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Show JH i fA wl Gossip the Toil-et , ,; H Lff & fTSJfclyf W TEVIEVV QfF THE LaaTESr' H 3 vT fffMst-JL y NEWS FPOM WORKSHOP? ' f hiKSI" n 'fr-y MILL.. AND -MIMS. Franc has a roinlnnrm wage for female fe-male clothing worlcors. Grmany has a new law limiting the hours of labor In textile factories. A workmen's compensation law la in effect In tho Union of South. Africa, Employment bureaus for war Invalids feavo been established In Lower Austria- Switzerland has Increased, benefits under un-der Its unemployment ln3uranco system. A new law regulating hours of labor m Industry is In effect In Portugal. Night work in bakeries Is now prohibited prohib-ited in Spain. Public dances aro prohibited In coalmining coal-mining districts of Silesia on paydays. Norway is the most recent to prohibit tho uso of white phosphorus In making matches. Franco has extended to Algiers protections! pro-tections! legislation for workmen In lead factories. Salzburg, Austria, has created a sick fundi for domestic servants. Italian child labor legislation does not prohibit the employment of children on the stage. There aro four free employment agencies In the Philippines. Wood carvers now have 22 locals, with cl total membership of over 1000. A local union of sheet metal workers has been organized at Peru, Ind Waist makers at Boston, Mass., have secured a 4D-hour week. Canadian trade unionists will assume neutral position regarding prohibition. Pennsylvania Is to have 364 continuation continua-tion schools for child workers. There are 9000 girls working on children's chil-dren's dresses In Greater Now York. Of 1.066.4SG employed In Pennsylvania Industries 276.233 aro foreigners. British barbers are appealing In vain for exemption from compulsory military service. Hamilton (Canada) Trades Council has naked tho Board of Control to Increase Are department salaries. An Increased wage for machinists employed em-ployed In the canneries of Alaska Is to be domanded. On May S-1S at Cincinnati, Ohio, American Amer-ican Federation of Musicians will convene. con-vene. Except along the Caspian coast, Persian Per-sian agriculture is dependent almost entirely en-tirely on Irrigation. The Paris police force is to be increased in-creased by tho addition of a corps of divers to work in tho River Seine. Greenock (Scotland) corporations have under consideration the question of tho employment of disabled soldiers. A bill Is pending In Congress to render Federal aid to Indigents suffering from tuberculosis. Organized labor stands for the preservation pres-ervation of tho constitutional guarantee of trial by Jury, freo speech and free press. Elizabeth (N. J.) Carpenters' Union ftas voted to demand a wai?e of $150 per day. The present rate Is L Manufacturers In Western towns in Ontario are Importing men from the United States to tako tho place of Canadians Cana-dians Stato Building Trades Council of California Cal-ifornia will make an aggressive fight against tho proposal to vote California "dry" this falL Negotiations aro going on to employ alien enemies Interned In Canada on the Improvements to tho roads leading to "Valcartier camp. Fifteen thousand New York waiters m the area bounded by Canal and Fifty-ninth Fifty-ninth streets. Third and Soventh ave-i.ues ave-i.ues have demanded a "living wage." Nashville (Tenn.) trado union movement move-ment has won its fight for the continuance contin-uance of tho free textbook system, which has been in force during the last ieveral years. Frisco Bartcndera' Union has voted an. IH appropriation of $5200 to tho Trado 1 Union Llborty Leaguo of California to H assist in financing the campaign against H prohibition. , IH Owing to the war, the scarcity of pit- ' H head laborers has been so much felt at H Prestongrange (Scotland) colliery that H It has been found necessary to employ H women for the work. IH New York Embroidery Workers' union H demands a 53-hour week, wago In- creases, union recognition, committee to H adjust shop grievances and a board of IH arbitration. IH At a meeting of the corporation of H Dublin the refusal of tho Brltiah Gov- H crnment to lend money for the building H of houses of the working classes In Dub- H lln was severely criticised. H The Central Labor Council of Los An- gclcs and tho Los Angeles County H Building Trades Council will Issue a call ll for a convention for the purpose of IH forming a Stato Labor party In. Call- H fornla. IH The cleaning and lighting commltteo H of Edinburgh (Scotland) Tonn Council IH at a recent meeting, decided to recom- H mend Increases In the wages of a num- H ber of the employes under the commit- H tee. jH At a meeting of tho Galashiels (Scot- IH land) branch of the Independent Labor IH party, resolutions opposing conscription H v,ere passed, copies of which were sent H to the Prlmo Minister, and the local H members of Parliament. 1 Owing to the refusal of the Belfast H coal merchants to rcduco the present H prices, a movement Is being inaugurated to secure for Irish coal users tho samo 1 legislative protection as that accorded to English and Scottish consumers. IH Tho Pacific Coast. Defense Leaguo Is IH opposed to using the National Guard for H strike duty and will endeavor to have laws to that effect enacted by the legis- latures of nine Western States, to oer- 1 come the prejudice that organized labor IH has had toward tho National Guard. , H The American Federation of Labor, In a circular letter, suggests an agitation ' be started to have all schoolbooks print- H ed under union conditions. The commu- H nlcatlon states that the close of the war ( H will bo followed by a general revision H of textbooks used In the public schools. H A general safety advisory committee. . ' jH consisting of representatives of employ- JH era and trade unions, and State officials, , J H has submitted to tho Ohio Stato Indus- , H trial Commission for Its approval a new IH code of rules for tho protection of work- M men In steel milK glaS3 furnaces, foun- H dries, and brass and aluminum foun- IH Butter makers, cheese makers and tho jH miscellaneous help In and around dairies I H and creameries of San Francisco and H vicinity are to bo organized and placed H under the jurisdiction of the Milkers' H Union. It Is estimated that there are jH about GOO men engaged In this kind of IH work in Son Francisco. M ) ' H For tho year 1915 the International IH Moldcrs' Union reports 3519 Initiations. j IH 6460 reinstatements and 597 deaths. For I Jl tho same period thorc were paid in sick jH benefits 513S.S19, death benefits, 6,7; i 'H disability boneflts, 510,100; out-of-work H benefits. $32,000, making a total paid in H benefits during the past year of $21S,9. tM With tho growing numbors of wounded jH from the front as Britain's army ex- lM pands and the spheres of operations ?H Increase, England Is faced with a dearth lM of doctors, and the strain on the mod- I IH leal men left to look after the civilian H population Is becoming heavlor every B day. A mobilization of doctors Is being , l-H considered. IH M H Governor Manning of South Carolina ' jH has recommended a law raising- the age j jH limit of children working In factories, H mines and textile establishments. He H said that a large number of school dla- JH trlctfi have placed themselves under the jH compulsory school attendance law, but fM this was not truo In mill districts bo- H cause the minimum age limit of the 1 -H child labor law Is 12 years and the ' H school law maximum Is 14 years. The ) iH child-labor law, declared tho chief ex- ' H ecutlve, prevents school districts In mill , jH oections from taking advantage of tho 1 1 H school legislation. A workmen's com- I jH pensatlon law is Included in the recom- ( jH mendatlons. H |