Show world of aabol news from all parts of the world of general interest to the worker kansas city mo the importance of the organization ot of women in labor not only to themselves but to men was emphasized by miss alice henry of chicago editor of 0 the boffl chai organ of the national NN omen s trade union league in an address at labor temple here the thing that strikes me in my trips through the country eald said miss henry Is the in terest men everywhere are taking in the women s movement it if the worn wom en do not organize to protect them selves the lower wages which they receive will force down the wage scale of the men at the present time 6 girls in the united states are working for an average wage of 6 a week which means that some are getting less than thail that to be efficient woman laborers must have higher wages and shorter hours new york statistical data collect ed by the new york state bureau of labor tor for the first quarter in 1912 shows that there are 2 ISO local organ Izat lons ions of labor in the state the membership Is reported as III III on the last working day in march it w was as reported by the unions that 20 per cent of their members were anem aloyed and 10 per cent are report ed as continuously idle during the first fira three months in the year the bureau reports that the average per diem them wage Is steadily increasing the general average wage for all workers tor for the first quarter of 1912 in corn parison with the first quarter of 1911 Is about two and one halt half per cent higher boston men and women employed emp loyes of the engle cone shoe factory east boston numbering struck because of the employment of three men who were not members of the united shoe workers union of which the strikers are a part four im departments of the factory were ere affected the unions officers claim that they had given some weeks notice and made every effort to have the three men complained of join the union before the strike was ordered boston the striking iron steel and brass molders and Core makers unions made a number of adjustments the sturtevant blower works corn pany magee furnace company ains ley foundry company and other shops granted the 3 50 a day minimum and their hands returned to work the nonunion women core corema makers kera who struck in sympathy with the men at the blake branch of the international pump company in cambridge have been placed on the local union s bene fit roll boston the strike committee re calved notice that the I 1 ore river shipbuilding company of quincy whose foundry hands have been on strike since august 7 was endeavoring to se cure nonunion men in philadelphia providence and other cities and would attempt to start up the foundry this week such action may result in the strike of men of other trades at the plant cincinnati the lowest wages ages paid to plasterers Is at cincinnati the rate there being 3 06 for a nine hour day and at reading pa the rate Is 3 20 tor for an eight hour day the highest rates are in california and the inter mountain states where the minimum wage Is 7 a day or 87 cents an hour with the eight hour day and a week of 44 hours with saturday half holiday the year round london england by a vote of 18 against 3 the members of the british r tish amalgamated society of en ginders have ratified the agreement between the engineering and shipbuilding federations and the 90 0 trade unions in that industry which provides for the settlement of jurisdiction disputes without stoppage of work washington plans to organize the labor of the iron and steel industry of the united states are about to be launched by the american federation of labor the campaign to bring the greatest open shops in the country into the union Is about to begin with the holding of organization meetings simultaneously in every city and town having an iron or steel plant pittsburg during the six months ending june 30 the brotherhood of Paint pie and decorators organized 48 ne v local unions the organization ow having 44 local unions in good stand ing paris parts france the strike of some five hundred paris seamstresses for better wages has disclosed the tact fact that they make less than 60 50 cents a day working ten hours peona peoria ill the city council by a ote of 11 to 4 decided that it would hf hereafter reiter pur chae only union made paving brick tor for its city improvements chicago the international assoria tion of marble workers now has 97 locals in good standing and the organ bation Is in a prosperous condition new york in a very short time there wall be a complete il tl liance of I 1 working character beewen the mu and the stage employed emp loyes san francisco we e first spade of arth earth on the site of the new temple a as turned over on labor day hartford conn secretary morrison Morr lson ot of the american federation of labor testifying in the famous hat 1st and said the executive council tre fre to retrain refrain from buying or dealing with any one opposed to trade unionism he identified several we don t patron ize lists published in the federation 1st and said the executive council tre fre took action because of the un fair attacks upon it the stand taken by secretary morrison N was as similar to that of himself john Al mitchell itchell and president gompers in the bucks ducks stove and range boycott case in that in stance the federal supreme court im posed prison sentences on them tor for contempt of court saying they had Nio violated an injunction forbidding the publication of unfair lists atlantic city N J there will be a 20 per cent reduction in the wages ot of operatives in the glass bottle tac fac of the country affecting more than 10 men as a result of a decision reached here at the close of 0 a ten days conference between depre senta tives of the GI glass Bott bottlers leri as soc lalion and the national assoria tion of glass manufacturers the manufacturers wanted a 30 per cent cut and the men insisted upon main cenance of the present scale A corn com promise was as reached by the men agreeing to accept a 20 per cenk re while the manufacturers will use three shifts of men at each fur nace instead of two boston the boston street car men s union made great strides in the work of completing the unionization of all the men empl employed oled by the boston elevated railway company at a meet ing more men of the shop power house pit and maintenance forces of the road joined that branch of the union in a body and the off officers leers an bounced that the branch now has more than SOO members the car men s union including the mechanical and power house men s branch pa craded labor day with fully 2 men in the C L U division of the parade boston massachusetts state branch A F of L officers sent to every union of the state the complete record of the votes on roll calls on all labor measures of every senator and representative to this year s 8 legis lature the state branch suggests hat that every member of labor in n each district be fully informed of vote on each matter of the senators and representatives from his district so that all may know who favor the eople people and who serve the special in erects and vote accordingly this tall fall washington according to the ad bulletin on manufactures just issued by the census bureau tn in 1909 the united states has manu fracturing fac turing establishments which gave employment during the year to an average of 7 persons of whom were ere wage earners these manufacturing estabi paid in salaries and wages ages and turned out products to the value of 90 0 to produce which ma serials costing 12 w were ere ca con n fumed new haven conn judge W S chase of the superior court as the deciding arbitrator in the wage I 1 tiati ons between the new haven Trolley men mens s union and the trolley 1 company has handed down his find ing he ile declares that the trolley men are not entitled to a higher wage scale the employed emp loyes demand ed a flat rate of 30 cents an hour new york the national trans port workers federation of america comprising maritime organizations of i the atlantic coast and arid gulf which left their recognized and legitimate international affiliations to form the independent national transport work ers federation of america is after a short and A i omen tous career in the process of dissolution boston the national executive committee of the united cloth hat and cap makers union of north america Is to make a general demand throughout the united states for the saturday half holiday all the year round for the members of the union another demand will be that sewing machines be furnished tree free to tha workers washington a special act of congress the widow of john larrell a bureau of mines rescuer who lost life several months ago while in the performance of his aty duty has been granted 1080 1 one year years s salary washington the bill creating a commission on industrial relations to investigate labor conditions and the relt relations ions of employers and employed emp loyes pasqua the senate ath w th virtually no debate it iad passed the house madrid spain the organization 5 of labor are ste adil ll increasing ncr easing their membership in and increases in wages mages in all departments of indus tr are steadily being obtained as a result lynn mass the boot and shoe workers chartered five new unions during the month of june one of them at amperes nova scotia and another at st johns newfoundland milwaukee MilA aukee the wisconsin state federation of labor is now represented by about local unions and 1 had a balance in the treasury on july 1 to 2 |