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cry part of the country.
Leather workers In New York and
Brooklyn have won the nine-hour day
and Saturday haif-holiday.
The United Brotherhood OF Carpenters
and Joiners of America has increased its
membership by 10000 in the last two
years.
The annual report of the Piano and Or
gan Workers Union shows that during
1905 benefits aggregating $35, 2S2.96 were
paid.
1t Is reported that every city In Canada
Ii preparing to place labor candidates in
the field at the next general and provincial
elections.
A new law has been passed in Iowa
which prohibits the employment of chill
dren under IS In any gainful occupation
which would injure health.
Carpenters are on strike in Boise, Ida,
against the Master Builders Association.
They are demanding an eight-hour day,
As cents per hour and the closed chop.
The latest addition to labor's ranks 10
the United Brotherhood of Rural, H1ti-
cultural and Agricultural Wage Farmers
of America. The headquarters Is in Dali
las, Texas.
Several thousand miners at Spadra,
Hartman, Coal Hill and Russellyilie,
Ark. have been ordered back to work.
the scale prevailing In 1908 having been
agreed upon.
The Labor News of st. Louis has start
ed crusade against the leasing of convict
labor by the State Of Missouri TO be used
In competition with manufacturers who
employ free labor.
The Irish iaborers' cottage bill passed
its second reading In the British House
of Commons recently. The bill authorizes
a loan OF So, 100000 to provide Irish
laborers with cottages.
Streator. ILL.,. elected eight new Alder.
were union bottle blowers, two union min
ers. one union carpenter and one union
printer--six out Of eight.
Butchers at the Chicago stock yards
report the duliest season for years. Cat
tie butchers are working only 25 hours q
week, and most OF the other departments
only work two or three days a week.
The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
has been In existence twenty-three years,
has TBS local branches, with iTs,0o0 mem
bers, 81. so 900 In its treasury and pays
out $4,000 every thirty days in claims.
There are 900 shoe factories In this
country using the union stamp. according
to a report recently issued. These fac.
tories give employment to 10000 union
shoemakers. Most OF the best and largest
shops are organized.
The advancement of wages In the tex
tile centers is becoming general, and the
employees in every city are benefitins. Al
ready wage increases benetiting more than
100000 textile workers have been granted
in New England centers.
The death rate from accidents at coal
mines In the principal eoal-producins
countries In 1904 were Austria, 81:
Belgium, %: France, i.0T. Great Brit
ain. LA. Germany, 100. and United
States, 3.35 per 1000 employees
Returns relating TO the state Of en-
ployment In Germany during the fra
quarter of 1906 were supplied to the i'm.
perial statistical Office by trade unions
with an aggregate membership of 1921
wv vi AuEsf, A-tDo-bs VI 81 Isl NIAAst
were described In the returns as unem-
pIoyed.
For the first time since May the "a
affiliated unions of the Boston Carpen-
ters' District Council have not a single
man on strike. The wharf and bridge
builders strike for the eight-hour day IL
not yet settled, but all the men who struck
have been placed at work under union
conditions.
OF 1884 children under 10 years OF
age employed In the Belgian textile indus.
tries, 3.2s2 earned franc (ie csntsl.
2,969 earn z. franc fl4La centsD. but less
than franc. and 2.454 earn IN francs
or more daily. The most general length
of the working day, exclusive of intervals,
was eleven and one-half houra
The child labor law of IIllnois will be
enforced in all Of the coal mines Ia the
State. Under the Interpretation of the
law made by Factory Inspector Edgar T.
Davies and sustained by the courts no
boys under 10 years Of age will b. permit
ted TO work in the mines. IL Is estimated
the enforcement Of the statute viii take
1850 boys away from employment under
ground.
Colorado Springs. at which the hons
for union printers Is located, has offered
Inducements 20 the Brotherhood of Rail.
road Trainmen to locate It's proposed In.
stitution for incapacitatsd and INDECENT
members there. The brotherhood has now
been in existence % years and has rs
lodges. with a total membership of 1900
and treasury Of Si.5G0.Oo0. IL paws
out about $4,000 a mon;a in claims. has
over Ss7. 100000 insurance In force aad
has paid out sinos It's foundation Sii,-
500 900 in benefits.
After fighting labor organizations fas
years, II. r. Ford Of Rochester, n. Y.
who conducts a plumbing establishment.
has come to terms with the Plumbers
Union and, In order that the men Who
have been 10 his employ may become mem.
hers of the union, has given the union a
check for $500 TO pay fines imposed upon
the men hy the union. The union asked
$500, but finally compromised and accept-
ed 500. Eight men from the Ford @hop
are TO join the union and the shop j. 70
be put on the fair llst.
William Abrahams, VI. p. otherwise
known as "MAhon." who was i delegate