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Erieklsycrs In Japan are paid 10 cents
: day.
In fse building trade Of the uaaei
Kingdom there are employed about f..o1.-
olO people.
An Effort Is being made 10 organize the
workn.en Of Mexico on the al the lines as
they are In other countries.
For the twenty years ISIS. 100; the Az
eraxe d unemployed among cgo.6.S Brit
ixh trade unionssts wa - per cent.
McutreAI tCanadsl 'lon~sAorenaen oh
i~t 10 the bonus system introduced by
tie shipping rnen. but the latter resuse 10
abolish IL.
The r~eeent,y organized Master BARRIERS
Association at San Francisco. Cal. has
promised to finance the BARRIERS Union in
iss Efforts TO put Gil the shops In a sani-
'ary sonditian.
The Congregational Ministers Associa.
ticn of Minneapolis. MINI. has assed the
local Central Labor body the privilege OF
aging dues the same as other oryanixa-
tioaS. The Offer Was declined.
In the installation of a cooperative
sswing stson a, Manhattan, another fsnr-
tscal ~ae Of the Women's Trade Union
League has developed alan- lines Of great
utility To tae wousen workers
Les Angeles. Cal. has a new publica-
ton which is devoted 10 the union label
OF the various organizations. X is in
tended To ~instrue. all classes of people rs
10 labels and what they stand for.
An effort is being made at Washington.
-. c. by the unions of organized labor
to prevent the awarding Of government
contracts to firms aad individuals who
wont employ union labor. or observe the
sight-honr law.
Organized electrical workers in Mime
apolis. MINI. are taking more than sn
ordinary interest In the proposed street
illumination plans. and are making an
organized campaign in favor of electricity
in street lighting.
The attempt TO combine the business
men of all France into a ~non-politieal pro-
tective association. 10 be known as The
Federation of French Manufacturers aud
business Men," is reported to be making
satisfactory progress.
Inc 1iAlSFIS VI tue lHtfI atltuaf ofI>S
holders Union of North America report
that since the establishment of the inter
national. in October. 1904. the member
ship has increased to 10000. The organ.
iza,ion pays sick and death benefits.
OF the 2.3o labor organizations formed
last year in Canada, 81 were formed by
railway employees, 43 by metal workers
and Al in the building trade. Ninety
four organizations were formed in On
tario. IL in Quebec. 2S in Alberta aad -
in British Columbia.
Practically one out of every three
union men in the State was idle at the
cioee Of 1907. according to the quarterly
bnlletin Of the New York State labor de-
parfmenf. In New York City the percent.
nge was 34.o as compared with 32.1 for
the remainder of the State.
During the year 1907. 6.4S3 new indus
tries were reported in the South. rom
pared with Gall in 1906. which was the
best record ever made. The leading
States were Texas. 1,3S3: Oklahoma,
194, and Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro-
10 go each.
An act was passed by the Tennessee
Legislature to make IL unlawful to allow
any female child under sixteen to WORK
in any manufacturing establishment more
than sixty-two hours in any one week in
1908. or more than sixty-one hours in
1909. and after Jan. l, 1910, more thaa
sixty hours.
Much enthusiasm is displayed by the
-
passage of the new eight-hour law. which
il regarded ms effective. The new meas
nre. which passed the Legislature several
weeks ago. is now in force. 1t is pat
termed after laws in several of the West
ern States, and has stood the test OF the
United States Supreme Court.