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Show 1 fh sM77&SkR " Review of the latest This country has S.OW.noo working women HrGS8maker5 in Birmingham. England, En-gland, arc making JM 33 a week. Canadian labor unions hav a mem-Wr-shlp of 176,X. There axe 1.i-V070 factory workers in New York State Stearnfltters at Vancouver, B. C, arc paid H: cents an hour. There are thre women factory Inspectors Inspec-tors in Illinois. The A. F. of L. plans to organize clerical cler-ical worker? throughout the country Three upholsterer unions in New York city nave amalgamated A workman's compensation law has i been passed In Colorado. There are M Jap janitors In San Francisco. Utah's fi o'clock closInK law goes into effect May 15. Organised labor In RriUsh Columbia is working for better condensation laws A union of textile workers is being formed at Salt Lik City, Utah. A free emplovment bureau has been created by the authorities at El Paso, Texas ralla (Texas labor unions have planned an JRO.ooo labor temple. A State plumbing law was passed b the South Carolina Legislature. A railway hospital bill has been signed bv the Governor of Oklahoma A Cleveland ordinary"-- provides for an 8-hour day on municipal work. A co-operative store will be established hy unions at Lafayette, ind HarneaamAkers at Chicago, III., have a IOC per cent organization. An employment bureau for farm help has beeji started hy the Georgia Fcier.i-tlon Fcier.i-tlon of Jvabor Organized labor at Richmond, Cal., issues is-sues a dally labor paper Laeemakors are agitating for a universal uni-versal nine-hour day in the trado A semi-monthly payday bill Is before the Wisconsin Legislature. Suit and cloakmakers In New York city average $415 a year. Painters at Plttsfield. Mass, have asked for .rii (.ent.- an hour. Denmark has 37 co-operallve slaughter-houses. IXindee (Scotland i taxi-drivers and cabmen have secured an Increase of wages. IJverpool has nearly .'inn dwellings under direct municipal control Kirkcaldy Scotlandi linoleum workers work-ers have been granted a war bonus of 60 cents a week. Iabor exchanges throughout Grr-at Britain found work for 1400,000 people last year. Gai ment-workers at Cleveland are voting to establish a relief fund. Of IS.OTO children under 16 working In Illinois half get less than 12 a week. Building trades workers throughout England demand an Increase In pay Shipyard la-borers on the Clyde have been granled a.n increase of l's cents an hour A compulsory workmen's compensation compensa-tion law was passed by tho Oklohnnia Legislature. Machinists In Scotland are asking for an Increase in wa&: - On May 10 at St. Louis. Mo.. Order of R;dlroad Telegraphers will convene. Ten thousand homes for working people peo-ple are to be built In Buenos Ayres within the next tie years. In the Southern cotton mills children of 10 and 12 years are employed in direct di-rect competition with their fathers. Toronto, Canada, has Invited the Canadian TraUe and labor Congress to hold their 1916 onvenllon there. Iabor leaders who extort money from employers to settle strikes In Illinois can now be punished. Hodi an iers In Wheeling, W. Va., have secured a uniform daily wage rate of ELM) into the scales and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam We say that the hand that rocks the cradle moves the world, and the mother's finger of warning and admonition, is a scepter of power swaying a generation; and the ingere that tie baby's bib holds the world In leading strings Crown of Achievement. Some despise motherhood as a mere animal function, not as an achievement, but true motherhood of the highest type which sanctities tho physical with the glory of the spiritual, spirit-ual, which is crowned with high idea's and noble purposes, and to svhich is given wisdom and the formative influence in-fluence of wise child culture and training is an achievement. Such o mother will begin as a girl to build up a strong body avoiding Mich exciting ex-citing pleasures as wreck the nerves, and draw upon the- vitality of the coming com-ing generation. She will use wisdom in the selection of a father for her children whose nerves have not been wrecked through drink, or whose mind and will have not been dulled with the cigarette, and whose bod is not sown with the seeds of vice. She will master the BCience of child nursing, hygiene, the art of developing ( bar acter through play, and story tolling, and discipline. She will study the psychology of the child, and keep hei-self hei-self abreast of th times that oho may be a true companion and safo counselor to her family. When we have truly educated our girls in the science of motherhood, then will motherhood be considered an achievement achieve-ment as well as triumphs in literature and art. Giving to the world a generation gen-eration of sound, fine grained, abb children is not a matter of accident anymore than the raising of flowers In IW RnFton a mentors made 115.12 for a 54-hour week They now earn t-i.'M for H hours. In the State of New York 3C depart- , inent store girls receive le.vi than $3 a week. A national eampalKn for S-o clock clos- . Ing has just been Inaugurated by the lOarly Cloning Association of England. Tarn?ters In the Potteries towns of Kngland struck recently, demanding an Increase from 3s to 2S weekly and an additional shilling for Sunday duty. Among the poorest-paid workers In the nbole of Kurope are the Sicilian farm laborers, whose average weekly wage amounts to less than BO cents. ,an C ran Cisco Butchers' Union has submitted a new wage scale to employes employ-es It call? for an increase of SI a week and a sliding rate for apprentices Hull Fng.) Corporation tramway employees em-ployees were recently granted a war io.nus of Cs to those at present receiving receiv-ing less than 30a weekly and 2s to those reviving above that sum weekly A new roll of honor Is to be prepared for Nottingham containing the names of employera who will give a written pledge to reinstate any of their employee em-ployee who enlist. South Wales cualowners have decided tu urge tiie Miners Federation not to re Ise the conciliation board agreement, and offer in.stead a war bonus ot 10 per cent on the existing standard rates until un-til peace is declared. New York State 'ourt of Appeals has upheld the women's antl-nlght work law, passed In 1913 and which prohibits women working In factories between the hours of 10 P of. and A. M 'Blue Cross League" organizations, composed of children of unionists, are being formed In the State of Washington, Washing-ton, The purpose is to Interest the little lit-tle ones In the principle of trade union-Ism. union-Ism. Attprnej General Gregory has decided that the seamen's law passed by the last Congress shall become effective November Novem-ber i, and not July 1, of tills year, as had been held by the Department of Commerce South Wales Tinplate Trade Conciliation Concilia-tion Board has agreed to grant a war bonus ijf la per week to those earning under 15s; la to those earning between 16a and 2us 3s between -s and ?s. and 2s between 3s and 40s. Governor Hays of Arkansas has signed a bill requiring establishments which employ four or more tvomen to pay a minimum wage of $1 a day to in-experlen in-experlen xJ workers and 1.26 to employees em-ployees who have had two months' experience. ex-perience. Despite the efforts of trade unions and Civic organizations to amend the State constitution, tho Indiana Assembly has defeated a joint resolution providing for a constitutional converKton. In the trades ompulsorlly Insured against unemjHoyment In England name-ly. building, works of construction, engineering, shipbuilding, vehicle-making, etc the percentage of unemployed at March r was 1.9, as compared with 2 48 a month ago and 4. IS a year ago. British Columbia mlllmon have been asked to bid on a contract for 500. 000 000 feet of lumber, to be used In construct-im.h construct-im.h t.i-riniin houses m France. The houses are to be built at Government Govern-ment expense for the use of persons who hae lost their houses and other property In the war. The executive boards of the Bricklayers. Bricklay-ers. Masons and Plasterers' International Interna-tional Union ol' America and the Journeymen Jour-neymen Stone Cutters' International Association As-sociation will hold a meeting this month to discuss the question of the amalgamation amalga-mation of the two organizations. The American Safety Museum lias Inaugurated a new eumpalen for Industrial Indus-trial safety and has oponed quarters In the heart of New Y'ork city's manufacturing manufac-turing district improvement of working work-ing conditions In Industrial lines, both M io safety and hygiene. Is the object. The University of Wisconsinhas start-Ld start-Ld an eight-week special study course for mechanics. The class Is limited to 12 xkllled workers who desire to be trained to tea.ch Industrial arts. They will gel free training and, in addition, be paid cadi for their eight weeks' study The Ieeds (England) insurance committee com-mittee has prepared a return of the earnings of Deeds do'tors under the health insurance act. The I-eds anel consists of IBS medical men. and their .innings undT the act are estimated at $2fl.9S0. an average annual Income per doctor Of J15.iT 2. approximately. laud fruit or the improvement of live- ! stock. And what could he a greater triumph tri-umph for a woman than mothc rhood" I Is it not a greater thing to write upon brain cells than upon a typewriter, is it not better to ilve to the w orld a musical genius than a mere piece of music; is not the living face of a child more wonderful than any masterpiece mas-terpiece upon the canvas and is not a mind more wonderful than a book'' And anyway is not the triumphs of the mother's children her achievement achieve-ment as well? West, the Quaker painter, said that when his mother kissed him he became an artist. A traveler after visiting the mother of Goethe said, "Now I understand how Goethe is the man he Is." If we have a race of heroes, It Is because their mothers gave them not a drop of craven blood and developed in them the spirit of loyalty. If we have a generation of men brilliant in literature litera-ture and art, it is because mothers gave to them such fineness of structure struc-ture that they could perceive the fine things of life. If there aro those who are mighty in reform and uplift it is because there were mothers to ghe a quickness of conscience and a strength of will and purpose. A Crown of Glory. This Mothers' day Is a time when we pay our tribute to mothers and express ex-press the reverence, and appreciation in our hearts, such as did Abraham Lincoln when he said that "AH that 1 am and all that I hope to be I owe to my angel mother." Thus did marly red James A. Garfield when after aft-er he had taken his oath of office he turned and kissed his mother. Bring your flowers, and write your poems and hold your memorials, and weae your crowns of honor, she deserves them all. |
