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Show 1 Ilk IiyI GL55rp OF1 THE Ton-EC jnjfy Mffll Tevtew of the latest TdRTtteta m or-'-riper boys tn Now York elLjr have orK'vnlrod. Philadelphia Kolry workers rtfiHTi n M i r corx. oraAisatlon. JiU'ai has enacted soolnt Insurance for Hh Inuwirial workers. Women ar eroployrid an trraitemcn on pafsoriKer train tn Emrhmd. Several of tht Mexican States h.Tro enacted en-acted eiTht-houn-a-iay roylslatlr.n. Nrwrpave" pr8tnen at Fdroonton. Canada, have soured an inorent In pay. Springfield (Ohtnt bartndors have re-ccivud re-ccivud a minimum wae of SU a week. Swsden employs orer 30.000 women In her ctotbtDg and textile Industrie. Alutka ha nn eltrht-hour day for workers In coke ovens. Civil -secvloo retirement legislation Is In force In Herpla- Of 737,00 pemvons onenped Ln agriculture agricul-ture In Canada loss than O0( itsv females. fe-males. Blacksmiths ropjoyed on Canadian Government railroads get 5c an hour. Plasterers at Son Antonio, Texas, now receive 7 a day. An lnrrcae r.f TO per rent, has been cranted 1,000 miners In Wet Virginia. Seattle (Wash mlfk drivers wlH be permitted to mnk- daylight dellvorlefi A determined effort Is to be made to organize bricklayers and masons throughout Canada. Rulkllns.- laborers at Denver CoL, havr received a second Increase of 26 cents day pItko January L There are dow 7l war savings associations asso-ciations in England rind Wales. City of Indon polioe force has since the war been reduced from 1117 to Chjr employees at Kaukauna. Wis., have secured a nine-hour day without reduction of pay. A labor temple ts projected by the Roanoke (Va.) Central Trades and Labor La-bor CouaeH 'arpentor at Port Arthur, Tex., will ask for Increased pay, to take efTi'i , ' Jaoo&ry 1, 1917. An effort is being made to effect an orvanixuUon o newsboys at Houaton, Texas. Omaha, Nsb., City Commissioners vetoed ve-toed a Sunday -closing law for barber shops. Woodcarvers at Detroit. Mich., ask an Increase of 5 cents an hour, tHectlVi January 1. 1817. In liflt Moiders' International I'nlon had 1.000 members. The present membership mem-bership is 'jO.OW. Italian miners In Charlottetomn, fan . nave quit their employment to work In munition factories. Of the I7.W8 Mexicans who came across the border during MH. no loss tUan 4979 w ere returned ; over J5 per coat. Wages m lumber amps In the L,ake Superior region are starting in at l.at K) a month ahead of lost year. In 18B8 hoist In engineers ut Boston, Mass.. were paid JV for a jl-lu.ur Tuey now earn 5JT7.30 a week of 44 hours. Hvery glossblower in Dan-viMe, III., has Jomed the anion of that crat, recently organized m that city. More than 1000 people received employment employ-ment through the aid of tbe New York city office of the State Bureau of Employment Em-ployment during Oetober. Cleveland Hungarian Typographical I'nlon has secured the adoption of a new scale, which carries a flat Increase of 1 per week In the minimum pay. A scheme to secure a change in the control and administration of the Labor Exchange In Kngiand has been put forward for-ward by tbe Amalgamated Society of Carpoptors and Joiners. A PVoW-fil Fmployces" Union ho ben formed of the men working In tho custom cus-tom and Immigration departments at Niagara Falls, N. Y. It will bo affiliated to the A. K. of I Th-. AlaSkt Fishermen's 1'nlen has adopted a scale of provisions for the bnats in the 1eHng xej, as recommended by ihc committee elected to confer with the Packers' Association. rrmncjllor J. W. Kneeshnw. labor candidate can-didate for West. Hlrmlnt h.i m. Kng . has been arrestxl as an absentee under the military service act. ru-mandod, dls-ciurcej dls-ciurcej and served with a new calllns-up calllns-up notice. The pre.ent soaJe of wages on the city ferries In Vancouver. B. C. is as folows: Captains, ; mates. i0 ; deckhands. deck-hands. t?0 . cleaners. IV) , chief engineers, HIS . ticket collectors, HO . freight clerks, ?6. A largely-attended meeting under the auspices of tho Ballylinan, Ballyadalns. J-t:illick-moyUs and BtradbaHjt branches of the Irish Iand and Labor Association was held at Ballytlnan when it was dc-cld,-d to opfxe contjcrintion. The Cnlf Secretary for Ireland was preMnt recently at th- opening ceremony cere-mony In connection with th completing of a housing scheme for workman within tbe area of Pembroke Urban District Council. There Is a movement on foot to organize or-ganize a woman s auxiliary of the I idled Mine Workers of America, and Quite a number of influential women In tho anthracite field are said to be ln- i ttrosted in furthering the project. A remarkable increase In membership ii uir oaimm umuiia ine AMjniir Coast is reported. The total membership of the Basteru locals, for the first time, now exr-ls that of tho SaUors' Union of the Pacific, Thf forma f.on of the State Building Trades Council of Massachusetts, which ws initiated recently. Is a preparedness mvr tu resist the attack that it Is expected ex-pected will be made by the State Metal Trades Association of New Englajid employers. em-ployers. The validity of Milwaukee's eight-hour day ordinance, which provides that the work day for city employees, as well as for employees of contractors doing city work, shall not exceed eight hours, was upi e,t by the State Supreme Court of Wisconsin. A resolution has be.n ndipted by the Dublin Chamber of Commerce asking that 'omptnsatlon b- allowed by the Government to the widows and dependents depend-ents of members of the Dublin metropolitan metro-politan polli e who lost their lives during the root rebellion. The trade union movement Is a standing stand-ing protect against commercial selfishness selfish-ness and greed; It Is an active protest aeulmu economic and social injustlco; it is a defender of the weak against the stron.;; it invites ail workers, both male and female, skilled and unskilled, to join hands with tl.- men and women (attMng for a brighter future and a hlS"her .'londard of civilization. Kx -change. Tli- alm arid objects of a new movement move-ment among the Japanese wage-earner of San Francisco url Vicinity, as oltlined 1 by Its projectors, are: To eliminate tho "unfair" competition of Japanese wage-aaljnars wage-aaljnars by seeking to establish the same i wages, hours of labor and conditions I that are maintained by tho organized white waKe-eamors, and to raise the standard o? living among the Japanese wage-earners in this country. Erery great cause must be based upon a principle that will command the on- j thuslaom and devotion of the mosses of the workers, a principle that will arouse the cowf.li nee and stimulate the better qualities inn. rent in hatnan nature; a i principle worthy of support lo evcrv emergency In life In times of prosperity and In times of dl.-Uregs The trado union movement Is the exponent and defender of tbe principles, which are of Vital importance to the potential prog-i prog-i ens of the human family. Qjar Mak- , era' Journal. |