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Brooklyn have won the nine-hour day
and Saturday half-hol.day.
The United brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America has increased it's
membership by 10000 in the last two
years.
The annual report of the Piano and Or
gan Workers. Union shows that during
1909 benefits aggregating $35,2S2.9G were
paid.
1t is reported that every city in Canada
is preparing to place labor candidates in
the field at the next general and provincial
elections.
\ 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 Bose. Ida,
against the Master Builders' Association.
They are demanding an cight-hour day,
Al cents per hour and the closed shop.
The latest addition to lahor's ranks is
the United brotherhood Of Rural, IIorti-
cultural and Agricultural Wage Farmers
of America. The headquarters is in DIAL
las, Texas.
Several thousand miners at Spadra,
Hartman, Coal Hin and Rus%"llvill",
Ark, have been ordered back to work,
the scale prevailing in 1909 having been
agreed upon.
Inc Labor News or 81. Louis mas start
ca " 'ruS""e "S''"St !"e ""''"H . '"A'"t
i'""' "S 'H' SAFE OK Ni'NH'"!' / '" '%N
employ free labor.
TN" Irish laborers' cottage blIl passed
ITS second reading IN the hr!flSA House
Of l',,,,,,r- ,,,,tI,. rrb, 1i1l 1tlnrivaS
OF ! "IhlnohS recently. he oII au'N'Il"ts
IA '"'n u H--'""'''"0 ~ p''''ue -"
'"NorerS WAL Fo''"E'S'
S;rcator, H., elected eight new .\l'"r-
men at the recent election. Two OF Them
were union bottle overs, two union min
eFS' one union carpenter ant one UNION
printer -S'N out OIL ''%A'
butchers at the tA!rAgo stock yards
report the du!lrst season f." years. Cat
tie butchers are working only - hours a
week, and most of the other departments
only work two or thre" days L week.
The brotherhood of l"tai!@1y Trainmen
has been in existence tw"n:y -;hr'" Years,
has 12S local branches, with l'N,WD mem
bers. $1.JGn,Mn in IFS treasury and pays
out $liu,MJO 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 rive cm"plovmrnt to 10000 union
shocmakors. Most of the best and largest
shops are organized.
The advancement of wages in the tex
ill.,, c,r,.rs X bc.,r,inr general. and the
emnIov,s IN .,,,ry civ are beueGting. Al
ro,Ly wo~o increases benotiting more than
900 mnn tnv,,r workers have been granted
i, Sew l.ny3,nd ccntcrs.
r,ina, IN tho nrincinol Goa ~l-oroluring
corrtr.or in 1904 were. AUSTRIA, %;
Do1rinm or. France q Great Brit
ain 1o1. Germany LOG. and United
CI,,o. 221 r.r 1HO cnn,ovos.
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p''' ! 1000 $3.50 ~, =,
.a...;,o, aHao w.. .r,da ,,nio,s
:" 49,. 1851
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f"r the ff1t 'inc SINCE N2S l IN" 81
animated unions OF me boston oatPen-
t""s District Council have not Il Single
man on strike. Inc wharf ana bridge
tr.id"rS strike tor the elght-hour day IS
not yet settled, but all the men who struck
have been placed at work under union
conditions.
Of 1O,S6t children under 10 years OF
age employed IN the b"l"!al textile indus
tries. 3.ZS2 earned l franc CD cents),
$500 earn u franc (l4l2 cNnts), but less
than l franc, and 2.41l earn IA francs
or more daily. The most general length
of the working day. exclusive OF intervals,
was eleven and one-halt hours.
The child labor law of Illinois will be
enforced in all of the coal mines in the
State. Under the Interpretation of the
law made by Factory Inspector Edgar Il.
Davies and sustained by the courts no
boys under IS years of age will be permit
ted to work in the mines. 1t is estimated
the enforcement of the statute will take
$500 boys away from employment under
ground.
Colorado Springs, at which the home
for union printers is located, has offered
inducements to the brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen to locate its proposed in
stitution for incapacitated and INDECENT
members there. The brotherhood has now
been in existence % years and has I2S
lodges. with a total membership of $4,000
and a treasury of $1,J6O,OO O 1t pays
out about $4,000 a month in claims, has
over $S1 100000 insurance IN force ana
has paid out since It's fouhdatlon Sll'-