The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-05
Notes From Che Labor World

There r fifteen trade unions in
China.
Linotype operators in Tokia, Japan,
earn only 40 cents a day.
There are said to be fewer suicides
among miners than among any other
class of workmen.
The average rate of wages through
out the Chinese empire is probably
18 cents a day. in Japan it is prob
ably not more, and in India much less.
E~ighty-fve per cent, of the deaths in
the membership of the. international
Metal Polishers' Buffers Platers' and
Brass and Silver Workers Union are
chargeable to tuberculosis.
The San Francisco Council will as
sist the Cascade County Traders and
Labor Assembly of Montana in com
piling a complete table of statistics
regarding the cost of living and wages
in every large city of the United
States.
During the last six months there
has been an increase of three thou
sand in the membership of unions af-
fiated with the Los Angeles Labor
Council, and the total increase since
June 1, 1911, is 1916, making a, total
of 14,329 union men in the city of Los
Angeles.
The fatal accident rate in the Min
nesta mines has steadily fallen from
7.25 for each one thousand men en-
ployed in 1906 to 4.05 for each one
thousand in 1911, in spite of the rapid
development of the industry and the
large Importation CT unskilled mine
labor into the State.
The Associated Iron Molders of
Scotland have increased their mem
mership to eight thousand and report
an arrangement whereby piece work
ers secured an Increase of 2 1-2 per
cent. in piece wages, and an increase
CT % cents weekly for all workers
drawing less than 5000 per week.
The padrone system, against which
the United States immigration authcTi
ties and various philanthropic and re-
form bodies have commended for many
years, prevails among the Greek boot
blacks of Detroit, according tc the
findings of a young Greek ~investiga-
tor employed by the State labor COM
missioner.
Tenant farmers in the State of Tex
as, who according to statistics, till
about 80 per cent. of the soil, have
caught the organizing spirit of the
times and have begun the formation, OF
a renters union, which will hold a
State convention at Waco, Texas, next
month. All land renters and farm
laborers are invited to join.
The eight-hour law for women pas-
sed by the recent session of the Wash
ington legislature, was declared nm
constitutional the other day by Sup
RENE Judge John F. Main, at Seattle,
Phyicians, testified that it was not
injurious for women to work nine or
ten hours a day, but the court upheld
the constitutionality of the law.
The organization Of the Brotherhood
of Timber Workers in western Louisa
ma and eastern Texas, to remedy evils
which have grown up in the work,
mainly the company store and the
check" system of payment, has been
met by the Southern Sawmill Opera
tors Association by shutting down
twenty-four of the largest plants and
discharge of all men and the state
ment that other mill will be closed as
fast as organizers get busy with the
men. The men claim that the system
employed by the mill owners is reduc-
ing them to a condition of peonage,
and that now is as good.a time as any
y to bring about a change of conditions.