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Show l 7 Si llS GiSSrp OP3 THE TblLE13 L Li fbfcv-TsSL nfs li "Review of the iatesiT r 3 Tijr ((fSmtCL. Spr news ffom wikshqe-9 ja.LaLWe?V MIU- AMD -MINE-. TennsylraTrta. haa 12,1ft working bora ttndw IS years. British railroad employe have postponed post-poned thlr demand for a.n eierht-hour day. Atar Jurxs 1 Sloax City (Iowa printers set $1 a -vreok increase. Stationary engineers In Scotland get $9.50 a. weok of five and ono-haJf days. Th A. F. o L. adyertlscs a ltbora.1 and comprehensive Industrial education bill. Over 1500 onranizatlon of employers are reported in the United Kingdom. Calgary (Can.) Council has reduced team ownerc" pay from CO centa to 55 cents on hour. The United Kingdom has almost 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 workers in its industries. Prisoners in Ruthven (Wales) Jaii earned an average of 150 last year. The aTeroffe percentage of part-time workers in 12 California cities is 20.2 per cent. Pittsburgh (Pa.) broom workers have succeeded In organizing every shop in that city. Eighteen hundred and ninety-eight Boston plasterers worked 54 hours a week for $20 S4, they now earn $2S.60 In 44 hours. Carpenters In Chicago, 111., are the best paid. They pet 65 cents an hour if organized. Of 125,722 carpenters In the United Kingdom almost 7B,0CC are in the ranks of organized labor. The Scottish Miners' Federation has decided to contest the seat in Midlothian. Midloth-ian. A branch of the White Rats Actors' Association is to be established In San Francisco. The total number of persons engraved In the fur and allied trades In New York city is given at about 1C.00O. Houston (Tex.) Typographical Union No. $7 recently celebrated Its fiftieth anniversary. an-niversary. I Frisco barbers havo unionized 25 shops during the lost year, Increasing the-unlon membership 10 per cent. ' In monthB of activity some 30,000 women wom-en In Massachusetts look to the shoe factory for support, clthor partial or ntirc. 1 German child labor laws dafine children chil-dren as boys and girls less than 12 years of age and those older who still attend school. 1 The Secretary of Labor, through tho Commissioners of Conciliation, exercised his good offices in elffht labor disputes between October IS and November 13, 1915. Arrangements have bon made by Brighton (England) firms to employ a large number at women in army clothing cloth-ing making. Almost 32 per cent of the barbers now employed in San Francisco are members in good standinif of the Barbers' Union 1 German printers of Columbus. Ohio, members of Typographla No. 19, have oecured an increase of $1.50 per week. The now wage is $34. Norway is dl'dded into throe factory districts and flvo mine-inspection districts. dis-tricts. There la one woman Inspector who covers all establishments where women and children are omployed. Tho wages of a seaman have increased only 36 or 50 yvr cent, since 1520, while those of a carponter have increased 500 per cent. It cost the xveragie worklngman's family In Canada $5.95 to secure a quantity quan-tity of food sufficient for a week's consumption con-sumption in 1W0, while tho same quantity quan-tity in September. 1914. cost 7-&3. and in September. 1516, J7.74. IT. R, Bin No. 4772, Introduced by Con pressman John I. Nolan of California, is a bill to establish a workers home board for tho purpose of making loans lo workers witti which to build or buy their own homos. Several thousand electrical workers employed by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, located in CsJl-fomfa. CsJl-fomfa. Washington. Orogon, Nevada, Arizona and a part of Idaho, ore affected af-fected by a new agToemest. Tbat five days of eight hours shall conatltuto a week's work Tor union car- r iters of Siui Franolsco and vicinity stipulated tn a proposed amendment to th constitution of the Bay Coun-Js Coun-Js District Council of Carpenters. IVaoic adopted the princinK of the minimum wage by the enactment of a law on July W, 1915. providing for th ftadng by special boards ot suon a ware for women employed in home work In tk ciotkla industry ' Of the 7G State schools for the deaf, W of the 22 private institutions of the samo character, 16 have women superintendents. superin-tendents. Of the 31 private Institutions for the feoWc-minded, 20 are supervised M by women. H rarin the latter part of 1914 tho number num-ber of Industrial workers In Irish workshops work-shops fell off noticeably, the shrinkage ' in September being 10 per cent, and in " October 9 per cent. This was due to the war, which also accounted for the drain of employees from Ireland to English factories. The Legislature of Colorado at its session ses-sion lal year enacted a Jaw embodying provisions relative to labor disputes that differs from any other existing legislation legisla-tion in this country, resembling in several sev-eral respects tho well-known Canadian b industrial disputes act. I Our Federal compensation act was passed at Washington in 1910, while tho r" first measure of this character was r adopted by the German Reichstag In f 1SS4. Since then 14 nations have drafted p la'fts for the protection of employees in ' case of disability or death resulting from employment. f t Mr. Charles Freak, general president of the National Union of Boot and Shoe T Operatives of Great Britain. In a re- F cent report to the members said: "If wo J are well organized we can win without L a utrike. If we arc not well organized r we cannot win with a strike." t A ballot has bocn sent to the 400,000 f employees of the 468 railroads in th f United States, asking their approval of j these demands: "An eight-hour day with the same wages now paid for working 10 hours Time and one-half for working overtime." A proponed draft for a new law consolidates con-solidates in one act tho accident-Insurance system of Denmark, which hitherto existed in the form of six separate laws and amendments, the first of which was dated May. 1SSS. The act of 1&?S made Industrial workers In general subject to accldont Insurance that of 1900 covered fishermen, that of 1905 seamen and that of IMS agricultural laborers. There are 5000 copper miners on strike in the Cllfton-Morencl district of Arizona. Ari-zona. They are demanding recognition of the union, the closed shop, the chccklng-off system and a minimum wage of $4-15 per day, which is the rato of wage prevailing in other copper districts dis-tricts of Arizona, The largest labor organization in the history of England, representing about 2,000,000 men, was formed recently for . the purpose of offensive and , defensive action In matters respecting wages and conditions of work. The organisation comprising the alliance aro tho Miners' Federation, tho National Union of Railway Rail-way men and the National Transport Workers' Union. The brush Industry was the first Industry In-dustry In Massachusetts In which a legal wage was established, the commission's decree coming Into effect on August 15, 1914. The rate established was 1D cents an hour for any experienced female employee, em-ployee, with a rate for learners and apprentices ap-prentices of 63 per cent, of this minimum mini-mum and a period of apprenticeship limited to ono year. An organization has recently been formed under the name Conference Board of Physlolans in Industrial Practice," Prac-tice," the purpose of which Is stated to he "co-operative effort In introducing into industrial eBtabliahments the moat offcctlve measures for tho treatment ot Injuries or ailments of employees, for promoting sanitary conditions In workshops, work-shops, and for prevention of industrial diseases." Ireland's pecullnr phenomenon of sum- ' mcr migration of farm labor from the western counties to England Is now less fronounccd than a few years ago. Dur-np Dur-np the agricultural season numbers of laboi ers are absent for several months from Counties Mayo, Donegal, Galway Roscommon, Sllgo and Kerry, and on their return they bring large sums of money back Into the remote sections of those counties. In 1S09 the migrants totaled 20,500. and brought back something some-thing like $S16.000 in wages; but In 1914 only SCS7 laborers left these counties. Under tho law the Colorado Industrial commission has powor to suspend strikes and lockouts pending an investigation Of tho dispute, on the theory that If workers work-ers ore denied the right to strike and employers arc prohibited from enforcing a lockout, tho commission's order will allow the aggressive party time to "cool off." The EcneptB of this system, lt friend claim, will offset the denial of the right of workers to quit their employment em-ployment whenever they soe flt. The A. F. of 1 convention declared for a merchant marine that will not be maintained by private parties, suobI- " dized by tho Government, but through the creation of a ubipplng board empowered em-powered to build or purchase vessels for the Government, for service in tho foreign for-eign trade in times of peace and Xo effective naval auxiliaries In tlrns of war. It is further declared that an-thex ehlp mtfety for travelers and freedea fer seamen should bo guaranteed. ; 6 r |
