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Show LABOR NEWS OF fl All Laundries of .Sacramento, California, May Be Unionized! There M Arc Over One Million and a Hlf Railroad Employes Trades M Unions Sore on the Socialists Organizers Work- M ing- on tlio Grand Trunk Line. H Edinburgh, Scotland, cloth mills cm H play 12,500 persons. H Efforts nro being made In Sacra- H m-cnto, Cal., to unionize all tlio laun- H dries in the city. H There arc 35,000 Russians at work H in Scottish Iron and coal mines. H A combination union of all workers H ldontlfled with the building trades, is H talked of in Nolson, B. C. H Unskilled labor in Canada has been H -well employed recently, railway con- H strnction absorbing a large number of H men. H On August 11, at San Francisco, H Cal., International Typographical ( Union will hold its annual conven- H Uon- H A branch of the Amalgamated So- H cioty of Carpenters and Joiners has H been organized at Xanalmo, B. C. H Women arc now oliglblo as clerks H In tho various branches of the Austro- H Hungarian Bank in Englnnd. H In 1S9S tho total number of rail- H road employes in this country was S74.55S. Last year tho total was 1,- H 451,000. H Tho United tSatcs outranks all H othor countries in tho amount of bus- H incss dono by tho railroad and Insur H anco companies. H A general striake has boon lnaugu-. H rated by the organized railroad era- H playes of Italy. The men are demand- H, ing higher wages. H Tho homo for superannuated luein- H bora of the marble trade In California, H now being built at Santa Monica, is H about ready for occupancy. H Montreal, Can., carpenters recently H Trent out on strike for 35 cents an H hour. At present they are getting M from 25 to 32 cents an hour. H Of the monoy contributed to Uio H . strike fund in Los Angeles. Cal., $220-, M 145 has been received through tho la- H bor council of San Francisco. H Tho Juno report of the Bollerraak- U era' and Tron and Steel Shipbuilding mm society of Great Britain, states the H membership, Including nil classes, to H 1)0 54.5S0. H Los Angeles Cal., union carpenters B hnvo practically won their strike for 1 union conditions and wagos, which H was Inaugurated some weeks ago. H Changes In the rates of wages tak- H ing effect in Great Britain in May, af- H fected nearly 51,000 workpeople, who Hh received a net Increase of $G,250 per H The trade unions of Vancouver. 13. H C, have gone sore on the Socialists, H and will establish an independent Hl trade council, since the big strike flz- Wj, zlcd out. H There arc 21,032 officers and cm- H - ployes In the service of tho city of, H Chicago. 111. Under civil service there H arc 14 ,13-1, and 7,403 arc exempt. ! An army of organizers has started i out over tho Grand Trunk system mW with the object of organlzinc everv K branch of 'the service, including the H Thp Tn'onvtlonaJ Brotherhood of rt Blacksmiths has signed nn acreement ' with tho Canadian Northern Railroad. H with a 2 cnts ner hour advance, and ! improved conditions In the shops. H A bill has been introduced in con- gress to Increase tho wages of the H printers, pressmen and bookbinders In H the government printing offlce to CO H cents per hour. H In Spain, no woman or child under H 1C years of age may be employed un- H derground In mines: nor may anv H such be employed for more than nine H hours per day at the surface. H After twenty years of service all postmasters and clerks In Germany re- Hr celvo a pension from the government, W and after forty years a full pension. mWt in addition to tho rogular salary. H Local unions of glovemakers havo H recently been chartered at San Rafael. B Cal., Spokane and Centralla, Wash. H Thero is an increasing demand for tho H gloveworkers' label throughout the H -west. H In Belgium a law provides that on H December 31, 1010, and thenceforth H decennially, a census of industrial and commercial establishments shall bo H talcen In conjunction with tho general M population census. H Death and disability claims to tho mm amount of $J5,000 were paid bv tho H Ehritchmon's union of America during H the month of June. This makes tho H total amount paid In death and diB- j abnity claims by this union $1,342,403. mM Tho Western Federation of Miners H has defeated a proporl fon to call a Hj genoral strike on tho day set for the H trial of tho McNamara brothers. The H vote was 172 against to 124 in favor H of the general strike. H Laws now in force in Spain for the Hj provcntlon of industrial accidents H havo had a very marked effect on tho M reduction of casualties throughout the M country, tho deaths having decreased H from 23G in 1904 to 210 in 1909. H . Normally ten per cent of the wago H earners In tlio manufactures of Isrow York statu In October are not so on-gaged on-gaged In January. Figures show that skilled and organized workmen . lose on an avorago of 20 per cent of their possible incomo through non-employment. non-employment. Caisson workers of New York have signed an agreement with tho employers' employ-ers' association under which they will work only three hours a day, with thirty minutes off for luncheon. Thy wageB for tho men whd work undor thrce-atmosphoro prcssuro aro to be $5 a day. Fifty-ono new trade disputes began be-gan in Great Britain in May, and the total number of workpeople involved during the month was 3G.S6S, or 3,-422 3,-422 fowor than In tho previous month, and 17,523.000 working days. Tho Industrial Fellowship a wago-earnors' wago-earnors' association In the San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Cal , Presbyterian churchos. recently re-cently organized for tho purposo of promoting a better understanding be-' twoen church and labor, is issuing n weekly calendar which Is being distributed dis-tributed in all tho churches of tho Prcsbyterv. It has been announced by the Post-office Post-office department that tlio 40,000 rural free delivery carriers in the United States are to receive an increase of $100 per year over their present salary sal-ary of 5900. for all carriers on standard stand-ard routes, with proportionate increases in-creases on the shorter routes. Every working dav In tho year tho coal mlnera of the United States are preparing for public consumption 1,-G00.000 1,-G00.000 tons of coal, ranging in quality qual-ity from tho peats of Florida and the lignites of New Mexico to the anthracite anthra-cite of Pennsylvania and the semi-bituminous semi-bituminous coals of West Virginia. About seventy establishments in Amsterdam, Holland, cut and polisn diamonds. They employ more than 10,000 people. Somo cleavers receive as much as ?120 a week; formerly oven more than that at times. From this maximum wages grado downwar.l through tho other classes to $G and $S for sawyors. Residents of Mexico City will be forced to curtail their consumption of bread nndt thousands of families will bo using tho homo made variotv unless un-less an agreement is reached between the bakers and bakery ownors. A largo part of the breadmakers walked out aftor being unable to secure nn accession to their sole demand, that for an eight-hour day. Tho woolcomb s' strike, in England, Eng-land, affecting about twolvo thousand workers, was settled last month, the result being an alleged victory for the masters. The men struck for a six-and-a-half dollar minimum weeklv wage nnd a five per cent Increase for piece workers. This agreement is to remain until December 31. Negotiations between the officials of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway company com-pany and the representatives of the various organizations employed in tho shops on the system, looking toward an increase in pay have been brokon off. Tho company practically refused to make any advances. As a result a strike voto Is being taken. Tho number of trade disputes reported re-ported to have been in existence in Cannda during June ' was twenty-seven, twenty-seven, a decrease of seven compared with May, but an increase of nine compared with Juno. 1910. About 208 firms and 15.010 employes having been Involved in new disputes of the month Governor Shnfroth, of Colorado, It is stated, at the request of the roprc-' sentatives of the Minors' union, has vptoed tho coal mining Inspection bill, which was intended to prevent accidents acci-dents In the coal mines. The objection objec-tion offered by the miners was the amendment tacked on In the senate requiring coal miners to pay the cost of shot firing, and it was estimated that this would have taken $168,000 every year from tho wages of the minors. At the recent referendum voto In tho unions in the United States and Canada under the jurisdiction of the International Typographical union for tho abolition of the piecework system, the proposition was carried by a voto of 22,879. to 11,017. Tho change became be-came effective August 4, but existing contracts will remain in force until the expiration of the terms agreed upon. This matter will become the subject of amendment to tho constitution constitu-tion of the international body at tho coming session. Those who havo watched the 'course of the big steel companies are led to believe that it has been the policy to exclude English-Bpeaklng employes as far as it has been possible pos-sible The idea, no doubt, upon which tho company bases Its activities Is that It is more unfamiliar with the moral and living standard of this ' country. It is also to bo noted that those companies have mbade a successful suc-cessful effort in employing foreigners of different nationalities in order that thdro may not ho free speaking intercourse inter-course 'between them. The working mon and women of Milan, Italy, nro carrying on a most rcmarkdhlo enterprise. The various unions and co-oporntlvcs havo combined com-bined Into a federation. This federation federa-tion then tnkes the contract for build-lug build-lug houses, .sewers, streetsand even railroads It pays ijs jmembors full union wages, does ltg own faai,rilnS and always has one of tho mo3t com-pleto com-pleto technical outfits in Italy. Although Al-though It has been In existence onlv three years it employes 1,500 pooplo throughout the yoar, and has already dono work to tho nmount of $1,200,-000. $1,200,-000. Returns from tho recent referendum referen-dum of the membors of the clgarmak-ers' clgarmak-ers' International convention show that the International convention proposition this yoar was ovorwhelm-ingly ovorwhelm-ingly defeated. It Is fifteen years slnco the last convention and in that time all business has been conducted through the medium of the referendum referen-dum The plan has proved satisfactory, satisfac-tory, and In addition has resulted In the saving of large sums of monoy, and It Is doubtful If the cigarmakers ever return to the convention system of transacting International business again. For more thnn two months the chief Industry of Grand Rapids, Mich., has boon almost at a standstill. Thirty-eight Thirty-eight furniture factories have boon Idle all or part of tho tlmo. The crux of the situation seems to be unionism. Through tho union, the mon asked for a conTerenco with the employers to consider three requests a nine-hour day instead of ten hours, a 10 per cent Increase In wages and the elimination elim-ination of piece work. Tho manufacturers manufac-turers Ignored the communlcatiops of the union. The mayor offered tho services of his ofUce to help bring about peace, but the employers replied re-plied Uiat they did not need hl3 holp A. J. EISSING. |