The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-10-03
NOTES FROM LABOR WORLD

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There are fifteen trade unions in
China.
Linotype operators in Toxic,
Japan, earn only As cents a day.
There are said to be fewer suici
des among miners than among an,
other class of workmen.
The average rate OF wages thro.
ughout the Chinese empire Is prob.
ably Is cents day. In Japan it is
probably not more, and in India
much less.
Eighty-five per cent. of the deaths
in the membership of the Internal
ional Metal Polishers', Buffers, and
Brass and Silver Workers, Unions
|are chargeable to tuberculosis.
The San Francisco Labor Council
will assist the Cascade County
Trades and Labor Assembly of Mon
tana in compiling a complete table
of statistics regarding the cost Of
living and wages in every large city
oI the tHlleu states.
During the last six months there
has been an increase of three thous-
and in the membership of unions af-
filiated with the Los Angles Labor
Council, and the total increase since
June1, 1910, Is 1916, making to-
tai of 1922 union men in the city
OF Los Angeles.
The fatal accident rate in the
Minnesota mines has steadily fallen
from rs for each one Thousand
men employed in 1905 to 4.05 for
each one thousand in 1910, in spite
OF the rapid development of the in
dustry and the large importation of
unskilled mine labor into the State.
The Associated Iron Molders of
Scotland have increased their mem
bership to eight thousand and re-
port an arrangement whereby piece
workers secured an increase of 2 1-2
per cent. in piece wages, and an in
crease of 25 cents weekly for all
workers drawing less than $500
per week.
The padrone system, against
which the United States immigration
authorities and various philanthro-
pic and reform bodies have contend
ed for many years, prevails among
the Greek bootblacks of Detroit, ac-
cording to the finding of a young
Greek investigator employed by the
State labor Commissioner.
Tenant farmers in the State of
Texas. who. according to statistics.
till about so per cent. of the soil,
have caught the organizing spirit OF
the times and have begun the for
nation of a renters union, which
viii hold State convention at
Waco, Tex. next month. All land
renters and farm laborers are in
yited to join.
The eight-hour law for women
passed by the recent session OF the
Washington legislature, was declar-
ed constitutional the other day by
Superior Judge John F. Main, at
Seattle. Physicians testified that
II was not injurious for women to
work nine or ten hours day, but
the court upheld the constitution
ality OF the law.
The organization OF the Brother
hood Of Timber Workers in western
Louisinan and eastern Texas, to re-
medy evils which have grown up In
that work. mainly the company store
and the scheck" system of payment,
has been met by the Southern Saw
mill Operators Association by shut
ting down twenty-four OF the largest
plants and discharges of all men and
the statement that other mills will
be closed as fast as organizers get
busy with the men. The men claim
that the system employed by the
mill owners is reducing them TO a
condition OF peonage. and that now
Is as good a time as any to bring
about change OF conditions.