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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Swansea is the chief seat of the copper-smelting trade in Great Britain and within a compass of four miles it possesses various works giving employment em-ployment to over 30.000 persons. From Los Angeles comes the newc that 3S Methodist churches of that city representing a membership of 10,300, are seeking fraternal relations with the Los Angeles Central Labor coun- cil. Although It costs but C cents a da In India for men to wave fans to keep the air circulating in houses, they arc gradually being replaced by electric elec-tric fans as cheaper and more reliable. The largest trade union in tho world composed entirely of women la said to be the Cotton Operatives' un-jion un-jion of Lancashire, England, which boasts of a membership of S0.000. According to statistics compiled by the National Child Labor committeo 29 Mates do not care wnether children chil-dren can even read and write when they permit thorn to go to work, A new ruling put into effect tho other day by members of tho New. York Pawnbrokers' association provides pro-vides that hereafter, when any mechanic me-chanic brings in a set of tools U) pledge he must show his union card. Tho state of Minnesota conducts a free employment bureau, which, during dur-ing the last year, in three cities of the state, has secured positions for 59,473 persons, at a total expense of $10,000. The Illinois state supremo court has reaffirmed its ruling of last June in a labor case, in which It maintained maintain-ed that omployes may strike when the eloped shop Is violated. Statistical reports show that during dur-ing the past year tho cases of sickness sick-ness and accident caused by the nature na-ture of the employment of workmen in the United States totaled 13,400,-Q00. 13,400,-Q00. entailing a wage los3 of ?36G,000,-000. ?36G,000,-000. After an exhaustive investigation the lnited States labor bureau has concluded that $300 a year is tho lowest wage upon which an American workingman can support a family and maintain his efficiency as a worker. A vigorous policy of agitation lor state ownership of British mines was announced by Preoident Romcrt Smil-ie Smil-ie at the annual meeting of tho Miners Min-ers Federation of tho United Kingdom. King-dom. Whereas the average weekly consumption con-sumption of bread .among the working work-ing classes of America Is eight and a quarter pounds per family, the figure fig-ure for the same class por family In the United Kingdom is nearly three times as large. |