The daily sentinel., 1913-03-12

Oh II, 1913.
for women to ten hours. Miss VIII
son pointed out the fact that New
Jersey has an eight-hour law for
workers, and that thirty states have
adopted a ten-hour law. and urged
that the Delaware legislature enact
he bill into law Hope that this is
family index.
A bill is before the Washington
state legislature fixing a minimum
wage for women. 1t is believed that
IL will pass the Senate. and will meet
with little or no opposition in the
House.
Over 100 delegates were present at
the convention of the Iron Workers,
which convened at Indianapolis on
the 24th of February. These men
represented unions from every sec
tion of the country.
The extension of the shingle weav-
ers' jurisdiction to cover all men EN-
ployed in the timber industry, be-
came effective March /. The mem
great campaign to get in more mem-
bers and stand good show of doing
so.
Gov. Cox of Ohio. is bending his
beet efforts to the end that the work
mems compensation act. adopted by
the Senate shall be adopted and pass
ed by the House. The Senate vote
was tremendous victory for the la
Dor unions, as every member of that
body voted for the bill
Former Secretary Knox the latter
part of February issued the state
ment that the income tax amend
ment is now part of the constitu-
tion. The certificate from Wyoming
certifying that states acquiescence
gave the necessary three-fourths of
the total required to give effect to
the amendment.
One of the bills championed by the
Pennsylvania state federation of la
Dor which provides for payment of
overtime work done by employees of
mercantile establishments and maxi
ing 1t unlawful to make employees do
overtime work by threatening dis
charge, has been passed by the House
by vote of l7S to II.
The Peters eight-hour bill for
women employed in the District of
Columbia has been ordered favorably
reported to the House by the House
committee ON labor This bill pro-
vides for an eight-hour day for wom-
en- employed in stores. mercantile and
manufacturing establishments, in ho-
tells and restaurants, and limits the
number of working days to six per
week.
A judge out in San Jose, Calf, has
declared that the women's eight-hour
bill does not apply to ARTS and as
arts" he hold that women working
at this business do not get the bene-
fit of this law. No doubt, if these
kind of decisions are allowed to pass
muster, the man with the wheelbar-
row will be later classed as an "ar-
tist." Why not? ~ -ls-
The silk weaving and dying indus
try of the city of Patterson, n. j.,
was practically closed down when a
very large percentage of the en-
ployes of two concerns went on
strike. The employees are demanding
an eight-hour day and a minimum
wage scale of $12 week. There
are twenty-siX firms of this kind in
that city and 1t is expected that all
will be affected before the strike is
closed.
The ninth annual report of the
Toronto (Can.) Labor Temple Com
pany has been submitted to the
shareholders, and is a splendid DEM
onstration of the truth that under
careful and efficient management a
labor temple can be made business
success. At the close of the fiscal
year they had a balance of s5.SS1.56
in the bank and on hand The site
of the building was originally bought
for about $4,000 and it is estimated
that it is now worth $4,000.
During the early part of the year
the Fishermen's union of Seattle de-
nlanded an increase in wages, this
was refused by the employers who
hired strikebreakers, and went forth
to fish at the fishing banks. Recent
| ly one of the fishing smacks returned
and the average earnings for the
fishermen was 3 5 cents for the trip.
The strikebreakers were sick of their
job and refused to ship again. A
large part of the companies have
granted the increase as requested
Senator Hackney of ST. Paul has
been set upon good and hard by the
legislature of that state. Hackney
made bitter fight against the wom-
ems suffrage bill, and recently want
ed 13-year-old hoy appointed to a