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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES International Roller makers pay their president a yearly salary of 6600 Those firms Iq Germany which cater ca-ter specially for the working classes are feeling, with increasing effect, the competition of the Workmen's Cooperative Co-operative Associations ( Arbelferkos- sumvereine) These associations are spreading rapidly , the numbers belonging be-longing to the central union having lincreasert from 9.,, with 879,221 members, and a capital of $6,202 578 in 1907 to 1142, with 1,318,422 members, mem-bers, and a capital of $0,846,000 In 1 1911 There also belong to the unions un-ions thirty-nine eo-operati e producing produc-ing associations, consuming their own produce, whose production amounted to 520,000,00ft In 1911 The union also al-so has a central office through which i the associations can buy the various goods they need, should they so de-j de-j sire. Carpenters In Riga, Russia, are paid 8 3-4 cents an hour Emplovers' liability laws.' having I proved of little or no avail in cases where the worker happened tin the I ultc-d States, even in a slight de- greet to be guilty of contributory negligence, to remedy this, "work- men -, compensation acts'' have been . passed which fundamentally differ from employers' llabilltv laws," In I that the former provide for the pay- f ment of stated amounts to the em- l Iployes injured by industrial accidents I 'without the necessity of resorting tip I I costly, vexatious litigation, and, what I i more important, regardless of tbe ii question of contributory negligence of the worker "igar Makers' International union leads In payments of benefits to its membets. with $251 fiTT.tl In death benefits and $201,296.03 In sick bene- ! |