OCR Text |
Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Street Car Conductors Who Make 36 Cents a Day Drug Clerks in Milwaukee Want Sunday Closing Long- Hours of Labor in Austria Many Foundrynien Die of Consumption . Working- Mothers Insured by Govornment in Italy, Turkey muy pass a child labor law. There uro over o.ouo tuxlcub chauffeurs chauf-feurs in London. Fishing suppoits 200.000 union building mborois In Chicago. Snoot car conductors In Sequl, Japan, Ja-pan, make thliiy-ilve cents a day. Sixty per com of tho laborers In KanfcQB mines are Europeans. Chicago Electrical Workers' Union has a building fund of $125,000. Forty-two stales havo set maximum maxi-mum hours for a working week for children. A branch of the National Consumers' Consum-ers' league has been lormed In Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. London, Eng., trolley men have been urging an increase In wages and a better system of working. An effort is being made to form an IrlBh federation of labor to bring all tho trades In Ireland In cloBer relations. re-lations. Shorter hours and Sunday closing are reforms for which Mllwaukeo drug clerks will soon campaign. Organized labor in Clevelaud, O.i has won its contention to obtain for all citizens the use of public school buildings. j Retail Clerks' Union in Wheollng, ' W. Va., recently organized, has reduced re-duced the working hours of its mom- i bors three per week. General Organizer Onlvin Wyatt, of ' tho American Federation of Jjibor, has organized a union of New York gas workers 2,000 strong. I A convention of the International Seamen's Union will be held In Baltimore, Bal-timore, Md., commencing December 4. I Tho new Bcalo of tho San Francis- co Brlcklayors' union, which Is to remain re-main In force until AugUBt 1, 1915, fixes the pay at 87 1-2 cents an hour and eight hours a day for flvo days, with four hours on Saturdays. Railway systomB, with a mileage aggregating 47,500, have Increased the wages of employes during tho past year 4 87 per cent over 1910. Thero Is such a demand on tho part I of the public In Bakersflold, Cal.. for the labor Journal of that city that It Is sold on tho stroets by the news-1 boya the same as the dally papers. A colliery proprietor recently placed-at the disposal of tho English Homo Secretary 55,000 to be offered as a prize for the newest and beBt designs for a safety lamp. In Austria, tho legal maximum of labor is eleven hours a day, but it Is exceeded under permit by a largo number of working people, particular- i ly In tho textile trados. I Tho United States Is the only I groat industrial country that has not taken up the problem of unemploy- i mont and endeavored to' mitigate its deplorable effects. The present rate of mortality of the ( brass foundryman Is two and one- j half times that of tho farmer. Respiratory Respir-atory diseases, particularly consumption, consump-tion, account for the difference. The social service commission of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America has Inaugurated a nation-wide campaign for one-day-In-seven for all Industrial workers. . Tho Ohio State Federation of La- , bor, In convention at Cleveland, decided de-cided to make a fight to havo a clause Incorporated in the state constitution con-stitution providing votes for women. Thirty-seven states have enacted some form of an employers' liability law, very few of which have been Interpreted favorably for the work-ers work-ers by the courts. Italy Ib ahead of all other coun- tries in that It insures tho working mothers who are about to give birth and they arc paid a certain Bum dur- J tho time they are confined. Tho greatest gains of Individual unions last year are set down to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Carpen-ters with an incroaso of 26,400 and the Ladles' Garment Workers of 1C,-500. 1C,-500. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has sustained the constitutionality of tho Workmen's Compensation Law, enacted at the last session of tho legislature. The average number of wage earners earn-ers employed In tho boot and shoe In dustry during tho year was 198,297 In 1907 and 1G0.294 In 1901; an Increase In-crease of 38,003 or 24 per cent; their wages Increased from $73,072,000 to 98,463,000 or 35 per cent, ' Urgent neod for uniform state laws for safety devices In all factory buildings was urged upon the Legislative Legis-lative Factory Investigating Committee Commit-tee recently by Louis B, Schram. President of the New York Civic Federation. Fed-eration. At a conference of BritlRh miners, a resolution for an Immediate ballot bal-lot n favor of national stoppage work was voted down by 128.000 majority. ma-jority. An alternative resolution was adopted In favor of the postponement of such a ballot until after December Decem-ber 6. The largest electric sign In the, entire Wost Is to be put In nlnce at tho Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs next spring, at a rnst f 51,600. Tho sign will bo 50 feet . high and 140 feet wire, and will bf Installed on top of the water tank. ' "Employes of the Leeds, England, corporation are agitating for higher wages and shorter hours, and at Borne meetings it was decided to demand a definite roply from tho corporation. corpora-tion. If unsatisfactory In all probability prob-ability a strike will ho declarod. Serious trouble 1b browing among the laco workers at Nottingham, Eng Recently the trade board fixed a minimum min-imum rate for lace workers and now It Is btated thot a number of the workers are being asked to "contract out" for six months and receive less than the minimum 5 cents per hour. The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has appointed a committee to select a suitable site near Cleveland for a large brotherhood farm, who;" tho unemployed and tho aged members mem-bers of the brotherhood may have a home and at the same time earn their living by farm work. I Compulsory arbitration In New i Zealand is rapidly becoming unpop- , ular, and practically all of tho labor unions hnvo lost confidence In tho i arbitration law. , 1 A committee was appointed by the United Tailors' Council of tho United States and Canada, In recent convention con-vention in New York, to confer with , tho United Garment Workers of America In reference to a national strike of all garment workers uext year. Almost a quarter of the mombor-ship mombor-ship of labor unions in Now York wore idle during the first six months of the present year, according to the last quarterly bulletins of tho State Department of Labor. A widespread Investigation, It Is belloved, will result from the wholesale whole-sale charges made by Commissioner of Accounts Fosdlck, to tho Logls k latlve Committee on Factory Conditions, Con-ditions, that most of the bakeries of New York are so unsanitary as to constitute a serious menace to tho public health. Tho New York city school teachers' teach-ers' equal pay bill has been signed by Governor Dlx. This bill was enacted, backed by tho labor organizations, orga-nizations, and provides that In tho schedules of salaries hereafter adopted adopt-ed there shall oxlBt no discrimination by reason of sex. A6 an auxiliary to an Irrigation project, the Department of the Interior In-terior has gono Into the coal business. bus-iness. At Wllllston, N. D.. tho government, gov-ernment, owns and operates a coal mine. It jiays the miners good wages, operates a model mine, use? all modern Bafety appliances and produces pro-duces fuel at a cost of $1 60 a ton. In one year 526 men were killed by accidents of employment In Allegheny Alle-gheny county, Pa alono, 195 steel workers, 125 railroaders, 71 miners and 135 miscellaneous workers. Of these nearly half .were American born, 70 per cent wore workmen of skill nnd training and SO per cent woro under 40 years of ago. Tho CongreSElonal Employers Liability Lia-bility and Workmen's Compensation Commission has practically decided to recommend tho enactment of n law providing for tho Insurance of employes of lntcratato railroads against Injury by accident, by requiring re-quiring tho roads to make payments for any Injury Inflicted Window glass workers have agreed to accept an 18 per cent reduction In wages. In all 5,000 men In Ohio, KanBas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Weat Virginia and Texas are affected. affect-ed. The new contract holds until May 1, 1912. Employers aBked that the workers accept a 37 per cent reduction in all salaries. The workers' work-ers' committee held out for a 10 per cont reduction and an 18 per cent reduction was finally agreed upon Owing to tho fact that the Austrian State Railways through the minister of railways, refused to recognize tho rnllway men's organization, or negotiate ne-gotiate with Its officers the feeling has become acute and there Is groat danger of a general strike. Tho various var-ious organizations on theBO railways havo formed a condition similar to tho American Systom Federation and attempted to present their grievances to the mlnlstor of railways Tho German Reichstag has read, for the flrBt time, and sent to a special committee the new bill providing pro-viding for the compulsory Insurance of employes. The purpose of tho bill Is to extend without stato aid tho advantages of compulsory Insurance ajalnBt Invalidity and old age to practically prac-tically all categories of employed persons per-sons who are not subject to tho provisions pro-visions of the workmen's Insurance scheme, and whose Incomes do not exceed 51,000 a year. It is calculated calculat-ed that tho now law will affect over 2.000,000 employes Tho Italian government has provided pro-vided what Is called tho National Provident Fund, providing pensions for old age and disability in which every workman can enroll by tho payment of a stipulated amount, according ac-cording to ago. occupation and date of retirement. Tho amount paid Is loss than the nctual valuo of the pensions pen-sions tho deficiency being made up by the government. In case of the death of tho ponslonor, the widow ro-celvcs ro-celvcs one-third of this nmount for life, and tho children until the ago of 21. A J. EISSING. oo |