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Show JLO lH ( IfiKv Gossip Q the Toiler - Lf r77aVLl VVv "Review of the iatest H (.kivLEg iL mill, and-mine. Il There are C.njj.M'J waye-carners in Greater New York. "Women car conductors at Hull. England, Eng-land, yet JC.75 a week. Greal Britain has 70.OX) brewery workers. The working people of Japanare opposed op-posed to militarism. A bureau of labor has been established estab-lished at "Winnipeg. "WheMInp ("W. Va.) carpenters now cct 45 centH an hour. Frisco unions will dedicate their new labor temple on Labor Day. Prisoners at Pentonvllle (Kncland) Jail have been put to v. oik on army supplies. 1 A union of slcn writers has been organized or-ganized In Sioux CUy. Iowa. New York city employs a),CO0 makers of trousers, coats, knee pants and children's chil-dren's Jackets. Th- Earl of Moray has been admitted a member of the Glasgow (Scotland) , Incorporation of Bakers. Thousands of women in England are working in the munition factories making mak-ing vrar material. Retail Clerks' Union at Fort Smith, Arki. has succeeded In regulating the closing hours by an agreement. Upholsterer's and Trimmers' International Interna-tional Union ha decided to admit women wom-en of the craft to membership. Fifteen men out of thirty-six on the Montgomeryshire (Wales) police force have enlisted with the colors. A union label agitation bureau may shortly be established by the San Francisco Fran-cisco 1-abor Council. Worcester (MassT" Central Labor tnlon has indorsed the J2.50 -dally wage demand of city laborers. August 16 at San Francisco, Cat, International In-ternational Photo-Engravers' Union of North America Trill convene. "Women ticket agents on the BrookKn P.apid Transit Companv have secured a reduction In hours from 12 to S daJly. Local Italians are accused at Vancouver. Van-couver. B. C. of abusing the relief given from the unemployment funds. Officials of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel Company declare that out of the 14.000 employees there is not one union man among them. The 600 girls employed in manufacturing manufac-turing munitions at Vlckers works at Barrow, England, are to be immediately immedi-ately augmented by another 10CO. Women are employed In all the branches of the United States postal service even as letter-carriers except as ralltray mall clerks and postofflce Inspectors. Many labor unions throughout the country have gone on record In favor of the proposed retirement law for aged and Infirm mall carriers. Since 1M3, from the beginning of Its organization, the National women's Trade Union League of America, has stood for full citizenship for women. The Labor Council of Victoria B. C, claims the Municipal Free Labor Bureau Bu-reau has become merely a register of unemployed and docs little else. It has been decided to hold all future fu-ture conventions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers In the headquarters head-quarters building of the organization In Cleveland. Sir JohirUrc Primrose. Bart., presided over a recent meeting of Glasgow (Scotland) license holders and their employees em-ployees to further the interests of recruiting. re-cruiting. Much has been done in England In tho way of replacing men clerks In banks and other large institutions "with women, wom-en, and much more will no doubt be done In the near future. Approximately 27,000 of the 33,500 minors employed In the Industries of Pennsylvania will be legislated out of work by the child labor law, which goes Into effect the first of next year There are 1915 women patrols organized organ-ized by the National Union of Women Workers, operating in the neighborhood of camps In different parts of England. Officers of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor have Issued the call for the thirtieth annual convention to be held at New Bedford, beginning Monday, September 20. Because of the refusal of firms to employ em-ploy men of military age and other requirements, re-quirements, a grocer? firm In Leeds. England, has giwn the driving of Its automobile delivery truck Into the hands of a woman. The American Federation of Labor will build its own home at Washington, lo cost approximately $150,00). PJan.s are now being- considered. The home will be prominently located In "Washington! "Wash-ington! The president of the British Board of Education has stated that he will be prepared to grant aid for the establishment estab-lishment of schools for wallers lf local authorities desire to establish centers. Officers of the Trades and Labor Congress Con-gress of Canada have Issued a call for the thirty-first annual convention, to be held In Vancouver, British Columbia, starting Monday, September 20. National Brotncrnooa or operative H Potters will make final settlement fo 1 the tnoycars beginning October 1 next "- .,lIn"? September at a conlerence ilth H the Lnlted States Potters Association. i H the manufacturers' organization. -" H German trade unions have issued a ' 1 memorial on the subject of unemploy-v- M pv-nt Insurance. In which they iavot '" the Ghent .system and the creation of JJH auxiliary funds for the non-organlztd ' M and the non-insured. Of ISO national and International la- ' ll bor organizations existing In the United C H States. DO of which are affiliated dl-. H rectly with the American Federation otTV? B Labor, 13) had In January, 1915, froiDrc H 1 to 19 locals In St. Louis. H The number of German union labot' H men now fighting, according to tb latest statistics furnished by the Cen- . H tral Labor Bureau In Berlin. Is 95S.247 H or -11.7 of the total membership of the , labor unions in Germany. H Of the 50 employers, some of them ' H the most Important In the country, who IH appeared before the Commission on In H dustrlal Relations, only five disagreed with live principle of collective, bar- H gaining, which is the basis of trad , H Missouri policewoman law Is now in - effect. This means that everv city Ic H the State with G000 or more Inhabitant? t has power to appoint women to the po- lice force, prescribe their duties and nx their H The president of the National Worn H en's Trades Union Lcz.gue has Issued a j call to "the 7,000,000 women workers In j J the United States, 3.000.000 being under llH 21 years of age," to organize, and be- lH come affiliated with the American Fed- lH eratlon of Labor. jl Many married women In England who j In peace time pass a life of Incessant : toil In order to support, or partially J support, their families, are now In re- j celpt of separation allowances, in some cases Jarger than the ordinary total earnings of themselves and their hus- Insurance policies for the 4009 em- f ployces In the South Bend plant of the H Studebaker corporation will be issued H without charge to the workmen. The ll plan Is being tried out at the Detroit Hl plant of 'the concern, where fr Insur- atl ance is given K00 employees. 9JH Anthracite miners have 100,090 m-j SLLLI organized in the ranks already, the bulk 'lifl of the membership being In Pennsyl- UJLLLI van I a. West Virginia and Colorado, but SliiH they want 150.000 union men before SHIIH April 1, 1916. when the big struggle will 1H come with the operators. IIIIIH Both at the clubs and the hotels In '1 London. England, where women are ill now for the first time doing the work 'IH of men servants, members and custom- lll ei-s alike declare that the work is don HtLI quite as efficiently and more smoothly lijiLLH and pleasantly. iitLLLH Of the German trades union members lll remaining at work there has been a il great increase In the number of fe,mal '1 workers who, receiving low wages, are ll not able to pay In dues In the same H ratio as the men. This number has In- 9 creased from S.8 before the war to lf per cent since then. 1 At a recruiting meeting of employer! y at the Cardiff (Wales) Coal Exchange. H recently a member claimed that some jH employees had financially rewarded lil their employees for not enlisting. "It IH I can find out these men I Mil make an ' H exposure of them," he said. , H The total membership of the federated ' labor unions of Germany at the close of j H the second quarter of the year 1914 wai 2,521.303 members. On April 20. 1915. du? H to the men who were at the front, the sLLI total dues paying membership dropped . IH to 1.323.972. i j H Twenty-nine 'cars ago 10 carpeneri ' fl organized the Carpenters' Union of ' HH Steubenvllle, Ohio. At that time th H work day was 10 hours, for $1.50. To- 1 M day the union has a membership of- ill nearly 200 and has secured the eight ft hour day with a wage rate of fl.40. !jM There is practically no unemployment jH In Germany at present, the supply of V labor being cut in half by the demand? Ij for men at the front. At the same tiraa 'H the financial support of the labor move- 'tl ment has suffered severely, so that jH there has been considerable difficulty in IH keeping the organization Intact. 'H The New York State Department o H Labor collected reports each month dur- j lng the 10 years UOl-1911 from organized tMM workmen averaging In number 93.CO 'lm each month, and found that the aver-, aM age number of unemployed each month B was 14.14C, or 1S.1 per cent. jH During the month of March the un- employment funds of the various trades m unions in Holland paid out In benefits jH to their members no less than H16,(-. jl Now that the municipal authorities have jH stepped In to help them out. tho city ot 'il Amsterdam alone pays out for this pur- 'il pose SH.SOO weekly. Ill The Laborers Friendly Society ot i ll Japan Is somewhat similar lo the work- i'H Ingmen's guilds that existed In Europe M prior to the formation ofthc unions. It ' jH has a membership of io00. with five m jH branches, and maintains headquarters jH at Tokio. jH The butchers furnished more men for jH the German array proportionately tnan i H any other labor union. The bakers and m confectioners are next; the gardeners and H roofers follow, then come the painters, B the machinists and the transport work- ,, BVBVJ era, followed bv the brewers and mil! B workers, the carpenters, the metal MWBBBbI workers, printers and farmers. t I'uYAbbI " " ' |