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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Tho Plumbers and Stcamfltters' International In-ternational union has increased its membership by about six thousand within a year. The total memborshlp Ib now about a0,000. Journeymen barbers are engaged In an active campaign to clean up unsanitary un-sanitary barber chops and to organize organ-ize the seven thousand journeymen barbers In Chicago, 111 Thcro Is a well-defined plan to Install In-stall women as drivers of taxicabs and other power-driven vehicles on tho streets of tho largest cities of England. rlamilton. Ont.. street railway employes em-ployes get an increase of 2 cents an hour for first and second year men, and 3 cents an hour for the reBt. Only five states require physical examination ex-amination of tho children entering Industries In-dustries and only ono state, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, and ono county, Gilford county, .'. C-, have a regular system of medical med-ical inspection of child'ron In factories. factor-ies. Linotype machine operators of Paris threaten to go on a general strike unless un-less a scale of nine hours for a day a work and S francs (51.50) compensation compensa-tion is granted. At Toledo, O. twenty-oight Hangar-Ian Hangar-Ian women recently took the places of the striking coro makers In the , plant of thb National Mallcablo Cast-1 Cast-1 ng company. I British Sailors and Firemen's un- Ion has Issued a manifesto ombady-llng ombady-llng a resolution ordering the mem-'bets mem-'bets to refuse to sail with non-union men after January 3. The paving cutters have voted to make the eight-hour workday universal univer-sal in their organization on Juno 1, 1913. At present about 25 per cent of the members aro working nine hours a day. English paper mill workers propose to take action on the question of en-1 en-1 forcing tho demand for the "weekend "week-end stop" or cessation of all work in British paper mills from Saturday noon until 6 a. m on Monday Apart from tho railroads, tho total number of accidents In New Jersey to workmen resulting In serious injuries in-juries was 1389. Of these 202 resulted re-sulted In death at the time the accident acci-dent occurred or shortly thereafter. All unions affiliated with their International In-ternational organization have been advised by their International officers to sever their connection with any central body not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor . Approximately 15 per cent is about to be added to tho pay both of officers offi-cers and men In the. British navy. The total amounts to $1,932,365. It is the! first increase In naval pay in fifty years. , According to life latest statistics of occupations in the kingdom of 1 Saxony, 61 per cent of those who earn their dally bread aro employed in industrial enterprises, as compared with -12 per cent in the German empire. A study of reports of nationality of persons employed In 151 Industries of Pennsylvania shows that of 823.15S J employed by establishments from which the statu obtains reports 490,- 027 aro native born and 327,006 for- H eignere, while 6125 are colorod. H The total numb or of persona em- ! H ployed In Englnnd a chlppins trado H of all descriptions is steadily Increas- H Ing. the figures being 274,307 In 1909. 1 H 27C,30fi In 1910 end 281,200 In 1911. ' H Of tho last figuro 205,005 were Brit- 1 H ish and 30.7S3 forolgn, in addition to H 45,452 Lascars. H In the last fiscal year the railways M of the United States paid to labor '1 H in round figures $42,000,000 ,more H than would havo been required had the wage schedule of 1910 beon in I effect, and $69,000,000 more than the IH wagc3 of 1909 demanded. |