Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-05

Frencn laDOr unions nave q mem~ bership of 100000.
 Russia has no fewer than S6 pub He holidays in the year.
 The union label has not made much progress in Great Britain.
 Carpenters and framers are paid $5 for an eight hour day in New York city.
 Membership in the A. F. of L. has increased from 264,S25 in 1897 to 1,5S6,SS5 in 1908.
 There were but 1S,O00 Chinese miners left in the Rand gold mines, South Africa, on July 31.
 There are 57 active labor unions in Santa Clara county, Cal, of which Al are in the city of San Jose.
 A vigorous campaign or organiza- tion has as its objective a tri-state central labor union, taking in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
 The building trades department of the American Federation of Labor has established headquarters at Washington, D. c.
 In 1928 the workingmen's party, local political organization, appear ed in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other large cities.
 The International Typographical union has $222,225.62 in it's treas- ury. Of this amount $9O,9S2 belongs to the old age pension fund.
 The Chinese government has estab- lished school at Shanghai to in struct the sons of fishermen in mod ern methods of fish culture.
 Bricklayers', Masons and Plaster CTS International union is consider ing a plan for a home for indigent and superannuated members.
 John Mitchell is writing a socio- logical novel, dealing with industrial and political conditions as he has found them in the United States.
 Both sections of cotton operatives Tn Newcastle have agreed to accept the per cent reduction for three months on condition that the ques- tion is reconsidered at the end of that period.
 Boston, Mass, stationary firemen's union has organized class in steam engineering which will take a course nf tho PnStnn rnoob bo nil orf l,; ;r~l, school under the evening industrial school system.
 The laws of New York forbidding boys and girls under IA years of age from selling newspapers on the streets between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. has gone into effect.
 Boston's labor movement is to have an eight hour labor chorus of women members of Boston unions along the lines of the famed women wage earn CTS chorus of Chicago.
 The International Moulders union reports receipts during the past four years of $217,S63. with expenditures amounting to s19S,152. The death benefits totalled $50,700.
 In his fifth annual report on the Industrial affairs of the state, John l.. Rockey, chief of the Pennsylvania bureau of labor, urges that the state establish a bureau of labor.
 The English city of Huddersfeld has municipal ownership of tram ways. Last year there was a net surplus of $91,700. The population of the city is about 100000.
 The Spanish labor laws fix the maximum working hours for children between the ages of ten and fourteen years at six hours in industrial es- establishments and eight in shops and offices with no work at night.
 About 150 labor measures will be presented to the next California leg lslature by the State Federation of Labor, the State Building Trades council, central bodies and individ- nal unions.
 Scotland's fish hatch in 1907 was ),67S,059 hundredweight, worth k15,425,52S. The industry employ ed 773 men on 10,365 vessels, of a41,3S5 aggregate tonnage, worth S23,64O,561.
 That labor union is liable for Manages if it calls it's men out be- cause a workman is not a member of the union is a decision rendered by Judge Lamar, in the county court at Victoria, B. C., recently.
 Central Federation union, Manhat- tan, N. Y. has decided to actively CO., operate with the Charity Organiza- tion society of that city in its efforts to arrest the progress of tuberculosis among the various crafts.
 Fifteen different municipalities of Alsace-Lorraine, ranging in popula- tion from 5000 to 5000. conduct employment bureaus which aim to keep in close touch with the various organizations of employers and em- ployes.,
 Wages of the Cleveland. England, iron-stone miners and Weardale quar- rypen have been reduced by three quarters of 1 per cent, a majority on B vote of the employees having agreed to these terms, sought by the em- ployers
 The first Japanese emigrants to