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Show LABOR NEWS Of . ALL COUNTRIES Campaign in Engand Against Half-Timers Ruling of Canton Typographical Typo-graphical Union Thirty States Amended Their Child Labor Laws in 1911 Governor West Launches New Project. In Lancashire, Yorkhsiro, Derbjshiro and Cheshire cotton mills the campaign cam-paign agnlust half-tlmerb has been and is being puched vigorously by trade union officials A late report from Blachbuin, the laigest cotton-weaving cotton-weaving cnter in tho world, shows that half-timers In that borough hao decreased the last ten j cars from 2592 to 1399. Canton, O , Typographical Union No. 219 at its June meeting decided that all apprentices working under Its Jurlndiction shall In the last two years of their apprenticeship pay the local union dues, in return for which tlio union will paj their tuition for a course of instruction conducted by tho international commission on supplemental sup-plemental education. Thirty states amended and Improved their child labor laws during the single sin-gle yeai 1911. The same year a uniform uni-form child labor lay, stronger than the law then in force in any one state, was indorsed by the American Bar association, and its more important impor-tant provisions have since been enacted en-acted into law by Arl'ona and Maryland. Mary-land. -Declaring his belief that every industry in-dustry should be compelled to take care of Ub own maimed and injured, and that he included in this the saloon business ,ib well aa mills and factories, facto-ries, Governor West of Oregon' hau launched a project to make saloon men provide an institution or homo where men and women who have bcou made decrepit, worn out and helpless by tho use of liquor, may be cared for at the expenbe of tho saloon business. |