Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-28

All tlautS uL bubuNH'l ia, now have the eight-hour day.
 Holland now has an estimated un- ion labor membership of 75,o00,
 Miners in every colliery in the < United Kingdom received an increase in wages in 1907. ..... a There is an army of unemployed in Cuba, and each province is con tributing its quota.
 It is estimated that the men of Great Britain spend $1,250,000 a year on silk hats.
 For some time past there has been scarcity of laborers in the tea dis tricts and colieries of India.
 Only 1894 per cent of the strikes while 36.6 per cent completely failed
 The American Federationist, the official organ of the A. F. of L. clear ed the small sum of $72.57 last year.
 The Trades Unionist of Washing ton, D. O., devoted to union interests has been taken out of the receivers hands.
 Adolph Zinert. Frankfort Ger many) slaughter-house employe, has killed 5,000,000 hogs during his last 27 years.
 There will be fourteen members of the farmers union and sixteen mem- bers of trades unions in the next Texas legislature.
 Engine-drivers in Germany who have run their locomotives for ten years without accident are rewarded by the government.
 Twenty-two thousand, five hun dred dollars year is the average earning power per locomotive all over Great Britain.
 The Iron Holders union of North America is planning to celebrate it's fiftieth anniversary next year in an appropriate manner.
 A free course of instruction in steam engineering for members has been arranged in Boston, Mass, sta tionary firemen's union.
 All section-men employed on the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain rail- road system will receive an increase in wages from S1.25 to $1.S5 day.
 Glass bottles were made by the Romans as far back as the year 70 A. D.. Their manufacture in Eng land, however, was not begun till 1858.
 Statistics recently complied in re- gard to German university life show that men are discontinuing medicine as a profession, while women are turning to 1t.
 The American Federation of Labor at the close of this fiscal year had $138,627.S9 in the treasury, the high-water mark in the history of the federation.
 Local unions of printers have been started in Trinidad, Barbados and British Guiana and the movement Is spreading all over the Caribbean sea and the West Indies.
 A bill to provide for state tax to be used for the aid of injured miners and families of men killed in the mines will be presented to the Penn sylvania state legislature.
 The report of the Associated Iron Molders of Scotland shows de- crease of unemployed on the funds of PA in the past month. The total membership is S,113.
 On September l there were 1S2 subordinate unions affiliated with the bakers and confectioners' inter- national, and the numerical increase during the last term was 2,S9S.
 The ostrich farming industry Of southern California represents an in- vestment of three-quarters of mil> 1 lion dollars and the annual output of feathers is worth about S100 900. 1
 The next convention of the Build ing Laborers' International Protec~ tive union will be held in Boston, ! Mass, the date to be decided upon by the international executive board, !
 Nominations for officers of the Ci- garmakers' International union are now being made, and the election . will be held in December. 1nterna- tional elections are held every live years.
 Public employment bureaus whose services in placing laborers are grat- uitious exist in the larger cities and 1 town of Alsoee, Lorraine, as well as being more or less developed all over Germany.
 A special organizer has been ap- pointed by the Bakers and Confec- tioners' International for the purpose ! of inducing French and Italian bakers at San Francisco, Cal. to join . the union.
 Seven years ago the sponge fleet of Florida consisted of 156 vessels of over five tons and 22S small sloops, ranging from two to five tons Tn all of these almost 2,25O people were employed
 Boston Mass, association of the Amalgamated Engineers recently de- cided to hold it's 18th anniversary reunion February 19. The Fall River, Quincy and Lynn branches will cooperate
 A new regulation in Spain prohib- its women under 23 and all children under 16 working in trades wherein there is danger from poisonous fumes and dust or risk from fire and explosions
 The professional srone-carriers in India work ten hours d day under unfavorable climate conditions, and their wages vary between 10 and 16 cents per day. according to locality and the strength of the man.
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