Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-05-22
Labor News
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Act relating to industrial disputes is
applied. Several trade union officers
and workers have again received heavy
sentences because of strike, while
further 1929 of those implicated are
| being prosecuted now for having par
ticipated in a strike.
BrGs9l- \
Brazilian agents in many European
towns are making feverish efforts to
enlist workers for their country. 1t
must, however, be remembered that
the climate is murderous, and the me-
dieval laws are dangerous in the ex
IRENE out there, A new railway. $50
kilometers long, has recently been.
completed in the construction Of which
$4,000 workers have died of malaria,
yellow fever, ETC., not counting these
who left their work to die elsewhere
The first 300 workers taken on for this
railway were Germans; not one of
them has survived, os that the German
government have moved against the
further enlisting Of workers for that
country.
Australia
| Members subscriptions in the typo
graphical union Off Western Australia
are as follows: Sd per week for mem
bers earning sos to G3 per week, Is
from those earning G3 up to ga los,
and Is I'D in the case of members who
earn more than ga los per week. -
At the end Eff January a conference
took place. at which 100 delegates rep
resenting $50 different trade unions,
were present. The object of this con
ference, which was held in Wellington,
was to bring about united political
and economic labor movement cover
I ing the whole of New Zealand. A uni
form program and amalgamation
scheme has been prepared and is at
present before the separate organiza'
tons for debate. The matter will be
laid before a special trades union con
gress to be held in July next. The
program provides for the formation of
national center of trade unions, to be
called the United Federation of Labor
| and composed of industrial national
unions, as we'll as political organiza-
ton, the Social Democratic Party.
The party is to be composed of trade
unions, political clubs and individual
members. The abolition of the wage
system is mentioned as the ultimate
aim of party and trade unions in the
draft of. their respective rules. u The
New Zealand branch of the Autralian
Labor Federation shows in increase
of 30 600 in its number of members, the
membership last year being %, 900. In
the annual report of the executive,
rho efforts nf q nr11T1 40
teract the increase in the price of meat
by the Inauguration of state steam
ship line and state slaughter housees
and butcher shops, were commended.
South africa
The Senate appointed a committee |
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of encour- |
aging the establishmen of a diamond |
cutting industry within the Union. ~
The House of Assembly adjourned for |
further debate a motion which reads /
as follows: That in the opinion of this |
House, the government should take |
DEMONSTRATION the desirabiIity of |
appointing commission to inquire in |
what direction and spores of labor
and by what means the field of EN-
ployment for Europeans could be, ex-
tended throughout the Union. A mo-
ton calling for the establishment of
wages boards was recently introduced
IN the House. nm The second reading
OF new bill was moved in the House
OF Assembly the main feature of which
provided that contract immigrants NAV
henceforth land in the Union. If Their
contract terms are approved and made
Dy or on behalf OF a resident of the
Union ana It's terms are approved by
reau's report for the month of Fehru-
a aay' ozS applications for employment,
325 applications for help. and 203 Val
cancies filled. Unemployment annears
to be prevalent in the eneineerine
trades, building trades. clerical ' nros
fessions and among UNSETTLED IahororS
. your local doing tn nart - -.
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