Show labor notes in mcw zealand the average vagas for common labor Is 10 cents per hour while the skilled worker in trades receives about the same as those of the united states among borne of the socialist laws Is that known as he arbitration bit ration and conciliation act all labor difficulties are presented to a board 0 conciliation and when a settlement tails with this board the trouble la panned up to a tribunal composed of a justice ot the supreme court a representative senta tive ot labor and one ot capital this tribunal la the final resort among the socialistic mea Is tho old ago pension law which is now in operation all british citizens male and female who have lived in the colony twenty five years and above the ago 0 sixty five are entitled to a pension ot about a year there are some conditions to this pension any person in receipt 0 a fixed income above is not allowed a pension the government figures that it Is better to give pensions than to maintain institutions for the poor and thus remove pauperism the pensioners are notably independent in their behavior there are several calorel co lorel in richmond va which aro affiliate with a recently organized central body the tobacco worker have two organizations zat ions numbering over others affiliated are the hod carriers and hack drivers unions according to the annual report ot commissioner general frank P gent of he burca iLot immigration there has been a large increase in immigration ta this country during the last fiscal year when foreigners crossed our borders there were over strikes in 1803 in france involving over labor ers and craftsmen the new british blue book gives the average weekly wages of fifteen skilled trades at 1050 in london and 1875 in new york the most thoroughly organized skilled tradesmen in germany aro the printers the national rolling mills ot cennes ind have down on ao count of labor troubles and men are out of employment the trouble was started among the furnace laborers by a walking delegate who induced them to strike for a raise from 1312 2 to 15 cents an hour the leaders in the movement were at once discharged and orders were given to dump the fires the lancaster ahng cotton operatives are reported to bo emigrating to canada la large numbers owing to the continued closing of the mills brought about by the market manipulations of cotton buyers the parent body ot the labor organizations of germany tho german fed trafon of labor within headquarters in berlin has sixty national unions affiliated with it having a total mew i barship 0 aej its local amia unions have members according to the roost recent reports the scientific and domestic education of women in russia Is perhaps in ad vance of any other nation for eltty or more huseman women have been admitted to diplomas in and and the greatest facilities have been extended for the employment 0 them as clerks tn government offices during the recent strike 0 printers in JJ oston mase the amount 0 strike benefits in some instances exceeded the wages received during employment borne 0 the men working for 12 having received 7 weekly from the international typographical aalon and the same amount from the local organization the royal comm leston on labor disputes created in england last year la making little headway trade union and labor organizations in all parts of the country have refused assistance and information of any kind toward making the tribunal of any value owing to the fact that there are representatives ot organized labor on the commission the two organizations of window glass workers numbering men have been replaced by window glass workers of america which will take in the membership 0 the two former organizations and will have headquarters at cleveland 0 there wai be ua dent and four vico president the latter to be located at important glass manufacturing centers the biennial election of officers ot the international typographical union takes place wednesday may 18 by a referendum vote of the membership all over the western hemisphere there ie no european country in which women clerks are more employed than in france it la rare to enget a french shop and find a man serving as an accountant because of the fact that there is no general convention ot the painters union this year the locals over the country have been called upon to upon amendments to the general constitution than 0 dussias Rus sias inhabitant are industrially employed and the greater part of their work Is on government orders for the last few days no newspapers have been published in lisbon portugal owing to the decision 0 the publishers to suspend publication rather than concede to the demand of compositors tor higher wages sev ity alve per cent of the employs in the buru of printing and engraving are women the new york wagon worker unions demand a fafty one hour a week schedule with one apprentice ico 0 o every fifteen men and with the following scale of wages 12 a week for helpers 15 for finishers 18 to 21 for blacksmiths and 18 to 21 tor wheel wrights the unions also demand that their walking delegates be to enter any shop and talk to the men the unions also demand the saturday half holiday with a full days wages the consolidation 0 the amalgamated society of engineers machinists blacksmiths and pattern makers an english organization with about 2000 men in the united stated with the international ter of machinists has been on subject to the approval the eu perlor officers ot the former organization |