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Show I LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES H " Hl Workers in Cement Industries Are to Be Organized Small Pay of j Twenty Thousand Women in Birmingham, England Farmers Hl ' . and Organized Labor Form an Alliance Americans H ' Building Factories inCanadat ' ', . Hl I A general strike of button makers H ' f 18 on at MuBcatlne, Ja, H Wheclbanow coolies In Shanghai, H China, earn $4 a month. H , Dingwall, Scotland, bakers arc agi- H . tatlng for both shorter hoiiri and Hj more pay. I ' In the Netiierlnnds the pretloral- Hl ' nant hours In most Industries nrc ten H ' to eleven a day, H I Galashie?. ScotJand, opcrntiVe H , plumbers have obtained an advance H I on their wages of a half-penny un H 1 1 The United Silne Workers of Nova H ij Sco tin Intimate a new demand for In- ' creased wages next j ear. H "For the bake of the health" of Its Ht , j thousands of workmen, tho U S. Steel H i trust has posted notices In its mills L ' forbidding the use of tobacco, partlc: H ularly cigarettes, during working w hours. An exception to the rule hus i been made In favor of machinists on brass work and iron molders. It has been decided by the vork-01 vork-01 s in tliq various trades in Tlppernry, frelund, to form a trades council.. Tho Urltlsh govornmeiiL has decided decid-ed to appoint a board of trade commission com-mission empowered to arbitrate labor dlsptes. Employes of tho Dublin, Ireland, Tramway company have petitioned tho directors for shorter hours and more free days for the older men. Minneapolis, Minn , has several thousand men employed In tho various coment industries, and effotts will be mado to organize them. Labor leaders assert that the fight between tho plumbers and steamflt-tecs steamflt-tecs has cost tho building trades workmen of Chicago $8,509,000. The Schenectady, N, Y., railway .istriko was concluded recently through iiWHg11 't" -'' ' " lat, ' '"" ' ' i , ' - recognition of the union, In accordance accord-ance with the trolley men's demands. The linkers' International union has raised funds sufficient to establish bix "antl-biead trust bnkeiies" In various va-rious sections of tho United States. The quarrymen omployed in the marble quarries of Carjara, Italy, havo obtained an increaBO of 18 per cent In wages and a small reduction of houra. Twenty thousand women in Birmingham. Bir-mingham. Eng., it is stated, are working work-ing at carding hookB and oyes at an average from half a crown to four shillings a week. At Senttle, Wash., an important alliance al-liance has been formed, which embraces em-braces farmers, membors of the Direct Di-rect Lcglblalion league and lepresent-atlves lepresent-atlves of organized labor. Great progress has been made in the last year in Improving the working work-ing conditions of children in tho United Uni-ted States, according to the annual repoit of tho untional child labor committee. com-mittee. Tho lithographers in Nurndey, Icipzlg, and other towns in Germany aro on Btrike, or preparing to o on strike, for the reduction of hours to eight and one-half per day, and other demands. Seven hundred and fifty-five companies com-panies from the United Slates have built factories lru Canada since 1900. Many of these aro larger than tho oilginul plants In tho United Stntes. Dublin, Ireland, bakers sent a lot-tor lot-tor to tho master bakers recently stating that they would not resume J work unless demands relating do wages and conditions of work were granted. The International Molders' union reports re-ports a total Increase in membership for the quarter of 2,915, with an expenditure ex-penditure in sick benefits for the same period of ?-45.327. The British Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants threatens a strike that will stop every wheel on every railroad iu England before Christmas, unless the demands of Its niembors for higher1 pay and shorter hours are gi anted. The lockout In the building trades of Sweden Is gradually drawing to an end through one firm after another desorting from the mastors' organization organiza-tion and making peace on their own account. Carters in the eastern district of Midlothian, England;, have Btruck work and some hundreds of men aro out, the dispute arising over the hours of labor and the recognition of tho men's unlon Certain employers in Melbourne, Australia, having Blgned an agreement agree-ment to pay their employes $15 a week, a number, of men who wont on strike iu the glass beveling trade havo 'returned to work. rrhero la a powerful movement in Germany to require all glrlB, regardless regard-less of station, to do compulsory domestic do-mestic sorvice, Just as tho young men aro required under the law to do compulsory com-pulsory military service. The International Molders union of North America recently concluded an agreement with tho Central Mold ers association of Scotland by which the two organizations will In the future fu-ture interchange membership enrds Natlvo compositors of the "Journal of Katanga," the first Congolese newspaper which has just appeared in the Belgian Congo, have gono on strike. They claim that all their names should appear on the front pago. A decision was recently handed down by tho supreme court of the btato of "Washington which sustained the constitutionality of the workmen's compensation act passed at tho last session of tho legislature. PreUous to organization the blacksmiths black-smiths of Atlanta, Ga., got 25 cents . an hour and worked ten hours a day. Since organlaztiou their wages have IncreaGod to 35 cents an hour and the day's work reduced to nine hours. Union butchers of New York city havo gained a material Increase In wages and a substantial reduction In the hours of labor. After a strike had been threatened the employing butchers butch-ers signed a two-years' agreement with the union. A minimum wage will bo demanded bv the Miners federation of Groat Britain for every man and boy employed em-ployed In a coal mine, and nnlesg colliery col-liery owners give way the federation will take steps which may result in a national stoppage. Indiana union men arc going to make an effort to inaugurate a .plan that will reduce the cobt of living. An effort will be made to arrange for some form of co-operatlvo purchasing that will eliminate the middleman and his exorbitant profits. In New South Wales and some of the other Australian states tho governments gov-ernments are passing bills to assist the working men in electing homes, The working men can borrow money from tho government at a modorato rate of lnterosi and pay it back In reasonable time like rent. In many German cities the prob lem of housing the working classes has been largely solved, and Dresden. Stra8burg, Nuremburg, Carlsruhe, Essen Es-sen and other towns already have garden settlements whore thousands of working families live happily and In comfort. In Dubuque, la., there has been a seven months' lockout, affecting nearly near-ly evory trade. Plumbers, carpenters, shoot metal workers have all started shops of their own to carry on the work which has been greatly affected by tho trouble between employers and employes in tho different trades. The officials of. tho Bradford, Eng., Woolcombers' union, which has a membership or 12,000, have resigned en bloc ns a result of dissatisfaction expressed by a body of tho members since a strlko some months ago, The officials are, howover. offering them-Behes them-Behes for re-election. During the past thirty years the Ci-garmakers Ci-garmakers International union has paid in benefits "the sum of $9,000,000. The smallest benefit paid was the strlko benefits, which totaled a little more than $1,000,000, the other 53,000 -000 being divided between sick, disa bility, death and out-of-work bene- "', 9 fits. . A The increase in idleness in the I transportation trades of New York j and in the allied metal trades as i big during tho first six months of the i present jear. nccordlng to the bulle- J tin Just Issued from the state labor department. In Tact, the increase in S: Idleness was greater than at any time . since the panic of 1907. X The effort of Canada to destroy a the labor movement by instilling na- 1 tional prejudice into the minds of tho : workers has failed. It is said the few t struggling locals associated under the ' title of the Canadian Federation of $ Labor are giadually dropping their f affiliation with the per capita tax f dodgers and lining up with the world- 4- wide trane organizations of tho -work- . Ing class. $ A prompt industrial victory has f been gained bv the Perth, Australia, , slaughtermen in a dispute with their employers. Under an award of tho ; arbitration court, which came Into op- . eratlon In June, 1910. wages were fi- ,; ed at ?17.50 n week, with work on ; B) Sundays and the weeklv holiday on Bh Saturdays. In accordance 1th a uh- , m Ion resolution the men determined to t- Uj Eivo a week's notice unless this win- ' W lmum payment were raised to .$20 a Wh week, with the abolition of Sundav K work, and the substitution of four nnd 'jib one-quarter hours' wbrk on Satur- Jf days After a cpnferonce and subse- 1M quent consideration, the employers ;1K agreod to this demand. A. J,, KISSING- jag J1 |