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Show I LABORNEWSOF I ALL COUNTRIES 1 1 Trainmen Made Great Gains in Wages in the Year 1910-Mmiimim J wiL Fixed For Women Workers in New South Wales- ) WagMaSta Prepare For a General Strike to Enforce i, EigfatJiour Day-Increase in Unionism in Los A Angeles Chinese Making Matches. Socrates was a stone mason. H ' X Teamsters' Unioa has been orga- nl?cd In Fresno, Cal. H In Riga, Russia, there Is a general Btriko of all the building trades. M Of 237 Industrial accldonts In Can- ada in August 104 resulted fatally. M The beat mill workers In Osaka, Ml Japan, average 22 cents a day. HI', lt is estimated In England that one 1 woman in six earns her own living H (North Dakota labor unions have decided to organize a State Fedora-P Hi tlon of Labor. Hh Suspender Workers of ew oric l have recently gained an advance- In Mt wages of ?2 per week. H strlko of sea-going engineers 1 commenced recently in Copenhagen. Hr Denmark. H There were fourteen trade disputes H roportod In progress iu Canada during H August M' It Is said that union men spend in the United States $1,500,000,000 ' annually for the necessaries of life. M The increase In wages of the traln-Hl traln-Hl men in the United States in the year H 1910 amounted to $37,000,000, 1 The miners' strikes fn Central Ger- h inanv and Silesia have been settled 1 ' -with" small concessions to the men i Six States California, Connccti- j cut, Wisconsin. Illinois, Michigan and j Xew York requre physicians to re-fl re-fl . j)ort cases of Industrial disease. 1 In the mines of Australia the prc- H dominant hours of labor are S to 9 H and in factories 9 to 10 and 10 to 11. H The Stationary Firemen's Union at H' oBston. Mass., "has secured for IL3 H members an Increase In wages of 45 H cents a day. j It Is said that an attempt is being r made by the manufacturers to wipe H out of existence the International La- H dies' Garment Workers' Union. H, The Government of New South H' Wales has fixed the minimum wage ; for all female work rn Government H' employment at $550 a year. ; The Bricklayers' Masons' and IMas- fl 1 tercrs' International Union of Amorl- fl ca during August paid in death claims ' a total of $P,700. M The ga.1i In the American Fodcra- H l tlon of Labor since the convention of H last November has been 156.S9S mem- H bers of various trade unions. M i The average per diem earnings of H mnion labor employed in Now "iork M during the first quarter of 1911 were M' $3.2G, as against ?3.18 last year, and were the highest on record. H' At a meeting of the San Francisco, H Cal , Steamflttcrs' Union held recont- H' lv It was decided to start a campaign H for the purposo of organizing the H helpers and improvors into a guild. H During 1910, the unions In Switz- Hk erland obtained a total reduction of 907,192 hours per annum for 7,395 Hj workers, and Increased pay of ?345,- Hl 000 per annum for 3 0,748 workers. 1 , Tho California Shipwrights' and HI Caulkers' association will demand a 1 wago of o per day for all members of tho union, an Increase of $1 per day for a goodly perceplage of tho membership. Out of 59,254 vacancies that were filed through 217 Iigllsh labor ox-changes ox-changes last June, 33,070 wero for men, 14,302 for women, 7,257 wcio for boys and 3.9C5 were for girls. The International Brotherhood of Painters, Pnperhangers and Decorators Decora-tors during the first six months of the present year paid In death and disability benefits the sum of $5C-S25. i Carpentors at Prince Albert, Sask., Bj have succeeded In reducing their I 'hours of labor from ten to nine a , day. They albo secured an Increase in wages of five cents an hour. For the first time in more than !two years, all the building tiudcs un-, un-, ions of Denver, Colo, arc united In ouo central body, known as tho Associated Assoc-iated Building TradeB Council of Den- I ver and Vicinity. N j , The members of the British Steel 1 I Smelters' Union have voted largely I 'I in faor of a move for the eight-hour I j j day, and tho officials of the union hav0 asked foV a conference with the employers to discuss tho demand. The organizing committee of the San Francisco. Cal.. Labor Council is working to organizo a union of those who work on the alteration of clothing cloth-ing for men and women. Thero Is a prospect of forming a strong association associa-tion The cook, waitresses and waltbr3 of Minneapolis, Minn., and Chicago, 111., aro conducting a vigorous cum-aign cum-aign in bohalf of a ten-hour day and six-day week. They will carry the fight into the States' Legislatures, if necessary, to win. Grand Trunk telegraphers arc seeking an increase in wages The Grand Trunk minimum monthly wage is S50 for seven days a week, wh'.lo the Canadian Pacific and all other Canadian roads have a minimum of $53 for a six-day week. Borlln. Germany, tramway men have obtained a small increase in wnges, rangiug" from $1-25 to S2.50 per month, according to length of service ser-vice The maximum rate is 35 a month, which, is paid to men having eighteen years service. Labor leaders in Washington, D. C, are organizing against tho Installation Installa-tion of the- Taylor piece-work system or any part of It In the Government manufacturing service. It Is reported that they aie making great headway in opposition to the proposed change. Tho number of bakery workers throughout the United Slates is ap-proximatcly ap-proximatcly seventy thousand, of which about one-third are organized In the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America, an organization formed some twenty-five years ago. Tho records of 'the Bricklayers'. Masons and Plasterers' International Union Bhow that during the past ten years 9S per cent of the disputes between be-tween affiliated locals and employers, employ-ers, which have hoen submitted to tho International officers have been peaceably and satisfactorily adjusted. An agreement reached recently in Chicago. Til . between rival factions in the plumbing and stcam-flttlng will bring to an end a striko callod against each other, uhtch has prevailed nearly near-ly a year, and has cost tho building Industries of th0 city millions of dol lars. During tho last six months thero has been an Inciease of 3,000 In the membership of tho unions of Los Angeles, Cal., making a total increase in-crease since June 1, 1910, of 7.21C. Tho total number of union men and women In Ixs Angeles at the present time Is estimated at 14,329. The Union Label League of Don. ver, Colo., has established a complaint com-plaint department, tho duty of which is to hear complaints of members of dlffer&nt unions who are caught using us-ing or wearing- non-label clothes or purchasing non-union commodities or patronizing nonunion barber shops. The Cement Workers of Sacramento, Sacramen-to, Cal.. have sigued an agreement with the Cement Contractors' A-ssoclatlon A-ssoclatlon of that ciU to go Into effect ef-fect on January 1 of" neXt ycar Un" der this agreement finlshors will receive re-ceive $5 per day of eight hours and mixers $3.60. Kach class of workors will bo allowed tho Saturday afternoon after-noon half holiday. Agitation for the erection of a labor la-bor lomplo in St. Paul, Minn., In which all tho labor organizations in that city may be accommodated, was reneweu recently 111 ui uaucs iw sembly, when a special committee was appointed to look. Into certain plans by which It Is proposed to raise money to start a building fund The Japanese have developed tho extensive manufacture of matches In China. Thero aro factories at Tien-Tsin, Tien-Tsin, Pekin, Hankau, Shanghai and other places. The viceroys do not allow al-low the erection of several factories in the same town so that each factory has a klud of local monopoly The factory at Hankau employs 3,C00 hands", and produces fifty or sixty tonsdaily. Tho Boaid of Trustees of the Union Printers' Homo, in its annual report of the workings of tho Institution at Colorado Springs, shows that tho receipts re-ceipts for the year were $93,500 27 and the expenditures reached a total of $S7,G31,67, which Included the cost of extensive improvements made to buildings and grounds and equipments equip-ments theroin. Under an agreement entered into between the Engineers' and Allied Trados Societies and the Engineers' Employers' Association, of Birmingham, Birming-ham, Eng., and district, the scale of fitters, turners and smiths has been Increased from $9 to $9.21 a week and the scale of patternmakers from $9.48 to $9,73 a week. Ten thousand men The effector by tho Increase. The question of union men working with non-union men has been aglta-tig aglta-tig the working men of England for some time past. At tho last session of the Trades Union Congress of that country the following wan unanimously unanimous-ly ado'ptcd: "That the time has now arrived when every man must bo a member of a union of his trade and when tho date is fixed no one will work after that time with non-union men." During the past year the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Association of Street and Electric Elec-tric 'Railway Employes has succeeded succeed-ed in securing an increase In wages in 138 divisions, affecting some 43,-000 43,-000 niep. During the same period, 'many divisions nave secured a shorter short-er workday. Th0 total Increase in membership during the past year has been 30,711. More than $2.",000 has I been spent In organizing work, and eighty divisions paying sick boneflts havo oxponded in this work alone more than $20,000. With a vlow to being prepared for any emergency, and for the especial purpose of providing finances In case a general Btriko may bo callod to enforce en-force an eight-hour day next year tho delegates in the convention of the International Abnoclation of Machin-rccontlv Machin-rccontlv in session at Davenport, Iowa, voted to Increase the per capita tax of thoir union from 45 cents to 75 ceuts n month. Under the Increased In-creased income the revenue of the International will bo raised from $600,000 to about $1,000,000 a year. A, J. EISSING. |
