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Show LABOR NEWS Qf -, !v ' ALL COUNTIES 77omen Are Employed in the Iron Trades of England-Steel Trust M Allows Laborers to Rest One Day in Seven-Railroad College H Established Protest Against Union Organizers H Servants Demand Character Note From H Prospective Employers. H Vancouver, B. C, carpenters get H J4.50 .1 day. , H Toledo, Ohio, Hungarian laborers H Etruck recently for $2 a day instead j oc H A 100 per cent union or bakers was H recently organized in Duluth. Minn M After 22 months, the Springhlll, N. H S. colliery strikers have given in. H Tho Order of Hallway Conductors M has defeated he pension bureau plan. H Tho employment of women In tuc M Iron trades is common in Great Bri 1 -V branch of the marine firemen s H union will soon be Instituted at I'ori- H land, Ore H Chicago, 111., union printers have H elected nearly an entire, new set o H officials. M In 1 ondon. Eng . the printing H trades are now fightlns a wlnnliw bat- H lie for a shorter workday. H On .Tulv 10. at Columbus. Ohio, H Glass Dottle Blowcis' Association of H the United States and Canada will H , hold itK annual convention. j It Is estimated that no fewer than H 10,000 women machinists are want- H cd in the clothing factories of New H Bonth Wales. H Thirty-five states have established M bureaus of labor, for collecting indus- H trial information and for bettering H state factory laws. H The International Association of Mn- H chinlsts Ins signed up forty-two shops H in Xew York city for the elght-hour H The gain, in ihc American Feilera- '.Ion or Labor since the convention last H November has I een 156.S3S members H of trades unions. Hl The trade unionists at "Wellington H iomand that a statutory minimum Hl wage law be estahl'shnl by the gov- H eminent of Xew Zealand. The de- M nand is for 'JO cents an hour. Hl The National Amalgamated Union M f Shop Assistants, Warehousemen Hj ind Clerks of Grent Britain numbers Hl 4n branches and 21,500 members. ' M The Stee! Trust is iiov actively en- 1 ;age:l in following out one of the prl- H ami principles of union labor that fl vorkincn should he permitted to rest H ine day In seven. H The varment workers of Toronto, H fan., are organizing, and becoming Hl part of (ho great international army H! nf labor. Recently the first local was H organized. H The Merchants' and Manufacturers' Hj Association and the Wisconsin Manu- H Tactuiers Association hnve Jicided to H make a constitutional test of the com- H pensation law M The Austrian Woodworkers' union fl (mostly cabinet workers) spent in 1 19 10 $11,G50 on unemploved 'benefits, M out of a total income of about $-10,-M M Fearing that a bicvclc mav be in H sisted on by employes as a necessary H "tool," the Am'srainated Joiners and Hl Carpenters qf Biitain have adopted a B proposal not to use bicclcs during H working hours B The United Hatters of North Amer- H ica has decided to hereafter conduct H Its elections on the referendum plan H instead of at the conventions. The H plon will go into effect next Januarv H The Union Pacific Railroad Com- H pany has established a railway col- H lege for the benefit of its employes. H It is to be available to the employes H of every department, without cost. H An adjustment of a serious dis- H putc between the Merchant Tailors' H Association and the Independent H Union of Tailors was made recently at B San Francisco. Cal., by the establish- H ment of a uniform wage scale. H Union printers in Port Arthur and H Fort William, Out, havo succeeded in H closing a contract with the employers H which gives the printers a substantial H increase in pav oyer the old scale. H Representatives of fifty Jewish or- H ganlzalions in Boston Mass., have M banded together to raise $10,000 for ( M establishing co-operative bakeries. M This Is a step to aid in securing an H eight-hour day for members of the M Hebrew Bakers' Union. M The Metal Workers' Union in Aus- H tria had to snend practically one-half H of its total Income on unemployed 1 benefit in 1910. The membership" of 1 this union is fairly steady, and now M amounts to about 42,000. H The Kansas senate has passed a H bill pensioning public school teachers. H In order to receive the benefits of tho H act, teachers must have been in the 1 Bervico not less tlmn thirty vears. The 1 measure applies only to cities of the H first class. m Because the mayor of the city re- H fused to mix In -on cither side of the H fighti 1.500 non-union Pennsylvania H Railroad Shopmen, at Altoona. Pa.. H have thefmselvos called a meeting of H citizens to jirotost against union or- H ganizers for the shopmen's strike rc- M tnainlug there. H The Brewers' and Flour Mill Work- H era' Union in Germany had a mem- H bership of 41,303 at the end of 1910. H The income In 1910 was $214,000, the H expenditure ?1S5,500. tho funds In H hand amounted to $302,000, of which H $251,500 were in th'e central. H In Australia the domestic scr- H vants have turned the tables on tho H pmployers by formimr an association ' Hj which makes It obligatory on mom- H bcrs to procure a character note of Hl proancctlve masters and mistressqe Hl befdre agreeing to enter their service Hj At a recent- meeting of the United B Hebrew Trades in Manhattan it was H I decided to aid the tailors in the or H ganizing campaign they are now car 1 rylng on to get all the trade in the 1 country Into the union, In preparation H lor a general strike in 1912. It is almost certain that organized 1 labor In Minnesota will at the Man- H kato convention devise a plan for unl- H ted support of union mombers for pul- H lie office, and will perhaps resolve to J withhold Its support from the politi- J elans under all circumstances. H A woman's eight-hour bill govern- J Ing employment of womon and chll- H 5ren in tho District of Columbia has J beon Introduced In the House of Rep- J ;pscntatives. Girls under IS years old j Iho bill provides, cannot bo kept at 1 A'qrk after C o'clock in the evening. j The referendum vote of the We6t- H . tm Federation of Miners overwhelm- 1 I Jngly Indorsed the proposition to ac- H copt the charter of affiliation with tho H A. F. of L. upon the conditions laid M down by tho executive council of the H ( American Federation of Labor at Its Hl meeting in Januarj'. The charter has H been .Issued. H A disagrooment in pending nego- , ! tlations 'between the Southern Railway and the firemen employed on that line may result In arbitration being resorted re-sorted to. An increase of 27.S per cent in wages has been asked, and tho road takes the position that business will not Justify this or any other increase. in-crease. One of the chief questions to be discussed at the national convention of the Glass Bottle Blowers association associa-tion of the United States and Canada, In Columbus, Ohio, in July, will be that of the summer stop. The machine ma-chine bottle blowers will be operated to a ccrtuin extent through the summer, sum-mer, and many believe that the hand operators should continue also. The Potters' and Stove Setters' Union, in Gcrman, had a membership of 11,547 at the end of 1910. For this union 1910 has been a particularly fighting year, there being no less than 123 wage movements, strikes and lockouts lock-outs to fight, Involving 5.557 members The total Income of the union in 1910 was $85,500, the expenditure $78,-500 $78,-500 Tho funds in hand at the end of 1910 were $41,500. According to the 1909 Industrial census of Delaware, recently Issued, of all persons, numbering 23.S94. engaged engag-ed in manufactmes 5S per cent were officials, 5.7 per cent clerks, and 8S.G per cent wage earners. Of the total ' numbor of clerks, 1.35S, males formed S1.8 per cent unci females IS 2 per cent. Of;' wage earners, numbering 4 21.23S, males foimed 82.1 per cent and females 17 G per cent. In this class 97.5 per cont wore 1G years or ovor and but 2.5 per cent were under that age. When the Hotel and Restaurant lSmployes' Internationa Alllanca' anil Bartenders' International Leagues held its first real convention In Bostp'n, in 1S95, it had but two-score unions Today To-day it has more than 500, located In 895 cities and towns of 45 ftatea, tho District of Columbia nnd In Canada. The membership at the time of tho last convention at Minneapolis, two years ago, was 37,144 Today it Is 42,651, nnd steady and permanent progress pro-gress is being made at every point. Resolutions calling upon congress to authorize the lssuanco of $500,000,-000 $500,000,-000 to provide for the erection of homes for workingmon were adopted by the San Francisco, Cal . House-smiths' House-smiths' Union at a recent meeting. Tho resolutions will ho forwarded to Victor Vic-tor Berger. Socialist congressman, who will be asked to draft a bill cm-bracing cm-bracing the provisions of tho resolution, resolu-tion, which calls for the erection of 200,000 homes, each to bo paid for by the tenant In monthly payments of $20, a period of ten years being allowed al-lowed for tho payment of tho enllro cost of erection A ban was placed on tipping at a ' mass meeting of bosses and journeymen journey-men barhers held recently in St. Louis, Mo. The action comes as tho result of Investigation 'by the officials of the International Union of Journeymen Journey-men Barbers of America, representing the United Stales. Canada and Porto Rico Barbers have for some time comnlnlned because their patrons wore joining the ranks of self-shavers and after a study ot conditions throughout the country bv the National association, associa-tion, tipping Is given as tho reason whv men shave themselves A J. EISSING |