghyst rally will come the solution ot of some of the greatest problems of the times at af the moral and physical life of the whole nation pittsburg twenty two railroads employing men have straight pensions and the united states steel company with men has a straight out and out system these corporations maintain these systems not as charities but as bus ness prop positions ions believing they will be re by increased loyalty and efel clency london england unless the ship ping federation the ship owners or gives a satisfactory reply to the demands of the national sea men mens s and firemen Fir emens s union of the united kingdom an attempt will be made to bring about a worldwide strike of the crews of both steamships and sailing vessels london angland the cost of food and rent combined is 52 per cent greater in the united states than in england and wales but these heavier relative charges on working class ina ln come have been accompanied with weekly wages which are a to cleveland O 0 nine hundred union bricklayers quit work in an attempt to force the contractors to allow them a saturday half holiday although the action was in the nature of a strike they returned to work as the only is sue at stake is whether or not the men will get saturday afternoons off f 0 new yolk the women s trade union league of greater new york was as incorporated recently with the approval of supreme court justice greenbaum the corporation now has power to hold property and proposes to allocate a al or oppose legislation at af fueting nomen momen wage earners paris france one of the most original laws to safeguard the poor mans man a money in prance france is known as the ribot law ribot is a deputy seeing that the average factory hand can in 30 years spend 1400 1 at the rate of 4 a month for rent without at the end of that time having either capital property or credit he devised a statute by a hi h the poor man would be able to borrow money without security and buy his own home this T hip act has since been modified as expert ence suggested and it Is now working almost to perfection the law pro vides that the state may borrow any sum up to 20 at three and i one halt half per cent interest this sum it may then lend at two per cent to specially organized real estate firms which in turn thus secured may after investigation advance money without additional security to factory or field laborers at a rate of interest only sl 81 ghaly over two per cent but which nevertheless insures against event ual losses and creates a reserve fund new york the shortest workday Is that accorded to the caisson work ers in new york under an agreement with employers recently signed and to run through the current year the men who work nork under an air pres sure of forty five pounds are to work but three hours a day have thirty minutes for lunch and receive 5 a day as compensation tor for the hazard ous work in which they are engaged in reaching this agreement it was as shown that no man engaged in this business or trade can have life ansur ance in old line life or fraternal or on the ground that they come under the class of extra hazard ous ons boston the existing curtailment ot about 95 5 per cent in the cotton goods industry Indus fry will be increased during the next few months according to mill officials here one said I 1 am not yet able to see any light ahead tor for cotton mills at present throughout the united states 25 per cent ia Is a conservative estimate of curtailment being enforced this short time will be considerably extended many mills which to outward appearances have up to this time been operating on full time will partially shut down in the summer months new york the eight hour day goes into effect for all telegraphers employ ed in western union offices beginning june I 1 according to a statement from the offices of the commercial tel eg raphers union of america here wages will be increased also so that th t the best men will receive a month instead of 85 and 95 it Is further orther announced that president vail of the american telephone and tele graph company has gone on record as being opposed to any discrimination against telegraphers telegraph eru who belong to a union washington the development oi of the factory system in russia can be clearly cli birly traced by the enormous in crease in the number of feminine workers whereas in 1904 the per of v omen and girls was 34 9 per cent the men being taken as the percentage in 1910 was for ly tour women and one hundred men altogether in 1910 there were women and girls employed in facto ries in russia new lork the annual report of the new york commissioner of labor sal sas the eight hour law is being observed there were only forty con COD plaints received last year and twenty five of them were found to b pp violations the commissioner attributes the respect paid the law to the severe penalty clause involving po pos ible forfeiture of contracts A reduced working schedule at the writing paper mill of eaton arani crane pike has gone ino into effect eff act the firm announces that the employees in the plant will work but five hours a day the mill to run five days a week the office force will be cut two hours a ay and will have their salaries reduced ten pe per r cent cent during the short time period clevelan 1 0 three cent tare fare with tree free transfers that is the rate of fare cleveland car riders will enily after juna june 1 according to present ex of railway officials unless some ome s change is made in the tayler franchise within that time richmond va in the virginia pen one firm Is said to have a contract for the manufacture of shoes and over 2 pairs are produced yearly tor for this firm the company pay ing to the state tor for the labor of the convicts 60 cents a day fort worth tex fort worth print ers signed a five year contract with the dally daily papers which gives the time men who worked six hours per day an increase of 92 cents per day and the men who worked eight hours per day an increase of 48 cents st louis the total cost to the international association of machin ests of financing the missouri pacific strike which lasted from june 1 1910 to february 28 1911 according to complete statement just issued was if 1 ggs 66 94 los angeles cal in nine months the total amount of contributions from all sources to the los angeles ers was 65 and the d ments 85 baltimore under the prison labor contract system the state penitentiary of maryland it Is said makes a brand of working shirt that usually retails at 50 cents the contract price paid for the labor of prisoners in making this class of goods ranges from 40 to ga 60 cents a dozen tor for the finished prod act or less than five cents each I 1 pittsburg itts burg pa the referendum vote of the subordinate locals of the international association of molders on the proposition to hold a co conven anven tion this year was in favor of the negative the vote standing 6 against 5 for |