The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-06
NOTES ABOUT LABOR
What Is Going ON Among Wage
Farmers in This and Other
Countries.
There are fifteen trade unions ii

nina.
linotype operatovs in Toxic,
ipan, earn only &, cents day.
There are said to be fewer sui
dos among miners than among any
her class OF workmen,
The average rate OF wages
lroughout the Chinese empire is
robably * cents per day In Japan
is probably not more, and in Id
liza much les
Eiehty-fye percent of the deaths
= the membership OF the lnter-
ational Metal Polishers', Buffers
Hunters aud Brass and Silver
Workers Union are ehargeable to
tuberculosis.
The San Francisco Labor Council
will assist the Cascade County
'cunty Trades and Labor Assembly
i Montana In compiling complete
able Of statistics regarding the cost
81 living and wages In every city
If the United States.
During the last six months there
has been an increase OF three thous-
and in the membership of unions
affiliated with the Loss Angeles La
bor Council, and the total increase
since June /, 1910, is 1916, making
"a total Of 1922 union men in the
city of Los Angeles
The fatal accident rate in the Min
nes0ta mines has steadily fallen
from rs for each one thousand men
employed in 1906 TO 4 05 for each
one thousand in 1910. is spite of the
rapid Developments Of the industry
aud the large importation OF I'M
skilled labor into the state
The Associated Iron holders OF
scotland have increased their mem
rership to eight thousand and report
IN arrangement whereby piece
workers secured an iuncrease OF . =
per cent in piece wages, and an in-
crease of pa cents weekly for all
workers drawing less than 50, 90 per
week
The padrone system against
which the Uniaed States migration
| authorities and various philan-
thropic and reform bodies contended
for many years, lbevails among the
Greek bootblacks of Detroit, accord
ing to the findings of young Greek
investigator employed by the State
! labor commissioner.
Tenant farmers in the State oil
Texas who, according to statistics
| ill about 80 per cent of the soil
| ave caught the organization spirit
| )t the times and have begun the for
nation of renters union, which
| viii hold a State convention at Waco
'eX., next month All land renters
md farm laborers are invited to join
The eight-hour law for women
passed by therecent session of thu
| Washington legislature was derlar.
| ID constitutional the other day by
'uperiior Judge John +. Main. al
seattle, Physicians testified that il
| vas not injudious for women to worl
line or ten hours a day, but the
3ourt upheld the conStitutionality oil
the law.
The organization of the Brother.
| food of Timber Workers in western
| ,ouisiana and eastern Texas. tc
| emedy the evils which have grown
ID in that work. mainly the com,
Jany and store and the check" sys
EN- of payment, has been met by the
| southern Sawmill Operators Asso-
aiation by shutting down twenty
our Of the largest plants aud dis
/ haree of all men and the statement
hat the other mills will be closed as
fast as organizers get busy with the
men. The men claim that the sys-
TEN employed by the mill owners is
reducing them to condition of
peonagc, and that now is as good a
time as any to bring about a change
of conditions.