Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-02

may take up the inquiry, especially In
those departments where many clerks
are employed. For years the printers
of the United States have been bat
fling with tuberculosis, and their f
forts have met with great success. A
home at Colorado Springs is provided
for these unfortunates, and the treat
ment given there is on the most APP
proved scientific lines. The molders'
union, the BARRIERS and other indoor
trades have taken up the subject and
are working along the same lines as
the printers.
Commissioners of Labor Jones and
Stafford are making an investigation
of department stores in California TO
see that the law providing seats for
women is enforced, word having come
to them that 1t was being violated In
certain localities. The Sacramento
board of health has appointed a ply
stefan to assist the commissioners in
their work in that city.
Beginning July /, 1910, the Rock
Island railway will inaugurate PEN
sion system for it's employees who have
been with the company twenty-five
years. Compulsory retirement Will oc-
cur at the age of 20, and selective re-
salary Of the employe will be taken
for the entire term of his employment,
and he will be entitled to / per cent of
the average salary for every year or
service rendered the company. Leave
of absence, suspension with reinstate-
ment within one year, or a temporary
lay-off on account OF reduction OF
forces, is not to be regarded as a
break in an an employees term of SER
TeIo n no IN W
there will be no limit set on the age at
which The company will employ in
the first instance.
Wyoming State Federation of Labor,
which includes the United Mine Work.
ers with 100000 members, has begun a
movement TO counterfeit the activities
of the Industrial Workers of the World
in that state and has established head
quarters at Cheyenne. The state fed
Grafton of labor includes nearly all OF
the large bodies of workmen in the
state and is chartered by the A. f. of
L., to which the Workers of the World
do not belong.
At the last meeting of the California
legislature an appropriation was made
for the purpose of ascertaining the
number of Japanese in this state. Sta
t1StlcS SO Idr SdID6Teu SnOW lHdl IHSTe
are more than 5000 Japanese merchants
in business in California, and the
amount of capital invested and other
facts regarding this race have been
ascertaned in minute detail. over 5000
ranches have been visited where Japs
are employed. Every man has been
registered and the opinion of the
rancher as to the efficiency OF Jap
anese labor has been obtained, as has
the name of every Japanese owning
real estate or having lease or con-
troll of land. Besides being of value
to the labor commissioners, these sta
tistics will materially aid in the check
ing up of the United States census re-
ports concerning the number of Jap
anese in this country.
cat the end of the year it will be
inst a decade since the fight for the
so-called open shop was begun" says
a writer on industrial subjects, land
at the Forthcoming convention of the
American Federation of Labor at To-
ronto some interesting data will be
presented to show the results of the
first ten years struggle. With the ex-
ception of the iron and steel workers,
and possibly one or two other trades,
all the national organizations will re-
port increases in membership in the
face of the bitterest opposition which,
in some cases. are truly remarkable.
"For example, the printers have been