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Show f Ti llfc-- IK (s-ossip OF THE1 TbnEi3 lY JjL-Js rJTVv Svv "Review of thi iatest U WrffcMy t-JJt NEWS FJOM WO!CSHOE-5 LjjQ MILT- AND -MIME. SHE workers In PatcrEon, N. J., will demand an eight-hour day. Scotch textile workors on piecework can -cam about JS a wcok; Iron and atocl workers In South "Wales have Doen granted an Increase of 10& per cent. Trade union membership in Canada has decreased 10,000, duo to tho war. Freight handlers in New Orleans, Isl, are paid 60.6 cents an hour. Twenty thousand girls arc employed in Greater New York making shirts for tho allies Of 1HLS12 union factqry workors In Germany, Ger-many, fl,244 aro In tho army. Union butcher workmen in California contemplate a home for their aged and Infirm. A laco-maklng class has been started by a Belgian rofugeo at Swansea, "Wales. Patchogue, L. L, has a woman deputy sheriff. International Street Railway Men's Union has written agreements with SM companies. North Vancouver, B C seeks to havo only married men employed in Its civic departments. Payments to Baltimore pollco and firemen fire-men on sick leave last year amounted to $49,601. In 183S Boston roofors got $18 for a 54-hour 54-hour week. They now earn $21.20 for 41 hours. Now York Charity Organization Society So-ciety wants a Stato farm for vagrants who aro drifting Into tho city. "Women conductors, all of whom are wIyos of soldiers, havo been Introduced on tho Birkenhead (England) tramway Daughters of tho Emplro at St John. N. B , havo a movement on foot to start a toy-making Industry In that city. Moro than B000 penniless workers aro killed by railroad trains every year on their mlrratory search of employment Organized labor acofl a national eight-hour eight-hour day for all workmen In tho metal radea If organized and unorganized work together. Th mtvnafacturo of brooms at tho Jo-Het Jo-Het (III.) State Penitentiary will bo discontinued dis-continued Just as soon as tho present supply of material on hand Is exhausted. Organised labor In California Is In favor of the vocational uchool. but such echooU muat not bo used by Industry foi exploitation purposon. Philadelphia upholsterers aro conducting conduct-ing a vigorous organizing campaign pr-paratory pr-paratory to prceentlng a. now wago contract con-tract to employers. Toulsvlllo (Ky.) stereotypers report tbet on February 1 next year assistant foreman will receive wago increases of Jl per week and Journeymen J1.G0. Cooks' iTelporB' Union of Frieco desires to establish a workday of 10 hours, members of that organization now working work-ing 12 hours a day Tb number of producing gold mines in tho Transvaal at tho end of December, 1914. was SS, In which were employed 2J.743 whlto and 176,669 colored laborers. Ind known as the Kokomo Medical Association, As-sociation, proteata against a lowering of wagea by compensation Insurance companies. com-panies. Tho doctors insist on tho right to set their own wage. If tbo tlmo lost on account of prc- Tbe Cnja do Ahorros (National Savings Sav-ings Bank) of Valparaiso, Chllo, has undertaken un-dertaken to finance the building of a largo number of small houses for work-lngmen work-lngmen In Valparaiso and Vina del Mar. Tho Hoo Printing Press Company, Now York. Iia3 raised machinists' wages from fl to 42 cents pr hour. Aftor Do-cembor Do-cembor JO tho rate will be l cents. Out-alrio Out-alrio machinists havo been Increased from 53 to C6 cents, Tho olgnt-bour day la In effect. Worcester (Mass.) trade unionists and ympathlsera are restating tho proposed city ordinance which Is lntondcd to "rogulato" publlo speaking, but which, m fact, gives tho ehiof of pollco complete com-plete authority over all public speaking. At Toronto, Canada, tho preaont scale of wajres paid the employees of the Btrcot Railway Men's Union is as follows: Motormon and conductors, first year. 33$4 cents per hour; aocond roar, 2SV4 cents per hour; third yar, ZTn oonta per hour, NatiorraJ provisions for unemployment Insurance havo been made In Denmark, where tho best development has boon made, and whoro 50.8 per cent of tho male workers and 21.1 pr cent, of the fonmlo workors are covered by tbo system. ventable nlckness and accidents would be converted into money and applied to tho payment of the expenses of tho United States Government, wo could do away with all forms of taxation excepting except-ing thoso upon Imports. Car faro Is often advanced in Now Zealand In ordor to help a person to get whoro work can bo had. During 1911 the government advanced KG.767.72 for that purpose, of whloh HS.116.Sl was refunded. Also small sums are advanced ad-vanced for board, medical bills, etc., to Udo over worthy cases. Not long slnco tho Mexican Government Govern-ment settled In a peaceable mannor a strike for hlghor wages instituted by textile workors An Investigation showed that the manufacturers wre well able to pay a better rate of wages, as thelr openxtlono were uniformly and always highly profitable, aud the strike was sottlod by the Government directing tho employers to pay the Increase demanded. de-manded. , Prior to 1S31, In ono of tho largest New England textllo factories, the following fol-lowing Bchedulo prevailed, Irom November No-vember 1 to DO, firBt bell at -L30 A. it., work to begin as soon as the hands can see to work, March to November, work beforo breakfast, September 20 to March 20, work continued until 7.30 P. M., May to September, until 7 P. M., and September Sep-tember 1 to 30. until dark- Thero wero four holidays Fast Day. Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Cay and Christmas. An analysis of tho figures of tho population pop-ulation of Australia for' 1901 and 1911 showa that while tho total Increaso In tho population for the decade was 13.05 per cent., tho Increase In tho number of persons employed In factory Industries was IS.U per cent., as compared with an Increaso of only 9.95 In persons employed In primary Industries, such as agriculture, agricul-ture, pastoral industries, mining, fish-crlwi. fish-crlwi. etc That moro care is necessary to pro-vent pro-vent infection of wounds Is shown in a report on accidonts Issued by tho industrial in-dustrial Commission of Ohio. Of 2S.731 Industrial accidents causing loss of time but no permanent Injury, 1 out of every It was infected In greater or less degree. Of Ml accidents which resulted In permanent partial disability, 1 out of every 20 was complicated by infection. Of tho total number of persons in tho servico of mines and allied concerns of all kinds engaged In mining opratIons within tho Union of South. Africa In December. De-cember. 1911, amounting to 2CM1. tho gold-mining industry employed 200,312. or S2 per cent., the remainder being divided di-vided among the diamond, coal-mlnlng, basti-mlnoral and miscellaneous mining Industries of tho Union. Tho Philadelphia Board of Education s preparing to enforce tho now child la-jor la-jor law which takes effect tho first of tho year and which pro Ides that employed em-ployed chlldron between tbo agos of U and 1G years must attend continuation school classes eight hours every week, A survey shows there are 1S.722 chlldron of this class In Philadelphia, and 130 additional ad-ditional teachers will bo required to carry out tho purpose of the law. The Connecticut Stato Legislature amended the workmen's compensation law by reducing tho waiting period from 14 to 10 days and providing that hereafter hereaf-ter an Injurrd omployeo will recelvo medical attention during tho entire time of his disability. Instead of for 39 days, as formerly For partial Incapacity the Injured employee shall recelvo one-half of his weekly wage, but In no case ahall It be leas than $3 weekly. In Gormany tho total numbr of strikes that took place during 1914 waa 1109, as compared with 2127 during 1913. Tho number of persons engUEd In tho strikes In 3911 Is officially estimated at 1S2.07C, as BCgolnst 672.S43 for tho preceding preced-ing year. The number of successful strikes in 1914 Is stated as being 1S2. as compared with 30 in 1913. Tho official figures give 160 lockouts for 1914. aa against 337 during tho preceding yir. At a recent conferenco in tho Stato Department at Poking, China, tho Minister Min-ister of Agriculture and Commerco proposed pro-posed that In order to develop native Industry four Industrial colleges should be established. The Minister suggested that of these four colleges a mining collogo In Manchuria, an agricultural and a forostry collego In Peking be established, es-tablished, and tho other two colleges should bo for fishery and engineering In Hupeh and Shanghai, respectively. naflro&d workors of Great Britain, who are organized In a strong union, are at present deeply concerned with the question of woman'3 competition. Slnco tho war has called thousands of railway men away from their work to tbo battlefields and trenches, women aro being employed on tho railroads In various vari-ous capacities and In steadily Increasing Increas-ing numbers. But in many Instance womon are doing a man's work at a woman's wages, uecognltlns that women wom-en havo como Into this occupation to stay for their services aro conceded to bo very satisfactory tho railway mon ore squarely faring tho situation and aro trying to guard against a lowering ot tboir wago standard. J |