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Show Labor Notes ' the 'ime of the great strike in Great Britain last March there were 112,000 members of the South Wales Miners' Federation; since then the membership has declined by sonic- I thing like 00.00" W illiam E. McBwen, publisher of ihc DulUtb Labor World, and member mem-ber of the United Association or ! Plumbers and Steamfuters. is a candidate can-didate for mayor of Puluth Cirls employed In telephone and telegraph establishments In Minnesota Minne-sota cannot be lawfully employed longer than eight hours per day and : fifty hours In any one week. According to official statistics i there were 820.831 foreign workers ' engaged In Prussia in 1M1. as against 434.348 In 1905 Of these ; 204.348 came from Russia. 187,000 'from Austria-Hungary. N.00 from J Rabin Rab-in Ghent. Belgium a worker' bank . has been stabllshcd by the co-opera -i tive societies and trades unions which belong to the labor party, with a cap-ital cap-ital of $200,000 of which 25 per cent ; has already been paid In. The Southern Pacific company is getting rid of H? strike-breakers In large numbers, and this may be an indication in-dication that the company Is about read to effect a settlement with the System Federation of Railway Shop Emploves. The average daJly working time In ; Norway, with the exception of the i shorter Saturday, according to trade j union statistics, is 10.1 to 10.9 hours ' for bakers, coopers, dock and trans j port workers, miller, tailors and the textile and paper Industries. Cedar Rapids. Iowa. Bulldln: Trades Council has secured a contract with the American Cereal company, which 1 provides for the employment of union un-ion workmen exclusively on the erection erec-tion of buildings which are to cost 1 ?SO0.0OO Prominent men and women In New I York City Interested in the welfare I of working girls will open a 6tnnC I of stores in which no girl employe will receive less than $12 a week The purpose Is to aid working girls and I to take every temptation from their , pnth The mayor of Vienna has Commissioned Commis-sioned the executive of the town council to imestigate the possibility of establishing a noncompulsory mu nlclpal unemployment insurant fund in connection with ihe Municipal Employment Em-ployment Agency and to submit suggestions sug-gestions thereon. In Switzerland there are 13.414 male and 33.529 female hotel and restaurant res-taurant workers for whom thre has not been a modern trade union up till now. For this reason the Trades Council In Zurich Induced the German union of the hotel and restaurant workers to include Switzerland in their sphere of organization Culinary unions of San Francisco are about to organize a 1915 convention conven-tion league, which will conduct an active ac-tive and aggressive campain to secure se-cure the 1915 convention of the Hotel Ho-tel and Restaurant Employers' International In-ternational Alliance and Bartenders' I International League of America for ; San Francisco. The supreme court of Illinois has held, in the case of People vs Elerd-i Elerd-i ing. that limiting the hours of labor of women In hotels to ten per day, I while placing no limitation upon them In boarding houses and other like places, was not an unconstitutional ! discrimination, because the public nature of the hotel business furnished furnish-ed a proper ground for classlfica-j classlfica-j tlon. In order to increase health through . leanliness among Its 700 employes, a Philadelphia firr-i has oM.r-il io every ev-ery mr.:i employed in the plant 16 cents every time he takes a bath. All that Is necessary is that the bath he taken in the rooms of the concern. fitted up at an elaborate expense. the bather rcceUing from the attend- 1 ant In charge a check, which he cash- In on pay day H In Jerez de la Frontera. Spain, the organized agricultural workers have decided to take the initiative for the founding of a general agricultural workers' union. Employes of the packing Industry in Chicago work ten, twelve and four-teen four-teen hours a day. and the average wage at the etockyards Is less than Ilo'el and Restaurant Employes' International Alliance and Bartend - rs' International League of America Is, through its subordinate locals, voting on an amendment to the constitution con-stitution to make the International body a law-making instead of a submitting sub-mitting body. If this should carry lit will do away with the referendum method of providing rules for the organization. or-ganization. According to reports, the average wage of England's Musicians' union In the last fifteen years has risen I trom T"i and $5 to $8.25 weekly The Amalgamated Musicians' union j has at present 7000 members, there being 8000 in London, where at pres- I ent a movement is in progress for tbe i introduction of a minimum wage of Caatle Bank Woolen Mills. Wakefield. Wake-field. England, inaugurated a simple i profit-sharing scheme at the begin-! begin-! ning of January tor their employes j The plan does not Involve any con-! con-! irlbutlon by the employes, and they : h are in the profits regardless of the I time they hae been in tbe company's J employ After a 5 per cent, dividend has been paid on the capital invest- ed, the balance of the profits are di- vided pro rata between the capital invested and the total amount of wages paid during the year |