OCR Text |
Show I LABOR NEWS Of I ALL COUNTRIES B ' Many Members of Congress Are Affiliated With Trade Unlons- H ! Hindus Invading the Pacific Ooast-Orientals Displacing M British Seanten-B. of R. T. Pays Out Millions in H Benefits Short Hours of Work Bnng Good 1 Results to Employers Foreigners t H j K Displacing Americans in tha H Textile Mills. H Tho cotton industry employs S00,- H 000 Britons. H Thoro aro moro than 5G.000 union B printers. 1 PajjB, Franco, union of taxlcab H , chauffoura comprises 90 per cent of H , the taxlc&b drlovrs. i Fiftoon members of congress aro H ' uctivoly affiliated with tho trndes un- Hj ions. j " Tho Labor party in Great Britain H I roprcscnts 1,3-12,610 individuals. H ! North Dakota labor organizations H i -will form a suite federation. M John Mitcholl will lour tho United H States this summer on tho locture H platform. H Tho cosmopolitan character of the H Pacific coast labor is bolng lncroasod H by an influx of Hindus. LwM j Daring tho past two months eight now unlonn hav been organized of H "garment workers in Canada. H Orientals aro displacing uativo sea- H 'men on British ships to an extent H .-which is alarming the government. H Tho Brotherhood of Railway TTain- LwM men paid out more than $2,000,000 H JftBt year In death, and disability H claima. H A child labor law and an omploy- H ers' liability law passed at tho last H EosBlon of the Now Hampshire legis- Hl There are 52 afflllatod unions in Hl tho Vancouver, B, C. Trades and H Labor council. H In England, where the coal minors H labor but six hours, they produce as H much coal ns they formerly did In Hj" eight hoars. H Travelers' Goods and Leather Nov- H ' olty Workers will agitato for better LwM conditions and higher wages in Now M j York city. H The annual conference of the In- H s ternational Federation of Textile H I Workera association will be held In H AmBterdam this month. Hj A movemont Is on foot to build a H labor tomplo at Joplln, Mo , and also H to colebrato tho anniversary of Trades Hl assembly organization. H The convention of the Boot and H Shoo Workers of America opens in H St. Paul on Monday morning, Juno 19. H A provincial law for tho protection H of persons employed in the construc- H tlon of buildings was passed by the H Ontario legislature. H Canadian Northern carmen in the H west havo acceptod two cents an hour H , Increase, with another cent increaso H ; a year honoe. H Beginning July 1, the conductora H and motormon employed by tho Mon- H treal Street' Railway will receive an H increase of one cent an hour. H Tho factory act of Groat Britain H contains a provision that women and H girl employes must bo allowed a ccr- LwM tain and stipulated time for meals. LwM Union labor of Cleveland will aid H state officials in their campaign to LwM compel manufacturers to report all LwM accidents to workmen to the Stato H Factory Inspector. LwM Twenty-six states have automatic 1 coupfor and. automatic brake laws. 1 which unquestionably havo saved LwM thousands of lives among railrond H workers. H For the decade ending with 1908, H the fatal accidents in the coal mines H of North Amorloa wore 29,293, and the H rate per one thousand employes In H the industry was 3,11. M Tho Business Men's League of St WM Louis has gone on record, through LwM its legislative committee, as opposed LwM i to the further employment of convict H labor in '.Missouri, Hj There is a peraliitent report that j Tom L. Lewis, former President of the H International xMine Workers' organi. MM zatlon, will be a candidate for the WM presidency of the Ohio minors. H It is a remarkable fact that em- H ployes in the textile mllln having an 1 American training are becoming fewer M each year: they are being gradually LW displaced by PoIcb, Italians and 1 Greeks. -M Bills limiting to flfty-four hours a M week all employment of women and H children, and to constitute eight hours H a day's work for public employes in W Massachusetts, have been signed by 1 Governor Foss. 1 Railway carmen during the first 1 quarter of 1911 show an increase of Hj thirty-four unions and an increase of H , 4,347 members. 1 A delegation from tho Ontario cx- H ecutivc of the congress recently walt- -M i ed on the premier of the province and BM suggested raising the ago limit for LwM factory children to 16 years, provld- H ! nff better heating for foundries and Hl , providing for tho inspection of cloth- 1 , fng. H ( Foreign-born workmen without act- m ual experience in mining, are era- ployed In largo numberB In this industry, in-dustry, and through misunderstanding misunderstand-ing oi orders or by reckless disregard of the necessary rules of operation often imperil not only their own lives, btu also the lives of tho tralnod and exporieuced workers. A woman's elghthour bill governing govern-ing employment of women and children child-ren in tho District of Columbia was Introduced by Representative Bergor, of Wisconsin. Girls under IS years, the bill provides, cannot bo kept at work after 6 p. m. Ordinary unemployment not strike pay, Is by far the hoavioBt chargo on organized workers In Bnglnnd. Tho Amalgamated Society of Engineers Is typical of the wholo body of skilled trade unionism. Its expenditure on ordinary unemployment has been fully $20,000,000 up to date. Wage agreements between om-ployors om-ployors and employes of Germany aro jncroaslng, In 1909 there wcro C.57S wage agreements In force, covering 137,124 plants, and affecting 1,107,-478 1,107,-478 employes. Domestic servants have become qo scarce In Germany that they are able to dictato almost any tonus to their employers. Tho dearth of servants ia due largoly to Oormany's Industrial prosperity which creates a great demand de-mand for female labor in all branches branch-es of commorco and manufacture, W G. Leo, president of the Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Railway Trainmen, In his annual report certifies to the fact that the increaso in wages of the trainmen train-men in the United States during tho year 1910 amounted to $37,000,000. "Economy in small things," is tho slogan that ban been sounded along the lines of the Rook Island Railroad as a result of a policy adopted to encourage en-courage employes to savo tlmo and material wbeacver an opportunity affords. af-fords. "A nlokel a day" is the caption of an appeal to 50,000 employes of tho Rock Island lines. After a most disastrous warfaro between rival factions of electrlclnns, oxtondlng over several years, word oomes that through the mediation of the officers of the A. F. of L, a truco has been declared and thnt a meeting meet-ing has been .arranged botwoon tho two factions. Another of tho trades affiliated with the Ladles' Garment Workers' Union is to start organizing on a large scale ip Greater Now York Tho various central bodies and tho Women's Wo-men's Trade Union Leaguo havo undertaken un-dertaken to bring the sweatshop white goods trade up to the standard of tho other garment trades. The Journeymen Stone Cuttors' Association As-sociation of North America Is making splendfd progress this year; Increases Increas-es of wages having been gained by thirteen of its unions during tho last fou,r months. Tho general average per hour throughout the ontlro Jurisdiction Juris-diction of this organization is approximately approx-imately fifty cents. Tho United Trades and Labor Council of Buffalo, N Y., has determined deter-mined to enter the compotltion for the convention of the Amorican Federation Fed-eration of Labor In 1912 Back of the' counoil, It Is stated, are a number num-ber of civic organizations. Active pps have already been taken to start the campaign. in the face of a determined opposition oppo-sition by the Postofflco department against tho employes Joining or form-unions, form-unions, increases In membership and organization of new unions are continued. con-tinued. The arbitrary action of tho officials has caused and Is causing a cumulative restive spirit among them, owing to tho uncertainty existing as to what new plan of persecution may bo put Into operation at any time. A meeting was recently held at Capetown, South Africa, of representatives represent-atives of all trades unions In South Africa for tho purpose of framing a constitution for tho proposed Soutn Airlcan Federation of Trades Unions. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers Engi-neers havo ulnctecn branches In that country, and tho constitution finally adopted conforms to that of the Federation Fed-eration of Trade Union in Great Britain. Brit-ain. Old ago pensions, accident and sickness sick-ness pensions and other provisions for "wage-earners gTow apace in Germany. Ger-many. In 1909, out of a population of about 64,000,000, nearly 10,000,000 mon and nearly 3,500,000 women were Insured against sickness; nearly 15,. 000,000 men and 9,000,000 women against accident. Disability Insurance embraced about 15,400,000 persons. Employers paid about 298,000,000 In premiums, employes about $81,000,-000 $81,000,-000 and stato contributions wore moro than $12,000,000. Tho first year of tho Government Labor Exchanges In Great Britain, iias closed with tho system announced as successful. About 450,000 -vacancies were reported by employers to tho exchanges ex-changes and 370,000 of them woro filled. In order to enable workmen without money to roach distant places where they woro In demand, tho gov- 1 eminent exchanges provided trnnspor- I tatlon, tho cost of which has been re- I paid out of t,ho worklngman's wngos. I Perhaps tho most surprising develop- 5 incnt has been tho fact that moro fl skilled than unskilled workmen havo H found employment through tho ex- i changes. A. J. EIS-31NG. I |