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Oh the members as TO animation with the
English Labor party.
The Governor of Porto Rico has recon-
mended to the Legislature law creating
labor bureau on the island.
The membership of the British Pro-
vincial Association of Cotton Spinners is
1918, 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 TO 10
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
mems union has appointed seven we'll
known representatives to draft consti-
| tuition.
! During June the average number en-
| ployed daily at the docks and principal
wharves in London was 12.049, de-
crease of 81 per cent, as compared with
month ago, and of o. per cent, as
compared with June. 1907.
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
The officials of the International Brass
Molders' Union, which was organized Oc-
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 br.Ial
| fund.
| forty stogie factories. All of them are
union shops. In them over 800 atoge
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' unions have agreed to levy an
assessment of 81 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 is
to be established and kept up is to be de-
cided by the international body.
h. 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 a
! special meeting at which resolution will
| be passed demanding an amendment to
| the law creating the State and city public
service boards, providing for the appoint
ment of a representative of labor on both
| boards.
AT New Bedford. Mass, three urions
of carpenters and joiners have appointed
a committee to examine applications for
admission into either union. The appi-
cant must demonstrate by working out
fifteen or twenty problems with his tools,
and if he can do that he is admitted 9TH
erwise rejected. This rule has been
adopted because of many complaints that
membership in a union is not absolute
| proof IS competency.
! Shoemakers were among the first of the
trades to organize union in this coun-
! try; also among the first to engage in
strikes. In the fall of 1892 the pioneer
union of the shoe workers was organ
| lied in Philadelphia. 1t grew to be con-
sidered a power, and in 1896 strike in
| all the shops of the city was ordered to
enforce a demand for an increase of
wages. It lasted but 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 4,l69 establishments representing the
principal manufacturing and mechanical
! industries of the country The data col
! lected, it is asserted, demonstrates that
| the average wages an hour in 1907 were
81 per cent higher than in 1906; the
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per cent lower than in 1906, and the
number of employees in the establishments
investigated was l per cent greater than
in 1906.
| A league of carpenters known as the
Gran Liga de Carpentros has been or
gained in the City of Mexico for pur-
poses of mutual protection. The bylaws
/ of ba fI,of oil
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
| ;ty 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 necessary,
pay 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
/ DOuy VIII HItdH the lueIklUS Vi over 1IO,-
| 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 signed request to the
painters district council Of eastern Mas
sachusetts for Hebrew union charter
| for that city. The question has been sub
mitted to a referendum vote of the affil-
lated locals under the international broth
erhood law to that effect
A resolution was adopted at the Uni
versal Peace Congress in London, Eng
land, to invite representatives of trade
organiza tons to attend future peace con-
sxesses, on the ground that the course
of peace lay largely in the hands Of the
laboriDg men.
Returns from the presidential eletion
in Cuba have come in slowly. 1t appears
that the honors were divided pretty even
" between the Conservative and fhe fyo