The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-30
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The total number. OF fatal accident,
at British mines and quarries in July
was 116. as compared with SO In June
and SO a. year ago. j. !.
In several departments Of the Vic
torian (Australia) railway service the
employees are in q state of semi-revol1
against government sweating. ,....... .
r The changes in hours of British
labor taking effect in July affected
$40 work people, whose working time
was reduced by 2,05s hours per week
In Melbourne, Australia, the print.
ers' wages board has reduced the
rate Of pay to linotype operators, and
the Brisbane Courier, which has limo.
type operators of its own, calls it "a
significant; award ..&
Giving evidence in Sydney, Aus
tralia. before the Saturday Half-Holi.
day Commission, witness stated the
effect of a universal Saturday half.
holiday in Queensland was to mini
mize drinking and drunkenness.
; The director of labor in New South
wales states that the iron trades gen
orally, wharf laborers, coal Jumpers,
ship lockers, farriers, tailors, and
the boot trade report sharp de-
cline in the volume of employment.
In consequence of the expected dim.
mutton In the production OF tobacco
IN Germany, the finance bill, intro
duced in the Reichstag, provides a
sum of 100000 for distribution
among tobacco workers, who may lose
their. employment as a result of the
new taxes.
During the past five years, men EN-.
ployes In the boot trade in Victoria
nave decreased from 2,136 to 2,O40,
While boys have increased from 1,1S5
to 1887. The machine age dismisses
the father and employs his child for
the sake of cheap labor.
The Australian: Sugar Journal puts
1t this way: THE sugar growers will
continue to- employ white labor Sc
long as it is made possible to do SO
by an adequate protection against
sugar produced by cheap colored labor
of Java and other Countries
The Industrial Court of Sydney,
Australia, has agreed to appoint q
Wages. Board to create a standard 81
hours and wages for cabmen. In
making the application the secretar,
of. the union said that some of the
men worked as many as 40. hours
per week.
John Burns, president of the Loca
Government Board in England, claim.
that Great Britain leads in the cru.
SADIE against tuberculosis, and has
stated that the direct remedies which
would eradicate the disease would b,
higher wages, less betting, and NOR.
regular work.
Mr.. Churchill (president of the
board of trade of Great Brittany
speaking at Branxholme, Oxford
shire, recently, said that before the
present Parliament ends-unless it i
violently broken by foul blow-ar
extensive measure of Insurance
against unemployment would b,
passed. - $50 ...
1.-The : latest sAustralian' Common
wealth Year Book gives the following
as the average amount Of, salarie:
and wages paid per employe in 1907
New South Wales 'fS0.63, Victoria
1898, Queensland f71s2, soutl
Australia ESQ, West Australia f114.23
Tasmania f74.4o, Commonwealth
f77.17.
The secretary of the Slaughter
mems union of New South Wales re
Gently proceeded against Miller &
Company, carcass butchers, for an al
legged breach of agreement in havin,
worked certain employees on Easte
Monday. The respondents pleaded
guilty, and were fined 5s., with 21s
costs, or "a hours. 49,.
The International Miners Confer
| ence at Berlin has adopted a resolu
! ton, congratulating British miners Of
the enactment Of the Mines (eight
hours) bill. demanding also simila
legislation in other countries, and tn
restriction of the working day to ST.
hours where the temperature is g.
| degrees or more.
The landlords of Stockholm, Swed
| en-, have agreed to give the striker
! more time in which to pay their quar-
! terly rents which were due Octobe
Fl. This seemingly generous actor
of the landlords is merely an assen
to the declaration of the unions nov
on strike that their members woul,