The Spectator., 1915-06-18
ARRANGE WORK FOR CONNECTS
Pennsylvania Will Employ Them in Special Labor and Pay Them
 Small Sum.

The Pennsylvania house of repre- sentatives passed without opposition a | bill providing that convicts shall be employed in the manufacture of such articles as can be purchased by state and county institutions, thus remov- ing them from direct competition with free labor generally. Provision is also made for the payment to the prisoners | of certain proportion of their wages, while the balance is to go to their de- pendents
 Both houses of the Ohio legislature have passed the Lloyd salary loan bill, which places these companies under supervision of the state banking de partment, reduces interest and investi- nature of the wife must be obtained before an assignment of wages can be made or chattel loan executed.
 Brewery Workers union local No 1, of New York city has adopted a new rule, according to which no one who is not a citizen, or who has not taken out his first citizens papers. can be- come member of the union.
 A bill has been introduced in the Michigan senate which provides for the payment to his family of a part of the earnings of any prisoner in a penal institution who has a family de- pendent upon him for support.
 AS a means of assisting to release the railway men of military age. one of the great British trunk lines is making the experiment. of woman car riage cleaners in the London district.
 In the six weeks operation of the less man and the manless job. the post office and labor departments found employment for 1,245 men.
 South Wales coal mine owners have offered a ten per cent increase of wages to their employees on condition the men do not carry out their threat to cease work in three months.
 York (England) tramway employees cil for an increase of two cents per hour to meet the rapid rise in the price of household commodities.
 Machinists in Leeds, England, have accepted the offer of an all-round ad vance of 75 cents weekly made by the masters in response to a demand for one of $125
 An act has been passed in the Al berta legislature providing that school boards may supply out of the funds textbooks and school supplies for the pupils.
 La Crosse, (Wis) union painters have signed two-year agreement which provides for an increase of 21a cents an hour each year.
 Female garment workers in some villages in New Jersey make but three and four dollars a week
 Cheyenne (Wyo) typographical union has signed three-year contract at increased wages.
 Organized labor in Missouri defeat tenn in convict labor
 An extensive campaign is on to or ganize the nonunion clothing workers in Greater New York
 Owing to the war, unemployment in England has virtually vanished in most industries.
 British Shop Assistants union has sent 30 per cent of it's S1, 900 members to the front.
 New York public school teachers must undergo examinations and tubei- culosis tests.
 There are now but five states with. out a fourteen-year-old limit for work ing children.
 New York borough clerks are to be given free insurance if paid sl.000 or less a year
 A branch of the United Hebrew Trades has been established at New ark, N. J.
 system of leasing convicts to con tractors.
 The number of workhouse inmates in England has decreased since the war
 Organized labor in Florida Is work ing for workman's compensation law.
 London (Eng) Metropolitan Rail way pays a war bonus to employees.
 There are seven Italian locals in the clothing trade of New York city.
 A large union of walters was re- gently formed at Columbus. Ohio.
 Inside ironworkers in New York city request a 4S-hour week.
 Organized labor in Texas succeeded in having II new laws passed.
 Women in Minneapolis book bind cries are being organized.
 Canadian railroad employees ask for fortnightly pay.