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Show HH ! i I1 .? t" W I ir T WwT5 T A ' Si) lli C. ' -H p- f S f-HIH 11 fl HJP Bi iu' ylttue ' ( iJf-Tvfec5 gQ5.5rp OF THE loiI wmSttt-SL ll li "Review of the- iatt 3 "J& ilHiQ. fyC) NEWS FIOM WP3KhE:-- H ' e3fckiL4Sl MILA. AND-MINE. H Hawaii has passed a curfew law for H i , Pl.a under 15. H ' '' i Sioux City, Iowa, unions contemplate H - tabor forward movement. H Carpenters in Scotland earn $9 a week H of live and one-half days. H " , Canada has 1?6 local unions afllllated H with noninternatlonal bodies. 1 I The new municipal buildings at An- H i aerson, Ind.. are to be constructed by H rganlzcd labor. H , ,Jn Ls Angelas, Cal., 2i 1 per cent, of H ii . Ihe workers are on part time. H ' Scotland now has 124 agricultural co- Ifi pcratlve trading societies, ' Ij Thcro are in ChTna 2723 foreign firms, , employing 52,799 persons. H i Switzerland spends more on relief of H u poor than does any other country. H i 1 wL1or,a State fro employment M I I bureaus have been opened in San Fran- H t I H il J l iJ?i,t-.i9ltlerf ' AsBd"tlon has Ave M J i locals with a total membership of 437. B J i A Plunders' Inspection law has bsecn m J I -Introduced In the Lancaster, Pa., city i 'Si H ! nCJi7a.d,an F,?IdJcrs ln training in the H I Dominion will be allowed to help plant H I the crops next spring. H il ! .iApr.11 S'"?0' at Philadelphia, Pa.. Na- -- S 0nal, Pr'ft .Cutters' Association of H j ' X America will meet In convention, H f I A Jl.000.000 hleh ichool and J750 000 I courthouse are ln the course of bon- M . I labor110" at E1 PaSO Te:caa' y uSSi H j 5 l i! , ' ,At Springfield, Ohio, the total Increase -H nLUon ,abor wl approximate lSo B ! u year. Hi 'I '-wfee .OUBaJd teamsters in Man- - I I erf'ir,'.' havc apPllcd for wln- H f P crease in their wages of Jl. a week. B -RHMKnrrH an?ua' convention of the -- SfiiS? C,uSbia FodoraUon of Labor 1 i will meet ln Revoiafnv. in ioit --- -H . ,nari? en,nc drlvws and motor- H i 25" ar en,P,,3re1 ro--ary by the rail- m (l way companies of the United Kingdom. H i il ' There are thre dlTlsiona of orxanlxed ' I! labor in Quebec. Can.. vc: Surnt- H I f tional, national and Indepen4ent. H r' nMh11" Percent, of the InhaWtanU H , v 51 the state ot New York over Jo yan H I 1 of aga were working for a living In 1910. j I . Billings. Mont., local of oarMnters - fWS,1? ? ra,fterthelr cale olTwagea m I from fc to J6, on May 1. H London has a school in which bach- H dors are taught to make beds, cook ! J w aud look after the home needs gen- I vilV Pau1, . Minn- womm fur workers have oraranlMd a new anion of ISO raem-SntTrSy raem-SntTrSy abol!flho th piecework system ( !nIhtiCa.rne8i .Fou-Hon Is now pay. I ln allowances to more than 300 retired ' tl10 and K Pnlon to widows Vt ' vP-anixed !oor at Fort Wayne. Ind naj organised an autobus oompanrto Jno4Ve-Pm,n & eti,?0ratl hi:,n' rf-d t. grant the men a war booua. .The United Mine Workers wtU ware i-SS? vforo- campaign foT the ! to. -rtem of old age pejj. , .-A- locatl branch of the White p f atot F010?' -ffll'ated with the Anfi lean yederaUon of Labor, has been S-ganiaed S-ganiaed m San Francisco. United GrmBtW"orkers of North America have issued a circular letter JPPoallSg ,to trad, unionist to de-Sand j unbn laWt when purchaaing conar-! lltloLTorab.1.y 1ncned toward th katntcratlo- bill providing for a a-F-J, "' -1-1 also e-cltiding all Asiatic laborer. , , A BPtoial committee of Brighton. Bug-. Corporation has been appointed to con- 1 I alder the whole scheme of war allow- H anoo la reaped of employed who have H anlfaited. H j The Borrloea of the lamplighters of H Arbroath, Scotland, have been dispensed M : I flth for the lighting of the public H j lamps, and Boy Scouts are now being j i -mployed ter this work. H Two women road -sweepers hare ben H , ngBgd at the village of Softer, near j ' Liverpool, Kng. They axe paid the same H agea as road men and wear blue unl- H fcn.aaa4 cays. Salaries paid all civic employees and Just wnat tne-y do to tarn tne money wul be probed as a result of an ag,ti-tlon ag,ti-tlon Btartod by the. labor aldermen of Hamilton, Can. Machinists of Sacramento, Oakland, and tian 'rancIsco have secured increases in-creases ln the breweries ranging from W cents to Jl per day. establisnlng a minimum min-imum of fo ior eight hours. Industrial unrest In Missouri will not begin to be settled, says State LaDor Commissioner Jonn T Kitpatriok. until tho Commonwealth provides an cquitaole compenuatlon for Industrial injuries and diseases. James Currle, C. M G , has been appointed to give effect to the policy of tne Labor Supply Department of the Hrltlsh Ministry of Munitions In relation rela-tion to the training of munition worker. All salared employees of the Hudson Coal Company of Wllkes-Barre, Pa., have- received notice that anyone seon entering or leaving a saloon will not be retained ln the sorvlce of the Company. Women conductors have now md their appearance on trailers of L. C. C. (London, JBngland) trains, replaclna male employees who have enlisted, ln their gray unliormB and waterproof hati thoy present a smart appearance. It Is estimated that up to the presenl time 21 por cent, of all miners employed em-ployed In Cape Breton, Canada, have volunteered ror active service. This makes a total of more than 00 enlistments enlist-ments rrora this district alone. Tho Idaho State Supreme Court hat deolared the unemployment law unconstitutional. un-constitutional. This law was passed by tho last Stato Legislature and provided that county commls-loners, wnen requested, re-quested, should furnish employment to anyone out of work. Among- concessions asked by Fra-at River (Canada) nshermen in a universal closing and starting hour up ana down river to commence at 6 P. M. Friday evening and to cease 6 P. M. Sunday evening, with the exception of up river during the aockeye season only. mo -lRBsacnuBotis state Mlnlmnra Wage Commission Is having difficulty with laundry proprietors who evade the established minimum wage schedule. Commission has tiled a petition ln tk Supreme Court asking that tfeeae env ployera be ordered te produce thali books and show the court tho rates paid. Federal Judge Wolrerton has snsuto-eded snsuto-eded the Oregon Sunday oloslng law and rules that a StRte has the right to pass legislation of this character, not for the purpose of enforcing religious observances, observ-ances, but to "protect persons from th physical and moral debasement that comes from uninterrupted UMr." New Tork Court of Appeals ha upheld up-held the extra territorial phase of the workmen's compensation law. Tbtai means that a workman employed by a Now York Stats concern is entitled to compensation under laws of this State .for Injuries received while taoaporarily working In another Stat. In adding WOD.000 to the appropriation for the pay of letter carriers, an. "t.aUnL,u explicit language that bare-after bare-after there shall be no salary distinction distinc-tion between the collection and delivery carriers., the Houao Committee on Peit-ffloes Peit-ffloes and Post Roads has paved the way for the restoration of the laris of mail collectors who ware reduoed rrom nM to 11000 when Postmaster General Gen-eral Burleson decided to establish a lower grade of pay A report by John M. Roan, chief rame inspector of the Ohio Industrial Commission, Commis-sion, shows that ln 1116 one out of every & ""P10 the coal mines was killed ln mine accidents during the year, or one person for every 306,630 tons of coal mined. The total number of fatal ccldemts In mines during the vear was 82, a falling off of nearly two-thlrda since 29I. The decision of the United States Supreme Su-preme Court in Oregon minimum wage law case will have a bearing on the mi'.mum J. law Pwd by the last Arkansas Leilatur. The law provides for a minimum "wae of l. for expe- 2Il WttjJLr, h-i lx morlV ex- rasas-., 's; tr!txffl: schedule f- aovSraKxt Jatag, raising the enpO vaAer uSTmltI gutaattea Off Ow Lakor SuVt-2. natlon of barters and mS-aJoiS. operators and bett-r lnapectlon otlZ frleratific plants aad ebrnprM. & |