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Show LABOR NEWS OP ! ALL COUNTRIES I War against tho strike as a w capon Tor workmen has been doclared by aome of tho old-tlmc labor leaders of Great Britain, Including men who have hcretoforo advocated extreme measures meas-ures to obtain hotter wages and conditions. con-ditions. Philip Snowden, one of the cleverest of tho Socialist members of tho house of coramonH, was among the first to sound,. -the warning that the men were gaining nothing by continual continu-al strikes Kelr Hardie. his more extreme ex-treme colleague, says he is more than ever convinced that legislative action would produce more permanent results re-sults than could bo hoped for from strikes. In tho circuit court In Washington -ton, D. C , a decision was recently handed down to tho effect that Pullman Pull-man car employes aro excluded from the benefit of tho employers' liability act by releanes executed by them on entering the Mrvice of the company Theac roloasos provide that tho employe em-ploye will not hold liable the Pullman Pull-man company or any railroad company ovr whoso line the Pullman cars may bo operated for any Injur)' received re-ceived by the employe ovon if the railroad company is guilt) of negligence. negli-gence. An appeal will bo taken from the action of tho courts, ns tho decision deci-sion Is dlroctly contrary to a former ruling in the tame case In 1909 thero were 12-1 establishments establish-ments engaged In the cotton industry in the United Statoa. Tho total number num-ber of persons engaged waj 3S7.771, of which 377 were proprietors and firm membonj, J.0S-1 salaried officers superintendents and nianagrs. 3.U3 male and 1.017 female clorks. The average number of waso-oamors "" 37S.SS0; tho number in tho maximum month, December, was 3S3.&29, and In the minimum month, 37-U3J. Tho total number of wago-earncrs on December De-cember 15, 1900, was 3S7,tf9S, of whicl) 197,420 wero males and 150.057 wore females. 16 yearn of age and over, while 21.02-1 male and 19,197 remales wore under id Somo months ago the management of tho Great Northern railroad, upon learning that tho carmen in its cm-ploy cm-ploy had boca succoesful in forming strong local organizations at Ita division di-vision point, as the rosolt of tho efforts ef-forts of organizers roprcntlng tho Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, Is sued a notice to tho offoct tfcat as a condition precedent to roiaialng tholr positions the member ot tho new organizations or-ganizations mutt rcnoenc their 5f- filiation with the Brotherhood of Rail- 9 way Carmen. This act was In direct I ioIation of the state law, and tho f railroad company was proceeded j; against and tho ca&e has run the J gamut of the courts. The supremo I court of MInnot.ota has Just handed I down It decision in tho case, which returns a victory for the union. . oo |