The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-01-08
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The New Zealand sheep shearers
are agftating for a further increase in
wages for permanent shearing en-
ployes. Y. { :.=.@ 2&TTr:s* l.. ~ s.
! - movement is on foot in Mel
bourne. Australia, to bring about a
federation Of stage. employees for the
purpose of raising wages. IN" ~.
A deadlock has occurred in the
South Derbyshire. Eng. pottery trade
with regard to the revised scale Of
payments to the sanitary pressers.
The journeyrnens bakers of Paris,
France, and suburbs have issued an
appeal to the public to boycott all
bakeries where Sunday work is still
carried on. .,,.
The employment in Victoria, Aus.
) tralia. of child labor is rapidly in
creasing. The increase between 1903
and 1906 was 1882, as against 266 in
New South Wales. +::..,s,
According to- statistics the, average
annual wage paid to the New Zealand
factory employee is fS4 1885,, which is
something better than is paid in
Queensland factories.
A petition bearing $4,000 sigma
lures, and praying for the release of
union prisoners May, Stokes, and Hol-
land. was presented to the premier of
New South Wales recently
1.0n hxyT oil W.T. .oP
$500 a year has been recommended
for a school for tailors to be started
at the Regent street Polytechnic, in
order to train boys in the trade.
The master tailors' organization, of
London, Eng, is considering the ad-
Visibility of forming a strong trade
union in order, to protect their in
terests under the Trades Boards bill.
Six hundred miners and other en-
ployes have been thrown out of en-
ployment at the Great Boulder Per-
severance mine, West Australia,
through surface work being de-
stroyed by fire.
A projected lockout in the cabinet
making trades Of southwest Germany
has so far been a miserable fiasco. In
some towns the men have already
won hands down, in others the pros
poets are very good.
Under the title of the Federated
Union of Musicians of Australia, the
unions of Sydney and Melbourne have
amalgamated. The organization is to
be registered under the Common
wealth Cancellation and Arbitration
Act. ..
Harry Holland, one of the Broken
Hill (Australia) union prisoners, who
was sentenced at Albany to three
years Imprisonment on a charge OF
-sedition, was released from jail re-
Gently after five months incarcera-
| ton.
The engineers and firemen's unions
of the River Elbe have succeeded in
bringing their movement to satis-
| factory conclusion. They have con-
| cluded an AGREEMENT with the en-
ployers' associations which embodied
| a number Of advantages.
The bookbinding societies of Great
| Britain have for the past twelve
months been considering a scheme Of
amalgamation, which has received the
final sanction of the members be-
| longing to the various unions con-
nected with that industry.
Being inviteds to send representa-
tives to be present. at functions In
connection}with commerce delegates
now visiting Australia, the Melbourne
Trades Hall Council instructed it's Sec
rotary to reply that This council de-.
clines to accept courtesies from its
industrial and political enemies"
! The dispute at the Austral Colliery,
Korumburra, Australia, has been set
tied by the wishes of the men having
been acceded to. They protested
against a proposed reduction in the
hewing rate and insisted that they
should have the appointment Of a
! check Weigher.
| A decree which came into force in
July last prohibits the admission OF
children under nine years of age into
Egyptian cotton factories engaged IN
ripping or Smelling. The employment
in such factories is conditional upon
their producing certificates as to, age
and fitness for this work.