The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-28
NOTES OF THE
LABOR WORLD

Street car conductors in Seoul, ia
pan, make 35 cents a day
Chicago Electrical Workers Union
has building fund of $25, 900.
Sixty pc" cent of the 1aDOrers in
Kansas mines are Europeans.
Forty.two states have set maximum
hours for working week for chill
dren.
branch of the National COnsum
ers' League has been formed in Wash
ington d. C.
The Chinese cooks in New York
City threaten to strike if better
wages and shorter hours are not
granted.
Railway systems, with a mileage
aggregating 47,500, have increased
the wages of employees during the last
year 4.S7 per cent over 1910.
The present rate of mortality of the
brass foundrymen is 212 times that
of the farmer. Respiratory diseases
particularly consumption, account for
the difference.
Records of the Wisconsin State In
dustrial commission show that 1888
claims for accident or death benefits
have been filed since the WOrkmen's
compensation act went into effect
Sept /.
Almost a quarter of the member
ship of labor unions in New York
We're idle during the first six months
of the present year, according to the
last quarterly bulletin Of the State
Department of Labor.
The new scale of the San Francis
co Bricklayers' Union, which is to re-
main in force until August !, 1915,
fixes the pay at S715 cents an hour
and eight hours a day for five days
with four hours on Saturdays.
The average number of wage earn.
ers employed in the boot and shoe
industry during the year was 1873,
297 in 1909 and 16O,294 in 1904, an in
crease OF 3S,0O3 or "a per cent. Their
wages increased from $73,072,00O to
1913, 1853, 900, or Sc per cent.
The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
has appointed committee to select a
suitable site near Cleveland for a
large brotherhood farm, where the un-
employed and the aged members Of
the brotherhood may have home
and at the same time earn their liv-
ing by farm work.
In one year 526 men were killed
hu nf
gheny county, Pa, alone; 1875 steel
workers, 125 railroaders, II miners
and 1876 miscellaneous workers. OF
those nearly half were American
born, 70 per cent We're workmen of
skill and training and 80 per cent
were under forty years of age.
The fifth annual meeting of the
American Association for Labor legis
lation will be held in Washington, D.
c., December %, 20 and 80. Leading
officials, will discuss The Relation
of State to Federal Workmen's Com
pensation and Insurance." and many
other questions of considerable i'm.
portance.
Window glass workers have agreed
to accept an IS per cent reduction in
wages. In all, 5000 men in Ohio,
Kansas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma,
West Virginia and Texas are affected.
The new contract holds until May /,
1912. Employers asked that the work.
ers accept a 81 per cent reduction in
all salaries. The workers committee
held out for 10 per cent reduction
and an Is per cent reduction was
finally agreed upon as compromise.
In Bavaria women work on the rail.
roads as section hands.
The profits of the union co-opera.
tive bakery at San Jose, Cal, are
about $4,000 a month.
,DfDbeo Pasadena, Cal, Labor ITemnl~
association has taken the first steps
forsthe erection OF labor temple TO
cost $4,000. m 1904 ies ssA
~ heaannual convention ofsthe Inter.
national BROTHERHOOD or sricklhyers