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Show I LABOR NEWS Of I ALL COUNTRIES H Musicians in Germany Receive 80 Cents a Day in the Orchestras B Firemen on the Southern Pacific Talk of Striking for In- H crease of Wages $4 a Day for Painters in Canada H Barbers Are in Favor of Eliminating Tipping H - . Minimum Scale of Wages to be Es- H tablished by Law. M Indianapolis carpenters Till receive H forty-flvo conte an tour on July 1 M A union of garbage -workers was re- H cenUy formed In Sacramento, Cah M The pay of the average orchestral H player in Germany Is 80 cents a day, M Tinners nt Peoria, 111., obtained an H Increase of 2 1-2 cents an hour after M h Btrlke. M The monthJy wages paid farm labor- M ere in Sanlcatchowan is $35.14. M Twenty states havo enacted eight- M Jiour laws for employes on public M streets. 1 The rronmoulders' International un- M ion has held no convention for three M Sheet metal workers at Little Rock, Ark., have obtnlned an increase of H forty cents a day H Firemen on the Southern Pacific H railway may strike for a 20 per cent M increase H The wages of Guclpli, Can., street M railway employes have been Increased M about ?n". a year each. H The Factorv Workers' union In Gor- M manv increased in membership from H 4 1,02 1 to 1GT.007 in 1910. M Union stove mounters are on strike M in ttvansvllle, lnd., for 5 per cent M Increase In wages and the nine-hour M A new local of filatc and tile roof- crs, affiliated with the international, vas formed recently In Detroit, Mich. M The painters or Troy. X Y., after a M live weeks' strike, secured an in- fl civasc of 20 conts per day. I M ' At Rock Island, III., the hoisting en- H gincers recently seemed an increase M oi 10 cents :.n hour and an oight-hour M H All the stationary firemen at Los M Angeles, Cal., aro now at work under M union conditions as to hours anil H wages. H The Associated Iron Moulders of H Scotland report an Increase in re- H serve f nds at the end of April to 1 1'rarly $2-10,000. H Tli" I uilcd Hatters of North Amor- H lea lias adopted a law providing for H the lefeiendum in elections on and H after next January. B A movement has recently been start- H ed to organize a union of the Brook-1 H lyn, X. Y., dry goods and furnishings H goods clerks. H Meat cutters and butcher workmen H ?t Fort Wayne, Ind., have organized H a packing plant and are now using H the union label on all meats dressed. 1 Members of the Brotherhood of M Painters and Paperhangcrs and Dec- j M orators, at Victoria, Can., have ob- i M mined a $4 day rate under a one-year H agreement. H Carpenters in Baltimore, Md.. Bos- H ton, Mass., and Hartford, Ct., receive H $3.50 a day, while the same class of M skilled mechanics in Butte, Mont., cam M $6.00 daily. H The mass of French Canadians havo H been workers on the farm and in the M forests and almost entirely out of M touch wth industrial life in shops, M mills or factories. H The latest move on the part of the M Canadian Pacific railway manage- M ment is the displacement of the col- M oreii help and the introduction of Jap- H On July 10, at Toronto, Canada, H Piano, Organ nnd Musical Instrument H Workers International Union of Am- M orlca will hold its annual conven- H The great Welsh coal strike, Involv- i ing over 12,000 miners at the Cam- H biiau colleries, has been settled and H the men have returned to work. H Boston's City council recently went ' H on record as favoring the paspage of I 1 an act by the legislature providing for I H the pensioning of aged city laborers. I M The Iowa Central rallway'has signed J B an agreement with tho machinists and 1 other federated 9hop mechanics which H cavries an Increase of one and a half H cents an hour M The members of the Boston Bar-1 H hers' Union arc willing to eliminate H tipping, but under the condition that B they are given an increase in wages. H A meeting to that end will be held 1 asking for an increase, to go into B operation August J. H Agitation lias again arisen among H the employes of Singer's factory, Kll- j bowie, Scotland, over the dismissal of , H about 500 of the workers, represent- I H ative of almost every department i 1 Tho canning and preserving indus- H try which is principally responsible B for the employment of women and B ' children in Delaware, is mainly on a 1 10-hour per day basis, or GO hours a Bj B About 90 per cent of the members B of the International Paving Cutters' B Union are employed on tho piecework H Bystem, and most of the gains they j strive for aro in the nature of im proved working conditions, which lead to bettor -wages Because tho street railway employes and printers refuse dto Join the proposed pro-posed general labor strike at Vancouver, Van-couver, B. C , to support tho striking earpenters, the scheme fell through. Boston, Mass., machinists' lodge has made arrangements with the Norwegian Nor-wegian Machinists' Union by which tho cards of both organizations will , be recognized and exchanged by tho other. A general lockout of men in the building trades and In the iron and steel industry has taken place throughout through-out Denmark It Is stated that the lockout is likely to spread to other trades. About S.000 mechanics on the South-orn South-orn Railway which received a wage j increase which will likely be extended extend-ed to the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, N. and W. and C. and O., with 9,000 men. The International Association of Machinists recently reached an agreement agree-ment with the Michigan Central Railway Rail-way for an increase in wages, the rate now being 34 1-2 cents an hour flat rate. For the first time in the history of tho American labor movement, a serious effort is undor way to establish estab-lish tho minimum wage by law. A vigorous campaign will be conducted throughout the country. The International Slate and Tile Roofers' Union and their employers, at Toronto, Can., have agreed on 'an increase in-crease in wages. Tho minimum vale will be for the next year, forty cents an hour. This is an increase of five cents an hour. The International Gnrmcnt Workers Work-ers of America will make an effort throughout the country that in tho next Labor Day parades all who turn f out, whether in uniform or otherwise, wear garments bearing the label of the I garment workers The next thing that will be asked for in behalf of the coal miners In Colorado is a six-hour day. The Typographical Society in Capetown, Cape-town, South Africa, lias called a i strike against the employment of non-unionists. non-unionists. There are S00 men out, but the employers are standing by the ' 'free and independents," just the same as frequently occurs In America. In the last quaiter there has been more than 1,000 textile workers organized or-ganized In Utica, N, Y Most of tho mombers are oles. The Austrian Turners had a membership mem-bership of 5.150 In 1907. which was reduced to 3,250 in 1909, and rose slightly in 1910 to 3,649. The money spent in 1908 on unemployed relief was 107 per cent of the total income, so that a sovorc drain on the roservp had to be experienced. The fact that there are 15,000 girls who work 56 hours a week in the white goods trade in New York city for from $2.50 to -$S a week, is expected to result in one of the blggeBt strikes ever known in the Xew York clothing trades. Demands for better working conditions and higher pay will be made at once. The whole of the building trades of Nottingham, Eng , has been brought to a standstill by a strike of bricklayers' brick-layers' laborers for Increased wages. Last summer they submitted to the Boards of Trade arbitrator a demand for an Increase from li cents to 12 cents an hour. The arbitrator not only refused the demand for an increase, but deducted "walking' time. Since Janunry 1, 1S90, the aggregate aggre-gate of boncfits paid by the International Interna-tional Molders Union to members on the bick list is $1,916,070 45. a larger amount than that disbursed for this purpose by anj other trade union during dur-ing the same period. The amount paid during the first three months of tho current year for such benefits was ?45.327.60. Tho Associated Blacksmiths and Iron Workers of Great Britain, in its fifty-third annual report, show Its membership increased to almost 3,000, the balance in hand aggregating nearly near-ly $140,000,000. Unemployed benefit last year was much smaller and tho union's income is shown as increasing increas-ing whlle the expenditure diminishes. Superannuation benefit, however, a growing trouble in this union as it Is In many others, almost doubled last year. The Stonecuteib' Union at Toronto, Can., and their employers have agreed on a tVo-year scale of 50 cents na hour for the first year and 52 1-2 cents for the second year. It was stipulated that when this agreement expires and a new agreement is asked for, a clause will be inserted providing that for the future all questions of wages will be settled by arbitration. The agreement agree-ment calls for an eight-hour day, with four hours on aSturday. One of the , most Important steps taken by the Hotel and- Restaurant Employes International Association and Barkeepers Protective League at the recent convention in Boston, Mass , is the determination to form slate or district organl7allons. Where ten locals exist in any one state, the organization will form a' state branch Where under ten locals ojcist, unions of anothei stute wjll come Into the branch, which will be known as a district dis-trict organization A. .1. EISSIXG. |