United labor bulletin., 1910-12-01
Jersey long struggle to prohibit the
night work of children met with final

Jersey long struggle to prohibit the
night work of children met with final
success.
Health and Safety.
"The widespread discussion of COM
pensation for injured workmen has en-
phasized anew the Importance of the
prevention of accidents" Interstate rail-
roads are to be more carefully equipped
with safety devices. and in Ohio and vir-
ginia cars must be constructed to pro-
vide greater protection for workmen.
The Cherry mine disaster evidently
stimulated Illinois to enact most elab-
crate law concerning systems of fire ex-
tinction in mines, signals, care of sta
bles, and storage of fodder. In addition
three mine rescue stations are to be
established in the state. In Kentucky
mine inspectors are provided with oxy-
gen helmets and other life-saving appar-
atus. The federal government has also
established a Bureau of Mines with sew
eral rescue stations.
The health of employees in factories re-
ceived considerable attention. Workers
exposed to the humidity of textile fac
tories in Massachusetts, to the injurious
dusts in New York factories, to indus
trial diseases in Illinois, and to the long
hours and low wages in the steel indus
try, will all receive better protection be-
cause of the legislation this year.
Trade Disputes.
On the subject of trade disputes
swarm of bills were introduced and de-
feated
The method of the Canadian Industrial
Disputes Investigation Act has been fire.
quently recommended, but bills modelled
on this law have invariably failed to
pass. Massachusetts, however, has this
year required employers who advertise
for help when strike is on, to state that
fact in the advertisement. Laws recog-
nizing the union label were enacted in
Maryland and South Carolina
Unemployment.
No legislation exists in this country
for the direct relief of unemployment"
says this Review. In Massachusetts
bill providing funds for construction or
repair work during times of industrial
depression was defeated. The establish
ment of free employment offices in Bal
timore and in the cities of New Jersey
was defeated, while the federal regula-
tion of employment bureaus with special
reference to those dealing with immi-
grants has been urged upon Congress
with no better results. Stricter regula-
tions as to fees and records in employ
ment bureaus were put in force in New
York and Virginia, and in Massachusetts,
a commission has been appointed to
study the workings of both public and
private agencies
immigration.
OF the greatest Importance in this
field, is the New York Bureau of Indus
tries and immigration established this
year within the State Department of La
Dor. The bureau will have power to in
vestigate the demand for and possible
supply of alien labor, to inspect all Ia
bor camps, to ascertain the conditions of
employment. and to aid in the best place
ment of such labor. Among the specific
duties required are: The inspection OF
philanthropic, and OF employment and
contract-labor agencies dealing with the
employment or distribution of aliens;
the gathering of information concerning
deportable aliens in prisons and asylums
and the assistance in their deportation;
cooperation with other authorities In
protecting the immigrant against fraud
and extortion by private bankers, no.