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Show LABOR MEWS Of ALL COUNTRIES Hiffhost Wages Paid in the Orient Range from 20 to 50 Cents a Day Men in Belgium Work 9 to 11 Hours a Day Women Dish- ' washers Being Displaced by Mod Japanese Eliminated ' from Fresno, Cal., Fruit Ranches by Member? of tho Union of Migratory Laborers. Ohio contains five free employment offices. Minneapolis, Minn, Bakers' union has decided to establish a co-operative bakery. North Carolina has no -provision for tho distinct protection of women in industry. On September 11, at Bellovlllo, 111 , International Brick, Tile and Terrd Cotta Workers' Alliance will convene. con-vene. During tho last two years the International In-ternational Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen has gained .,9,900 members. I Fewer women over 16 years of age I -me employed in tho Southern cotton mills than In the New England mills The highest Oriental wages aro paid In the Philippines, where tho ordinary or-dinary laborer gets from 20 cents to 50 cents a day. Organized labor In Atlanta, Gn has purchased a site and' will soon begin the erection of a $30,000 labor temple. tem-ple. All of the bakery proprietors In Bakersfleld, Cal , have signed an ngreement to conform to union hours and wages in tho future. A proposition to lntroduco a compulsory com-pulsory arbitration bill In the British House was ted down as impossible oi enforcement. Worklngmen's insurance in Germany Ger-many secures to workmen and women altogether benefit to tho valuo of about $475,000 a day. During tho past jear tho Boot and Shoe Workers' International Union has paid In sick, disability and death benefits bene-fits a total of $S9.297.23. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee all havo laws requiring employers to provide seats for female i employes In the metal Industries in Belgium I nearly half tho men work from nine to ten hours a day, and the majority of tho rest ten to eleven. In the United States tho average productIv!t of the workingman is $1,-1 100 por annum, while In England tho average productivity of tho working-man working-man is $556 por annum. Prospects are bright for an early settlement of the strike ot the furniture fur-niture workers of: Grand Rapids, Mkh., involving Bomc G.0Q0 wage-earners. wage-earners. The averago rate of wages throughout through-out the Chinese empire is prohably IS rnts a day. In Japan it is prob-nbly prob-nbly not more, and in India much less Becauso ot a new law prohibiting women from working longer than ten hours a day, women dishwashers aie gradually being displaced by men at Chicago hotels anTi restaurants. Tho City Council of Barren Vt., granted street and water department employes a forty-eight hour week, reducing- hours from fifty-Jour, without reduction in wages. The street car system of Germany is dibtingulshcd from that of any other country by the practice on the part of a large propoitlon of tho passengers pas-sengers of giving the conductor a tip. Preparations are being made to make demands for higher wages and a shorter workday pn behalf of 10,000 children's dressmakers employed In New York City.' Wages now average $8 per week. The proppsod conference between the contending factions of the International Inter-national Brotherhood of Electrical Worker? which' was to be held in Rochester, Roch-ester, N. Y., this month, will not take place. The American Brotherhood, an independent in-dependent organization of blacksmiths In New York city, has by a unanimous vote, decided to affiliate with tho International In-ternational Brotherhood of Blacksmiths Black-smiths and Helpers. The average rate of wages paid to skilled women sewing-machine operators oper-ators In the United States varies from $1.50 to $2 per daj Tho same class of labor In France. Gormany and Switzerland Swit-zerland receives from 30 cents to 50 cents per day. California Drug Clerks' Association will Issue a monthly journal, the object ob-ject of which will he to educate the registered pharmacists of the state In tho benefits of organization which, it 13 claimed, tend to maintain the dignity dig-nity of the profession. Of tho many interesting proposals brought forward by the American Fed- eratlon of Labor is one calling for the establishment of an International federation fed-eration of trade union organizations, to promote international action for securing improvements In tho condition condi-tion of tho workers. On tho average tho workman who receives $2.43 in tho building trades in tho United Stas-receives $1 abroad, that the man who receives $2 13 In tho engineering trade In the United States, receives $1 abroad; that tho man who receives 2.46 as a printer or compositor in the United Slates, receives bul $1 abroad. International Upholsterers' Union, because of the" excellent conditions seemed se-emed for Its membership, Is practically prac-tically a 100 per cent organization, and It Is almost Impossible to find a skilled mattress maker or upholsterer In the United States who Is a nonunion non-union man. The California State Federation of Labor has been advisod by the Tar-mors' Tar-mors' Union of Fresno that it will oraploy tho members of the recently organlzpd union ot migratory laborors I of that city In harvesting the fruit crop, thus eliminating the Japanese from the fruit ranches in tho vicinity of Fresno The building trades strike In Van-1 couver, B. C, which has been on since June 5, is now practically settled. It Is stated that although the settlement reached was not all that was desired, a great many of the organizations succeeded suc-ceeded In bettering their conditions and were agreeable to return to work under the now agreements. Labor Commissioner Dougherty, of Oklahoma, haa commenced action against firms shipping convict-made. good3 Into tho stato without being labeled as convict-made goods Tho manufacturers employing convicts are using every possible means to put their wares upon the market in a manner man-ner so that the Identity of convict manufacture may bo covered up. Tho membership of the International Interna-tional Brotherhood ot Painters, Decorators Dec-orators nnd Paperhangors Is 70,080, an inciease of 10,115 members during the past six months For the same period forty-flvo new locals were chartered by the International. During Dur-ing tho past month the International paid $12,975 In death and disability benefits. Almost half of the 90,000 employes of the Steel Trust receive loss than IS cents an hour; one-quarter, under 25 cents an hour and the other one-fourth, one-fourth, 25 cents and more an hour. A very few highly skilled employes however, receive $1.25 an hour. Those receiving 60 cents and moro an hour number less than one-twentieth. A resolution adopted by the Milwaukee Mil-waukee Common Council provided that a commltteo comprising flvo membors each from the Council, County Board, Merchants' and Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association and the Federated Feder-ated Trades Council, be appointed to study "the unemployed problem, submit sub-mit a plan to provide funds and a scientific method to dispense them to tho unemployed tho coming winter." win-ter." . The number of railway employes In the United Klngdomln 1906 was 467,-42, 467,-42, who received an averago weekly wage of 25 shillings 5 1-2 pence, or about $6 19, as compared with the $1 9S of average dally wagos paid to American railroad operatives prior to tho recent wage advances. The British Brit-ish employes demand among other things, two shillings more a week. Tho French demand, which was so-cured, so-cured, was for an Increase from a minimum of 60 conts a day to $1. |