Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-02
Labor News

There are 6sT labor unions in Chile.
Colored elevator operators and
starters in New York city are or
ganizing.
Union steamfitters at Washington,
D. c.. are paid $3.50 a day.
Railroads in india pension aged EN-
ployes.
One hundred thousand shop girls
F are employed In Greater New York
/ city.
Printers In johannesburg. South
Africa, earn SCI week.
] Sweden has $500 cooperative So
cieties.
There are $1,000 women unionists in
Denmark.
Tennessee limits the work of women
to ffty-four hours weekly.
Electric railways in the United
States employ 2S2, 461 persons.
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Started a cooperative bakery.
Philadelphia cloak. suit and skirt
trade is now 100 per cent. organized.
Blacksmiths in the mines of South
Africa are paid So a day and work
fifty hours a week.
According to a law passed in 1908
German women and girls may not be
employed between o'clock In the
evening and in the morning, while
on Saturdays and days before legal
holidays they must be released at
p. m.
In Switzerland there is division Of
Jurisdiction between the federal fac
tory inspectors and the cantonal in
spectors, while the enforcement of the
law is entirely in the hands Of the
local police and the cantonal authori-
ties.
Certain employers of Oakland, Cal,
who are opposing the proposed eight
hour law threaten, in the event that
ii is carried, to work for the passage
Of minimum wage law for men and
stipulate that the minimum wage
should not exceed $3.50 per day.
More than half a million workers
will be affected by the working agree
ment Just entered into by the car
penters, engineers, bricklayers, marble
workers and two other related unions.
This will do away with the jurisdic-
tional fights that have always ham,
pered these unions, particularly in
case OF strikes.
The Commonwealth Club has in
vited the San Francisco Labor Coun-
Gil and the Building Trades Council
to send three representatives each to
conference on unemployment to be
held for the purpose Of devising ways
and means for caring for the unem-
ployed In San Francisco during the
coming winter.
The German branch of the White
Rats Actors Union is waging a fight
against theatrical agencies who are
supplying managers with non-union
| labor at less than the minimum scale
which the organization has been sue
cessful in establishing In places where
their members are employed.
T e International Hodcarriers
Building and Common Laborers'
Union Of America has been successful
In affiliating two large local unions
in Brooklyn, N. 7. The aggregate
membership of these organizations
will number over 1000 and is a splen-
did acquisition to this organization.
During the last year the earnings of
the members of the International
Typographical Union have been over
s61 100000. which is $4000,0 900 more than
in the preceding twelve months. In
five years the earnings of the MEM
bers of the organization have in
creased by almost $21 00o, 900. The
average earnings per member for the
past year have been $1,042.
England has fifty-hve workinpmen
factory inspectors, but their function
are limited, their salaries low and
their status entirely different from,
that of regular inspectors. Prussia
France and Switzerland have no s,ch
inspectors as yet, and there are oniv
few in Austria, Belgium and soma
of the German States.