Show world of labor news from all parts of the world of general interest to the worker harrisburg pa the legislative committee of the state federation of labor decided to submit to the legis lature a bill for the popular election of state factory inspector and tor for the election of deputy inspectors in their various districts the committee will also submit bills requiring railroad trainmen to have three months experience before being permitted to serve regularly and providing tor for semi monthly instead of a monthly pay the initiative and referendum will be the next subjects considered laredo texas seven thousand shop employees of the national rail way of mexico went on strike because of the refusal of the management to grant an eight hour day and an increase in wages the strike was called simultaneously at nuevo la redo san luls luis potosi mexico city and agues Cal lentee lentes at nuevo la redo skilled mechanics and other employees walked out the shops are closed 0 albany N Y foreign corporations doing business in new york state come under the provisions of the work wage law and must pay their employed emp loyes including salesmen clerks stenographers and draughtsmen draughtsman draughts men each we week ek according to a ruling made public by attorney general carmody john williams state labor commissioner asked for or the opinion haverhill mass master barbers who have refused to grant the de mands ot of the barbere barbers union for a 13 minimum wage have engaged women barbers to take the places ot of those who have been out on strike since a week ago twenty tour four bosses have declared for an open shop eight hav ing signed contracts with women pittsburg the average production for each miner in this country in 1911 was tons in the anthracite minea mines an exceptionally large tonnage and tons in the bituminous mines the average dally daily production tor for each man employed was 2 IS short tons in the anthracite and 3 50 tons in the bitu minous mines washington in fix the last fiscal year the railways ot of the united states paid to labor in round figures 42 more than would have been required had the wage schedule of 1910 been in effect and 69 more than the wages ol 01 1909 demanded washington the building trades department of the american federa tion of labor has decided that the staff work on buildings to be erected for the panama pacific international exposition belongs to the carpenters and not to the plasterers i springfield ill legislation to in sure one day a rest in seven tor for men and women workers whether engaged in continuous industries or otherwise was urged at the annual meeting of the illinois association tor for labor leg isolation Islat lon springfield ill legislation to in sure one day a rest in seven tor for men and women workers whether engaged in continuous industries or other otherwise wise was urged at the annual meeting ot of the illinois association for labor legislation st louis twenty five thousand employed emp loyes of the frisco railway system are granted old age and disability pen aa as a christmas gift according to a brief announcement made from the headquarters of the system here london england approximately 15 per cent Is about to be added to I 1 the pay both of off officers leers and men in the british navy the total amounts to 1932 1 it Is the first increase in naval pay in 50 years paris france linotype machine operators threaten to go on a general strike unless a scale ot of nine hours for a day days 9 work and eight franca francs 1 50 compensation Is granted chicago journeymen barbers are engaged in an active campaign to clean up unsanitary barber shops and to organize the seven thousand jour beymen barbers in the city london england A hotel for work ing girls was opened in st marys mary 5 row in the heart of 0 the factory die dig brict ot of birmingham recently by the duchess of marlborough kiel germany A great strike broke out at krupp krupps s germania ship building yards over halt half of the men left their employment tying up the work ot of the plant toledo ohio twenty eight hun garian women recently took the places of the striking core makers in the plant of the national malleable cast ings company new york journeymen barbers international union Is twenty five years old it has locals and a membership exceeding SO 30 new york the paving cutters have voted to make the eight hour workday universal in their tion on june 1 1913 at present about 25 pet per cent of 0 the members are working nine hours a day washington in the sixty third con eon gress the labor group will consist of seventeen members one of these be ing a united states senator william hughes of new jersey washington more than was lost in wages through more than 13 cases of 0 sickness among wage earners in the united states last year indianapolis the tellers for or the referendum election of the united mine workers of america are at work the unofficial count shows that I 1 1 I P white will be elected reelected re over alex bradley of mount olive III by a big majority for president frank J hayes will succeed himself as vice president there being no opposition the figures show that it will be a close race tor for secretary and treasurer ed win perry the incumbent william green and joseph richards being neck and neck new york elbert 11 gary chair man of the united states steel corporation announced that the corpora tion ww was planning the adjustment of wage scales soon which would result in material increases particularly with respect to the wages paid unskilled laborers within a few days he said the amount of the increases and the day upon which they will be effective would be determined kansas city an enforceable law against child labor and against sweat shop labor Is essential to a respectable civilization but it must imply a con in which t the h e children an and d the mothers can live w without work et at least without stunting work our civilization is at the teat test it cannot endure halt half slave and halt half free halal half gorged and halt half tarred starved san francisco the committee on free textbooks of san franci francisco a co ty typographical p 0 union local no 21 hae hat prepared a bill to be introduced at the next session of the legislature in which it Is provided that all work on schoolbooks including composition shall be performed in the office of the state printer at sacramento utica N Y more than BOO weavers employed in the utica steam cotton mill and mohawk alley cotton mill went out on a strike as the first step in what it Is feared may involve sev eral thousand local textile operatives and precipitate the biggest strike in the labor history of central new york st louis two thousand telegraph operators on the burlington railroad who asked tor for an increase in pay have been offered an appropriation of 40 by the railroad management to be used in giving advances to these men whom the company believes en titled to an increase homestead pa striking trainmen at the various plants of the united states steel corporation in this vl vi cikity are being led by mrs dorothy maloney lancaster fiery little native of ireland who has served three te terms amb in english prisons as a suffragette columbus ohio abolishment of the pay check provision tor for a weekly pay day with pay in cash for every and stringent punishment tor for of these rulea rules is provided in a bill which will be introduced in the corn com ing session of the ohio legislature washington the tide ot of european emigration particularly that ot south ern em europe la Is now turning to brazil that country with its vast acres ot of nn an cultivated land inducing immigration by special favors to tillers of 0 the soil boll dallas tax electrical workers of this city who were aMlia affiliated ted with the held faction which Is not recognized by the american federation ot of labor have decided to return to the me mc nulty or A F of L faction london england the united Ml kingdom gd has more women workers than any other country in the world 1 in proportion to population among them no fewer than 36 are set down as dressmakers new york following the example of the women advocates club with which it Is affiliated a union of women lawyers numbering twenty five mem bers has been formed in paris pittsburg the plumbers and international union has increased its membership by about 6 within a year the total men mem ie to now about 30 london england there Is a well defined denned plan to install women as drivers of taxicabs and other power driven vehicles on the streets ot of the largest cities of england washington there are 10 depositors in united states saving savings banks averaging each washington that government en cloyes are not entitled to addition additional compensation for or work performed on labor day Is the effect of a decision handed down by Cont controller rolleT of the treasury now york compressed air and foundation workers secure a 60 cents a day advance in effect january 1 I 1913 making the wage wa e scale 4 60 a day new york boot and shoe workers are planning an active organization campaign to organize all the shoe shoo workers in greater new york chicago the brotherhood ot of hallway clerks has established new lodges in the states ot of minnesota west vir ginia idaho and Okla oklahoma hoxha new york new yort s new equal pay law puts men and women teach ers of new york city on an equal pay footing new yorktee York The dock freight han diers unions have asked for a wage increase and better working condl ions |