Show PLAN a IN BILLS 0 1 I 1 aim alm at change of conditions in new york state LABORERS TO BE PROTECTED chief aim alm to change conditions un der which women work first trade unions make their appearance in china new york after 18 months of in into labor conditions in this state 32 bills in the interest of men and women workers will be becom mended for passage by the state fac tory investigating commission the commission will recommend that the working hours of women in 14 canneries be limited to 60 hours a week from june 16 15 to october 15 an increase to 66 hours between june 25 and august 5 the busy season at the discretion of an industrial board another rec commendation ommen dation will be tor for prohibiting night work for women the commis slon sion further proposes to prohibit man of food dolls or dolls cloth ing and children childrens s wearing apparel in a tenement house instead of a factory shanghai china past weeke have been made memorable for the birth of the first trade union on approved western lines known in china ke re bently 3 goldsmiths and silver smiths went on strike for an eleven hour day two hours for meals and a 40 per cent raise in wages chinese like the notion of forming a union does not seem to have originated until after the masters gave way as they did after forty eight hours they were faced with a new demand that they should employ none but pinion union nin men professional agitators are understood to be at work and other unions are in contemplation pa the S 3 miners employed at collieries of the susquehanna coal company at nanticoke held a meeting and agreed to return to work the men went out because they were not permitted to examine union but buttons tons on the company s property the conciliation board ordered the men back to work until their grievances could be passed upon but they refused the vote to return to mork Is looked upon as a victory tor for the conciliation board washington A bureau of labor was established in porto rico in september this bureau says the ameri can federation of labor weekly news letter will be of special value to the working people of the island labor conditions the news letter goes on are steadily improving in porto rico and as evidence it cites the fact that a dally daily labor paper has been success fully started london england started the new year with a strike of the taxicab daiv ers and if the threats of the labor leaders are only partially carried out the present year will prove an even more serious one industrially than that which preceded it and 1912 broke all records despite this the trade of the country likewise broke all records S springfield P III an agreement by w which the wages of 2 employees in the shops of the wabash railroad are increased from 6 to 10 per cent was reached at a conference between E F needham superintendent of lo 10 co como motives tivee and cars of the wabash and other officials of the road and a committee representing the new york nearly persons will benefit by the inauguration of the 10 sick benefit insurance and pension fund chich has been put into eff effect act by the western union 1 telegraph company the westeen western electric corn com pany and the bell telephone company new york new york has joined massachusetts in prohibiting the in du dustral employment of women within four weeks after childbirth and the prohibition of the employment of women in general for more than 54 hours a week dallas tex electrical workers of this city who were mere affiliated with the areld faction which is not lecog nihed by the american federation of labor have decided to return to the mcnulty or american federation of labor faction cambridge mass the management of the packing houses here recently announced an increase of 1 a week to all employed emp loyes fifteen thousand persons will participate in this in crease in wages san francisco more than 10 accidents causing ty of seven days or longer were reported to the state industrial accident board of cal during the year 1912 portland ore A work workman mans s corn com sensation pens pensa atlon tion act has been drafted by a commission appointed by governor west which it if enacted will go into effect july 1 winnipeg canada classes in build ing construction and steel square have been instituted by the united brotherhood of carpenters and join ers washington the receipts of the american federation of labor have grown from in 1881 to 60 in 1912 boston A yearly salary of Is paid the president of the teamsters international union new york governor sulzer plans a thorough overhauling of the labor laws of new york portland ore an eight hour law has been passed by the state legisla ture of oregon new york new york city paper rulers and blank book binders now get 21 a week I 1 washington the washington rail way and electric company has put into effect a profit sharing plan which Is altogether distinct the change in the wage scale made a year ago hi which men who han hai I 1 een in the ice of the company for five years were given an advance amounting to 6 tor for the year by the new plan the employed emp loyes received checks in the ma bority pf cases for 2872 28 72 the total sum distributed being A novel feature meant to encourage thrift Is the provision that men re calving profit sharing checks may have added benefit it if they deposit them with the relief association the amount then being increased by an allowance ot of five per cent per annum payable parable semiannually semi annually w ith principal and interest guaranteed san francisco governor johnson s uncompromising regard forthe rights ot of the worker says the san franasco Franl bulletin is shown in his opposition to an amendment to the workmen s corn cont sensation pens pensa atlon tion act exempting farmers from the provisions of that humane measure designed to protect the rights of men and the families of men in aured in the discharge of their duties rather than thus weaken the law and to frustrate the extortions of ansur ance companies he proposes a tern tem of cheap state insurance by v aich employers employ ers for a small sum may escape the risk of heavy pay ments in compensation to injured em aloyes lansford Lan stord pa president kennedy of the united mine workers of amer lea ica was notified by officials of the lehigh coal and navigation company that the demand of the loaders and battery runners at the comp company anys s va rious colli collieries erles throughout the pan ther creek valley had been granted and that the new rate would go into effect at once the loaders have been receiving 2 23 per day while the bat tery runners were paid 2 42 per day by the new arrangement the latter will be paid 2 82 per day the in crease for the loaders amounts to 19 cents per day and for the battery run ners 40 cents boston mass compensation approximating has been award ed workmen in the first five months operation of the massachusetts em players liability law there has been 4 accidents reported since ju jul the date upon which the law I 1 effect of these 80 per cent not disabled longer than the weeks required before the work mork can get any compensation chicago 1 D huber th tiring president of the united brot hood of carpenters and joiners america has served thirteen ye yi and tour four months when mr hi hu was elected president of the brot hood it had a membership of only and about 20 1 in n the treas treasa today the membership elci exceeds beds 2 and more than la Is in treasury four new w ingmen s compensation laws that of 0 maryland is purely voluntary tap P of michigan and rhode island are elective with the well known provi sion for cutting off the employers common law defenses if he does nit nt elect to come under it while that ol 01 arizona professes to be of the rare compulsory type paterson N J the I 1 W W hopes to reduce the working day of the shirt makers here from ten to eight hours in order to make the union 0 of f ahe shirt workers more effective the cut operators st archers ironers and others employed in the industry are being brought into the one tion san francisco Iran cisco once again was vias so made the issue in the semi annual election of off officers leers of molders union no of san francisco and once again did the socialists suffer defeat at the hands of the conserva tives who nho captured every office in the union new york reiteration of the willingness to submit to arbitration the demands of their locomotive firemen for increased wages and better working conditions was as contained in a statement issued on behalf of t the h fl fifty y tour four eastern railroads cleveland W G lee president of the brotherhood of railroad train men pointed out to members of the cleveland advertising club that the strength of the trainmen s union was in the policy of peace the tion maintained san francisco J P sorensen gen eral organizer orga rizer pizer of the american feder atlon of labor has jurisdiction over the wireless operators of the entire pacific coast and has organized the craft from vancouver to this city detroit mich the i international brotherhood tit of hallwa railway maintenance of way employed emp loyes has decided to move its headquarters from st louis to this city and to erect a permanent build ing pittsburg the anthracite miners averaged more working time in 1911 than the bituminous miners working days against days for the bituminous miners new york A total membership ex beeding 75 00 is claimed by the painters decorators and Paper hang ers union |