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Show l ill&PCl Jfcl33lP OF THE "TeiLgA j.' I l 3 rT5f ((FyMiyL tr NEWS "frqm woppcshw- 1 1 il igpLAggjfrfca tlY mill, and-minb. 1 iH Oregon has 14 women attorney!. Gary, 2nd., originated the vocational school lystem. New Jersey will vote on woman'a it-tra4C it-tra4C a October 1. Employee of New York City Street Cloaninr Department have a bond. There is little unemployment In Bnc-land Bnc-land except In th luxury trades. Britain' Trade Union Congrees represents repre-sents more than 3,700,030 workers. New Jersey State Federation of Labor refused to Indorse woman's suffrage. England's new income tax may Include all salaries in excess of $10 weekly. The Arkansas minimum wage law has been declared unconstitutional. Employees of mercantile establishment establish-ment In Mexico work 12 to 16 hours a day. XCAvin flr.nlnf nr nn,rntAp. nt TTmiBtnn Texas, hare a. 100 por cent, organisation. Greenville, S. C, has 1101 organised textllo workers. Cobo-"RoJo, Porto Rico, hae four shoemakers' shoe-makers' unlonB. "Vermont's workmen's compensation law wont Into effect on July 1. An eight-hour public work law Is being be-ing enforced Jn Texas. One of the city commissioners at Springfield, Ohio, Is L trade unionist. Domestic servants are In great demand de-mand throughout Great Britain. City Point. Va., guncotton work now employs 17,000 men. Connecticut Federation of Labor Is is campaigning for a State-wide olght-hour olght-hour day. The Australian Labor party Is In control con-trol of the Federal Government and Ave States. Kansas 1b shortly to have Its first juries consisting of both men and women. New York city proposes to cut the salaries of WCO or more employees by 10 per cent. Thirty-thousand of eur fellow countrymen country-men engaged In galnrul occupations are f killed every year. The Oporatlve Plasterers' International Interna-tional Association has absorbed the Brotherhood of Cement "Workers. Iron and steel plant payrolls In the Pittsburgh (Pa) district have doubled In the last six months. Fifteen Manhattan school teachers wore found to be suffering from tuberculosis tuber-culosis and must quit. Less than 2 pr cent, of New Tork city garment-workers examined were found to be entirely free from disease. Stirlingshire (Scotland) miners have contributed 18.8 of their total strength to the fighting forces of England. Mrs. Charlotte Smith of Boston urges stenographers bo caged to prevent employers em-ployers flirting with them. It Is estimated that Canadian soldiers who worked In the harvest fields will receive about $80,000 for their services. Every year thore are 700,000 of our workmen injured, and this only includes those whose injuries extend over a period of four weoke The Governor of Pueblo, Mexico, recently re-cently Issued a decree, increasing the compensation of all employees in mercantile mer-cantile establishments KM per cent. England's Trade Union Congress adopted a resolution urging the appointment appoint-ment of a Minister of Labor, with the rank of a Cabinet member. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has issued an appeal to the school teachers of the United States to organise unions. Fred. Hewitt, formerly assistant secretary sec-retary of the International Association of Machinists, has been elected under the referendum aa editor of the Machinists' Ma-chinists' Journal. Employees In the Stratford (Can.) munition mu-nition factories are being discouraged from enlisting and are being given badges to show that they are doing their "bit" for the country. Toronto (Ont.) trade unionists are Investigating In-vestigating tho claim that girls are employed em-ployed long hours In that city. These workers rfre employed In war munitions factories and also as waitresses. I H Mayor Bryan of Lincoln, Neb., h ' ' 1 H established a legal advice bureau in the , ll City Attorney's office. This service Is il free to workers and also in coses where -f the litigation is over limited anaranU 1 H of money. H In conjunction with the general ifl ! ganlilng campaign that la being so per- Iw latently conducted. American Federa- M jH tlon of Labor officials are appealing to ! 11 tl unionists In hundreds of localities , 'HI Bill throughout the United States and Can- rlslH ada t form central bodies. ' Iff Wiley B. Jones, State Attorney Goa- 111 ifl eral of Arizona, has ruled that where RT ! ' companies pay in brass ohecks or other fl)' H script the same must b redeemed in Iff Hi cash or prosecution will follow. The " Mf iH same ruling applies to "company" f H stores. Sn ' Juliet S. Poyntz of the American As- n noclation for Labor Legislation and an mt H Investigator .under the Debbs ef Bng- Kt land, declares that the big cause of un- 15; employment la tho disorganization la tho labor market under tae preat cap- Hit italistio system. Ujj I In a report by the commonwealth jri) statistician It Is shown that the number wS H of Australian unions Jn 1911 was 713, ' , E$X compared with 700 at the end of 1912, In H while the membership Increased from , Ktg! M 497,926 to 523,271. The figures for the pre- 10 vloiis year (WW) were ttl unions wlta frv m 433,224 members. jtj M President Gompers has issued a state- WU M ment to A. F. of Lv organizers, both Hit M salaried and volunteer, to give their Kjl H assistance toward the agitation ,KJ M movement started and to lend their WD M co-operation in the formation of new via, localp of the Bakery and Confectionery Kim "Workers' International Union. mp A request for the establishment of a lift S Saturday half holiday all the year VH round has been presented to President Efjj Wilson by a .committee representing the lull employees of the Government In. the ;j IH District of Columbia. IH In an attempt to oheck Australia's In- fjj (M creasing debt and to enlarge the peo- w m pie's rule, the Labor party has sub- ' t I mlttcd a referendum to the various . J. ill States which would amend the Federal IH constitution and empower the common- rPj wealth parllamont to abolish State Gov- M ' ernora and legislative councils. W ' T V. Vam .aMiIaA tft MM-nA MlVf vav. JDi f ties of British workmen employed In .f plants manufacturing munitions for a 11 four-day visit to the trenches, to show them the need of more ammunition and -vt I greater activity In producing It. Ar- ,K f thur Henderson, Minister of Labor, will i bo In charge of the party. rjtt j Owing to the war and consequent un- ILJ employment conditions among the Chi- KD 1 nese population of British Columbia an WW order in Council has been passed at Ot- r tawa enabling Chinese who wish to re- Hi turn to their native land until the end mm of the war to do so, with the right of III free re-entry within six months after I tho declaration of peace. ! At the present time a postal employee J h no appeal from wrongful discharge i 1 except to those who caused his dls- I mJssa.1. The postal clerks will ask the ' American Federation of Labor, with m If whom they are affiliated to assist In (i securing the right to have appeal cases flh heard by an unbiased tribunal, the de- J I tails to be worked out by Congress III when It passes the proposed legislation. l Women have filled the granaries of 1 France full this year to bursting. Worn- . ,1 en have farmed the lands of England. J They have made market gardens In II Germany. They have mined the coal In 1 Charlerol. Belgium, which without their . ;J help could not have been .mined. In f Glasgow they cleaned and made ready y for sea the Transylvania when the 160 III men needed to get her off could not be ; found. 'A Attorney General Brown of Pennsyl- pW vanla ruled that women employed by w I telephone and telegraph companies and it other concerns are permitted to work on !3 I Sundays under the law governing work- ig ' lng hours of women, provided they ar not roqulred to work more than sir I days In any week. The State official Ji holds, in effeot, that women must rest fl i one day a week, but the law dooa not j j" designate the recreation day. gj Children m Georgia may go to work In ' fj factories at 10 years of age. A recent 'll law states that a working girl must be ,Mi U years of age, but orphans and chll- 1 dren of dependent parents are, excepted, ;JJ and there Is no factory inspection pro- J Ylded to safeguard the others. Thou- ffrj sands of children work night or day In -gj the mills and factories there. The Gov- Jjl ornment census showB that 93000 between tho ages of 10 and 1J are employed at $. gainful occupations there now. jtjj ' li |