The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-07-11
LABOR NEWS AND Comments,
PERSONAL. ORGANIZATION AND LEGISLATIVE.

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The legislators Of Oregon, Texas and
Alabama, have passed the child labor
laws.
In twelve months trades unions in
New York state Increased their mem
bership $4,000.
England has 1926 trade unions, with
a membership of 1,922,7S9. The gain in
membership last year was 1876.
The Homestead mills produce, with
about 1000 men, three times as much
steel as the Krupp works produce with
$4,000
In Be lgium, the state has erected
dwellings, for workingmen in certain
localities and has arranged SO that
they can buy the mon easy terms.
The manufacturing plants Of Califor-
MIA employ 81 ,047 wage hands; of this
number Ella are children under 16 years
of age. The average annual wages
paid in that state in 10000 were $52Q.80.
The free employment bureaus in Chi
cago are to be abandoned, recent
court decision declaring them uncon-
stitutional bucause Of certain provis-
ions in the measure which created them.
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hands union, formed at Topeka, KAN
sas. The name Of the order is the Ma
tional Union of Railway Trackmen, and
it's headquarters will be at Fort Scott.
The Women's Labor League has for
a part of its purpose the establishment
Of homes and farms for aged and de-
cripit trade unionists, schools for the
young in the principles of unionism,
nd hncritalc FNr ciok ,,r3r,o nd
women.
The school teachers of Santa Clara
County, California, have formed a union
with jurisdiction over all the schools
outside the city Of San Jose. The city
has union which looks after the in
terests Of the teachers within the pre-
cincts. The teachers of Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, have formed a
union for mutual protection,
Coal miners in Australia average
about $3.50 week.
y Less than dollar a month with bed
and coarse food, is the wage paid to
Calcutta workers in the boot and shoe
trade.
The Sidney, Australia Trades Coun-
ell is pushing campaign Of organi-
cation among unorganized.
During the last % years trade unions
in England have spent on strikes the
sum of $3,250,000-and in benefits, suck
and funeral allowances, out-of-work
pay, ETC., they have disbursed over $22,-
100000.
The Sidney (Australia) Labor Council
has issued an appeal to all for the Bris-
bane Bakers, who are still in the Conn.,
rnonwealth labor unions for the pur-
pose of obtaining financial help for the
Brisbane bakers who are still on strike.
The New Zealand Trades and Labor
Conference has passed resolutions in
favor Of the Parliamentary franchise
applying to the election Of local bodies
and in favor Of incapaciated wage
earners receiving an old age pension.
The Mexican Land and Colonization
Company. an English concern holding
a concession from the Mexican govern
ment is making arrangements to i'm
port large numbers Of Chinese to lower
California before the close Of the year.
The Iowa State Federation of Labor
in session at Davenport, adopted a res
olution criticising Carol d.. Wright,
United State Commissioner of Labor,
for utterances which showed che held
no interest in common with the working
class, but was a representative of the
exploiting Glass; The federation will
memorialize President Roosevelt to ap-.
point a union labor man as his success
or at the expiration Of his term or
+'upon his resignation"
, TWenty-one contractors Of Waterloo,
Ia, have signed an agreement not to
! recognize any of the building trade
unions of that city.
All the flour milling companies in
Milwaukee, Wis, have agreed to their
employees demand for an increase in
wages Of 81 a week.. sr,' ~ - 3
Another lockout is expected on the
part Of the master mason, carpenters
and plumbers of Bremen, Gernany,in'
ansT wer to demands made by the jour
neYmen and lit is, expected that there
wiki be 10,o 900 men idle. / S. f E. s !<I.
Arbitrators2ap potnted Nv the Ma ton
aVtBoot and Shoe Operative Eng:
hand and employers have ecl ded upon
a, 1ninnina l1n
Years. The men a-d] II ti1aet'