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Show C-i If!-"' x kJt'i M 0-5-SlP OF3 THE TblL.r:T2 H iViiL 3 IS Ifsllv TEVTEW OF THE. fcATEST H J ff-MlIPX. fiJr NEWS FfOM WOICSHOX j H !gj jL III )Fvt0&t J MIU AND-MIMui. j Hungary has 130,000 trade unionists. This country employs moro than 2,500.000 domestics. Pittsburgh (Pa.) municipal laborers demand de-mand $2.40 a day. Bakers at Billings, Mont., have formed a union. Portland (Ore.) ship caulkers have secured se-cured $5 a day. Georgia's textile Industries employ 5000 children under 16. Building laborers at Lincoln. Net.. have established a minimum of 30 cents an hour. Hamilton (Can.) retail clerks have succeeded suc-ceeded in reducing their working hours. Painters at Newport. R. I., will get U for an eight-hour day, beginning March 1. 1017. On July 1. 1017. Toronto (Can.) plumbers plumb-ers will secure a minimum wage ot 50 cents an hour. Frisco laundry wagon drivers have ecu red an increase of 50 cents a day. St. Louis (Mo.) Metal Polishers' Union has rained wagea $2.10 a week. Before the war 1S4.000 women were employed in British war Industries. There are now 066.000 no engaged. From Septembor 11 to IS. at Newark. N. J., International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers will convene. The total number of munition workers in 1914 in Britain was 2,000,0)0. Thore 'now are 3,50-t.OOO. Machinists' Union has won Its long fight to have tho union rate of wage paid machinists by private employers maintained at the Mare Island Navy-yard. Navy-yard. Los Angeles (Cal.) Moving Picture Operators' Union has Inaugurated a campaign for better ventilation for Us members while working. Trado unionists in Michigan arc circulating cir-culating petitions for a constitutional amendment regulating the Issuance ot injunctions In labor disputes. TVJthln tho last five months eight new unions, with a total membership of 2000. have been established In Los Angeles. California. Women making artificial flowers In Paris. France, earn from 20 to 22 cents a day. In 1001 plumbers throughout the coun- Irv carneu i-i.-v .i u;ij - i nt-j nun avui-agc avui-agc $5 a day of eight hours. Only 57 women employed in Germany's molnl trades were injured in the course of their employment last yea. The eight-hour day and a material Increase In-crease In wagos have been secured by tho Sugar "Workers' Union of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Trade unionists In Ohio arc preparing to put the question ot Injunction rule squarely boforo tho pooplo for decision at the coming fall elections. Metal Polishers' International Union reports that 20 shops in Chicago have signed a iS-hour agreement with a minimum min-imum wage of 49 cents an hour. Tho executive council of the American Federation of Labor has doclared In favor of amalgamating the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and tho freight handlers. On August 7 the now wage scale of Frlaco United Laborers' Union No. 1. providing for a minimum wage of $3 per day, will become effective. Tho eight-hour law for cltv employees Is being vlolatod tn the Baltimore (Md.) municipal parks, and tho trado union movement la demanding the law's enforcement. en-forcement. At a. meeting of Cruagh (Ireland) District Dis-trict Asylum Committee ll was decided to grant an allowance of IS cents per week to all tho married male attendants attend-ants for the duration of the war. Jersey City (N. J.) Brewery Workers' unions have secured a three-year agree- ment with the breweries of Hudson j flH county. Wages are Increased $2 a week 1 H and improved working conditions are secured. UpH Cannock Chase and Pclsall (England) Coal Owners and Miners Association has decided to provide' an ambulance convov of 10 cars for the Bristol Red Kf Cross "Society at a cost of $30,000. A new wage scale of tho Cap Makers' Union, providing for an increase In wages from 16 to $18 per week, has been approved by the San Francisco Labor Council. In New York, New Jersey and Con-nectlcut Con-nectlcut It Is held that a worker receiy-Ing receiy-Ing Injuries outside the State can be compensated under tho State law. Tho courts of Massachusetts hold contrary Stating that direct labor is "more effi-clent effi-clent and economical," the Mount Nu- m gent (County Cavan. Ireland) Labor Union has passed a resolution calling on ! farmers and laborers to refrain from tendering for war contracts. jl Youths from the secondary schools are to be employed for evening work by the Southwark (.London. England.) libraries. BBB They are to bo paid 3S cents a night of three hours. Women are also to be cm-ployed cm-ployed temporarily at $3 for a weeJc HB of 21 hours. San Francisco Labor Council has in- structed its olliclals to ask tho Federal authorities to arrange for a six-day t BVH work week for engineers and firemen emploved at army posts and In Federal buildings in the vicinity of San Fran- Cisco. BMH Owing to the scarcity of labor tho BVflVJ vicar of Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, the Rev. IL Cotton Smith, and the cu- rate, Rev. H. O. Henderson, assisted by J the verger, emptied a truck of coal at BH the railway station and delivered it by BBH hand truck to various customers in the BB The House Committee on PostofHccs and KVMVJ Postroads has voted to roport for pas- BKBJ sage a retirement measure which will enablo postal employees who havo B-BB reached tho ago of Go years, after -o flBi yars of service, to retire on an indetl- BH ni'tc leave of absonco with an annual al- KH lowance of $C00. Secretary Ford of tho International H Brotherhood of Electrical Workers says H that that organization has entered Into H more working agreemonts during tne last threo months, providing for belter working conditions ;(nd wagos, than within any consecutive six months dur- Ing tlie last 12 years. Practically every shingle mill in Washington has re-established old rates VBVJ and abandonod tho attempt to reduce wages. Many strikes have been called by the Shlnglo "Workers' Union through-out through-out tho Northwest for this reason, and Die solidity of the workers is proving effective. Tho Now Jersey State Department of Labor has organized a workmen's com-pensatlon com-pensatlon ala bureau and has opened offices in 12 of New Jersey's principal cities. The law provides that this B bureau must keep in close touch with the administration of the compensation law and explain the workings and pur- poses of tho statute to both employer and employee. H After Investigating laundries In tho principal cities of Kansas a sub-corn-nnttce of tho Stato Industrial Welfare Commission report that of 5G4 women workers checked up, 179 are receiving less than $ a week. & less than $5 and fH somo aro receiving $3.50. Out of tho en-llru en-llru number but 15 arc paid more than IH $10 a week. Tn its statistics of industrial accidents. Just Issued, tho Stato Department of Labor says thoro woro 10S1 fatal acci- IH dents in Now York's factories, alone during 1911 to 1914. The greatest pro- IH portion of these fatalities, 42.3 per cent.. B was caused by mechanical power. Heat 1 and electricity caused 23.9 per cent.; KVJ H falls of persons, 2S.4 pr cent.; weights B and falling objects. 7.5 per cn, and jfl-y-B miscellaneous, 7.9 par cent. H |