The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-01-03
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY

! I'LL WORLD
Female house servants command from
SIS to $50 a month in South Africa,
Trade unions at Everett. Wash. have
built a home for themselves at cost
of $4,000
After January / Boston CMass) news
boys and bootbIacks under fourteen
years Of age will be licensed.
No child. young girl. OF woman can be
| employed more than sixty hours a week
in Canada, and the law is strictly en-
forced.
There are more than 10000 workmen
employed in the Portsmouth England
navy yard. The wages amount to s7O,-
| 900 weekly.
An hourly wage Of 40 cents will be de-
manded by the Milwaukee CWis.) bridge
and structural iron workers after May
/, 1903
Half the workmen in the Sunderland
| England shipyards are idle, more than
1900 of whom are shipwrights and the
rest general laborers.
1t is reported that a number of labor
unions in the East propose to affiliate
with the American Labor Union. which
promises to put organizers in the field
The factory and shop report of Queens
land, Australia. states that In every in
stance the proportion of female to male
employees in shops has greatly increased.
Marine engineering employers on the
northeast coast of England have given
notice of a reduction of per cent in
wages of men employed in the associ-
ated workshops.
Calculating the annual industrial value
Of workman's life at 500. the Italian
Office of statistics finds that Sicily lost
$3.50, 600 last year through deaths from
malaria.
Union painters in New Jersey work
as hours a week and average $3.50 a day;
non-union men, 81 hours and $3.50 a day,
according to figures compiled by the
bureau of labor OF that State.
One million. five hundred thousand
dollars was paid in strike benefits to
the coal miners. Fully $4,000 men were
involved, but only 30 per cent of this
number were reduced to absolute want.
IN France there are 1913 women en-
pIoyed as gatekeepers at the railroad
crossings. They get very small salary.
but the railroads provide each one with
house and a small garden patch, rent
free.
Livery employees at Albany. n. Y, viii
strike If the new wage scale submitted
to employers is not recognized by their
employers for 1903. The new scale pro-
yides for sI2 a week. and twelve hours
a day
New South Wales (Australia) laws
against child labor are very stringent.
and all girls in shops or stores must
have seats. All stores must close at 6
p. m, and public houses from Il p. N.
Saturday until Monday morning.
Word was receiy at The beadquar-
ters of the United ~ Workers at IN
dianapoHs, Ind, that representatives of
Iowa miners will attend the national
convention. and viii ask to be admitted
TO the interstate agreement.
The opinion recently rendered by At
torney General Hamlln, of Illinois, that
the letting of contracts for the labor
Of convfcts in penal institutions OF the
State is illegal. has given. the Antf-Con-
tract Labor League great encourage
ment.
In 1889 bricklayers worked fourteen
hours for 80 cents in 1880 they increas-
ed to s1.75 for twelve hours. About 1850
nomination, with the exception OF Fran
els E Jewell. are keeping remarkably
quiet Mr.. Jewell is prosecuting the
most vigorous kind of campaign, and