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Show LAEOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES A bill la now rndlnc In the state' legislature in South Carolina to ruis' the age limit to 13 from and after the . first fin y of July, 1913 and 14 after Dir. first day of .Tuh 1914. The municipal authorities of Berlin h;:p forbidden chauffeurs to smok' while driving automobiles, ruling thai man: accidents hae been due to the practice Spanish trade unions affiliated v. rl I li the national center at the beginning of this year numbered 147.729 members, mem-bers, against about 100,000 the year previous. Abolishment of the contract labor system in all state prisons is aimed a1 in a bill introduced in the Iowa stato legislature. All labor in Delaware in so far women are concerned was limited to a 66 hour week when the 10 hour law, as It was originally termed, p ed the assembly. Last ear there were 21.506 women wom-en employed at general factor work In Detroit at an average daily I of $1 49 This Is an increase of 16 j cents per day over 1911. Belgium's trade unions' national centci has recommended affiliated organizations or-ganizations to commence an energetic energet-ic agitation for the free Saturday I afternoon. Holland's Agricultural Workers' un-I un-I ion, whose membership last year rose , from 1100 to 2400, was able to procure pro-cure In this time an Increase of wages amounting to about $20,000 I for 1501 members The last session of the Greek national na-tional assembly enacted a law which j forbids the employment of children under 12 years of age In mills, factories, fac-tories, mines, on buildings or other outdoor work. Ol the members of the Transporl Workers' International, about 360,000 are rallwav workers, 220.000 dockers and longshoremen, 182.000 transport workers and tramway men, and 82,000 seamen. In the state of Washington the minimum wage bill provides for an industrial welfare commission of five which shall :et the minimum wage employers may pay It Is expected they will set the figure at Y1 B v. ees A new district council, composed of all organizations of boiler makers, mak-ers, stationary firemen, machinists and gas workers in the state to be known as the light and powei COUD Cil of California, has been organized. |