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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES The National Transport "YorkorB' Federation og America, compribing maritime organizations of the Atlantic Atlan-tic Coast and Gulf, which left their recognized and legitimate International Interna-tional affiliations to form the independent inde-pendent National Transpoit "Workers' "Work-ers' Federation of America, is, after a short and momentous career, in tho process of dissolution. Temple University, of Philadelphia, at the beginning of the next college terra, -will hao a chair of household research, for the purpose of securing recognition for housework as a distinct dis-tinct and worthy profession. One of the objecta of the new chair will bo to assist housekeepers to plan and carry on Bystematlcally the work of the household. According lo the advanco bulletin on manufactures just issued by tho census bureau, in 1909. tho United StatCB had 268,191 manufacturing establishments es-tablishments which gave employment during the year to an average of 7,-678.578 7,-678.578 persons, of whom G,6r5-046 were vrago earners. Those manufacturing manu-facturing establishments paid $,3Cv-613,000 $,3Cv-613,000 In salaries and wages, and turned out products to the value of ?20,G72,052,i)00. to produce which materials ma-terials costing $12,111,791,000 were consumed. StatlBtlcai data collected by the Now York Stoto bureau of labor for tho first quarter in 1912 shows that there aro 2,150 local organizations of labbr in tho state. Tho membership Is reported as 497,000. On the last working day In March It was reported report-ed by the unions that 20 per cent of their momberB vrero unemployed and 10 per cent are reported as continuously continu-ously idle during the first three months in the year The 'bureau reports re-ports that tho average por diem wage is steadily increasing The general average wage for all workers for the first quarter of 1912. in comparison with the lirst quarter of 1911, is about 2 1-2 per cent hleher |