The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-13
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR

q, At present there are E members of represent coal miners.
 In 1850 only one woman worked for is one woman to four men.
 The employees in the big stores of Paris. work on an average from in the morning to 7.30 at night.
 It is estimated that three-fourths of snip h ene is astribute6 n 6n in % the zhape ti Of wages
 The British .,tu Shipping Federation have gfneers for increased wages.
 A new Building Trades Council, with 16o charter members. has been organized in Tulare county, Cal
 Monaghan qreland) Urban Council have decided to increase the wages of the laborers in their employment by 24 cents per week.
 Iowa carpenters recommended that all persons emfp3ioyed - on I state e,a work vol k be be intention te become such.
 It has been decided to increase Irish teachers salaries, the cost being s130, ,000 for the first year and eventually s590, ,0o1 year.
 Samuel Gompers is q years. old and eration of Labor for half that period, or for 32 years.
 There is a general movement of organ 1aed labor to establish n, a, an insdependent inc m Ontario, Canada.
 Wilmington (DeI0 Central Labor Union has submitted proposal to it's men join them in Labor Day parade. in Vancouver recently and asked the
 Provincial Government to give white fishermen preference over Japs in the future.
 A bill to reduce from 70 to 65 the age at which the o1d-age pension can be claim ed was introduced in the British House New York teamsters demand e6-hour a week for driving one-horse truck $E | $21 for four-horse trucks. 1 It is estimated that less than Lolo 900 labor union men, by acting as a unit. could procure the enactment of more
 5.o ,oo0 voters in the country. There are s6oo people employed in jani-
 torial work in San Francisco Of this | number more than 2O0o are Japanese and close to 800 Chinese are engaged in 1 this line of work.
 The Illinois State Efficiency and Econ
 orny Commission has agreed to Tecon-
 end o3 me aeglsdaeHFS Mfi 5nae ha Depars .ras+ad
 to supplant the several mining and la-
 bor departments now in existence | At the end of May the master bakers l of Melbourne, Australia conceded the l mems demand for the abolition of night | work. Baking by day has now proved | a failure, and the men have agreed to ! revert to night work
 There is no immediate prospect of a 1 settlement of the London (Eng.) build | ing trades dispute. and the. malcon tents | have formed a new fighting organiza- ton on a revolutionary basis, called the i SXndica1ist Building Workers Indus 1 trial Union
 It has been estimated that during the present year 1.245,oo0 factory hands in 1 Russia have already participated in strikes, in addition to 215,000 others who l are employed in establishments not Convicted prisoners in a number of | States in the Union are still farmed out | to contractors, who pay a. small daily. I wage to the State, and in return are guards to keep their employees at work. | A precedent was established in North l America recently by the Legislature of l Ontario passing a law "to provide for compensation to workmen for injuries ftracted in the course of their employ ment.''
 | The Internati Union of Brick 1 layers has established brickyard at 1 Ei Paso at a cost of s100.oo0. The union 1 bonds of Eastern cities It is predicted that the per capita tax of the union
 will shortly be reduced.