Show ewa W y UNI ON LAB af WORLD 0 washington for the first time the history ot of the government a strike held up the machinery ot of con gressional gress lonal legislation the house corn com cittee stenographers refused to work because the accounts committee reduced their compensation from 25 to 16 15 cents a folio the sugar trust in vesti gation committee had to adjourn the committee on accounts which had been following out the house democratic program of economy immell abely began to arbitrate with ith the r stenographers nog raphers outside stenographers were employed to help the regular reporters of the salaries committee the reduction of pay would save about 5 chairman lloyd of the ac count committee said it the regular re porters interfered they would be dis missed new york the havemeyer Haver re fineries of the american sugar refan ing company in williamsburg have shut down and 5 men have been thrown out of employment Is said to have caused the shutdown nearly all the men affect ed were without money and for hours their wives besieged the offices of the company begging that work be given the men joseph E freeman secre tary of the company said that it was usual to shut down the refinery tor for a few days at this season of the year and that the concern would be ing again soon washington capita capital and labor got along very well together in the united states during 1911 there has been talk of liquidation of labor and talk of strikes but there has been lit tie tle of either excepting in sporadic en unconnected instances there has been no big strike the strike of the affiliated a crafts on the harriman Harrl man lines came to an issue and the workmen have apparently lost but it was not an important matter ex hepting for certain for the future that may be seen in it the year 1912 opens with tery very little pros hect of labor troubles ottawa canada ninety five fatal and serious injuries to work peo pie were reported to the canadian department part ment of labor during november in october there were accidents fatal and nonfatal and in november 1910 there nere a ere there were 11 killed in the railway service 11 in the agricultural pursuits and 12 among un skilled laborers the largest number of nonfatal accidents occurred in the metal trades namely 45 boston fifteen hundred longshore men embracing all the men employed in loading and unloading foreign ves yes sels on the boston water front struck when demands tor for an increase in wages were denied vessels of the white star leyland hamburg Hambur ameri gAmerl can and allan lines were deserted with partial cargoes aboard and it Is s probable the sailing schedules of sev eral avill will be interfered with eng considerable unrest prevails among british postal em cloyes at the present time the post master general recently refused an im faed mediate late inquiry into their wages and conditions of work but stated that the government was prepared to appoint a commission to sit in 1913 after the board of trade inquiry into the cost of living was concluded victoria B C although there are 2 men employed on the streets laying 50 miles of paving and other lublic work and while the building permits issued far exceed those of a like period a year ago still there are a greater number of men unemployed than ever before in the history of the city bradford eng A new arrangement has been arrived at by the wool comb era and gas workers by which the two unions will recognize each others members so that the gas workers may obtain employment as wool combers in the summer time and the wool comb era may work as gas workers in the winter glasgow scotland scottish steel makers have lodged an application with board of conciliation and ar titration bit ration tor for a reduction of workers wages by 2 per cent meetings of the employed emp loyes are to be held to con elder sider the situation london eng the executive corn com mitte emen of the various railway men s unions in england are being urged by the new branches in various parts of the kingdom to hasten the step toward gowrd amalgamation portland ore the city council au an theorized zed mayor Rush right to appoint a committee of business men to conduct a series of co shops where the profits would be distributed among the shareholders the public louisville ky after a controversy extending over a period of three years a settlement has been reached with the firm of J A lancaster co cigar manufacturers and the local union of cigar makers camden N J the public service corporation of new jersey announced that it will increase the wages of its motormen and conductors I 1 cent an hour about 3 men are affected fresno cal the labor council and building trade council have each appointed a committee to devise ways and meal a to erect a labor temple in this city W T N indianapolis william D huber general president of the united broth ergood of carpenters and joiners join er with headquarters in this city and thomas neal general treasurer of the same organization are in wash ington D C to take part in a con ference called to draw up terms of an agreement whereby the amalgamated wood workers international union will be consolidated with the united brotherhood of carpenters and join ers err in accordance with action taken at the last convention of the ameri amerl can federation of labor in addition to mr huber and mr neal those who represent the united brotherhood at the meeting are W J kelly of pitts burgh pa george lakey of chicago and george feasler of new york ottawa ont officers of the cana dian than section of the american federa tion of labor have prepared an blab orate legislative program which they hope to persuade the government to approve in toto the reforms demanded include the abolition of the senate of canada as useless and un necessary discontinuance of iron steel and other bounties exclusion of an eight hour day for letter carriers and alo aa 0 on all public works establishment of a federal department of public health fortnightly payment of railroad employed emp loyes and more rigid enforcement of the alien labor law milwaukee mr gompers Is a thinker and a student says the mil waukee walkee journal he Is a man of great ability and not undeserving of the name of labor s statesman he Is a very pleasing and effective speaker and an extremely clear and forceful writer his diction even in ordinary conversation would pass muster in a college faculty this Is surprising in view of the fact that he began work ing at the cigar malier s bench at the age of fourteen his achievement in this respect Is the result ot of wide reading and deep study toledo O 0 following closely the temporary agreement to give the city three cent tares fares for four hours during the day and six tickets for a quarter the rest of the day the toledo rail was and light company announced that the wages of the motormen and conductors in the employ of the corn coin pany would be increased one cent an hour this will be effective january 16 the scale of wages will be 22 cents an hour tor for the first year 23 the second 24 the third and 25 thereafter columbus O 0 at a meeting of the executive board of the ohio federa tion of labor held hold here strong resola eions were adopted indorsing prest dent samuel gompers compers of the american federation of labor the board declared that the attacks made upon mr gompers were inspired by enemies of organized labor and those opposed to honest dealing and fair wages berlin germany the year bear 1910 for which definite figures as to wage movements strikes lockouts and their results are now available was a year of the greatest ac tivit yet recorded in germany there were altogether 5 69 wage movements fn which X persons partial participated abed the be total expenditure bo being 4 00 milwaukee wisconsin 8 new 66 55 hour a week law tor for women clerks Is playing havoc with the retail clerks union it Is eald said the union Is losing many of its women members as the result of the law the women argue that the state law protects them and does for them what the clerks union was expected to do boston the attorney genera general of the state of massachusetts has recently given an opinion against the system of grading practiced in many of the tex tile mills of that state it Is claimed that in reality this system Is but an other form of fining a practice which Is prohibited under the laws of the E state minneapolis under direction of the minnesota state bureau of labor a state conference of employers and employed emp loyes in the twin cities was recently held to discuss the problems of safeguarding machinery and pre re bention of accidents new york for the first time in the history ot of new york city complete school census figures were given out recently the census reveals that 28 26 children are out of school illegal ly violating the child labor and corn com education laws st paul minn st paul steam en ginders union fanton has made arrangements for a course of practical and tech lectures bearing on the work of the craft to be delivered in meetings of the unions during the coming win ter new york the amalgamated As so clation of street and electric hall rall way employed Emp loyes paid out during the year 1910 60 62 for sick die dis ability and death benefits the num her of agreements with traction corn com canles in force in 1910 was as corn com pared with the year previous indianapolis during the last fiscal year the international printing press men and assistants union issued 36 charters and four were surrendered the gain in membership was 1460 while 60 per cent of the membership gained an increase in wages without strike |