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Show I fl& RSSISr eisarp op the Toilers lJ77L Uf li EVTEW' OF THE LATEST I 3 'slf fffW rAr NEW:5 pM wocshop j gjgaAAvJLsto l-X MILL AND-MINE. City nro-flffhtcrs at Colorado Springs, coi., havo n. union. Indiana, eoml-monthly payday law haa oeen declared unconstitutional. Iron worker at Savannah, Go., have, formed a union. American Flint Glass Worker win x ask Tor nn elRht-hour day. Almost 000 London (EnplarKl) pollco-men pollco-men havo Joined tho British army. Unions at Richmond, Vo., will build a J50.W0 labor temple. Boston (Maaa.) Creamery Workers' Union has raised wages from tl to a week. On September 6 at San Francisco. Cal., National Federation o Postofflco Clerks will convnc One Vancouvor (B. C.) hotel has contributed con-tributed 63 men for service at tho bat-tlefronL bat-tlefronL Anthracite mine-workers will demand the clffht-hour day for all classes of labor In and around the mines. Chicago Tcam3ters' Union Is belnc sued for $2) 000 for breach of agreement agree-ment with a cartage firm Already n.DOO policewomen have been appointed In England and tho number Is being: Increased dally. Chicago education board has complaints com-plaints of debts agalnBt 000 teachers. It Is Impossible to collect them. All tho Jails and porsoiiB In Great Britain have beon turned Into manufactories manufac-tories of war material since tho outbreak out-break of hostilities, . Michigan Stato Supreme Court has uphold up-hold the workmen's compensation law. paesed by tho Legislature In 1912. AnthrncltA mlriApa win 4v.ami .... j M ..., uQiiiuuu .111 uu- ance of 25 per cent, on tho ratoa now paid for all day workers. San Francisco phone operators pet JLE0 a day. or J4C.80 a month, at the end of two yoars of service. Kansas farmers wear lonp hair and beards to prevent mosquitoes Interfering Interfer-ing with harvesting the crops quickly. The effect of the war on Canadian trade union crowth Is shown In a decrease de-crease of membership, tho losa being The first policewoman of Paterson. N. J.. la to supervise dance halls, where only waltzes and two-steps will be allowed. al-lowed. Arrangements ,irn balng made to transport trans-port many Canadian unemployed of the coast to prairie provinces for harvesting. har-vesting. Progress Is bolng made with the Government Gov-ernment housing scheme at "Woolwich England. Plans have been passed for tho erection of MO houses. The Social Service Commission at Victoria, Vic-toria, B. C , la putting forth efforts to nave a permanent works scheme for the unemployed this winter. The Court of Appeals haa placed New 1 ork among those Stutes that declare workmen a compensation laws are both constitutional and necessary. International Journvmnn Tiin.,1 Union has decided to withdraw from the amalgamation with tho seceding garment-workers and to return to the old name and Jurisdiction. Fifteen thousand Nowark (N J.) white goods workers earn from 2,C0 to 14 a week, working 56 to 60 hours. Wellington (New Zealand) Building Laborers Union haa been awarded a penny an hour Increase In wages by the Stato Arbitration Court. Georgia State Federation of Labor the Farmers' Lnlon, and the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Hallway Firemen will act Jointly Joint-ly In urging tho Slate Legislature to pass labor legislation. Germany Is suffering a severe cotton famine Tho factories aro closed and the unmarried employees have been sent to work in tho mines Tho Vicar of Frltton, near Yarmouth England, offorcd to take the place of any young man who enlisted, and is now serving out milk on the dally round of a farmer, whose ion has Joined tho 'army. The Postal Clerks' Association of Western Canada, In session at Vancouver, Van-couver, resolved against tilling tho higher high-er offices by the patronage system of politics. Pennsylvania's new State compensation compensa-tion law Is effective the first of noxt year, and manufacturers are preparing for this event by organizing a casualty Inauranco company. "A cancer that should be out of Alabama's Ala-bama's body politic." Is the citlmate of the State's convict lease ayatom by a committee appointed by tho State Legislature. Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Associa-tion predicts that more than SI per cent of the child labor of that State will be eliminated because of the new child labor law. The various carpenters' unions of Boston have organized the Carpenters Building Association, which has com- I Dieted plans whereby thi mombers of J these unions may subscribe J160.000 for tho eroctlon of a hoadquarters building 1 In the year 1013, the last year for which statistics arc available for all the mlncfl and allied Industries. 3762 men wore killed and 177,00) Injured. This Includes coal mine, metal mines, quarries, ore-dressing plants and smelting smelt-ing plants. VFhe 'in"Uttl meeting" of the American I Mlno Safety Association will bo held at K Birmingham. Ala., September , and this will be the occasion of tho Southern South-ern Interstate contest In first aid 4nd mine rescue, the winning team to be sent to San Francisco. Brooklyn manufacturers make moro women s, children's and misses' shoes annually than any city In tho United in . Teu thousand men. women and children are employed In her 25 plnnta ?.e,!jGEJ?h00fl' which total tho sum l of JSO.OCO.OOO yearly. K Wellington (New Zealand) marine cooks and stewards have asked tho ' Jjlato arbitration court to order that tnelr wagos be Increased, claiming that uie ship companies had practically maintained tho tamt rates for 0 years. i The United States Government an-nouncoa an-nouncoa through the Bureau of Mines tnat preparations are "being made to S?J .SaJ? Frand-wo a great national l demonstration In tho saving of human lire and In allevating the sufferings of T those who are injured In tho pursuits of peacoful Industry Organized labor of California is up In arms oyer tho order recently Issued by S;L Snyder, district secrfltary for the !??.! Clv1 serVlcc Commission, which prohibits employees of tho Mare Island iSaVy Yard from HOrvlnir nn nlHir nt a'abor union or labor council. I The third national mine safety meet In (i Doiialf of the army of more than a f million minora Is to be held at the Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds Sep- I . m M and M under the auspices of n Uie Bureau of Mines, the American Mlno d ??.et.yT3ABi0:lUj.&n ana the California J Metal Producers' Association. Ks ,.iTiho moa? 'mportant agencies for pro- ) ?i.,?.'w,rkvfor $ho unemployed who are employable but have no prospect of re-turnliiK re-turnliiK to their former positions, aro the public employment bureaus. These are largely developed in a number of uropean countries, but especially In iv Tmy',wller th' have grown rapld-vini rapld-vini thcJa?t 20 iyta. both In numbers and In efficiency. Ji1.Koerle3ber Eost Prussia. In or- ?rJm.ifet,every P0!,s'ble kernel of Bran f from the laqd. which must feed tho nation na-tion for another year, the military gov- ' ernor has prohibited farmers and cattle raisers from leaving their work under any circumstoncee. This also applies to tho women who work in agricultural ?.V T ta A 3l.mnar order hat been ta- sued In Bavaria. Statements from the officials of the la- I : bor unions In New York Stato show that I : ma era?u P03s,ble earning of the ?.J? Vh ?hese unlons was Jl.012.14 per If : onw'imftiVhe W80 actual Wft? WJUI Ky2, inak,nP " average Toes of : about J211 per year, or 30.9 per cent, of . : tne average possible oarnlnir nt nn n ' ; count of unwllllnc unemployment. ' : Municipal Labor Bureaus are gradual- ' - ly coming Into favor In this country; ' - and in some of these there la being : whit,0"1 a novlral P"c. ud"r which the men aro Informed of the fact If there is a strlko or other labor trou- V ble on anywhere where they are ofr-c:l p ; Jobs, while emploeca are rermltted to fl - placo their call for men on condition of stating the facts aa to any trouble that ' may exist. Sixteen municipal bureaus , have been established in this country. 13 J or which are now operating. The first year of New York's State workmen s compensation act, ending July 1, shows that the fund has a flnan- clal strength of nearly J1.000.0UO in cash i - and Investments, after paying all losses JJi to date, according to a statement by tho C? manager of the State insurance fund. ) ino statement shows that tho number nl "ftn" ,naurd tho State fund ' S on June 30 was moro than 7800, repre- sentlne semi-annual premiums of J7o0,- im .f?nid ha.3 Cft8h on dPlt of 3 JllS.151, and Investments of TS3I.3S1. th-hTiau-r1??! P.r up membership of the United Mine Workers reported at 2 the leil oonventlon Just prior to tho I U iQ, Resident White took offlcS I was 2H.EI. The averago paid up mem- ' 3 bershlp at the last international con- of 12MK members. Tho high mark of I mtimhlp,uwaa , Inched n December, Jwii Tln,y0 P1 up membership was 4K.H2 exclusive of exonerations. nin "rfM11! 'fcorTlncludlns domes- tic. In British South Africa, is POr- formed by natives or colored persons. Mechanic are usually whlto. but thoy , havo one or more colored helpers. Work k on tho farm, in the produce warehouses. aond.nn iadfnff ,nd unloading stcamors 1b all performed by colored workmen ' Whlto workmon are not plentiful, and wi? Cet,calL' . no Immigration. Whlto workmen get from J2.60 to W50. M o?19hour labon,r ra mti per day -Ml |