Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-10
Gossip Of the oilers
In Egypt a large proportion of the
BARRIERS are state functionaries.

In Egypt a large pCOpOTLlOn OIL Iu9
BARRIERS are state functionaries.
There is a big scheme afoot in Lon
don, England, to form a fighting
union of taxicab drivers, street car
men, bus men and all drivers of
vehicles in order to prevent "scab-
bling" when the railway men or MEM
bers of other passenger-conve or
CARNATIONS are on S trike.
In the early part of the last CEN
fury women enjoyed the right to
work in the coal mines of Great Brit
ain, swinging the sledge, or on hands
and knees hauling through the mid
night darkness of low-roofed tunnels
carts laden with ore weighing hun
dreds of pounds.
Lectures on shop topics, educational
classes. continuation schools, all of
these were practically unknown ten
years ago in American industries. Yet
all these agencies are now employed,
not in isolated cases, but in many
factories and in many widely different
lines.
In another month or two ii is quite
possible that the international organ
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor. The total vote by the hun
dreds of locals throughout Canada
and the United States is to be turned
in to headquarters before Septem-
Der 3.
An unusually large sum was paid
out in benefits in 1911, representing
one-sixth of the total income of the
trade unions of the United Kingdom.
More than one-half of the total funds
of registered trade unions are owned
by the mining, quarrying and the en-
gineering groups.
Employees of the street railway
company in Providence, r. l., have
formed an organization.
Fifty thousand married women are
employed in New York citys indus
tries.
In Germany seventy-seven trades
union councils have their own labor
temples.
Five seats in parliament are held
by the labor party in South Africa.
One and one-half million workers
are employed in the textile industry
in Italy.
Georgia is the only State in which
children unler u may legally work in
factories.
There are twenty-five different
leather workers organizations in
England
Laundry girls at Tacoma, Wash.
have launched a cooperative laundry.
A consolidation has been effected of
the Tin Workers Union and the Tin
Plate International Protective Asso-
citation.
The Metal Workers Union of St
Petersburg, Russia, has, during the
last six months, registered $500 new
members.
Bakers in Spain are working as a
unit for the abolition of night work.
Phone operators at Shreveport, La
! have organized the first union COM
posed of women in Northern
! Louisiana.
I n LOldl VI ltofttutu OISdHiLtu
We're represented at the recent Inter
national Congress of Mine Workers.
In Georgia children of widows and
of aged dependent fathers are allowed
to go to work at 10 years old
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for candor, for common sense and fol
fair play. He holds no brief for tn,
city counsel of the city of Newark
with whom he is not even acquaint
! ed. In fact the gentleman does no
know of this communication, ant
perhaps If he did, he would recon
mend contemptuous silence.
MOI Mr. Gregory, Essex county
democracy knows what it wants
and it don't want you. Maine, yes
terday, spoke in no uncertain tones t,
your super Boss, and Essex coun
ty will sing another swan song fo
you and your political creator wheI
the voice of the Democratic part.
is heard on Primary day.
n. A mr.