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Show W I LABOR NEWS OP I ALL COUNTRIES HJ toies and Spaniards in the Mines and Iron Furnaces of Scotland Hj ,' Universal Eight-Hour Day Building- Industry of V&n- m I couver at a Standstill Bocaiso ot Strikes Jtoa- H ' chiniats Winning- Fight for Eight-Hour Da., Hr Massachusetts factories employ H 584,560 porsone. M , Tho printers at Portsmouth, N. JI., H bav formed a hundred por ceat or- H ranlxatlon. B Montreal. Can., teachers havo boen H j given u. voluntary Increase In salaries. H ( Nearly twice as many women na H j '"' Are engaged in tho lndustrlos of H Japan. H Traniwaymon at Rome, Hair, who 1 struok against obnoxious rules, hav H been successful. H Worcester, Mass., Sheet MotaJ H Workers recently gamed an incroaa H r oi 26 cents u day. Hl n The Poles who Inhabit Scotland Hl work chlofly in tho mines, the Span- H lards at tho Iron furnaces. H Ann ATbor. Mich., rudders have H won their strike for an Incrcnse of BO H cents a day and reduction of one hour H In the working day. B Viokeburg, MIsb., barbers recently H reduced their work day one hour per H . day, without reduction In pay. 1 On July D, at Toledo. Ohio, Inter- H 3 national 'Longshoremen's Association H f will hold Its annual convention. H l Plnnn arc under way for extensive H I organisation work In Minneapolis. H f Minn., In the Interests of tho steam Hv ' engineers. H Gantwnt workers of Alton, 111., re- contly organised and secured the H cigm-nour dar and standard wage H I scale. H The bricklayers' conforenco In Aus- H tralla has agreed to the amalgamation U Df their union wltli the Builders' La- H borers' Union. H Ton thousand wool combor3 at H Hradford. England, nre threatening a strike. Thoy demand an increase of 5 B per cent In wages. H ' Thc Structural Iron Workers at T i ' Clovoland, O.. have gained an Increase H I I jn wages from $4.80 to $5.20 for eight H south without friction. H Tho San Jose. Cal., Ixibor Council H , -r- conducting an aggressive cnmpalgn H io raise funds for the orcctlon of u H tplondld labor temple. H The International Iron Molders' ; H . Pnlon shows a gross Increase In mem- H ' oorshlp for tho first quarter of the M Jcar of 2,015 H Of tho total of 3.733 female wage- H I earners in all industries In Delaware, 1 M in 1900. SSI. or 22.S per cont, were B- J employed in tho canning Industry. IanH Tho fourteen woeks struggle of the graphic trades (printers, llthograph-ors. llthograph-ors. bookbinders, etc.) In Finland, has come to an end with an agreement to j ,( run for five years H The Industrial Workers of the B J World have lnaugugated a movement H calling upon the wage-earners of the H ( country to Join for a universal eight- H hour day by May 1, 1912. H , Thirty-seven states havp employers- V , j liability laws. In seventeen states the H j old common law defense of "fellow- B sorvant" has been abrogated, and In j seven others It has been modified. H The Riggers' and Stevedores' PBII I , Union at San Francisco. Cal., has a H I total membership of 2,500, which 1 ' makos It the largest, as well as one H ' r tne oldest unions in San Francisco. (The Manhattan (New York) East Side horseshoers have started a move- ment to organize a union for the pur- Iose of regulating their working hours Li ' Rnd also bettering their conditions in general. H ' The Bakers" and Confectioners H Union In Oermanx a" the ond of 1910 Hi "&d a membership or 23.093 (including VB I 3.0C1 women members), the fundB in I BBl band amounting to $5S,000. BBBI The minister for mlnoH In Now bbbb ?,w uaies Purposes re-lntroduclng BBBH' I "Is bill for the establishment of an H eight-hour day from bank to bauk in BBBM the coal mines. of the state. H Building Industry In Vancouver is H practically at a btandstlll as a result BBJI or a goneral strike of building me- BBJI chanics to force the employers to i BBJI grant union conditions and wages. I BBB Employes addicted to liquor will ' BBJ be barred from benefits in the new H t hospital department to be established BBJ by the Illinois Central railroad, It Is H announced by the management of the BBJ road. Hl ' Tne Actors' Union reports that it BBBJ L nas succeeded in signing up overy BBBJ theatrical agencj in San Francisco, BBBJ , Cal., through the assistance of the of- H fleers of the San Francisco Labor BBJ Council. H The union machinists of New York BBB ire winning tholr fight for the elght- hour day. Up to date more than sixty BB New York lirms haro signed agree- BBJI ments with the unions on the eight- BBB hour basis. H 1 The millmen's strilco In Grand Rap- j I Ids, Mich., has been very effectivo; a H lumber of furniture firms affected H saving signed the union agreement. Only n small portion o tho men aro now oat, . .vrtt has been tho recent lu-crease lu-crease lu the mombonihip of San Fianclsco, CaL. Typographical Union that tho organization now has tho maximum representation in tho Sun FranclHco Labor Council. An active campaign of organization will be inaugurated among tho laundry laun-dry workers of Oakland, Cal., whoro It is said tho Asiatics have secured a Xlrm foothold In tho laundry business, to the detriment of tho white wago-oarnors. wago-oarnors. A bill amending tho Sherman antitrust anti-trust law so aa to exclude from Kb ef-lccts ef-lccts all labor organizations, agricultural agricul-tural associations and fraternal societies socie-ties formed for mutual bonoflt, was re-lntroducod rcoontly in tho Unitod States House. A commlttoo of seven has been appointed ap-pointed to revise tho constitution of lho International Bricklayers- Union and present Its report at the international interna-tional convention, which Is to meet next January. Tho Piano, Organ and Musical Instrument In-strument Workers' international Union Un-ion Is conducting a campaign to Increase In-crease Its membership by 5,000 prior to Octobor 1, 1911. Tho union Is out for a OS-cent per hour wage. A strike of about 7,000 minora in the Hgnito (brown coal) district of Central Germany Is on. Tho chief demand de-mand Is for a substantial Increase of the wago rato, which is the lowest of all mining districts, except Upper Silesia, Si-lesia, The noise Valley Co-Operative Company. Ltd.. Is tho organization that has Just been offected by tho United Uni-ted Granges of southern Idaho. - It contemplates no stores, but will do only a wholosale business, buylug coal, lumbor, binding twine and all heavy commodities needed by farmers. The Amalgamated "Society of Engineers En-gineers of Great Britain continues to record a decrease in the number draw-lug draw-lug benoflta and an increase in membership mem-bership a most satisfactory condition of affairs The total membership at the end of April was 113.789, being an increase during tho month of 72fi. There la talk of troublo between the various rallwaymen's unions and the Pore Marquette road over the desire de-sire of the men to havo the company recognize tho American Federation of Labor, and the rumored disinclination of the company to grant buch n request. re-quest. A bill providing that 10 cents shall bo added to the tax rate In Boston next yeur for Increasing the salarlos of Boston tonchers. an additional 10 cents to be added in 19H, and an additional ad-ditional 5 cents In 1915 was agreed upon at a conference between promi- nent public officials. In Great Britain there are 200,000 t school children in full attendance who work out of school hours for wages; J there aro between RO.000 and 90,000 I half-timers, who d'n a half-day In tho factory and a half day In school: while the full time workers between 13 and 14 years of ace nrobahlv num. ber 300,000. An offlclnl return has been published publish-ed by tho Northumberland, Eng . Miners' Min-ers' Association dealing with the accidents ac-cidents at Northumberland ColllerleH during the paBt year, and the amount paid for compensation under the M?ir ren Co,mPenBatlon Act totals W31.CC0, the largcBt sum over paid for fatal accidents In any ono year Representatives of tho Northwestern Northwest-ern Cooks' Association and a number or .Minneapolis. Minn., hotel men met recently to discuss a proposition o.-Jir InaiJng with tho cooks, to establish a six-day week for the cooks. Tho conference con-ference was of a friendlv character and many of the hotel men are ro-ported ro-ported as favoring the six-day week. ! i ?vNcW 0,1(h U'alea RP Mak-Ing Mak-Ing Wages Board has delivered Its award A fortj-elght hour week is granted, and wages allotted In various K Cn,tB thc ,n,,uslr-v r' 'rom J2-60 per day for ropelayers to S7 cents Si "w-1,p boys- Overtime Is to be Sdat V,10 ratc of tl,ne n"J a quarter STtSSLSS. hours and Urac Complete returns of tho vote of .m Ion printers In the Uni?ed states ffln?'!? da U,P0" U, queston of abol iBhlng the piecework system whloh Prevails In most of the newspaper ot flees and some of the job off Ices arc. o j3fvandf- I3"1 "Bh I. know" . "& the Btalcnent that the vote pieS,;: aea,nfit a c"ou-of One of he Immediate result nr thn similar organization has been estab-llshod estab-llshod In Stockton, and another union un-ion of suloswomen Is under way In Uakerafleld, San Francisco will come next. The movement by the printing and kindred trades of Great BrllHln for a reduction of hours has ended, so far as provincial printing office employes are concorned, by an acceptance of the terms offered at tho Leods confer-once confer-once a gradual reduction of hours to fifty-one per-week. This arrangement is to hold until 1913 After that date any movement for a further reduction must be inado on a "national" baalB. The request of the Brotherhood of TenmtjterB.- at San Franclgco, Cal , for a reduction of one bur In the working work-ing da for toamstere, giving the men a ton hour daj on and after July 1, baa not met with tho Indorsement of the Dra men's Association. Officers ot tho Brotherhood of Teamators Hay that the men havo for a long time been demanding a ten-hour workday and will bo satisfied with nothing less. It has been aiffibunced by labor leaders at Los Angeles, Cal , that a secret se-cret service bureau Is to bo organized In labor circles having for its primary pri-mary purpose the ferreting out of spies or so-culled "stool pigeons," who havo been Introduced into the ranks of unionism, they say. by enemies of organized labor, and for securing evidence evi-dence to establish the innocence of any union men accused of crimes In connection with thc labor mj ment. A J BI S&ING. |
