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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Leeds Maaiuiacturer Offers MIL Rent Free, For'siz Years to Socialists Illinois Supreme Court Decision Corns on Telephone Girls' Ears Cause Strike Carpenter, Minister Min-ister aoid Lawyer Comprise Commission,' Recently a Leeds, Engt manufacturer manufac-turer offered to place a mill at the disposal of local Socialists, rent free, for six years, to "see if Socialists can do better for their workers than sympathetic employers." ThlH offer, being declined "for various reasons," has been renewed to Creorge Bcrnaid Shaw, with the suggestion that ho "and other wealthy Socialists" would have no difficulty in raising a capital capi-tal of 117,500 to take part In an ex-'poriment ex-'poriment "which might well become historic." Mr. Shaw says that he will take over the factory, when, but not until, there is a charter establishing spciallsm in the Threo Ridings of Yorkshire. He also expresses his suspicion that tho man who made the offer is crazy. The Illinois supremo court has handed hand-ed down an unanimous decision which destroys tho theory of assumed risks. The court rejects the theory of "In-!Kduttl "In-!Kduttl llberty-" The court sayn: The duty of the master has been changed. Ho may no longer conduct nis business in hin own way; he may no longer use machinery and appliances appli-ances as he chooses. The measure of his duty. is no longer reasonable care to furnish a. Bai place and 'safe ma-VctAn&tyf ma-VctAn&tyf aad toola. but inv addition "to such reasonable care he must use in his business the meaac aii'1 'hods required by the state. The" Iaw'does not leave to his judgment the reasonableness reason-ableness of enclosing or protecting dangerous machinery, or permit him to expose to increased and unlawful dangers such of his employes as may be driven by force of circumstances to continue in hl3 employ, rather than leavo It and take chances of obtaining obtain-ing employment elsewhere under lawful law-ful conditions. Mount Clemens, Mich., telephone girls threaten to striko becaueo the al,.,lH W-LUUl.Jlllf,.'IUA,l III -H1 !-'". mn -ir-rrTr Instruments they aie compelled to tide are causing corns to form on their 3a; s Delegates from carpenters' unions ?rom every part of Florida comened recently and organized a state carpenter's car-penter's council. A journeyman carpenter who is an ardent trade unionist, a Presbyterian minister and a lawyer will comprise the workmen's compensation commission commis-sion of Michigan. |