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Show ft LABOR NEWS OF I j ALL COUNTRIES I 1 Ten States Have Laws Providing Compensation 'For Men Injured I Whilo at Work Many .Street Oar Men in San Francisco Join 4 International Union Los Angeles Strike Declared Off. .a i tjjjgi Tailors at Phoenix. Ariz., havo ) formed a union. . . fWi ' Plasterers at Toronto, Cnnada, nave Sg!l ' a union hiembcrshlp of G50. I I Boilermakers In the steel Industry rf of China earn $S to $10 a month, ft Uruguay will have an International i Industrial exposition at Montevideo t next summer. ' The unfon rale of wages Tor car- ponters In Toronto, Canada, Is S7 ' cents an hour. "t Ten stntes last year passed laws ;1 providing compensation for men ln- 'j Jured while at work. i The Free Federation of Labor In Porto Jtlco represents a membership j of 1-1,000. The Canadian Pacific railway is I said to bo making an effort to destroy 'j the ' fc'rolght Handlers' union 'of Wm- nlpeg. -( The income of the American Fedor- u atlon of Labor- from all sources dur ing the last quarter of 1911 was $12,-- $12,-- 634,90. A healthy organization among thq laundry workers of Los Angeles, San Pedro "abu" Pasadena, 'Cal., has been! '' .perfected. - r ' After several months the Iron mold-' ; era of "Waterloo, Iowa, have reached ' a satisfactory agreement and the strike has been called off. The sailors' union or the Pacific has decided, by referendum vote, to establish a branch of the union at Wi ; A petition has been presented -o a I the president of the United Stntes .wig. asking that a federal commission on liJJ Industrial relations be appointed 5I2 The establishment of a civic super-H super-H (' annuntlon fond for employes of Lon-H Lon-H ! don. Canada, and of the water com-J com-J ' mission will be taken up Immediately. fira : A strike Is threatened in the pot-jTjjj pot-jTjjj tery trnde of Great Britain and if In-Art In-Art nugurated will affect nearly 4,000 op--JQ ' eratlves. Increases In wnges are de-rSS de-rSS mandod liSJL Efforts aro being made to induce jwal a the International Bricklayers, Masons tjjy C and Plasterers' union of America to rjjT afllllate with the American Federa- !& tlon of Labor. Ijfijl : More than 700 motormen and con- jjfjj ductors in San Francisco, Cal hove ,tH Joined the International Street and Uli? ?-..--.. ... i.i ...1.1.1- H the past six months. H Tho total funds of tho Boot and H i Shoe Operatives' Union of Great Brlt- H nln now amount to $GG9,000, which Is ', a gain In the past half year of $23.- pStJV , 000. The membership of the union is b3 32.92S. M The average wage received by Wj ' bricklayers In England Is $9.72 per in woek for 52 1-2 hours Tho brlck- jj layers In Gormany receive $7.50 per ljjj week and aro required to work 59 sum . hours. Si Formed at the time of the great J5 labor upheaval in London, the Na- jjj! tlonal Society of Window Cleaners Is rgj now over four months old and pos- tj sessos about 1,000 members. ri2j After being on strike for two 'JiiJ months for an advance of fifty conts jj a welt the Sheet Metal Workers In -o!m tho A3hton-under-Lyne district havo -55? reached an agreement and rctumotl f . to work. There aro 125,000 women and girls & In Chicago who work in factory or ; shop. The 10,000 who belong to the Woman's Trado Union League aro planning n campaign to unionize the remaining 115,000. Tho number of volunteer organizers organiz-ers commissioned by tho American Federation of Labor In 1911 was 1,594. Thoro are now 1.C47 volunteer organizers commissioned by the Federation. Fed-eration. A new wage seal has been adopted by the Wago Committees representing represent-ing Hand-operated window-glass factories fac-tories and the National Window Glass Workers, providing for nn advance of about 40 per cent for skilled labor. One hundred and forty warrants and summonses were issued in one day recently for individuals and corporations cor-porations in New York city who aro charged with employing children under un-der 1C years of ago from 1 1-2 to 14 hours a day. Tho International Association Of Machinists has announced tho result of tho referendum vote on tho selection selec-tion of a place for pcrmanont headquarters head-quarters for tho international body. The vote stood 3.S80 for Indianapolis and 9,907 for St.. Louis, 'Builders' Laborers at Toronto, Can., wilL make an effort to obtain an Increase In-crease in wages. Tho present rato of wages Is 28 cents an hour and they desire an increase of fivo cents an hour. The men claim it is impossible to live on the present rate of wages. According to tho last quarterly KfnfpmPnt fnr tho vp.ir 1911 tlir ntr- gregate membership of the organizations organiza-tions that were affiliated with the American Federation of Labor during tile last month of tho quarter was 1,831,587, an increase of 115,038 over tho corresponding month of 1911. Tho Bureau ot industries and Immigration Im-migration of tho Now York State Department De-partment of Labor has recommended that free employment bureaus bo established es-tablished In the various industrial centers in tho State for tho distribution distribu-tion of unskilled workers from congested con-gested centers. It Is reported from Los Angeles, Cal., that the plumbers of that city, have been successful in materially changing conditions during tho recent re-cent past. As a result of the activities activi-ties of the members a groat many employers have executed agreements Mlllnf fnr- fho nnlnn Rhnh. nnH nnt a shop has boon lost to tho union. A new agreement, providing for a sllghgt Increase in wages for eloctrl- cal workers In California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and Idaho, has been negotiated by the Pacific Pa-cific District Council of Electrical Workers. Tho new agreement dates from January 1, 1912. and will hold good for one year. Following the revelations ot the committees that Investigated condi- t tlops among laundry workers In New I York City, a bill shortening tho hours of work for women has been Intro- I duced In the assembly. Women shall not be permitted to work after 9 o'clook at night nor before C o'clock In the morning. The membership of the unions affiliated af-filiated with the American Federation of Labor In January, 1911, as per capita tax paid, was 1,091,534. Incomplete Incom-plete reports for January, 1912, give n membership of 1,827,584, ranking an inci eased membership In January, 1912, over January, 1911, of 130,01 1 WBKKBsnin m i i i The Pacific Maritime Builders' Federation Fed-eration has domanded that the Master Shipwrights' association Immediately withdraw their open shop ultimatum, and hns served nptlce upon tho association asso-ciation that in the event' of fnlluro to comply with this demand $e uulon will deal directly with individual shipowners. ship-owners. -s , An aKrecmcnt'was recentlyftrcaoHed between officials of the molders, rau chlnlsts, bollcrmakers, blacksmiths' and patternmakeifi' unions of Los Angeles, Cal., and ofllcors of the Founders' and Employers' association, associa-tion, declaring tho metar trades strike against (he contract' metdl trades' shops of Los Angeles and vicinity officially of-ficially off. i tin.- uiniuii oluiuu tiiaiiut. uiuutr 111 not caring for those who have given their lives to the public service In that It has no penelon plan for Its civil employes. Belgium. Holland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey. Tur-key. Egypt, British India and Japan all have pension lawB in operation which protect the employes after a stipulated torra of service. The cork industry In Toulon, Franco, pays a wage that is infinltesl-raally infinltesl-raally small. Girls engaged In counting count-ing and sorting earn as little as 15 cents a daj, while those working the hand-operated knives received 30 to 40 conts a day. The wages of most-of most-of tho higher paid employes do not exceed 75 to SO cents a day. Demands for hlghor wages and shoitor working hours have been made upon many textile manufacturers manufactur-ers in Philadelphia by tho Upholstery Workers" union, which has 3,000 members mem-bers at work in a score of big mills. Upholstery weavers arc now getting 24 cents an hour and they want 28 cents. They work 57 hours a weok, but thev want their hours cut down to 54. Reports from Denver, Colo., are to the effect that the strike In the northern north-ern lignite coal fields has been brought to a close. This strike has been in progress over two years. Tho settlement, it Is stated, was reached by a very slight compromise on the part of tlie coal miners, and tho miners min-ers really gained substantially what they were contending for . Tho lower Slleslan coal mine owners own-ers In compliance with the demand ' of all organized minors in the district hao decided to Increase wages to tho 1908 scale, the highest ever paid. Tho increase becomes effective April 1. The demand of the men was for a 15 per cent increase, and the employers' employ-ers' action meets the demand part way, with the result that the men probably will continue work. The recent cotton factory lockout In England caused an expenditure by the unions of $200,000, this sum being asido from tho monov spent by district dis-trict associations. The reserve funds of some of these district associations hni'o Kann rlnnlntArl onri tlinrn c linflm- discussion at this time the advisability advisabil-ity of levying assessments to carry the reservo fund back to tho point whore It was beforo the lockout Tho Grand Trunk Railway Company Com-pany has served notice on the conductors, con-ductors, brakemen and baggagemen on branch lines of the system that tho rates of pay which becamo cffoctlvo January 1st of this year, in accordance accord-ance with the report of the conciliation concilia-tion board, which endeaored to avert tho strike of two years ago, are to br reduced to the former level. This will probably mean another strike of tho trainmen The lockout which took place in the Wexford (Ireland! foundries on August 26 la3t, still remains unsettled and 700 men and their families are still standing firm. Tho cause of tho lockout was the joining of the Irish Transport Union of seventeen of the men. Prior to the strike tho skilled men in tho foundries were receiving $2.75 to $3 75 a week, but tho strikebreakers strike-breakers which havo been employed since, In an effort to break tho strike, v aro being paiu $7.50 to 56.75 a weeK. Tho Hritisn National Federation or Builders, the employers, association Is making n" effort to combine all local associations or builders, with the end In w ,(Jf ordering a general .lockout In the event ofuniqnlsts causing caus-ing a stoppage of work by refusing towork with npn-unlonlsts. Tho union un-ion men in tho building trades, how-over, how-over, a'nnounco "that they will continue con-tinue their efforts to not only maintain main-tain tho union shop, but to Increase Its scope. A victory has been won by the British shipbuilders trades in tho discharge dis-charge noto controversy. Discharge notos In shipyards' aro equivalent to What is called a "character" or "reference" "ref-erence" in other classes of trado and provide the shipowners with nn ap-portunlty ap-portunlty to follow men from shipyard to shipyard. At a conference between representatives of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation and representatives represen-tatives of the organization invoked, hold in Edlnburg, it was agreed that the present system bo nbollshed, with a further provision that the representatives represen-tatives of both sides are to meet and work out a system that will be equitable equit-able to both employers and workmen. A. J. EISSING. |