The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-18
For Union w orke'rs
Important Happenings i'm
Industrial Circles in This
Country and Europe

work after finding out the conditions
here, refused to iced them or care
for them In future, They came here
to take the strikers jobs and found
conditions such that they wouldn't
stand them themselves" said Attor-
neys Katz and Dawley, strikers coun-
sci, We need our funds for our own
people"
Washington Hair sorters and pan
hands In English br,lshmaking fac.
tories average So to so week. Paint
brush makers earn $12 to SIS. Those
who fashion the stocks for brushes
earn up to $40 week, but the aver.
age Is far below this, being SIS to SO
a week. Women are employed in the
manufacture of shaving brushes, and
earn SO to $3.50 week. Boring hands
are mostly women, and are paid up to
IS. Women drawing hands earn, In
the factory, up to $3.50 a week. They
average 81 to 571a working hours per
week, daily hours being 5 a. IN. to Z
p m. In winter and. a, m to p.
m in summer, with intermissions for
breakfast, luncheon and tea.
Milan, Italy The working men aud
women Of Milan are carrying on a
most remarkable enterprise, according
to Odon Por, who writes about 1t in
the Coming Nation. The various UNI
ions and cooperatives have combined
into federation. This federation then
takes the contract for building houses.
sewers. streets and even railroads. It
pays Its members full union wages,
does Tvs own managing and always
has one OF the most complete techni-
cal outfits in Italy. Although 1t has
been In existence only three years, it
employs 1,500 people throughout the
year. and has already done work to
the amount of $1,200,000.
New York.-It was announced that
r. Hoe & Co., and their striking ma
chinists have reached an agreement
which insures an eight-hour day after
July 1, 1918. The working day will
be eight and three-quarter hours for
eight months, eight and half hours
for the next eight months, eight and
quarter hours for the next seven
months, and then eight hours, all other
conditions remaining the same as
heretofore. In accordance with the
agreement the machinists, who have
been ON strike since May /, resume
employment at once.
London, Eng lin Manchester and
the north OF England generally the la
boring classes of the population con-
tinue to favor cooperative societies
or stores. Cooperation In its various
phases of Industrial and provident so
cieties comprised in the report of the
chief registrar of Friendly societies
for 1909 represents a membership OF
2,777,513, with total assets amounting
to $294, s97470, an increase of about
s10,949, 625 during the year.
Liverpool, England.--In 1900. de-
spite decrease of 10000 in the num-
Der OF passengers carried, the munich
pal lines turned into the city treas
ury for purposes of reduction OF gem
eral taxation over $133,000. which may
be considered the net profit to the city
on an investment of little more than
nine and half millions. This was
accomplished on the carrying of liz
100000 passengers at an average fare
of less than 21a cents apiece.
Brooklyn, N Y.--The formation of
Central Union Label council, which
had been in preliminary stages sew
eral months, took concrete form re-
Gently, when permanent organiza-
ton was effected. The pioneers In
the movement are composed of the.
Allied Printing Trades council, the
Central Labor union of Brooklyn, the
Central Federation union Of MaDhat-
tan. the Bronx Labor council and the
Women's Trade Union league.
Spokane, Wash. One OF the finest
labor temples on the Pacific coast 10
now under way In this city. 1t will
have q frontage of 30 feet by
depth of 142 feet and will cost $780,
600. It will have large auditorium.
eleven meeting halls, with capacity
ranging from one hundred and Atty
to one thousand two hundred; twelve
office suites, gymnasium for mem
bers OF the labor organizations and a
swimming tank 30x100 feet
Berlin, Germany.-The number OF
women employed in Germany, accord
ing to the last statistical data, Is
100000; France, 100000; in Aus.
tria, $500 900, and England. 100000.
this great number being employed In
manufacture and trades.
Chicago..A census Of unionists at
filiated with the Chicago Building
Trades council, taken to ascertain just
how many union members the central
body represents, shows that the organ
izations In the council have more than
thirty thousand members. The paint
ers head the list with ten thousand
members.
New York. The New York commits
sion, in Its recent report on unemploy-
ment, gives data from the trade
unions. showing that organized work.
ers lost on the average Of 20 per cent
of their possible income through lack
OF employment.
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