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Show LABOR INEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Vienna, Austria, phone girls earn ?S to $20 a month. Now York city has almost 14,000 women Fchool teachers. Painters head the list of lead poison pois-on victims in this country. Illinois Central strikers havo started start-ed a dally newspaper at Water Valley, Val-ley, Miss. Unionists of South Akron, O , have launched a co-operative store. A general strike of workers en- gaged in the bakery trade is on at ' Lisbon, Portugal. Forty-four states have adopted an ago limit for tho employment of children. chil-dren. The North Dakota Advocate, the official paper of tho North Dakota State Federation of Labor, prlntod Us first Issuo last month. St. Paul, Minn . Trades and Labor Assembly is planning a great atreot carnival to bo hold somo timo next summer. New York State Federation of Labor's La-bor's executive committee has Indorsed In-dorsed a proposed legislative measure meas-ure providing for Industrial Insurance In that state Walter MacArthur has boon olectod fraternal delegate to tho international Congress of Seamen that will shortly meeting in London, Eng. Tho Irish Transport and General Workers' union has bcon forming branches and obtaining advances of wages all over Ireland. Some railroads In Germany aro equipping their locomotive cabs with cocoa mats to absorb the vibration which is said to affect the hearing of tho members of their crews Germany makes a strikingly heavy investment In industrial education. Nearly every small lllage has at least ono industilal pchool Often there are two In small cities. Ottawa, Can , All-ca Trades Council Coun-cil Is making an effort to Bond somo labor representatives to the BoarJ of Control, City Council and Board of Education. The International convention of Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterero which will be held In Su Joseph, Mo., this month, Is expected to adopt the old-age pension fund Bystem. Tho oil millers at Hull, England, are still on strike and the company is endeavoring by all manner of moans to break the ranks of tho strikers, but with small effect. The Patriotic Women's leaguo of Germany has appointed a committee to promote a law for compulsory military mil-itary servico of German women in war and peace times as nurses and helpers. Fatalities In coal mines over tho country average well abovo 2,000 from year to year and are double tho number num-ber of a decado ago. The employment continues far moro deadly, than railroading. rail-roading. Portland, Ore., city council has authorized au-thorized Mayor Rushrlght to appoint a committee of business men to conduct con-duct a series of co-operatlvo shops, where the profits would bo distributed distrib-uted among the shareholders tho public. On Prussian state railways the predominant pre-dominant hours aro 8 to 9 and 9 to 10; more' than half tho locomotive men and plate layerB have less than 9 hours, "but 54 per cent of pointsmen and signalmen aro on for 10 to 12. Tho dual organization which has been contesting tho supremacy of tho ourneymen Stono Cutters' association is in a sorry plight with a rapidly dwindling number of adherents. San Francisco, Cal., Labor Temple association has asked the labor council coun-cil to request tho affiliated unions to purchase stock In order to create a building fund of $45,000 to start the UVW UUIIUJUB- CleVeland, O., printers have closed an agroemont with ten omployors In the Job and commercial offices that carries with It an Increaso of $1 per week during tho comlne; year, and tho samo advance beginning January 1, 1914, as well as other betterments. The national child labor commltteo has issued a call to the churches of America, Inviting them to observe Sundav. January 28. or Saturday, January Jan-uary 27, as Child Labor Day. An idea of the backwardness of the work of organization In Ireland may bo had from the fact that in Wexford a body of several hundred mon havo been locked out because thev tiqyo dared to Join a trade unlons Having established already technical techni-cal and accounting courses for employes, em-ployes, tho New York Edison company com-pany has opened its commercial college col-lege to cover tbo selling end of 't3 business. It Is tho first institution of Its kind In an electrical concorn. Tho navy department has decldcl to permit employes of the navy yard to designate committees to represent thorn before the board of wages, although al-though Buch commlttes ma-, be composed com-posed of men who aro not ejnployes of the yard, and the commander has been advised to. this effect. During the year Just closed better child labor lawn have been issued In thirty states, and the comlsslon on uniform laws of the American Bar association as-sociation has "prepared and sent out to tho public a "model" child labor law to be used as a standard of uniformity uni-formity in all states. Although there are over 13,000 licensed li-censed tenement workshops In New York city alono, and these licenses cover but a fi action of the houses In which homowqrk Is actually done by children, there Is at present no actual ac-tual law to adequately combat this evil. The British miners aro getting revolutionary rev-olutionary and have ousted tho conservative con-servative leaders who have for years headed their organization. Tho officials offi-cials of tho miners are all up to dato revolutionary unionists and they aro , determined to wage a fight to a finish fin-ish to Itotter the conditions of tho coal diggers. Notwithstanding ahotfact that Frank .Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, reported to the Atlanta convention tho highest paid-up paid-up membership over attained, tho months of October, November and December, the first three months of tho new fiscal year, reveal, a still further Increase in paid-up membership. member-ship. In an official report the British Seamen's Union states that Its Income Is now $5,000 a week and that tho seamen's wages havo bcon Increased by the last strike by some $40 or $50 per annum A new program of demands de-mands Ib being drawn up which will be prcscntod to the 9hlp owners this year. r During the great mlnera' strike of 1893 tho colliers of Cannock Chao replenished their funds In strango fashion. The Birmingham canal was emptied for repairs, wheroup tho men to tho number of about 2,000 descended descend-ed Into Its muddy bed and collected hundreds of tons of coal, which thoy sold at remunerative prices. Wisconsin's now 55-hour-a-weck law for women clorks is playing havoc hav-oc with tho retail clorks union It Is said the union Is losing many of Its women members as tho result of the law The women arguo that the state law protects them, and does for them Just what the clerks' union was expected ex-pected to do The postofflco department, through C. P Cranfleld, first assistant postmaster-general, has again opened up a war against tho National Federation of Postofflco Clorks affiliated with tho A P. of I Recently an order was sent to the Chicago office notifying all clerks in that office to cease membership mem-bership in the union. Steps to form an interstate central labor union to bo tho largest In tho world woro taken recently by Now York labor leaders. The central union un-ion will cover New York and vicinity and Now Jorsoy as far as Trenton. A now arrangement has been arrived ar-rived at by the woolcombers and gn workers at Bradford, Eng, by which the two unions will recognize each other's members, so that gas workers work-ers may obtain employment as wool combers In the summer time and the woolcombers maj work a3 gas workers In the winter Organization of tho section men of the railroads In Minnesota will bo begun early this year, under the direction di-rection of orgnnlzors belonging to tho maintenance of way branch of the railroad organizations It Is stated that the average wage of these men is less than $1.50 and that no substantial sub-stantial Increase has been received in last twenty years. With tho 'municipal water system, municipal water frontage, docks and railroads, municipal band and bandstand, band-stand, and a municipal comfort station sta-tion about to bo built, tho next move contemplated by Long Beach, Cal , Is the establishment of a municipal moving picture exhibition where the school children and other young people peo-ple of the city may be provided with free entertainment. The San Francisco Worklngwo-men's Worklngwo-men's association has beon organized for the purpose of securing tho enforcement en-forcement of all existing laws that affect af-fect tho rights of working women and other women, and to watch proposed legislation to the end that the rights of women should be recognized by tho law-making power and that none of those belonging to them should be abrogated The Wisconsin sunreme rniirt lmv. Ing affirmed tho validity of tho new workingmen's compensation act in that state, the provisions of which are elective on the part of employers, many largo manufacturing concerns which havo been waiting for tho do-clslon do-clslon have filed notice with tho Insurance In-surance department of their Intention Inten-tion to be subject to Its provisions. Thirty-five thousand mon and women wo-men aro killed each year by American Ameri-can Industry, according to State Factory Fac-tory Inspector Davlcs of Illinois. Half a million are injured Thirty-ono diseases whose true nature are unknown un-known as yet to even tho best of physicians phy-sicians and whose causes aro not tought in any medical schools already have been discovered as directly attributable at-tributable to faulty worldng conditions condi-tions and number their victims by the thousands eery week because of the general Ignorance concerning them. The convention of tho "building i trades department, American Fodora- tion of Labor, was heM immediately j subsequent to the adjournment of the American Federation of Labor convention. con-vention. The report of the secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer showed that tho avorago membership for 1911 was. 294,345 The 'receipts for 1911 wore S18.492 49, with l expenditures of $19,08C09, loavlng n balance In the treasury of $3,235.9C, there having been a surplus last year of approximately 33,800. There are twenty organizations In full affiliation affilia-tion A member of Philadelphia Typographical Typo-graphical Union has found a new use for his working card, Tho other day he had occasion to visit a Quaker City banking institution to collect on a chock made payable to his order. In conformity with the rule of banks when the payee is unknown, tbo paying pay-ing teller demanded Identification by someone known to the batik This was out of the question, so Instead the payee produced his union card, which was at once accepted as all tho evidence that was needed. |