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Show 1 1 i ALL COUNTRSES 1 hH i , . I 1 ' I 1 Coal Miners in Pennsylvania Average Less Than 200 Days' Work M - ' Annually Janitors Paid as Much as Teachers Strikers ML ( ' Win in London Wag-es Have Advanced in Switzer- ,V : ' ?$ " land Employers Must Report Accidents. ' i . - " I ! ! H . i iTho anthracite miners average less H l H than 200 days' work, annually. Hi i In Bavaria women work on the H 1 , railroads as section hands. H ' Drantfoid, Can,, will have labor H " candidates for Council In every ward. H In Finland, tho Liade union mem- 1 j bcrship of 1910 was 19,028. H ),- The predominant hours per day for HI i H factory workers In Germany aro 9 to 1 10-I 10-I In Portugal, the usual ago of he- H ginning wot-k is 12 years, !M v -The union farmcis of Tennessee M I ( aiQ going to demand union-made H I i goods. H f 'Toronto, Can, carpenters will de- mand 50 cents an hour, to become ef- I fdctlve next May. j -The profits of the union co-opera- 5 live bakery at San Jose, Cal are about $2,000 a month. ) ( Belfast, Ireland bakers hae now dweclded to strike unless an advance ! j of 50 cents a week is gi anted. ' .' -Tho average pay of Des Moines, la., school janitors Is $70 a month.The j average pay for 350 grade teachers is Hit $71 a month, M i 'A threatened strike of the street H ; ! car motormen and conductors An "Wl- H j ' I nona, Minn., has bcon averted. H ' ' 'Of 145 bakeries inspected in New H , j York recently all but ton weio declar- H ed so unsanitavv as to be a menace to M health. Hv ' The Pasadena, Cal., Labor Temple Hj association has taken the first stops, H for the erection of a labor temple to H ' cost $50,000, H Since 18C0 tho Amalgamated So- m ciet of Carpenters and Joiners has H I paid In benolltfi of various Kinds the H sum of $18,150,190. ' The butchers and moat cutters of M J- f J . Sacramento, Cal have organized Into a union with a large membership. It I- affiliated with the Federated Trades. The most important act of labor legislation of the year In Now York 15 that providing for an increase of State factory inspectors from fifty-two fifty-two to eighty-five. Textile -workeis at ragog, Que., went, on strike recently undor the sanction of the Canadian Federation of Textile Workers. The men demand de-mand a ton. per cent ineienso in wages, ' Tho big taxicab strike in London, J-ng has been settled and the men are back on their machines. The employers em-ployers have agreed to tholr terms pending a report by an arbitration commission, Tho dredgemen of tho San Francisco Fran-cisco bay counties at a recent meeting completed the preliminary organization organiza-tion of a. new union to be under the jurisdiction of the International Union of Dredgemen and Shovelmen, According to reports, tho Chauffeur's Chauf-feur's 'Union of Philadelphia, which is aftliated with the Teamsters' Union, will make an effort to have its charter char-ter changed, so as to make it an independent in-dependent union. The executive boqrd of tho White Goods Workers' Union, in Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, at its meeting recently decided to order a general strike for the purpose pur-pose of enforcing better conditions )n. -the trade In case the employers failed to grant the demands mado byp their employes. Tho Attorney General of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts has given an opinion against the system of grading practiced in many of tho textile mills of that state, in reality, it is claimed, -such system Is but another form of fining, and tho latter Is prohibited by the statute. The building trades In Switzerland have been unusually active, all classes of labor being well employed at remunerative wages. The cost of living has increased materially, but there has hoen llttlo complaint on tho part of the laboring classes for tho reason that wages have increased proportionately. The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce and Labor, at Washington, D. C aro having hav-ing prepared films for moving pictures pic-tures Illustrative of a number of leading lead-ing industries, for the education of all tho people of tho country. After a struggle that lasted for eight weeks tho Upholsterers' Union of Jamestown, N Y , has succeeded in reaching a satisfactory settlement of the strike. The employers hne agreed to abolish tho piecework system sys-tem and to employ nono but union men. Practically all of the neckwear manufacturers man-ufacturers of Brooklyn, N. Y have conceded the domand made by the Neckwear Makers' Union and signed agreements for one year. A, great number of contractors also have signed agreements and the trade 1b now practically at peace. United Textile Workers of Amorlca at their las.t convention took action to affiliate with the International Federation of Textile Workers' association. asso-ciation. The membership of the International In-ternational Federation is approximately approxi-mately 430,000, with headquarters in England. All manufacturing plants, with a few exceptions in the whole Laguna district of Mexico, including the cit-ios cit-ios of Torreon, Gomez, Balcio and Leredo, are affected by tho general stiike of laboreis More than 10,000 workmen of 'the different plants have v.alked out. Seventeen States make it mandatory manda-tory for employers to report all accidents acci-dents to an authorized State official, so that accurate vital records can be Teadily obtained for the further advice ad-vice and information of the people as to the needs of additional conservation conser-vation of life and limb. The first free employment office established es-tablished in America for unskilled, migratory' labor is that maintained In Fresno, Cal., under the supervision of the American Federation of Labor pd the California State Federation of Labor, The olflco was established with a a lew to replacing throughout t.e San Joaquin valley tne Japanese with white labor Secretary of the Navy Meyer will recommend legislation increasing the pay of omploves of the navy department depart-ment and establishing a retirement system for civil sorvlep employes in his annual roport to be published" shortly. Mr, Meyer believes that tho clerical employes of the navy aro paid less than persons employed In sipiilar work In private life. The Minnesota free employment bureau bu-reau in St. Paul broke all records for tho month of October, In both tho woman's and men's departments, showing a big increase over 1910, in St. Paul anl Minneapolis combined employment was found for 3,540 men and 1.C91 women. The employment offJceat Duluthfound cmployment-for 1,40 That tho various gas companies in Brooklyn arc beginning to fear the Gas Workers' union becamo evident, recently when the meter repairers' 2Sj23r were notifiod that thej would hereafter here-after get a week's acation and that tholr working hours would be reduced from ton to eight and a half The wages of the men remain the same It has been ordered that the working work-ing hours In factories In Servla shall bo from 7 a. m. to noon, and from 1 to G p m. during the period beginning begin-ning October 1 and ending April 1 and 6 am. to.-noon and 1 to 5 p m during tho rest of the year At night tho hours shall be from 7 to 12 and from 1 to 5. Employes aro not to be kept at work on Sundays or holidays One hundred and fifty thousand coal miners In eastern Pennsylvania will strike on April 1, 1912, unless they are given a wage Increase of 20 per cent, according to Piesldent John P. White of the United Mine Workers, Work-ers, Increased cost of living and nine years without and increase in wages is given as the reason by the mine workers' president A national stri.ko In the British coal trade was temporal lly averted recently re-cently when the delegates of tho miners, who havo been In session in London, voted against a ballot of tho men as to whether a strike should be called Such a ballot undoubtedly v r have resulted in favor of the cessation of work at the mines throughout tho country Negotiations with the mine owners will bo reopened reopen-ed with a prospect of a compromise being reached. Railway systems, with a mileage aggregating 47,500, have increased the wages of employes during the past year 4 S7 per cent over 1910 Tho total to-tal amount of this increase means that there will have been put Into the pockets of the employes at the close of 1911 the sum of $14,630,000 more thnn was recehed for the same service serv-ice in 1910. This result is due to the effective organizations of labor being be-ing maintained and strengthened each year by tho employes of the great transportation lines of the country The organizing committee of the San Francisco, Cal., Labor Council was Incoherence recently with representatives rep-resentatives of the figgors and stevedores, steve-dores, Lumber Clorks associations, 'Longshore Lumbermen's Protective Union and tho Lumber Clerks' association associ-ation of Oakland for; the purpose of discussing the possibility of amalgamating amalga-mating the soveial organizations as one urilon It was finallj decided to refer tho subject to the various unions un-ions affected for a leforendum vote, the result to be forwarded to the organizing or-ganizing committee not later than December De-cember 15 Unless tho wrapper, kimono and house dress manufacturer" -rant the demands of their G 009 employes, New York will soo suffer from a kimono famine. The workers claim that their wages have gono down and down and that it Is impossible for them to earn a living wage, and say they will strike for better conditions. The demands aie for p fifty-hour work week, an Increase In-crease in wages from 10 to 20 per cent, sanitary conditions and safer work rooms The wages In the trade range from $2 50 ,to $0 per week, only a small percentage receiving $G In Germany every person under 21 years of ago must have a "labor book" which is h-jld by the employer during dur-ing employment, and must be shown hv an applicant when Peeking voik. When oer 21 all wage workers, except ex-cept a rompaiatively small number of the higher paid, carry Insurance cards, there being at present about IS, 000,-000 000,-000 persons Insured The card of each individual Fhowg i iccord of his occupation, oc-cupation, wages, health, Insurance payments a'l other economic circumstances circum-stances This card he must produce when he takes a new job. applies at a labor e.chanr for work, asks his union for ot-of-worl: payment or seeks a Jodninc In one of the municipal munici-pal or union shelters A. J EISSING. oo |