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Show oo LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Tht I YV. W hopes to reduce the working day of the shirtmakera in Patterson. N. J., from ten to eight hours, In order to make the union ol the shirt workers more effective the cutters operators, starchers, Ironers and others emploed In the industrv are being brought Into the one or- The managemenl of the packing houses In Cambridge, Mass , recently announced an Increase of $1 per week to all employes. Fifteen thousand persons will participate in this increase in-crease in wages. fio'-'no 'il7er idans a thorough overhauling of the labor laws of New York. The International Brotherhood of Railway Maintenance of Way employes em-ployes ha decided to move its head-I head-I quarters from St Louis to Detroit, ! and to erect a permanent huildinc BJlectrlcal workers of Dallas, Tex who were affiliated with the Reid faciton. which Is not recognized by the American Federation of Labor, have decided to return to the Mc-Nulty, Mc-Nulty, or American Federation of Labor faction. In Winnipeg, Canada, classes in building construction and steel square have been instituted by the t'nlted Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join j ers. Minnesota state federation of la-inn la-inn will propose a minimum wage bill to the present legislature. Blackburn. England, trade unionists, union-ists, supnorted by several manufacturers, manufac-turers, have entered a protest against the inducements being of-j of-j fered to the girls of Lancashire to desert their looms and emigrate ro Canada The expansion of the cotton cot-ton industrv has been such that In all the towns a serious shortage of labor is threatened, and the suggestion sugges-tion has been made seriously that a deputation should be sent to other countries with the view of persuading Lancaster factorv emigrants to re-turn re-turn to the old country and their old trade. The United Mine Workers submit -ed a proposition voting 10,000 to the striking miners in the West Vir-glnia Vir-glnia field to a rcfeiendum vote to the miners of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Th result was almost unanimous and a check for $10,000 has been sent to the organisation at Charleston The miners of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania sent two tons of clothing to their striking brothers and a ton and a half was sent by the miners of, Montana The international organisation organ-isation has bought boots, shoes, tin-' derwear and other clothing at a cost, of J9000 for the strikers. Compensation approximating $597,-000 $597,-000 has been awarded workmen In the first five months' operation of the Msasachusetts employers' liability law. There had been 4000 accidents reported since Jul) 1. the date upon which the law took effect. Of these 8u per cent were not disabled loncer than the two weeks required before the workman can get any compensation compensa-tion in Gerrnanv the printers' union in-' in-' cluroB compositors, pressmen, stei eo-typers, eo-typers, ele?troty pers and t pe found ers. The membership at the close of the last fiscal year of 1912 numbered 64 793 an, tho increase during the year was The aggregate of funds was $2,250,000. The claim is made that of the men and women working at the several branches ft per cent are organized The mem-bere mem-bere of the union are employed in 7559 print shops in the empire, the city employing the greatest number of members of the union being Berlin, Ber-lin, where 11,802 are at work In Leipslg 500 members are employed D iring the ear the union paid $230,- 000 m out of work benefits. $49,! was expended in transportation to enable members to go to points away from home to secure employment. , $2ll,iiMn was paid to members on the sick list. A recent bulletin of the department of commerce and labor mentions no less than fifty-four industrial poisons whose constant use in various indus-triefl indus-triefl produce fatal results. Eastern railroad worker? want wage increases totaling $27,000,000 yearly. t C&lgary, anada, the legislative committee of the cltr council has decided de-cided to recommend th principle of rh sincle tax. eliminating to a very large extent the tax on buildings. The International Typographic union Is building an addition to the tuberculosis sanatorium at the national na-tional home at Colorado Springs |
