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Show 5Q Gxssrp o:f the Toilet j I UyTttljSli A TEVrEW GF THE. LATEST I ft lALUi&to MILL. AMD-MINE I H Chicago tile layers get 75 cents an hoar. Heat periods for band employees are reffTllatAt In Irnrnnv Irish cattlemen are paid Trom $2.S0 to B.2S a rtek. Frisco Milkers' Union will get the eight-hour day January 1, 1917. In Italy of 9,556.340 engaged In agriculture. agri-culture. 3.195,063 are women. Sweden employs almost -10,000 workers In the manufacture of food products. ClvlI-servlce retirement legislation Is In fore In Bolivia. South America. Arlrona hns an eight-hour day for workers employed In cement mills. Two Callfornlu labor unions have admitted ad-mitted Asiatics to membership. In Pennsylvania SO per cent of tho factory fac-tory workers are males. Stcreotypcrs and Electrotypers International Inter-national union has 5000 members. The A. F. of L. convention In November Novem-ber will have a fraternal delegate from J ft pan. Fish curing and packing factories In Spain employ over 31,000 operatives. Stage employees at Duluth. Minn., have eccured an increase In pay. Locomotive engineers In this country nave in avcrago dally wage of $o.2J. Union barbers at Allcntown. Pa., have enforced their $H-a-weok minimum wage. i Ford's auto plants employ more than ",wj wommtn. I Virginia Federation of Labor will de- I mand a workmen's compensation from the Legislature. St. Paul (Minn.) drug clerks aro after i Sunday-closing ordinance. Union labor at San Francisco may establish es-tablish a trade union bank. It It) estimated that a million workers in this country have received wago increases in-creases this year. France had 11,000.000 persons earning wages on salary before tho war. Women aro to be admitted to Ihe mcd-. leal classes at Edinburgh (Scotland) University. Uni-versity. Membership In boot and shoeworkere" anions in Canada has been doubled recently. jsntisn economists rorcsee serious industrial in-dustrial strife after tho war is over. Richmond (Va.) unions have organized i building trades council. October 1 tho wages of Waco (Texas) carpenters will bo Increased to W.56 a day. A great influx of Mexican labor Is reported re-ported from cities and towns on tho border. bor-der. Cleveland. Ohio, pays tho standard rate of wages on all municipal work. Cincinnati Ohio, has a 100 per cent, organization of street railway employees. Only schoolbooks bearing the union label may bo used In Trenton (N. J.) schools. Berlin (N. M.) unions have leased a hall as a meeting place for tho organized. organ-ized. A label directory la about to bo published pub-lished by Butte (Mont) labor unions. A union of musicians is under way at Jackson, Miss, i new labor paper, tho Jollot Trlbuno. has been launched in that hustling Illinois Illi-nois city. , California has 10.057 factories, employing em-ploying moro than 200.000 persons. Twelvo hundred womon workers on the land have been registered In Warwickshire. War-wickshire. England. Henry Ford may reduce the worklns HI i day for employees In his factories to six It hours- II H "cuiuiarj xtcuneiu ocgan nis ousincss m career as a clerk In tho postomce at 1 fM Plttsflcld, Mass. ' From October at New York, N. I 3 1 T., United Textile Workers of America will convene. i Women cnbdrlvers are stated to bo a I success In Glasgow, Scotland. One Arm A ? H has about 10 women driving cabs. J l In 1SSS elevator constructors at Boston 7 ! earned J13.C0 a week of 54 hours. They 1 , now get SS.40 a week of 44 hours. 1 1 Hundreds of boys have been excused j H attendance from elementary schools In 1 Surrey. England, for employment In ag- rlcultural work. j 1 Women conductors in London, England. j H arc so expert at testing money that the ' H taking of bad coins for fares has been I reduced to a minimum. I 1 A bill will be Introduced In tho Rus- sian Duma conferring popular rights upon the Jews and removing the existing II educational restrictions. ft St Louis (Mo.) Van Drivers and Help- H era" Union asks employers to establish si a weekly wage and abolish the present Ij contract and speeding-up system. IJj B A Chicago scrub woman who has in- jf J ; vented a padded contrivance mounted 111 H on castors says she has a good deal of 11 fun while scrubbing a door. n Frisco unions will raise a defense fund I with which to combat tho efforts of the 11 JM Chamber of Commerce to establish tho Ij open 3iiop in ban Francisco. , ; jm In response to prolonged agitation the ' British Government has decided In spe- VM cial cases to make an additional allow- rM lance to old ago pensioners, not exceed-lng exceed-lng half a crown per week. The British Trades Union Congress adopted a resolution protesting ngalnst compulsory sorvice. and one demanding f that the clergy should not be exempted ! ; from military service. Conferences aro being held in Canada i i between members of tho Government arid 1 ' tH representatives of labor and manufac- turcrs of munitions and general wat .H Supplies regarding the shortage of labor. The Amalgamated Society of Engl- t nccra hus mado representations to the . ' British Ministry of Munitions with a view to securing tho roturn of their mem- uo ucmui icu ii viu me vjiyuc urea in connection with the recent labor trou-bles. trou-bles. jH To help popularize Hamilton (Canada) technical school, manufacturers are be-Ing be-Ing asked to allow students who have spent two years In training there to enter their factories on third-year pay, counting the training period in school as an apprenticeship. Chief of Pollco McNamara of "Waco, Texas, has apked tho Mayor and City Council to study tho question of eight t hours for policemen, claiming that such a move would prevent worry, care and vexation, thereby causing the officers to ; give bettor service. j The working hours for agricultural I laborers in Ireland during the six I 4JjjjjjjjjJ months. May to October, are usually 0 from 7 A. M. to 6 P. M.. with an hour's i JM rest for dinner: In winter the working ' HH oorlod extends from light to darkness. ,' Plowmen and cattlemen ordinarily have I tho longest hours, having to corao ear- 3 Her and to remain longer than tho less skilled workers. Ifl Comparisons show that salaried cm- B j ployoes stoadlly Increase In a much m , MV per cent ill 'BH ill |
