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Show 3 vjfl - Ij LABOR NEWS Of I j. ALL COUNTRIES I Many-Railroad Employes in England Vork For Less Than 5 a Hi r Week Farm Laborers in Argentina Are Well Paid Poli- H t tical' Officeholders Excluded From Labor Unions I Wages Are Higher in Italy. If Denmark has 132,000 unionists. H m The French government employs HI 120,000 women. 1 1 Agriculture" supports 250;000,000 HI persons In India. Kingston, Can., police aut their Ipav raised from $50 to $G0 a month. The Barbers' association of Quebec asks the legislature to provide that all baruerB he liconsed. Hamilton, Ont., bricklayers is ant to increase the scale of wages to 60 cents nn hour. There are 100.000 railway employes in England working for less than '$4.87 per week. Union cigarmakers of Albion, Mich., have gained a shorter workday. Farm laborers In Argentina ro-' ro-' coive ?2 in gold a day and their board IdurJng the busy season. I The United States Hebrew Trades of New York City is actively engaged dcvlGlng means for the bringing about of safer shops. The Consumers' Leaguo of Baltimore Balti-more has instituted a vigorous campaign cam-paign in favor of a "ten-hour work-jug work-jug law for women." Persons who hold political offices. either clectivei or appointive, will be excluded from 'the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly. , tween representatives of the Latin branch of tho Bakers' Union and their employers, the six-day week was conceded, con-ceded, t Massachusetts forbids tho employ- meat of women in textile mills be tween 6 p. m and G a. m. and in other manufacturing after 10 p m Wages of factory employes and of common laborers, including domestic servants, are today 75 pc ent higher nt Leghorn, Italy, than in the spring of 1009. There arc about 1SO.000 members of the four railway men's unions in ! England and there is a movement on foot to unite these organizations. Eighty-two fatal and one hundred f and ninety-four non-fatal accidents to & work people were recorded by the Ca ff1- nadian department of Labor during December. The West Virginia State Fcdera-! Fcdera-! tlon of Labor is preparing to make a determined fight for labor legislation i before the noxt session of the legisla ture. With tho object of securing legislation legisla-tion in favor of labor, tho representatives represent-atives of 7,000 union men met at Phncnix, Ariz,., and formed a State I Federation. II The death rate among miners in Colorado 16 twenty times as high as in PriiKSiau mines. The American death rate among miners is much larger than the average abroad. A. permanent, commission lias ucuii ' formed in Mexico to sottfe industrial deputes and prevent strikes, the coin- ; mission to work In conjunction with a government labor bureau. Carus, Porto Jtico, unions affiliated I with tho American Federation of Labor have, launched a movement lor tho 'oVeclion - of n labor temple. William E. Terry, general organizer organiz-er of the A. F. of L. has succeeded in organizing the first union of white laundrj workers in the South, the ft simo being recently established in Atlanta, Go. The laborers' pension act which j. Boston, Mass., will put into operation March 1, 1912, is the first instance of , a municipality In America prold!ng retirement with half pay to its laborers. labor-ers. As the result of law suits, involving the famous Socialist leader, Pablo I Iglesias, and other labor men, the k Spanish courts have ordered the dis- H) solution of 100 trade unions. f The total number of worklngmon's houses already constructed near the city of Havana amounts to 395. These are sold to the working men on small. 1 nnnual payments. for au Increase for job printers from $19 50 to $21 a week For linotype machines the pay is increased from $'2?, to $24 50 a week for day work and from 25 to $27.50 a week for night work The strike record of the Canadian Tabor Department shows that there -wore only eight trade disputes in ex- ietence during December, being six less fhan in November, and two less than in December, 1910. The troubles over wages which I have been holding back the granite Industry in Georgia since May have been settled, and a four-year contract signed at a compromise price Tho workmen had been drawing $3 20 per I dat and asked for $3.50. "j At a conference at Mexico City of representatives of the textile mill I ownerB of tho whole country an agree- ? ment was made with the strikers, . I granting 10 per cent wage increases, i jj Voluntary pension distribution of !F the Southern Pacific company will reach the million-dollar mark before 1 ' April, according to an announcement i ( K made by r. G. Athcarn, manager of the jH company's bureau of economics. IH Evon in tho luxurious stores and B model factories of X'ew York girls re- B celvo from $4 to ?G a week, when a B conservative estimate shows that the B smallest weekly wage a girl can live B less than ?S a week. H Representatives of the British Labor H Party adopted a resolution at their Hft national convention advising trade BB unions to defy the law, which prevents H organized labor fiom contributing H , funds for the campaign expenses of M candidates for scats in tho House of B Commons. B The president of the International B Ladles' Garment Workers union re- H ports to the membership that thirty B new local unions were formed during Bf the year 1911 in the United States Bl and Canada, and that the membership B is fast approaching the 100,000 mark. B The strike of the lake seamen flre- B men and cooks has been in force since Bt May 1, 1909. The chief hope of the Bi eeamen is the Splght-Wiloon bill, E, "which would make It unlawful for a B. Btcamshlp company to employ a crew Ht of which less than 75 per cent were JEt exnerlenced and competent men. Jm The New York Theatrical Stage H. Employes have decided that they are UBA. entitled, to 02 1-2 cents per hour. The CSAj new regulation also limits tho regular fiHP working hours of a day, and after B that period has passed tho stagehand K will receive double wage, or In most H' v cases $1.25 an hour. Li The British' Parllmentary Labor w , i Party represents 2,500,000 trade mi-I mi-I lonists, and has forty-two members in the House of Commons, and now proposes to wage u vigorous campaign cam-paign to secure a larger representation. representa-tion. Funds will be raised to finance a daily paper. Brlcklnyers', Masons' and Plasterers' Plaster-ers' International union has adopted a flat rate of 35 cents a month per capita cap-ita tax. Hereafter 70 per cent of the fundB will be for mortuary benefits, 20 per cent for the general fund, and 10 per cent for the defense fund. A committee will draft a plan for a pension pen-sion system, which will be submitted to the locals, Representatives of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America' and the Amalgamated I Woodworkers' International Union have come to an agreement which, it Is believed, will bring Into tfic brotherhood brother-hood tho entire membership of the . association. Tho two organizations have been nt war for many years, and in cities where locals of both existed ex-isted the fight has been a bitter and costly one to both. Following the signal victory for working men in the supreme court's endorsement of tho federal employes' employ-es' liability act. It Is announced that a nfTV ntuie llnhHIt v.lnonranna hill h?2 been prepared for introduction at Albany, Al-bany, following the lines of the Ohio act. It assesses 10 por cent of the cost of Insurance Upon the workman, 90 per cent upon tho employer and makes acceptance of insurance voluntary, volun-tary, while loading its rejection with the full rigor of present disadvantages under the, law. The state is to administer ad-minister the fund6. A somewhat amusing but instructive instruc-tive method of drawing their employes' employ-es' attention to the effect of small wastes has been adopted by the Pero Marquette railway. A table has been drawn up by the company showing that for every postage stamp needlessly need-lessly used the railway has to haul one ton of freight a distance of 3 1-2 miles to recoup for this waste For a lead pencil the haul is 2 miles, a track spike, 2 miles, 2 pound waste, 10 1-2 miles; a lamp chimney, 10 1-2 miles; a station broom, 35 miles, a lantern, 100 miles; track shovel, 90 miles, 100 pounds of coal, 20 miles; 1 gallon engine oil, 50 miles, 1 gallon signal oil, GO miles, air hose, 225 miles; drawbar knuckle, 800 miles The Italian law on Industrial accident acci-dent Insurance is based upon the general gen-eral principle that the consumer should pay for the cost of production ns affected by accidents to the workmen. work-men. The cost is first to be borne by the contractor or manufacturer and then charged against the consumer in me price oi lue niuiiuiuuiureu aiuviu. The Italian law might properly be termed a law to prevent accidents, rather than compensation for accidents, acci-dents, as every safeguard is taken to prevent casualties. The employors have asked for certain changes, however, how-ever, ns the compensation act, which was avowedly drawn in (lie interest of the worklngmen. contains provisions provi-sions which are held to foster carelessness care-lessness on tho part of the workors. Compensation in case of death is based on a sum equal to five annuities annui-ties of the annual wages In case of absolute disability, the compensation ib based upon six annuities of the wages with a minimum equivalent to $579 For temporary or permauent partial disability the Indemnity is computed In proportion to the degree of partial disability as compared with absolute disability The government does not contribute to tho payment of any part of the premium for accident insurance, except to regulate the cost to a reasonable amount, and to make it compulsory and unform to all, in proportion to the link covered A. J. KISSING. |
