El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-11
Plans For Working Mems Compensation
Acts Are Going Forward; Labor News
by C S Wd international TypOgap
The membership

which are in Canada. The membership
I is now $4,000.
Employees of the packing industry in
! Chicago work 10, u and Il hours q
day, and the average wage at the
! stockyards is less than 81 a week.
In New York city the meatcutters
! have gained the nine-hOur day.
| San Francisco, Calf, Typographical
! union has a membership exceeding
/ 1000.
California has an employers liability
/ law, but according to a decision handed
I down by the supreme court of the state,
/ it does not apply to the state in its
! capacity as employer.
The Canadian federal labor depart
ment has in the last few weeks settled
! street railway differences between
companies and men in Ottawa Hull.
Halifax, Quebec and Port Arthur.
! Eight thousand London taxi drivers
| are on strike They probably heard
| that the worlds gold supply for 1912
was $3.50, 100000 and it made them sore
to think there was some Of it they
didn't get.
Advices indicate the certainty that
! the Mississippi statute limiting the
days of labor in factories and indus
trial plants to 10 hours will go to the
supreme court Of the United States for
final construction.
Twenty thousand city employees Of
Chicago suffered a cut of 20 percent
in their salaries by action of the city
council. Practically every emplOye is
affected except a few high in author
ity. The city budget calls for $23,-
3S4.193.
A bill under preparation by Mime
apolis Bakers union having for its OBJ
ject the creation of more sanitary con
ditions in bakeshOps. and the complete
adjustment OF basement bakeshOps.
will soon be ready for presentation to
the Minnesota state legislature.
Shorter hours Of work have been per
slstentIy fought for by the BARRIERS In
ternational union. Sunday work has
been eliminated and an average of
more than two hours q day cut from
the other six days of the week. o.
more than 20 hours a week for 10000
men, accomplished without reduction
in wages.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has established schools of teleg-
raphy at its offices in a number Of
cities; that is to say, messenger boys,
clerks and others who wish to learn
to operate are provided with a room
for practice and have the guidance Of
a teacher specially assigned to that
work.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad has issued an order prohibit
ing employees from cashing their pay
checks in saloons and has made ar
rangements with banks to keep open
evenings at the time the pay checks
are distrib uted, in order to handle this
business. One saloon keeper in Au-
rOra, Ill, is said to have cashed over
$4,000 worth Of checks in a single
night
1t is said that no other institution in
the world has been so successful in
the treatment Of tuberculosis as the
Union Printers home at Colorado
Springs, and its fame has spread to
the most remote parts Of the world
The home is the property Of the Inter
national Typographical union an5 re-
presents an outlay, contributed by
about $4,000 members, Of about $780,,
900. and approximately $4,000 is ex-
pended each year in its maintenance.
A settlement has been reached be-
tween the striking Western machinists
of the Grand Trunk Pacific and presi-
dent E. J. Chamberlain, which will clear
the way for the opening Of the Trans
coma shops. The company agrees that
next spring, If the men so desire, the
Western management will meet a COM
mittee OF the men to decide upon new
agreement and new schedule, and
failing to arrive at terms the differ
ences will be submitted to a cOncila-
ton board appointed under the indus
trial disputes act
The Boston American Federation Of |
Labor LOngshoremen's Trade council
has been organized The council con-
tains the longshOremen's unions which |
have recently changed their affiliatiOn /
from the Knights of Labor to the re- |
LOngshoremen's Interna- /
rional union, together with the Steam |
ship Clerks union and the Dock and |
Freight Handlers union This places |
practically all the waterfront Organi- I
cations in the council and also in affili-
alton through their international (
unions with the American Federation /
Of Labor.