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Show HEAD OF WORLD FEDERATION William A Appleton, British Labor Leader, First PrctJdent of International Interna-tional Trade Union Federation. W A. Appleton, secretary of the General Federation of Trades Unions . of rat Rrltain, Is the new president of the Internationul Trade Union Federation, Fed-eration, which recently held Its con- ' ventlon In Amsterdam Holland. Ap- ( pleton, who Is railed the Sam Gompers ' Of England, was nominated for the in-i in-i national presidency by the American Ameri-can labor leader His election Indi- ' cates that the conservatives headed bj American and British renresentatl es, controlled the convention. The American Alliance for Labor and Democraev Issued the following 1 statement: "It will be gratifying ne.vs to the great DOdj of constructive trade ' unionists in America that William A j Appleton has been elected president of the International Federation of Trade Fnlons at the congress In Amsterdam. Mr Appleton has ben fnr years secretary secre-tary of the (Jenerol Federation of Trade Unions In England. In 1017 he 1 visited the United Stales as head of I a delegation repr, -venting the General Federation of Trade Union" More than any other European leader of in- j bor, he thinks In accord with .Samuel Gompers." Britich Labor Legislation. To provide adequate living wages and to set a limit of 48 hours as a treek S work Is declared to he the purpose pur-pose of two Important bills which are being prepared for action in the Rrit-Ish Rrit-Ish parliament. These measures are understood to be 'he result of an agreement between representatives of employers, of trade unions and of the minister of labor, icting as a national industrial conference1, confer-ence1, i The wage bill as drawn up provides for nn Inquiry by a commission to de- I clde what shall he the minimum wages for adults and for young persons the , commission to consider the cost of llv- , Ing. It Is also provided that the mini- If mum wage shall he adequate to meet the Increased living cot I 422,160 in German Mine Union. According to a report made, to the twenty first convention of the Mine Workers' union of Germany in Blele-' Blele-' feld and quoted in the Frankfurter Zeltung of June 10. the membership of that organization has risen from 101, 0S3 before the outbreak of the world i war to 42.1ft0. after having fallen to 4G.r71 In 101." The convention adopted 1 a resolution demanding tV liberation of all miners arrested during strike disturbances, except In .i-ih where tl ey had heen guilty of Crimes egalnst life or property. Textile Workers' Wages Advance. Textile wages in England are now from 110 to 120 per cent above the so-called standard, advances averaging no per c. nt baring been obtained during dur-ing the period of war. The president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association of England l authority for these figures. Presumably they do not Include the 25 per cent advance that has heen offered to Lancashire cotton workers, provided they aerrpt a forty-elght-hour week, as the state ment wns made pnhllc the latter part of May Textile World Journol. Fewer British Unemployed. The pay roll of the unemployed, to whom the British government Is making mak-ing n weekly dole, has heen reduced bv ahout .'iOO.OOI names nnre May last, when the government drew its purse ' -trlnr t'pjiter. From November to ' May the weekly benefits were paid to sbonl 1.2o0.000 persons. Payments aro now bf !nc made to nbont 750.000. -Art |