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Show I LABOR NEWS OF ! 1 ALL COUNTRIES a 'MM Thousands of Children at "Work in New York City Women and pM Children in the Cane Fields of Hawaii Union Men in Texas ciH Want the Initiative, Referendum and Recall Better eH Sanitation Demanded by Workers in New York. fgfHl Great Britain's unemployed now bHl number 1,500,000. IHsl Bargcrs 6f Anniston, Ala., recently Hk formed a union. ftJHral The telegraph operators of this .cUBIKl country number' about 100,000. ntfKV'l New York shirtmakers will demand jfJKi. , a 10 per cent increase in wages. roYjE, 1 Dundee, Scotland, mill operatives BE 1 to the number of 15,000 are on strike. -fasBr? I Builders' laborers in Toronto, Can., tfraR. 1 navc a union membership of 1,400. liasl The Musicians' Union of Joplln, ttSvD' I l0-. has decided to erect a Musicians' jSjfV- I Ampler, to cost $25,000. jln-T Tho Labor Council of Stockton, on-4 I Cal-. has purchased a $50,000 site for . I a new Labor Temple. i0, The "American Federation of ta- tbat I bar Is considering pitas to erect nn tnc, office building at Washington, D. C. e'riy jfc Tho Silk dyers of Paterson, X. J., irutt WfU) nave received a voluntary Increase of cX' jTl a wcek of nfl3' "ours. ,fori- VI .A charter has been pranted by tho itloP, !l merican Federation of Labor to tho -- . 'tootulacks' Protective Union, of FreB- ilhtf: o, cal. -ii! ' 11 ,. GfH'' Jnpcwi of CnllfornJSa. is bolide nu'. l urged to taho steps to hasten the a,' A . on th stato highways and" the him - i Jltrlronl of Sa"n Francisco for which bonds aggregating $28,000,000 were authorized, this being recognized as a means of providing employment for many men now out of work. A qomprchonslve system of organization organ-ization has been decided on by tho Victorian, Australia, Operative Plumb-era' Plumb-era' Society. In New York city, 131,072 children bctwqen 14 and IS years of age. are now at work, 60,020 boys and (50,352 girls. There is prospects of a strlko in Oshkosh, Wis., this spring if demands of the mlllmen are not granted. Five thousand workmen will be affected. Thoro are over 44,000 laborers In the Hawaiian Islands, working in the cane fields Of these, 24,000 are women and children. An advance in wages of 10 per cent has been granted co the chalumakers In tho South Staffordshire and North Worcestershire, Eug.. districts. London, Eng., has G734 music teachers more than 1,000 professional solo violinists and 3.700 professional vocalists of whom G3S aro sopranos. Delegates representing every department de-partment car construction and repair re-pair on (ho Xew Haven Railroad, met recently in Boston, Mass. After I a discussion of tho wages paid to the men it was concluded to ask for a I flat Increase of 3 cents an hour. The j increase, if secured, will affect about 15.000 men. Tho manufacturing industries of tho United States- employ as wngo-earners wngo-earners G,f15,04G people or almost 11 1-2 per cent of tho total population. popula-tion. Plans aro being laid to ultipately unite all (ho workers in the metal and machine industry lu New York in a metal workors' industrial union. Spanish coal miners threaten a general strike. Tho government may prohibit tho export of coal, suspend the duties on imports and pass a minimum min-imum wage bill. The Iron Molders' Union in endeavoring en-deavoring to have a law passed by the Massachusetts state legislature forbidding for-bidding the employment of women in foundries. Tho builders and contractors of the Cheshire, Eng., districts, have decided ' to meet the demands of tho joiners for an Increase of a hnlf-ponny per hour. A large number of men arc affected. af-fected. The union men of Texas are ac-tivelv ac-tivelv engaged in securing signers to a petition to have the initiative, referendum ref-erendum and recall provisions .placed upon tho primary ballot to be taken lu July. After about seventeen years of non-unionism, non-unionism, a charter has been issoud to the cmploves of tho Toledo. O.. Traction Company by tho Apialga-mnted Apialga-mnted Association. Tho company has bitterly fought the organization of Its men. It is stated that the organization organiza-tion 'Is now in a fair way to protect tho interests of tho employes. Approximately 1,182 fatal accidents occurred in tho factories and workshops work-shops of the United Kingdom in J 011, 21 of the ictims beiiig womon. Thoro woro 102 moro fatalitlcB than in tho previous year, desplto the Board of Trado regulations. Thero wero 110,-73.") 110,-73.") workers Injured, which is an in-creaso in-creaso of 19.501 over the year 1910. At a meeting of tho National Congress Con-gress of Miners hold in Brussels, Belgium, Bel-gium, recently a resolution was adopted demanding an Increase of 15 per cent and upwards In the present scale of wages. Tho Tilbury, Eng., dock strike has been settled through the Intervention of the Dockers' Union. The 5,000 mon havo all roturncd to work, employers agreeing in the future to recognize the organization. Stronuous objections to the proposed pro-posed wage reductions on branch lines of the Ci. T. R.. recently brought to Ollama a number of ofHcials or tho brotherhoods. It is understood that a board of conciliation will bo asked for Tho membership of the Gas Workers' Work-ers' Union of Great Britain Is still Increasing, In-creasing, and Iho financos aro on the upward grade. During the quarter ending December 30, 1911, tho branch income was $G1,000 and the total expenditures ex-penditures ?12.500. The members of the rainlers' Union, at Hamilton. Can., have so-cured so-cured an increase of 2 1-2 cents nn hour. Negotiations have been ou for some time and -nn amlcablo agree-mont agree-mont was renched through the Master Ilouso Painters' fwisoclalion. Recently the yafalcw. of Aberdeen. Scotland, stmok vaeh for an advance ot wages, every member of the union ceasing work. Tho operatives, who arc supported by the Scottish Painters' Society, demand an increase of one coat an hour, and an. additional 25 cents a week for country work. Serious friction exists between the English ShlpplHJ? Federation and tho Joint committee of Engineering Socie-t'es. Socie-t'es. Tho men demand thai their application ap-plication for an Increase of from $7.50 to ?15 a month, with a minimum of ?40 a month for seagoing engineers, shnll be dealt with on a nntional has.1 s. AM the unions affiliated with the Motors' Union of North America will voto ou a proposition to hold a convention con-vention of Iho international body this year, none having been held in the years. If it carries the convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wis., next September. St. Paul, Minn., local of Holstln? Engineers has reached an agreement with tho Builders' Exchange or Ihnt citv, whereby tho working rules recently re-cently adopted by the union to govern gov-ern this vcar have been accepted by tho empioyers wiihout controversy. An increase in pay over last year is recoided , ,,. Representatives or unions armiated with tho United Hebrew Trades mot in New York city recently nnd decided de-cided to rorm a sanitary boiml to enforce en-force nafo and proper sanitary conditions condi-tions in the factories of tho greater city Tho plan will involvo a more carotul iuspection of tho present conditions con-ditions of factories, and that falling to secure improvement, strikes will bo resorted to. .... Tho metal trades strike against the contract shops of Los Angeles. Cal.. which has been In progross for nearly two years, ha? been called off An agreement h.n? been reached between tho officials of tho molders, machinists, machin-ists, bollormakcrs, blacksmiths and patternmakers' union and the officials of the Founders and Employers' association. as-sociation. The outcome is a great victory for the metal trades. Tim rork ir.dustrv lu Toulon. France 11a vs a wage that is Inflnitesi-mally Inflnitesi-mally small. At tho present time tho factories aro running ; to the full capacity ca-pacity but- tho eatHbl ishmonls u8e scnrcelv anv automatic machinery. Girls "enungou l '"J" 'J'?'' srt-llng srt-llng oarn as Httlo as 1 ccnU a day, whjle those working the hand-operated knives received 30 to 10 cents a day. The wages of most of the higher paid employes do not exceed 5 to S5 cents a day. Six hundred and fifty scalo controversies con-troversies wore handled by the International Inter-national Typographical Union in 1911, whicvh Is twenty -threo more than the number adjusted In 1910. ln G2I canes, increnscs aro recorded varying from 10 cents to ?7.50 a weok, the aerago being $1.82 a week. Estimates of tho aggregate gain for tho year are placed at $3.001.714. IS. Moro than ono thousand hand composition offices were involved in tho bcnefltn, whilo 1GI machine offices gave Increases. In-creases. Beer Bottlers' Unions of San Francisco Fran-cisco and Los Angeles., Cal., have turned down the proposed old-ago pension s3tem which has been sub- I milted to a referendum voto of the , unions affiliated with tho Brewery Workors' International Union. The reasons for the defeat of the proposition proposi-tion in tho San Francisco and Los Angeles unions were that the members mem-bers do not approve of labor entering into anv agreement with employers wheroby Iho latocr agree to assist in establishing an old age pension system. A bill proid!ng for the pensioning or CM1 Service employes who are Injured In-jured in line or service has been introduced in-troduced in Congress. The measure provides that all employos making loss than ?3,000 per annum, as well ns cnlployos of the Istrmlan canal and Panama railway and steamship Hue, shall be conpensatqd at stnted rates for Injury or death while ln such employment. Tho Secretary of Commerce Com-merce and Labor Is given the right to determine whether or not tho claimant claim-ant for pension la entitled to compensation. com-pensation. . 4 A. bill to protect railway employes lu their organizations from injustice at tho hands or their employers H through blacklisting or threats ot dis- il missal has liccn introduced in tho 'H lower, house. The bill provides that , IH nny employer who shall require any H employe to enter into nn agreement, H oitber written or verbal not to be- H conio or remain a member of any la- H bor organization or because ho wMl H not withdraw from any such organiza- H tion or shnll discharge any employe H for non-complfancc with tho em- ' H plover's wishes shnll bo guilty of a 1 H misdemeanor and shall pay a penalty ' JH of not less than $100 nor more than H $1,000 for each offonse. Tho measure ' H nlso forbids employers endeavoring to M force employes to contribute to any H fund for charitable or other purposes, M and also from conspiring to prevent M former employes securing other em- M ployracnt after they havo beon dla- H charged. H A. J. BIS SING. J H nn i HHHHHH |