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Show I I iA ilrilfeFW GtSSIP OT THE TOELES LX 1 Ih ktrrM. tJi IVv - tyVTV OF THE. tATEST" IH jILiIFt- MILS- AND-MIMEi. Colored barbers at Fairmont, "W. Va., have organized. Oshkosh (Wis.) has woman's -woodworkers union. Brotherhood of Railway Cleirka has a membership of 4630. Bakersnold (CaL) unions ttUI build a labor temple. A union of Jewish tailors bo been formed at Denver, Col. A State federation of labor will b or-ffanJzed or-ffanJzed in Idaho. j Macon (Ga.) plumbers have secured an eight-hour day at $5. TJthocrapher' International has 34 local unions and a total membership of 4020. Miami (Ariz.) has a minimum wage of ,$1.60 a day. A movement Is under way to organize o.U colored craftsmen at Mobile, Ala. Labor unions at Contralla, 111., have opened a co-operatlvo store. Organized labor at Councfl Bluffs, lovra, wU back a labor forward movement. move-ment. Union labor at Henderson, Ky , elected elect-ed 9 out of 12 councllmen recently. A union labi campaign Is being wajred by union labor at Jackson, Miss. The president of the Jersey City Central Cen-tral Labor Union was elected to the New Jersey Legtalatur. An eight-hour day prevails on ah public pub-lic work In tho State of Ohio. San Francisco Bartenders' Union haa started toe publication of a labor paper. San Francisco (Cat.) Machinists' Union now has a roeaaberohlp of more than 1M0. Delaware has appointed a commission to report on vocational education for minors. "Wteges of porters and conductors on Pilm.n ftfr Viv hnnn Ihctmlam! 10 per cent. Boston (Maes.) Grocery Clerks' Unhra will attempt to reduce working hours. The Federal Children's Bureau Is pursuing pur-suing Its Inquiry Into the relation of babies' daths to wages and social condition!). con-dition!). The war has caused a shortage in the supply of servants In New York. No lmmlrrant girls are arriving from Germany or France. Salmon fishermen In British Columbia earn $16 a day. and in some instances, when the catch Is exceptionally good, as much aa $25 a day. Members of the Iron Moldera' Union employed by the Erie (Pa.) Malleable Iron Company have secured a 5 per cent, wajce increase. Industrial conditions are normal In Norway. The output of the majority of the factories Is rather above the average, and labor is being well cm-ployed. cm-ployed. . I Officials of the Florida. State Federation Federa-tion of Labor have Issued the call for tho sixteenth annual convention to be held In this city beginning February 1. I Thousand of unorganized employees In furniture factories In Grand Rapids, Mich., are now working 10 hours with no wage Increases. I The average death rate of babies In steel-making and ooal-mlnlng towna is 134 per 1000, against &i per 1000 In a residential resi-dential suburb. I Congressman Austin favors a labor, commission, oppolnUd by the President, to visit foreign countries and Investigate Investi-gate living conditions In the old world. Boston (Mass.) Typographical Union bas created a permanent board to act with representatives of the nowspaper 'publishers in discharge case3. Michigan State Supreme Court has ruled that tho workmen's compensation act aupHea to a municipal corporation as wN as a private employer. i La.radry workers m Springfield, Mass., are organizing to enforce thr factory law and the wage rates agreed te by tbe StaU MUiijnora Wage Cora- 2S5teB4s.BC- 1 ' Idaho State Supreme Court Is asked IH to test the legality of the emergency H employment law, which provides that jl county commissioners must furnish ll work to those who demand same. B Seattle (Wash.) Plasterers' Union has H notified employers that Its rule wiU H henceforth be enforced which debars H its members from working overtime H while other members are unemployed. 1 The United States Supreme Court has H upheld the constitutionality of a No- H braska statute requiring hotel propria- H tors to employ watchmen to awaken H each guest in the event of fire. H Several thousand young women and vM girls employed In the garment Industry H In Boston, Mass., ore holding meetings jl preparatory to presenting a demand to IH their employers for a living wage. Il Certain labor organizations of Calif or- IH nla have organised what Is known as IH tho Trade Union Liberty League, the mM object of whloh Is to make a systematic mM campaign against prohibition of ta fgrn liquor traffic IH Tho private shipyards of the United IH States are crowded with work and the jH metal trades department of the A. F. of tH L. believes that the tlmo is opportune IH for tho organisation of the eight-hour mM day In this industry. IH Awards under-the Ohio workmen's IH compensation act were made during ll 1814 for 2066 accidents In coal mines, of tigm which 51 resulted in death. 1 In perma- VKm nent total disability. 63 In permanent Vmm partial disability, and 1962 In tempo- mm rary disability. IH Denver and Rio Grande railroad shop IH employees have notified the Colorado H Industrial Commission that they want B wage Increase. The commission is H doubtful about Its power In cases in- mU volving Interstate questions and the H workers must wait while lawyers dis- B cuss the matter. H Jersey City, N. J., comramercietl print- H Ing houses have accepted the new wage scale of Typographical Union. A " H year agreement has been signed. The rates are now $25 a week for hand men and $27 for machine operators. The union Is negotiating a newspaper scale. A special committee, repreaenttofr the 1 State Federation of Labor, mot in De- trolt recently to prepare petitions for V the securing of signatures so that the amendments to tho compensation law V to be proposed may be submitted to J the H Only one out of eight Onio mtn H wore employed In Juno, 13W. while two out of three were employed In Decern- HV ber. reports the State Industrial Com- mission. Pick miners worked an over- mmg age of 150 days during Wli, while dur- lng 191S they worked an average of 19 days. jH The cost of farm labor in Irelaad H rose somowhat during the latter port of 1914, but Js stIH low. A plowman work- Ing a few miles from Cork receives mmg $3 70 or $i per week, without free cot- tago. The Irish Department of Agri- H culture and Technical Instruction re- ports signs of a slight but steady ad- vancc In wagos. Comptroller of the Treasury Warwick 1 supports the auditor for tho State and H other departments that the Federal mm eight-hour law applies only to those em- ssss ployees of tho Government "who faahm ssssh or manufacture things and who perform manual labor" thooe engaged In Jn- dustrlal pursuits or on public works; J Realising that the non-union condl- H tlons maintaining In the city of 1m & Angeles are a menace to organized labor H ot nS" Pacific coast, 69 tetornotlonal unions, backed by the Af rJndt ssssH ation of Labor, have d J "nd H an aggressivo campaign among H wage-oarncrs of Los Angeles. H Thirty womeniawyora of Chicago H have formed an organization for j the mmg purpose of preventing any jrfrl om mMM Delmr sent to Jail for a first offense, sub- H isquently to "become the prey of pro- Mmm feXnaY bondsmen. 'The women at- H tornoyu are urging the creation ofa mMM special court for. these cases and agoo H to give one day a month free to deieno. bssssh young women offenders. H A propoaed health JuraeobA1J0I,a H was drafted by the A?er,cjfoV isssi Uon for Labor Legislation J ' M the oomimlscry "" J1fflnWa5L H ers against sickness. It woum "JTr; H alT wnFe-earncrs. The cost of the H surance would be "a'&rdiyiXyers7 M tween tb- workers and their 1egg3 'mMM with the State contributing in aflaw sbsssh -fertk tb--al - H |