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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Massachusettes regulates the work- ' ing hours of motormen aDd COUdUC- flsfl tors by law, and New Mexico of rail- ififl road emjUoyes. IlLfl The numbei of men in trading vessels ves-sels in April 1911. from whom seamen sea-men and stokers of the Royal Navy Rcsere? can be recruited, was 14.0 in the sailors' department and WOO In the engineers' department. rILh Maryland, Arizona and Minnesota passed lawi 1m s t ear modeled on the 1 uniform child labor law. which was dran up by tho national child labor committee and unanimously adopted by the American Bar association at Its annual meeting last August Porty-ltx states have enacted mechanics' me-chanics' lien laws to protect workers' wages. !H In France, the minimum age for th employment of children In Industry Is twelve years. II The several unions of retail clerks In San Francisco affiliated with Dhv trict Council o. which rcprcsen's California and Nevada, threaten secession se-cession from the international organ- H laatlon If that body doc3 uot comply b with a request for an organizer for the Jurisdiction of the council. |