| Show E for fo k or union workers I 1 important MP happenings its j indu industrial circles in this country co u and europe adaa washington after nearly a year years s consideration ohp the supreme court ot of the united states gave its unanimous approval to the employers liability law enacted by congress in noa to take the place of a similar act declared unconstitutional the decision marks an epoch in labor legislation the old common law hedging in the rights of employed emp loyes is displaced in several particulars by the statute as approved notable among these Is the abolition of the fellow servant doctrine and the substitution of a law making employers liable lor for the negligence of an employed resulting in injury to an interstate employed fur thedmore ther more it trees frees the employed from contributory negligence in many in stances and limits the effect ot of the doctrine in others and likewise in many cases liberates the employed from assuming the risk when he enters era em knowing the danger in his employment st louis ithe taxicab drivers walked out because their demands for a 60 50 cent increase dally daily tor for 12 hours work and an increase of 10 cents aa an hour overtime pay refused or canizer mcarthur said every taxicab company in st louis granted the unions union s demand except the st louis and columbia companies these corn com canles are operating cars with non union chauffeurs he said taxicab companies compani eg have been paying chaff fours 2 a day 25 cents an hour over time and percentage collected over certain amounts chicago chicago s policemen and firemen won a victory recently r when the city council finance committee allowed them 10 per cent increase in salary but the striking physicians 0 of the health department demanding an increase to 83 33 a month found their hope shattered when the corn com cittee fixed their salaries at the old figure a month the patrol men a salary will be 1320 a year henceforth A policeman is worth 1400 or nothing said mayor har rison baltimore md aid statements made by interests closely identified with the mount vernon woodberry cotton duck company are encouraging to the mill hands employed in the factories at woodberry hampden alberton md and other places where its mills are located from these statements steady employment throughout the whole of this year is practically assured to this small army of willing laborers chicago A move tor for establishment of a loan fund tor for working girls of 0 chicago was inaugurated by the busl ness educational league working girls gald said mrs katherine abbott president of the league could bor row money from this fund at a legal rate of interest and repay it on the tile installment plan it if they cannot repay the money and we find the case to be a deserving one we will simply charge the amount to the profit and loss account long beach cal with the pal water system municipal water frontage Eron tage docks and railroads man muni cipal band and bandstand and a municipal comfort station about to be built the next move contemplated by the city Is the establishment of a municipal moving picture exhibition where the school children and other foung young people of the city may be provided nith free entertainment chicago professional nurses em aloyed in city hospitals of chicago are employer emp loyes under the meaning of the 10 hour law for women and the city must not permit or buffer suffer them to work more than 10 hours a day judge william N gemmill found the city guilty of violating the law and fm posed a fine of 25 against the mu in each case brought against it by the state san francisco the san francisco worming women association has been organized tor for the purpose of et ef the enforcement ot of all existing taws that affect the rights ol 01 working women and other women and to watch proposed legislation to the end that the rights of 0 women should be recognized by the lawmaking power ind and that none ot of those belonging to hem should be abrogated washington notwithstanding the act that frank morrison Morr lson secretary of he american federation of labor reported to the atlanta convention the paid up membership ever at arned the months of october novem ber er and december the first three months ot of the new fiscal year reveal k L still further increase in paid up membership columbus 0 O one half of the em aloyed persons in ohio were affected by a decrease in wages during 1911 kee tc cording to the annual report of abor clabor commissioner fred lang only 15 per cent got better money than in 1910 tty tree free public employment or of ice lee placed 47 persons at an averige cost of 28 7 cents a person san joee jose cal A labor council luil knilling ding ie Is projected tor for this city to it about 40 more than 40 bide bids tove wave been submitted to the building among the number of eldden are two contractor contractors from ban sam han fancisco cisco schenectady N Y the strike ol 01 boilermakers and helpers declared against the american locomotive com party on october 26 was declared off atter 75 per cent of the men had re turned to work the strike was called when the men refused to build boilers tor for new york central engines be cause the boilermakers boller makers employed in the ralli oad repair shops shop s were on strike th the e locomotive e company brought in tour four hundred ers the metal trades council of 0 the american federation ot of labor ad the boilermakers Boller makers international officers to retreat from the situation the few remaining strikers here cheesed when informed ol 01 the action of their higher officers chicago thirty five thousand men and women are killed each year by american industry according to state factory inspector davies of illinois halt half a million are injured thirty one diseases whose true nature are unknown as yet to even the best ot of physicians and whose causes are not taught in any medical schools already have been discovered as directly at to faulty working condi eions and number their viet victims ims by the thousands thou ands every week because of the general ignorance concerning them st louis mo A plan Is on toot foot among several retail grocers to lish a wholesale grocery house in st louis louls it is the anten uon tion to make the rural grocery stores collectors of produce and commode ties which when they reach st louis be transferred directly to the n re tall stockholders of the company thereby avoiding the necessity ot of tay bay ing the commission merchants prof its this Is the fifth wholesale groc ery house started in st louis it la is said in the last year london eng we believe that it if all employers did what the best employ ers do if they more otten often made a practice of considering what they could do tor for their people instead ot of what they could avoid doing how much instead of how little t the he result alt would be a strengthening ot of the mod erate element which is the most ef er barrier barrigr against the extremists and advocates of violence says the london times new york more than half halt a mil lion skilled mechanics and laborers are idle and dally dily seeking employ ment in new york city according to figures compiled by the manual labor bureau of the national employment bm exchange the labor market in this vicinity says an officer of the bur bureau eau never has been so stagnant and glutted as now and never has lias there been such a email small demand for labor of 0 any class columbus ohio the ohio supreme court upheld the constitutionality of 0 the workmen s compensation law the act provides tor for an insurance fund created by contributions from employ ers rs and employed emp loyes and provides for benefits from 1 1500 to 3 for or death resulting from industrial acct dents and 5 to 12 weekly in case of lesser injuries the law Is optional with employers minneapolis organization 0 of the section men on the railroads in min desota will be begun ee early lr ly this his t year under the direction of organizers be longing to the main cenance of way branch of the railroad organizations it la Is stated that the average wage of 0 these men Is less than 1 60 a day and that no substantial increase has been receded in the last twenty bears ears chicago A detective agency of this city has written milwaukee employers employ era that it will supply spies spotters or guards for any situations in which such experts are required reports cover everything from incompetency to actual dishonesty and when necessary everything pertaining to the lat labor situation and meetings of the varl ous unions and what Is done therein bondon london eng during the great miners strike ot of 1893 the colliers of 0 cannock chase replenished their funds in strange fashion the I 1 bir 3 ir mingham canal was emptied for repairs whereupon the men to the num ber her of about 2000 2 descended into its muddy bed and collected hundreds ls ot of tons of coal which they gold sold at rt remunerative munera tive prices tacoma wash beveral several contractors are under investigation by the state industrial insurance commission on reports that they have been deducting from their emp employee loyes salaries the amounts which aich the law requires em players to pa pay into the compensation fund the penalty Is imprisonment or fine or both the imprisonment not to exceed nicety days the fine new york supreme court justice guy decided that there Is a limit to which a labor union may go in persecuting a member who bag has been expelled and signed an order requiring a new now york union to reinstate samual sabo and to pay him 5 damages for wages lost and U costs washington the usual boors hours ol 01 work in japan are twelve a day malt male workers of 14 get from 16 cents to SS za cents a day those under 14 from v cents to 10 cente cents a day female females over 14 are paid from 10 cent cents to 14 cent celt a day asaad |
