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Show WwMi IB rllX. 1 'Review of the iatest fe if l.f: r7Tyl fAJ- NEWSFFOM WORKSHOP- M ,4Pf t JjMTeStTTV MILL. AND-MIMS. j Belgium has H3.000 orua-nlaea workmen. work-men. . Seventy-olx of our cities ha-rc public mployracnt bureaus. Argentina has enacted clvll-servlcc retirement legislation. Laundry workers in Massachusetts have a minimum weokly wage of J8. Railroad stgnalmen have 23 local unlona with a total membership of 500. New South Wales, Australia, has Government fisheries. Montana has an eight-hour daj- for laborers on Irrigation works. Of 2.31E.H9 agricultural workers In Egypt, 57,14-1 are women. Britloh miners In tho Black Country have doubled wages since 1S8S. One-fifth of tho tailors employed In this country are females. Glasgow (Scotland) baker dem&nd $10 a week and a war bonus of 25( -cents. California unionists demand the abolishment of private employment bureaus. The British Government lo accused cf sweating female labor In its munition muni-tion plants. One-third of the French munition workers (150,000) are women and girls. Coal miners In British Columbia demand de-mand a 10 per cent, incrcaso In pay. Organization has doubled thts pay and reduced tho hours of work of trackwalkers. Barcelona, Spain, had nine strikes In May, Involving almost 2000 workers. Almost 60 per cenLof Pennsylvania's labor cost Is expended In the anthracite anthra-cite field. Munition workers In Great Britain are lined for laying off without cause. Chattanooga (Tenn.) electrical workers will get the eight-hour day on January Janu-ary 1, 1917. Irish coal heavers on the channel coal steamers struck to enforce a demand for a 25 per cent. Increase In pay. Sunday agricultural labor Is strongly favored In many parts of the British Isles, Flnchley, North London. Eng., has employed a woman to drive the municipal munici-pal water cart. City laborers at Milwaukee. Wis., will get a minimum wage of SO cents an hour for eight hours a day. Tho modern system of trades unlolis In England came Into existence about the year 1S12. Portmodve (Wales) Town Council has appointed a woman as tax collector. Omaha (Neb.) sheet-metal workers have received an Increase In wages of cents an hour. Union barbers at Newark, N. J., are conducting a vigorous organizing campaign. cam-paign. Female labor at Krupp's works at Es-pen, Es-pen, Germany, has Increased tenfold since August 1, 19H. Pennsylvania's Stato Labor Bureau at Pittsburgh places applicants at an average aver-age cost of 43 cents each. French seamen and miners are obliged by law to make provision for their old age. The first watches mado by machinery were turned out by a Boston factory In 1850. Sine the outbreak of the war W.OJ) 'f settlers from the United States have 5; entered Canada, u Cyrus H. K. Curtis, probably tho rich- M jfl est publisher in the world, was onco & m Jfl newsboy In Portland. Maine. M By a new Fronch process aluminum $ emi bo so substantially nick el -plated i- eJ that the metal can be hammered and Dent without cracking. Jj -,j On September 18-27 at New Orleans, - ; La.. International Association of Bridge I and Structural Ironworkera will con- I; j vene. 1 Clyde (Scotland) members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers have ' , applied for a wages advance of 4 conts an hour. Women volunteer renorves collecting 1 waste paper for Glasgow Corporation are now a fumlllar sight In that city. The total of all Industrial accidents In Pennsylvania, fatal and non-fatal, la 121.1S0 for the tlrut six months of this year, as aalast B rasrted during 1915. Albert Bellamy, president of the Erlt-Ish Erlt-Ish National Union of Rallwaymen, has been nominated candidate for the general gen-eral secretaryship of the union. The city and county of San Mateo, Cal., arc now paying laborers $3 a day j, for eight hours as the result of agitation agita-tion conducted by tho Central Labor Union. The Royal British Commission on th ; Civil Service has recommended an increased in-creased admission of women of all grades to the civil service. . A conference Is being arranged by th British Railway Clerks' Association to consider measures for Improving the condition of women clcrko on railways who numbor about 2000. Labor shortage for the harvest in Canada Is thought to bo serious. Industrial Indus-trial and commercial undertakings may close down for a time to release auf- , llclcnt labor. l i Because of the high cost of living ' In Manchuria the administration of the -, ; Chinese Eastern Railway has granted j . to its employees Increases in pay of from 15 per cent, to SO per cent. Pennsylvania Stato Commission of Agriculture has approved plans for community associations of farmers who will pool their products and market them under the supervision of Stato experts. The exodus to England rrom Mayo, Ireland, of harvesters has been very large. They are mostly boys or men beyond middle life, as the young men fear conscription In England and Scotland. Scot-land. A deputation from the Glasgow La- fj bor Party Housing Association waited j: upon the Secretary for Scotland In J. Glasgow and urged that the Govern- i mcnt should give substantial annual J grants, free of Interest, to local au- j thorltlcs to build better houses. ! At a meeting of tho executive committee com-mittee of the State Federation of Labor La-bor It was voted to favor an amendment amend-ment to the Constitution to exclude private liability companies from writing writ-ing compensation In competition with the State fund. Petitions will bo circulated cir-culated for a referendum vote on this question at the fall election. uhe Chilean Government has recently Inaugurated a campaign of agricultural agricul-tural education and purpo?es to send out lecturers In a special railway car to visit periodically the different agricultural agri-cultural regions of the country. The professors of agronomy will Illustrate their talks by exhibits carried In tho Government's special museum car. and also by practical demonstrations In working the ground, whenever possible. |
