Fergus County Democrat., 1914-01-20

New York City has 82,O15 regular
municipal employees.
Ninety thousand people are en-
ployed in Scotland's fishing industry.
San Francisco (Cal.) union butchers
have organized drum corps.
Utica, N. Y, has a labor temple
| which cost the unions $54,5OO.
A nine-hour day has been secured
by street railway employees at Regina,
Canada.
Chicago Building Trades council rep
resents 100000 women.
Turkey will soon open schools to
| teach it's women useful trades and
arts.
Newsboys of Vancouver, British
Columbia, have organized union.
Metal polishers have increased the
membership Of their international
union % per cent in the last year.
There are 735 cooperative credit and
loan banks in the Netherlands.
Cigarmakers throughout eastern
Pennsylvania will demand an increase
in wages.
Transport workers in Switzerland
have union membership of $1,000.
Montreal, Can, city council has de-
cided on a pension scheme for civic
employees.
New York actresses are going to
have a club with billiard room and
bar.
Members of parliament in Belgium
receive $S5 month while parliament
is sitting.
The Canadian Pacific will hereafter
not employ any person under IS years
of age.
Denmark has trade union mem
bership of 100000.
Painters in London, England, are
paid 19 and 20 cents an hour.
A membership of 55,644 is claimed
by the International Typographical
union.
About one-twentieth of the blast fur
naces in the United Kingdom are in
the South Wales district.
Labor bureaus will be established
in five of the principal cities of Penn
sylvania by the commissioners ct
labor.
Maine has 1886 wage earners, en-
ployed in 3,546 factories.
Five thousand female workers in
silk mills in eastern Pennsylvania
have been organized within a year.
A law to regulate and limit all hours
of labor of children and females in
Tennessee to 50 per week will be ef-
fective Jan. l, 1914.
Charles G. Taylor, president of the
First National bank of Canal Dover,
O., is a roller at the American Sheet
and Tinplate companys plant. Rollers
make big money, often $40 day.
In Australia the postal department
is experiencing difficulty in securing
sufficient number of postal me.
chanics to satisfy it's needs. Postal
mechanics are required for telephone
and telegraph work.
Norway's trade union congress de.
cided almost unanimously to establish
! local trade union councils, the duties
of which should be the furthering of
the propaganda work, provision of
meeting rooms, local organization, pub
lie meetings Of the trade unions, etc.
At conference between the Master
! Builders association and the United
Builders Laborers' union of London,
England, the employers offered to pay
overtime rates from IL to 4 on Satur-
days, as in the case of skilled work
ers. The union decided to accept the
terms. This decision affects $4,000
builders laborers.
Seventy-seven thousand, six hundred
and eight accidents, 458 resulting III
fatalities, were recorded in the year
1910, in the works coming under fac
tory inspection in Russia. In the same
year S4,882 accidents, resulting in 81
deaths, happened in the mining indus
try.
The executive council of the Ma
tional Sailors and Firemen's union O
England has decided to take a ballo
of the members of the union on thu