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There are $1,000 quarrymen in Bel,
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Italy claims a trade union membership
of $4,000.
A State federation of labor will be
formed in North Dakota by spring.
Alberta, Canada. will pass a child la
Dor act similar to the Ontario act.
About one-half of the population of
Greece are agriculturists and shepherds.
Headquarters of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor will be moved from
Duluth to st. Paul.
Owing to a wages dispute 1000 mon
have struck at Larmorgate collierirs,
Rhouddah valley, Wales.
An attempt to establish a municipal
brewery in Berlin resulted in a dismal
failure. 1t did plenty of business, but
lost money.
OF 0 deaths of sailors occurring in
the experience of an industrial insurance
company. 11.6 per cent were due to acct
dents.
The formation of women's auxiliary
unions in the labor movement is rapidly
becoming popular for it's effect on the
label propaganda.
A campaign is to be started in San
Francisco, Cal, in behalf of the women
employed as clerks in stores, with a view
to obtaining better wages and conditions
for them.
Wages are to be reduced in the north
of England manufactured iron and steel
trade by 6 cents a ton on pudding and
90 per cent on other forge and mill
workers wages.
At the State building trade convention,
to be held in Santa Rosa, Cal,
ing Jan. II, each district council in the
State and each union will be represented
by one delegate.
According to the industrial insurance
experience, the fatal accident rate of cleo
t%ricians and of electric linemen is ex-
ccssive. OF 643 deaths of electricians,
14.7 per cent, and of 240 deaths of line
men. 46.7 per cent were due to accidents.
A conference of forty-seven delegates
from traders associations in and around
London has just formed the London and
Suburban Traders Federation, which
MANY local associations, representing
1900 tradesmen, have already joined.
Some trouble is feared in the mining
districts Of New South Wales, Australia,
where the agreements as to wages ter
inmate at the end of the year. 1t is ex-
pected that the employers will seek a
reduction in wages, ard the men in the
Broken Hill district are on the alert to
resist it.
1t has been recommended that a ma
tional department of labor be established
in England, presided over by a minister.
with a seat in the cabinet, charged with
the direction Of that labor which has not
been absorbed in the ordinary course, and
that a permanent unemployed board be
set up.
A comparison shows that as regards
wages, the rates paid in the United States
are startlingly higher than in Great
Britain, the difference varying from 80
to 200 per cent.
In the recent referendum vote taken
BY the bakers, a proposition to increase
the salaries of the international officers
and make the payment of a sick and
death benefit compulsory, was defeated.
The mana cement committee of the Gen
eral Federation of Trade Unions in Great
Britain has issued a manifesto in which
al! trade unions are advised to instruct
their members to refuse to work overtime.
Women employed as ordinary day labor
ers in the construction of buildings. mix
ing the mortar, sitting and carrying
bricks, and for unloading coal, are the
usual conditions described as existing in
Prague and elsewhere in Bohemia. The
women are paid from 80 to 40 cents a
day. The working day for these women
is from 6 a. m. to 6 p. M, with an hour
for dinner.
The initial step has been taken look
ing to the enactment of a law by the
Minnesota Legislature requiring that all
meat cutters be subject to an examina-
ton as to their qualifications before a
board appointed by the State authorities.