The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-11-22

In the silk factories Of Italy the
usual work hours are from four in the
morning till eight at night and the
wages ten cents a day.
About 1000 shipyard owners on the
northeast coast Of England have struck
work as a protest against five per
cent. reduction in their wages.
Six thousand coal miners held a meet
ing at Lieven Department of Pas de
Calais) on November 8, and decided not
to accept the decision Of the arbitrat-
ors against an increase at the present
rates of wages and to continue the
strike.
Extract from the Queensland (Aus-
tralia) Factories and Shops report:
In a few cases mole trousers were
being finished Gncluding making the
'button-hol for 81 cents, so cents,
and even rs cents per dozen, and drill
trousers for so cents per dozen. In
these cases the work was sublet," l. e.,
sweated.
According to statistics recently issued
by the German Government there were
1071 strikes in that country during
1901, involving 141,22O persons, as
against 1,462 strikes of 298,S19 persons in
1900. In 200 cases in 1901 the strikes
were successful, and in 285 cases they
were partially. successful, and in ST.
cases they failed.
The French Government has sue.
ceeded in bringing together the arbi,
traitors representing the striking miners
and the mine owners Of the Pallas de
ct ~ ~ <L~ k~i1-
CEN ters. The meeting was) held at
the Misistry Of Public Works. The
discussion was chiefly as to wages. AS
yet no decision has been reached.
In Belgium the prevailing wage Of
coal miners seem to be about one dollar.
OF some $4,000 miners, $500 receive up
ward of $50 day and nearly the same
number under seventy cents day,
while $1,000 receive between $1.O0 and
$3.50. Almost exactly 'one-half Of the
miners are classed as earning one dol
lar or upward.
The new Hungarian Emigration bill
specifically prohibits the emigration of
Ger ain classes Of people, including men
who have not performed military SER
vice, parents who leave behind them
children under fifteen years of age,
and persons without adequate travelling
money, or whose expenses are paid by
foreign states or colonization societies.
A general advance of fifteen per cent
In wages has been granted. the Belgium
window glass workers. The men had
threatened to strike unless given an
increase of wages equal to that granted
the workers in the United States The
advance will benefit the glass industry
in the latter country, as it will lessen
the imports and the trade will 20 to
home manufacturers.
recent decree Of the Minister of
Finance establishes an eight-hour day
for all worknen employed on the State
domains and in Government mines and
manufactures In the Canary Islands.
Whenever these men are called upon
to work longer than eight hours. they
will be granted overtime pay. the rate
Tor every extra hour being equivalent
to one-eight of their regular pay for
the day.
OF the n.273 men working on the
principal French railroads, 1851 receive
from 1870 to $16.4O a month; 22,573
Zl.4Z
to $26.05; 11,038 from $26.25 to 1914;
3407 from $32.04 to $3.50; 1850 from
$3.50 to $43.42; 1899 from $4s 81 to $50. OF;
2171 from $53.27 to $72.37; and PSF receive
more than $53.27 to $7237-that is to
say, f1fty-six per cent of the men re-
ceive from 1859 to $26.05 per month,
and eighty-four per cent get from 3d. 70
to $31.84 per month.
The so-called Hirch-Duncker trade
unions tn Germany, include at the pres
ent day $4,000 members and 1900 local
unions. OF these $4,000 belong to unions
Of engineers and metal workers and
$500 to those Of handicraftsmen and
workers in manufactures. The entire
property of the trade unions, amounted
at the end of 1898, to 100000. Since
their foundation and up to 1885, they
had distributed nearly $4,000, 000,0 900 for
sickness and burial money, in relief for
the disabled and needy, for legal pro-
lection, and for educational purposes.