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ganizcd under their International union.
Insulators and asbestos workers in New
York City receive $40 a day Of eight
hours.
Two hundred thousand men are en-
ployed by the National Metal Trades As
sociation.
In England the metal, engineering and
shipbuilding trades normally employ
100000 workers.
Massachusetts, State Council of wood,
wire and metal fathers unions has been
permanently formed.
Labor organizations in North Carolina
have decided to nominate candidates for
State and county officers from their own
ranks.
The New York Legislature of 1908 en-
acted ten of the bills proposed by the
W~orkingnen's Federation Of the State Of
New York.
Kansas City (A1o.) labor union are
getting out a union label bulletin every
month in order to keep members UP to
date with all union labels.
The rival house painters unions Of
New York City, which have been opposed
10 each other for nearly a quarter of a
century,. have come together.
Mnthinists' lodges of New England
kavr begun an agitation to have labor
men n~"l2inatcd for the various elective
offices in every city and town.
The total amount of benefits paid dur
ing the year 1907 by Cigarmnkers' Inter
nationnl was $473.27U.1S. The general
fund increased during that period $780,
1913.
Walln Walla CWash.) trade unions
nave shown themselves to be public spir-
tied through their activity in several pub
lie enterprises, particularly the city park
campaign.
Some of the branches of the Amalga-
-Itpd Society of Carpenters and Joiners
in England are advocating an amalgama-
ton with the Associated Shipwrights,
chiefly those in the shipbuilding centers.
Organizations of the railroad bridge
and building mechanics of tlro Boston and
Maine system are forming a system of
adjustment and arbitration board sim1la
20 that of other big railroad brotherhoods.
The American Federation Of Labor,
through a recent meeting of the eNeou-
live committee, decided to further the
union labor movement by more extensive
advertising in the local papers, street cars
and daily press.
Chicago is to have a workingman's hos
pital. 1t is to be an institution man
aged comparatively by the labor unions,
in which free treatment and medicine
will be given the families of workingmen
in time of sickness.
\. child labor law was passed by the
Ohio Legislature which requires that no
boy under III or girl under IS can be
employed over eight hours a day. The
general age Limit for child labor is II
years Of age. A modified form of en-
p!oyers' liability law was also enacted.
Electrical workers have received in
formation from the executive board Of the
international Union of the United States
md Canada that lit has voted to increase
lie unions defense fund from 100000
70 81 100000 and that it also proposes to
increase the death benefits for widows
and orphans.'
In Canada in 1902, the date Of the first
record of labor organizations, 275 unions
were formed and ffty-four dissolved in
1904 there was an increase of forty-four
Inions in 9 O there were organized 1O3
inions. and 1O5 We're dissolved in 1906
154 unions We're organized, and IS dis
solved. In 1907 there were 22 new Or
-uniZations and IS were dissolved.
The number of deaths from industrial
accidents in the United Kingdom reported
in the year 1907 was AGO, an increase of
}ll over the year 1906 and of 277 on the
average for the five years 19G3-19O7.
With the exception of %quarrying each
group of occupations shows an increase
is compared with 1906. These increases
were most marked in the shipping and
mining groups.