El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-08
General Labo- Votes .

General Labor Notes
In 1910 there were 1902 strikes in
France.
Kansas City has added 100 men to its
police force.
Great Britain's textile mills employ
more than 100000 persons
A local union Of powder makers was
organized recently at Kansas City, No.
During 1912. ASP employees OF rail-
roads were killed and 1920 injured in
Pennsylvania
8Iachinists on the Mexican National
railway have received a 10 percent
increase.
Efforts viii be made to organize the
nonunion shoe cutters in Chicago and
Milwaukee
The Wabash Railroad has increased
the pay of shOpmen in most cases from
6 to 10 percent
The president Of the Bay City CNIich)
trades and labor assembly was elected
to the state legislature
Sixteen states will have no Limitation
of working hours. while in eighteen
states women may work from sixty to
seventy hour a week.
For the nineteenth time. Ed Hem
sell has been elected as business mana
ger Of the Fort Worth District council
OF carpenters and joiners-
One Of the important measures to be
introduced in the Connecticut leEisla-
ture VIII provide that there be two en-
gineers for every fast express train
The Missouri Pacific is to establish
five large demonstration farms and IS
planning to go into this work for the
benefit Of the farmers on a large scale
1Laryland's new child labor law raises
the minimum age for child labor from
twelve TO fourteen years. and more than
N oh f|HseaH hsn
to school
A bill introduced in the New York
legislature is designed to prohibit work
by CHILDREN in the canneries Of the state
and in the tenement houses in New
York city
Los Angeles CCaL) typographical IN
ion has appointed a committee to be-
gin a campaign TO bring the 1915 con-
vention of the international Typo
graphical Union to that city
II is said that nearly every railroad
empIoye in the United States has had
his pay increased within the last five
years. and the great volume Of the in
creases have come within the last five
years
With a view Of doing away with the
sweatshOp side of their trade the paper
box manufacturers Of Philadelphia viii
hold a conference soon with the mana
gers Of the Consumers League
According to statistics published by
the department Of commerce. and labor,
the world now consumes a million gal
Ions Of kerosene oil daily The united
States output in 1912 was 22O,Oo0,00O
gallons.
United States investigators state that
the parents OF Y percent OF the chill
dren in WoOnsOcket. R L, and % per
cent in PaWtuclet r. l., could Wen az
ford to keep them IN school Tor Two
years more.
Factory inspectors viii demand i'm
provernents at the Chicago packing I
plants that viii cost 100000 If the I
improvements are not made the packers /
will be prosecuted for endangerinS the |
lives Of employees
Unless the demands OF the Coal I
Transfers Of PaWtucket. r. l., are com I
DIied with the members OF the Paw 4
tucket local will call a strike and force /
the coal dealers Of Pawtucket TO rec
OGniZe their rights.
The wages Ofthe steer trust laborers
At Gary have been increased cents an i
hour. or. as the dispatch says 70 cents
a day which would seems to lndicaJe
that twelve hours and half constitute
a days work in such Jobs
Recause the HOd Carriers Union, OF
Fresno. Cal, went on a strike to en-
force demands for an increase OF wages
without first consulting the Fresno
County Building Trades Councli Inc
union is threatened with '1lsion-
one result OF Lue WuLA VI tAtI Ne---
rornia state labor bureau during the
y ST wear has been the elimination IN q
arge measure Of child labor IN tnaI
state and the laying or 1irm 1oIn9
ition for the enforcement OF the chIlu
sbor laws.
Poor wages in the shops are resPon-
iible for many young women OF NeM
York starting on a downward career
according TO Mrs Frederick Nalnaii' I
PRESIDENT of the Consumers league
peaklne at the annual meeting o. the
rrbe labor movement OF California
viii be represented at the nearing os Z
ore the United States supreme court
%. in regard to the cues LtoH
# the validity OF the woman's elSnl-
our law. enacted at the last regular
ess{on Of the state legislature
As a result Of a conference between
MEMBERS of the executive boa-d OF the
NmaIgamated Lace Workers Union, y
y of l.. and Manager Emile j. Ozanne
Z the CadoZa Lace company, OF raw
ucket. r. l.. and amicable settlement
( the strike is looked for sOOn-
The Georgia railroad. after extended
difference. has raised the pay Of con-
uctors and trainmen, about 500 men I
together Train porter and the
witchmen are included In he advance I
-anv of the men viii receive 10 percent 1
Increase and some Of them more than 4
hat
A referendum vote taken on the cues 1
on of eIecting officers OF the Iowa .
tate federation by refere- dunn vote
-as defeated. The Socialist delegates |
, the Iowa state feredation for a num-
or of years have advocated the cleo
on of the officials of the state body
g referendum
The Pittsburg BARRIERS union is to in 7
.itute an active campaign for q law
miIar to that Endorsed at the India
lpolis conference OF the international
-ganiza tion. The law favored by the
lrbcrs is that all connected with the I
ade De compelled TO pass an eNami- | a
alton for a license and only those J >