Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-01-24

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lature a bill for the popular election
of state factory inspector and for the
election Of deputy inspectors in their
various districts. The committee will
also submit bills requiring railroad
trainmen to have-three months expe-
rience before being permitted to serve
regularly and providing for semi
monthly instead of a monthly pay.
The initiative and referendum will be
the next subjects considered.
Laredo, Texas.-Seven thousand
shop employees of the National Rail-
way of Mexico went on strike be-
cause Of the refusal of the manage
ment to grant an eight-hour day and
an increase in wages. The strike was
called simultaneously at Nuevo La
redo, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City
and Agues Calientes, At Nuevo La
redo 100 skilled mechanics and 100
other employees walked out The
shops are closed.
Albany. N. Y.-Foreign corporations
doing business in New York state
come under the provisions of the
work wage law, and must pay their
employees. including statesmen. clerks.
stenographers and draughtsmen each
week. according to ruling made pub
lie by Attorney General Carmody.
John Williams, state labor commits
sioner, asked for the opinion.
Haverhill, Mass.-Master BARRIERS
~, 90 10 A.
mands of the BARRIERS union for $13
minimum wage have engaged women
BARRIERS to take the places of those
who have been out on strike since
week ago. Twenty-four bosses have
declared for an open shop, eight hav-
ing signed contacts with women.
Pittsburg.-The average production
for each miner in this country in 1911
was ga tons in the anthracite mines
an exceptionally large tonnage-and
73S tons In the bituminous mines-lThe
average daily production for each man
employed was 2.13 short tons in the
anthracite and $50 tons in the btu
minous mines.
Washington.-In the last fiscal year
the railways of the United States paid
to labor. In round figures, $42 100000
more than would have been required
had the wage schedule of 1910 been
in effect, and $69.000.00O more than
the wages of 1909 demanded.
Washington.-The building trades
department of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has decided that the
staff work on buildings to be erected
for the Panama-Pacific international
exposition belongs to the carpenters
and not to the plasterers.
Springfield, nl.-Legislation to in
sure one days rest In seven for men
and women workers, whether engaged
In continuous industries or otherwise,
was urged at the annual meeting of
the Illinois Association for Labor Leg
islation.
Springfield, nl.-Legfslation to In
sure one days rest in seven for men
and women workers, whether engaged
In continuous industries or otherwise,
was urged at the annual meeting of
the Illinois Association for Labor
Legislation
st. Louis-Twenty-five thousand
employees of the Frisco railway system
are granted old age and disability pen
sions as a Christmas gift, according to
a brief announcement made from the
headquarters of the system here.
London. England. = approximately
Is per cent. is about to be added to
the pay, both Of officers and men in
the British navy. The total amounts
to $1.932.365. 1t is the first increase
in naval pay In so years.
Paris, France.-Linotype machine
operators threaten to go on a general
strike unless a scale of nine hours
for a days work and eight francs
($1.50) compensation is granted.
Chicago.-Journeyme BARRIERS are
engaged in an active campaign to
clean up unsanitary barber shops and
to organize the seven thousand Jour-
neymen BARRIERS In the city.
London, EnglanA.-A hotel for work
ing girls was opened in st. Mary's
row, in the heart of the factory dis
trict of Birmingham recently by the
duchess of Marlborough.
Kiel, Germany.-A great strike
broke out at Krupp's Germania ship
building yards. Over half Of the men
left their employment. tying up the
work of the plant.
Toledo, Ohio.-Twenty-eight Hun
garian women recently took the places
of the striking core makers in the
plant of the National Malleable Cast
ings company.
New York.-Journeymen BARRIERS
International union is twenty-five
years old. 1t has 700 locals and a
membership exceeding 10000.
New York.-The paving cutters
have voted to make the eight-hour
workday universal in their organiza-
ton on June 1, 1918. At present
about 25 per cent of the members are
working nine hours day.
Washington.-h the Sixty-third con-
gress the labor group will consist of
seventeen members, one Of these be-
ing a United States senator. William
Hughes of New Jersey.
Washingtoa.-More than $366,000.-
900 was lost in wages through more
than 100000 cases OF sickness
among wage earners In the United
States last year.
= New York.-Three counties In New
York state will build hospitals for the
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