The Spectator., 1915-06-18
NOTES FROM THE
 WORLD 0F LABOR
Facts and Figures From Many Lands of Interest to
 Union Workmen.
NEW INDUSTRY FOR MOBILE
Large Shipbuiiding Plant Is to Be Con- structed in the Southern City California House of Repre- sentatives Prohibits the
 Use of Scrip.

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 Edward w. Hyde, former president of the Bath (Me.) Iron works, return ing from trip through the South, gave to reporter for the New York World the first public information re- garding plans now completed. for one Of the largest shipbuilding plants in the United States, to be constructed at Mobile, Ala. At present Norfolk and Newport News. Va. represent the farthest south points for shipyards and the new project will not only be boon for Alabama and the South, but the announcement should stir the citizens of Mobile who, as yet. know nothing of the proposition. The idea of the new plant, according to MT. Hyde, will be to watch and care for the develop ment of South American trade and that passing through the Panama canal
 The California house of representa- tives has passed bill prohibiting the issuance of scrip to employees. The measure requires that mining and lum- Der companies shall pay legal tender or negotiable securities to employees who ask for their wages. Advocates of the bill charged that companies ad- vance wages in the shape of coupon books, or scrip. redeemable only at stores operated by the companies.
 Nottinghamshire, England. educa- tion committee has decided to allow agriculturists during the present crisis to employ boys and girls of the age of thirteen years.
 Governor Clarke of Iowa signed the Allen child labor bill three hours after 1t was passed by the house. The act strengthens the old child labor law.
 Unless Washington's five strike bound breweries show a disposition to treat with their men the strikers threaten to work for prohibition.
 The South Metropolitan Gas com pany of London has decided to make a special war bonus of 72 cents a week to all workmen in their employ.
 Even though New South Wales has a labor government there has never been labor man appointed as chair man of the wage board
 The s6,0O0,OO0 corporation of the Dennison Manufacturing company, Boston, has been turned over entire ly to it's 2,400 employees.
 The chief of police at Southampton, England. is advertising for policewom- en at a salary of from $7 to S9 a week.
 Better child-labor legislation in North Carolina was successfully blocked by the cotton manufacturers,
 At Swansea the Welsh Iron Found CTS association granted an increase of 75 cents weekly to men earning s6,75.
 Two thousand woman telegraphers employed by the Western Union have been conceded the eight-hour day.
 Boards of trade in British Columbia are asking the government to make miners licenses free for 1915.
 Glamorganshire, Scotland, police committee has given a 10 per cent in- crease to all men on the force. A 14-year limit for common occupa- tions was established in Alabama this year, to go into effect in 1916
 An epidemic of influenza has inca pacitated thousands of factory work CTS in Manchester, Eng.
 During 1913 the railway companies of the United Kingdom employed 615,- 985 persons weekly
 The A. F. of L. has increased its membership in 34 years from 50,000 to over 100000.
 Scotland will have at Dunfermline a technical college chiefly devoted to linen weaving.
 New York borough clerks are to be given free insurance if paid $1,000 or less per year
 An attempt will be made to thor oughly organize the painters in Great CT New York.
 New York public school teachers must undergo examinations and tuber- culosis tests.
 Labor exchanges throughout the country found work for 100000 people last year.
 New York Carpenters Local, No 309, has plan to pension unemployed members
 In Germany 341 per cent of all trade unionists have enrolled in the army.
 Idaho has appointed a commission to draft a woman's minimum wage law
 Liverpool (Eng) Is experimenting with girl telegraph messengers.
 Eight countries in Europe have laws against night work by women.
 In Rhode Island the total number of unemployed exceeds 30,000.
 Inside ironworkers in New York city