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of the members as to utilization with the
English Labor party.
The Governor of Porto Rico has recon-
mended to the Legislature a law creating
a labor bureau on the island.
The membership of the British Pro,
vincial Association of Cotton Spinners is
1913, an increase of 1,641 on the year.
The Marine, Longshoremen and Trans.
port Workers Association has decided to
increase its per capita tax from 3 to Is
cents.
The German ironmasters threaten to
close down all iron works because OF
skilled labor's refusal to accept reductions
in wages.
San Francisco (Cal.) Iron Trades
Council will vote on a proposition to join
the recently formed international Metal
Trades Association.
The recent Scottish Trade Union Con-
gress passed resolutions in favor of old
age pensions and in favor of compulsory
Intervention in labor disputes.
The Scotch shipbuilding Employers
Federation and the mems union are ar
ranging for a joint agreement, and the
mem union has appointed seven we'll
known representatives to draft a constl-
tuition.
During June the average number en-
ployed daily at the docks and principal
wharves in London was 1909, a de-
crease of 81 per cent, as compared with
a month ago, and of o. per cent, as
compared with June, 19O1.
The eight-hour demonstration in Bris-
bane, Australia, recently was marked by
the participation for the first time in the
history OF the day of organized women
workers. The new recruits represented
the Clothing Trade Female Employees
Union. gss.
The officials Of the International Brass
holders Union, which was organized Dc
tober, 1904, report that their member
ship has now reached 10000 in this coun-
try. The union has established a sick
benefit fund, and also a death and burial
fund.
In Wheeling, w. Va, there are over
forty stegie factories. All of them are
union shops. In them over 800 stogie
makers, all union men, are employed, and,
in addition to these, between 400 and 600
apprentices, not to mention the several
hundred tobacco workers employed in
Wheeling as a result Of the stogie indus
try. ,
BY referendum vote the various photo
engravers' union have agreed to levy an
assessment Of So on each member to raise
a fund that shall be used to maintain an
establishment in which members of the
trade who may be affected with tubercu-
losis may be treated. How this place 10
to be established and kept up is to be de
cided by the international body.
The United Railway Mems organiza-
ton of the State of New York. which is
a legislative body made up of members Of
the five railroad brotherhoods, will hold q
special meeting at which a resolution will
be passed demanding an amendment to
the law creating the State and city public
service boards, providing for the appoint
ment of q representative of labor on both
boards.
At New Bedford, Mass, three unions
of carpenters and ~joiners have appointed
a committee to examine applications for
admission into either union. The aDpli-
cant must demonstrate by working out
fifteen or twenty problems with his tools,
and if he canid do that be is admitted, 9TH
erwise rejected. This rule has been
adopted because of many complaints that
membership in a union is not absolute
proof Of competency.
Sheemakers were among the first of the
trades to organize a union in this coun-
try also among the first to engage in
strikes. In the fall of 1902 the pioneer
union of the shoe workers was organ
lied in Philadelphia. 1t grew to be con-
sidered a power, and in 1856 a strike in
all the shops of the city was ordered to
enforce a demand for an increase of
wages. 1t lasted but a few days, the
employers recognizing the demand.
The Bureau Of Labor has made public
figures gathered by an investigation Of
the principal wage working occupations
In Ago establishments, representing the
principal manufacturing and mechanical
industries Of the country. The data col
lected, it is asserted, demonstrates that
the average wages an hsur in 1907 were
81 per cent higher than in 1905; the
regular hours of labor a week were 4
per cent lower than in 1906, and the
number of employees in the establishments
investigated was 1 per cent greater than
In 1906.
A league of carpenters known as the
Gran Liga Do Carpentros has been or
ganized in the City of Mexico for pur-
poses of mutual protection. The bylaws
OF the association provide that all mem
bers work to obtain full remuneration for
their services and to prevent the mem
bers from being unfairly treated. The as
ISOLATION aims at temperance and moral
ity among the workmen and will start a
campaign for shorter hours of work. An
important feature is that strong opposi-
ton is to be made to any difference in
salary between foreign and native work
men. Aid will be extended to members
and their families in cases of sickness or
death. In addition to the regular fees
the members will, whenever necessa nv,
pay a strike fee for the aid and benefit
of strikers.
The movement for perfecting an ANAL
gamation of the various branches of the
photographers unions into one central
body will mean the merging of over 1oO,-
600 members of the Autograph trades into
one organization, which will have great
strength throughout the United States.
Hebrew painters of Cambridge, Mass,
have presented a signed request to the
painters district council Of eastern Mas.
sachusetts for a Hebrew union charter
for that city. The question has been sub
mitted to a referendum vote of the aail-
lated locals under the International broth
erhood law to that effect.
A resolution was adopted at the Uni