Show id of 1 L I r S bu I 1 wf oak A O 0 ar JL alar a ca 0 ir I 1 news from all parts of the world orl d of general interest to th the e worker r london england A report upon trade unions has been issued by the chief registrar of british friendly societies showing hat trade unions w were ere on the register in the united kingdom of which furnished re turns the total last mentioned Is divided as follows england and wales scotland 36 and ireland 49 the membership tor for great brit ain and ireland of the trade unions reporting was 2 this number being distributed england and wales scotland 56 and ireland 19 33 the income of these unions amounted in 1910 to 15 and their expenditure to 15 the balance of their funda funds at the close of that year was 28 of which england and wales had 27 scotland and ireland the progress of trade un in the united kingdom during the last three decades is shown by a comparison in membership and bal ance of funds in 1880 there were members with in 1890 members with 1386 in 1890 members with 5 in 1900 1 1572 members with 20 and in 1910 2 with 28 in the treasury kansas city the five crafts em aloyed on all the railroads west of the mississippi river were to have held a conference here to organize a gigan tic ae union it has been indefinitely postponed postponed J A franklin president of the international brotherhood ot of boilermakers Boller makers said the meeting might never be held it may be feces sary to organize some time in the tu fu ture but at present there Is no need of an organization such as we plan ned to have mr air franklin said when the time comes and it Is feces sary to protect ourselves the organ will be formed boston the action of the ameri amerl can woolen company in increasing wages is expected to have far reach ing effect in the woolen industry of the country it Is expected by mill men hee that many of the in depend ent mills also will decide to advance wag wages waga a there also Is a strong feel leg ing in boston textile circles that the action of the american woolen company arlington mills and boco mills in lawrence in posting notices of a wage advance will con tribute materially to a speedy end ing of the strike in that city springfield III illinois miners are demanding an average of two cents in crease per ton for coal mined in ad to the ten per cent increase asked by the international tion according to a proposal now before the state convention of the or here A seven hour day as a demanded by the national organize tion Is also included in the agreement st louis A city wide campa campaign igi tor for the union label will be waged by the st louis central union the delegates were ordered to withdraw their laundry from all non union laun dries and transfer it to a union laun dry which recently started in st louis they also were informed they should purchase nothing which does not bear the union label schenectady N Y the tady plant of the american locomotive company Is says canslers Cass lers maga zine the largest and most important of the nine plants of that great cor po horation por atlon ration at present the plant cov era ers 65 acres of ground and comprises 44 buildings at full capacity the employed emp loyes number 6 pittsburg eight hundred miners maloyed mp loyed in the jumbo mine of the pittsburg coal company at mcdonald pa struck when ordered to use lock bd ed safety lamps under a regulation of the state mining department there WAS no disorder berlin germany thirty one cities h n prussia including berlin and oth or r large centers have been affected by the strike of 30 men tailors kheir demand tor for an increase in wages has been refused by the employers london england changes in week ly ho he irs of labor taking effect in great britain in 1911 affected work ing people of these 4 had their hours increased by 13 05 a week and had reductions amounting to hours a week pittsburg during durang the last sixteen fears tears the total amount of sick death auto and disability benefits paid by the international holders molders union was 3 15 pittsburg during the last 16 years the total amount of sick death out of df work and disability benefits paid by the international molders union was 3 san francisco steps are being ta ken tor for the formation of a federation it if all employed emp loyes of electrical workers for or corporations in the territory of alifornia all fornia nevada oregon washing ton lon arizona and british columbia auburn N Y the cement workers recently secured a acile of 4 50 for finishers 2 50 for helpers helper 27 cents per hour for mixers and the nine hour day halifax N S in the steel mills of nova scotia and the soo men are not only duly compelled to work seven days a week but also have to work in shifts f eleven and nd thirteen hours bridgeton bridgetown Brid geton N J 1 local ir ers who have places during the pres ent season are making a more profit able blast than in the entire history of hollowware making all of the local factories and running at capaci act ty with large orders that will carry them through the entire season the men are turning out larger quantities ol 01 glass than they have ever done before and the wage scale Is the highest in the history of the trade at the cumberland comp company arlys plant during january taking the work ol 01 all blow ers employed short shifts ferary men and bad glass being ex eluded the blowers averaged 7 04 a j day for each working day of the month some blowers earned 18 a day while a large number made more than 12 and 14 a day berlin germany journeymen corn com po tors machine tenders correctors and in ger many have a system of five year con tracts in operation with the journey men book printers association A new five year period under a readjust it ment of the scale of wages began r re bently the scale of wages varies in different cities in germany a 10 per cent increase being the minimum se cured by the printers and arid ranging as high as 14 3 per cent increase these figures covering fifteen of the prince pal cities in germany schenectady A union of college graduates formed with a view to preventing the wages of men trained in academic theories from falling to the level of common workers was pro posed by prof vladimir karapetoff Karape tofE of cornell university at the annual ban of the cornell association of eastern new york at the mohawk club professor Rara karapetoff said that new college graduates produced the same effect on incomes as low grade immigrants produced on wages knoxville tenn the election board ol 01 the international printing pressmen and assistants union corn com plated the tabulation of the refer eidum vote on the election of officers george I 1 L berry of Rogers rogersville ville tenn was re elected reelected president without tion joseph C orr of chicago was reelected secretary defeating frank H wilke of milwaukee the board held its session at the pressmen a home at hale springs near Rogers rogersville ville fall river mass the improvement in trade tor for the cotton goods mil a here while it has not been sufficient yet to bring in much profit has in deuced the manufacturers to gradually put in on some of the looms and preparatory machinery that has been idle for months the shortage of operatives continues the total cur bailment tail tall ment by the cloth inells here one week recently figured 6 pieces helena mont the record for the number of plaintiffs involved in a suit in the montana courts has been broken in the filing of an action of the butte mill and Smelt ermen a union to enjoin the western federation of miners from revoking its charter seven hundred members of the union are named as plaintiffs in the suit london england in the brit ish trade unions with a net member ship of 88 making returns 24 or 3 1 per cent were returned as un employed at the end of december 1911 compared with 2 6 per cent at the end ol 01 november 1911 and 5 per cent at the end of december 1910 manchester england the wholesale operative cooperative co society headquarters has procured ground and will erect a shoe factory in leeds which will em ploy 1000 persons the society al ready has factories in other large cities in england new i ork industrial disputes were less numerous in new york state in 1911 than in 1910 the bureau of atlon and arbitration having recorded strikes and lockouts in 1911 as compared with in 1910 washington vital statistics ascribe short lives to printers on the average but the recent report of the public printer shows there are employed at present in the government printing of fice at washington persons over sixty five years old chicago all the brewery workers unions are to vote upon a proposition to adopt a mutual compensation and system with ane master brewers association the terms have been under consideration tor for some months muskogee okia okla the muskogee trades co inell and all labor unions established a boycott against all the moving picture theaters of the city because they do not employ union musicians london england of the nearly nine hundred thousand women open oper i tives in textile industries in england about one third are employed in the lancashire and cheshire cotton mills girl operatives may earn from a to 5 50 a week a relatively high wage rate for women in british industries chicago mrs raymond robin president of the national women s trade union league haa aas announced that she will start a national cam palan for a minimum wage scale for 5 women workers in this coun try and that the american federation of labor has endorsed endo endor reed zed her plan |