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Show I LABOK NEWS OF ' I -;. - ALL -COUNTRHS H Railway. Clerks-Are Now Organizing' Unions Preparatory to Affili- H ating- With American Federation of Labor "Full Crew H Law in State of Washington Doing Away Witn H - - Child Labor in a Number of States. M . r M London, England, contains 142 un- Hj The moulders' .union claims 50,000 H members. j One-third of Britain's telegraph- op- H erators are womou. H Toronto, Out, carpenters havo B asked for forty cents an hour. H In Belleville, 111., 95 'per cent of M ( the workers are unionists. m Montreal, Can , painters want thirty m ' cents an hour and a ten-hour day. H Missouri's legislature passed the 54- HJ hour week bill for working women. H Women ushers in the Parisian thea- H ters have formed a labor union. H Lewes, Scotland, women fish work- H era are agitating against Sunday fish- H H In 1910, Boston, Mass., Clgnrmakers H Union spent $10,312 for advertising H the union label H At present there are fully 75,000 H women employed in manufacturing In- H dustries In New Jersey. H From about the year M45 until 1775 H the miners of Scotland were bought H and sold with the soil. H A free employment bureau for New H York city Is provided in a proposed H amendment to the city charter. H In Toronto, Can., there is a move- H ment townrd the organization of typo- H graphical unions Into a provincial con H ' feronce H Denver, Colo., Typographical union Bp has taken the initiatlvo In a move- H , ment for closer affiliation of the print- H , lng trade crafts. H In the state of Washington the H compensation act will go into effect H , Ootober land the woman's eight H ' hour work day on Juno 10. H Milwaukee, Wis., hod carriers and M i huildlng laborers May 1 will ask that H I their wages be increased from 30 to M ' 22 1-2 cents an hour. Hj Tom Lewis, deposed president of Hi the United Mlno Workers of Americo, HI will go back to the mines as a work- HI i man, HI I St. Paul Carpenters' Union, 5n line H with the closer affiliation movement, 1 i has appointed fraternal delegates who H t will attend the regular meetings of H the Minneapolis unions. H . , An expense o ?dO0,000 per annum H will be put upon Washington railroads H r by reason of tru enactment of the "full H I crew" bill, signed by Governor- M. E. H t Hay. H ' Rajlway mail clerks now havo sev H 1 en local organizations in Minnesota H and he Dakotas and are taking steps H to affiliate with the American Fed- Hj. eratiou of Labor. H St. Paul, Minn., labor unions will H cooperate in a movement to open tno' H schoolhouses of that city for social H y meetings of clubs and other organlza- H f tions. o permanent unions have ever been effected by women in New Jersey Jer-sey and more than three-fourths' of her industries require women 17 per cent are dependent upon women's I labor. , Toronto, Can labor unions may form I a provlnclaf federation of labor, to be chartered by the Dominion Trades J Congress of Canada. Active pjeparations are being made I for the convention of the Southern ' Conference on woman and child labor, I .which will be held in Atlanta, Ga., I I neginning at 10 a. m.,' the 'fourth Tuesday of this month i The trade and labor council of Vic toria, B. C, has adopted a resolution "iprotesting against any member' of pr-ganized pr-ganized labor In Its territorial limit i becoming a member of the organized , militia. Mankota, Minn., unions have begun preliminary work of preparing to en- - , tertaln the annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, which will , meet in that city the third Wcdnes- I ' day In June" I f San Francisco, Cnl., bakers havo pre-' ; sented a rapw scale of hours with the ! wages unchanged. This is tobe ef- . fective May 1. The new scalo calls ' for S hours for night work, from 8 I p. m., to 4 a. m.; 8 hours in factories , and 9 hours in all other places. ' i . A plpo trntde3 council, composed of i United Association Unions of the Twin I , Cities, has beeu organized. It In- . j eludes the Plumbers' and Steamflt- , ters unions of SL Paul, and the Plumb- Grs,' Steamfittcrs and Sprinkler Fit , I ters and Helpers' unions of Minncap- I oils. I The work of the conference of wo men and child labor will bo the seeming se-eming of legislation by the various Southern states for the protection of women and children employed In mills, factories, mines and workshops; reasonable hours of labor and proper sanitary and other working conditions. Minneapolis, Minn , Ico Wagon Drivers Driv-ers and Helpors' union has adopted a graded system for Its members. It provides that new men shall start in at a minimum wage and advance as they gain experience, receiving an increase in-crease in pay with each stop upward. up-ward. April 30 has been set aside this year as Tuberculosis Day, and will be observed ob-served in 200,000 churches in the country' In a manner similar to that of Tuberculosis Sunday In 1910. when over 40,000 sermons were preached on the prevention of consumption. It is stated that the government will positively rofuse to allow the formation for-mation of any union among omploycs. It regards the employes as part of the government Itself Unions are subject sub-ject to sympathetic strikes, and the government cannot allow its service to be crippled In that way. Assemblyman McGrath of Manhattan, Manhat-tan, has Introduced at Albany a moas-ure moas-ure calculated to meet tho objections of the Court of Appeals, raised in Its decision declaring the compulsory compensation feature of tho employers' employ-ers' liability act unconstitutional. . The average salary paid teachers In Illinois Is $64.44, California, Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. Nevada and New York lead tho list Georgia is at the bottom, bot-tom, with the low averago of $27 SI. The men teachers In the ungraded schools of Illinois receive an average monthly salary of $ 17 47 The women receive an average of $39.62. The work done by women in iron foundries is limited to five and six-pound six-pound moulds, and at present there are only forty women doing this kind of work in New Jersey ThiB clearly indicates tho tendency to cheapen the cost of production In manufacturing by women's labor, without respect to her fitness for the work It seems odd that the North should cast stones at the South In the matter of child labor, while there ore tobacco factories, glass works, coal breakers, mines, mills and sweat shops In tho northern states, wherein hundreds of thousands of children arc cruelly overworked, over-worked, starved in mind, stunted In body, wrecked In health. Daniel C Fisher, of Dorchester, England, the only blind Inventor of textile machinerv In the world, Is adapting a new Invention to the conditions con-ditions of the British mills, whereby he believes ho is going to be the means of soon revolutionizing the textile tex-tile industries of all England. The central labor council of Stockton. Stock-ton. Cal , has adopted an amendment to Its by-laws which provides that ''any delegate to the central trades council who wilfully or knowingly patronizes pat-ronizes any person, firm or corporation corpora-tion on the "unfair" or "we don't patronize" pat-ronize" list of this council, shall have his seat declared vacant, and his union un-ion so notified. A new death benefit for the members mem-bers of the Cleveland Lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes was created recently The now benefit is entirely apart from the Insurance given giv-en by the national order The local lodge pays tho amount of the benefit. bene-fit. Under the new system the nearest near-est relative of a member who dies Is immediately paid $500. or as soon as tho ofifcers of the lodge hear of the death, if the wife of a member dies, the member receives $300. FT the child of a member dies, the member mem-ber immediately receives $150. Mining methods In the United States are often crude, and known safety precautions aie either disregarded disre-garded or not used. Child labor laws havo been and still arc, indifferently complied with in nlany states, and a number of fatairties ocqur each vear among children "at anage when thev should bo in school. In 190S, ten children of 13 and 14 and 13 children of 15 years were among those whose deaths In the mines were recorded in, the official reports. The second Sunday in May was designated des-ignated by the committee on education educa-tion of the American Federation of Labor as "Labor's Memorial Day" at the Norfolk convontion in 1907 "a day upon which the men and women of tho country might meet, and by appropriate appro-priate ceremonies pay the tribute of honor and respect to those who have sorved their fellows in tho humane work of the labor movomont, but have gone to the great beyond." Plans for the formation- of Junior Typographical unions were launched at a meeting of the Minneapolis Union Un-ion recently. Under the provisions, the junior organization will be in all respects a live union, will bo recognized rec-ognized by the I. T U , and its members mem-bers will have practically tho same proteotlon as is afforded journevmon union printers. Similar unions" are being formed In other citie3 by locals and the movomont is expected to prove of vast benefit to the apprentices appren-tices generally. Tho chief source of the friction he-, he-, tween employers and employe, tho r rapid increase In the demands for' charitable relief and care for delinquent de-linquent children, und the corresponding correspond-ing demand for compensation for all personal injuries which worklngmen icceive in the duo course of their omployraent, continue to exist largely bejeausc compensation for injuries can only bo obtained when the employe can prove fault on the part of his omployer. Fault or negligence of tho employer can be provpn In much less than twenty per cent of the cases, and further, what is" most startling, no matter how careful the employe and employer are, or high the efficiency effici-ency or tho state may rise in tho prevention of accidents, tho causo of 50 to 55 per cent of all accidents to employes is solely due to the natural hazard or dangers of tho business and the combined negllgonce of the cm-ployo cm-ployo or employer. On the other hand, ,tho cause of 10.8 per cent of all accidents acci-dents are traceable to the negligence of the employers and the causo of 2S por cent of all accidents attributable to the negligence of tho omploycs Of every 100 Industrial accidents' flf teen go to court, seven aro lost and eight won Ninety-two Industries out of overy 100 receive no compensation. A. J EISSING |
