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of the International Printers union
for the fiscal year was 65,203, =
gain Of 2,s42 over the preceding
year.
Whiskbroom workers in Mobile,
Ala, have organized with 100 per
cent membership.
A thriving labor paper has been
started in Charlotte, N. c.. and has
been heartily received and endorsed
by labor throughout the state.
Timber workers in Marinette,
Wis, have been accorded volun-
tary increase in wages of 50 cents
day.
More than 100000 industrial acct
dents occur each year serious
enough to come before compensa-
ton boards, and 10000 of these are
fatal.
The cotton workers of Charlotte,
Huntersville, Concord and Kannap-
oils, N. c. have gained a 55-hour
week with 90 hours pay and the
right of collective bargaining, also
abolition of the bonus system.
A general suspension of work by
organized labor affiliated with the
Mexican Federation of labor is
threatened throughout Mexico.
Wages of motion-picture opera
tors in Peoria, ILL.,, have been in
creased IS per cent, and the weekly
working hours reduced from AZ to
SO.
Equal representation for women
and men in the governing boards OF
the federated trade unions of Bel
gium has been accomplished.
The Congress OF Spanish employ
ers, sitting at Barcelona, have de-
clared a general lockout of work.
men throughout Spain.
The firm OF R. H. Macy and
company of New York have pur.
shased farm of 100 acres to be
used as rest and recreation center
by its employees. The firm will pay
all the running expenses of the farm.
Forty high school teachers OF
Kansas City, Kan, have applied for
q charter from the American Feder-
alton of Teachers, which is affiliated
with the American Federation, of
Labor.
Typographical workers in Phila-
delphia have been granted an in
crease in wages amounting to $40
per week.
In order to fit himself for a d.
rectorship in the firm of Armour
and company, Lester Armour, ne
phew of J..Ogden Armour, is work
ing in the stock yards in Chicago |
for SIS week.
About one-fourth of the entire
population in Belgium is employed |
in industrial work.
The wonderful growth of the
American Federation OF Labor is
shown best in figures giving the re-
suits of the organization work. Be-
tween May l, 1919, and August II,
1919, charters were granted for 278
local unions and 40 central bodies.
The Spanish government in its
desire to foster the silk industry,
which formerly enjoyed worldwide
fame, distributes gratuitously silk
worm eggs and offers various ad-
vantages to those who engage in
sericulture.
During 1918, 41oO,236 tons of coal
were mined in Maryland. This is an
increase of 233,655 tons, or SO per
cent over 1917.
Each trade union in Germany
pays quarterly into the treasury of
the German Trade Union Fedora
ton the sum IL cents per member.
Members of the International
Union of Printers have disbursed
$3,8S8,474 for old-age pensions.
mortuary benefits and the Union
Printers Home in the last FIVE
years, every dollar of which was
paid into the treasury of the Inter
national Union by the members Of
the organization, and not one dollar
Of which was contributed by volun-
tary subscriptions solicited from
any person.
In the lower paid section of the
granite industry in the United States
and Canada the minimum wage rate
had increased to 81 for the eight
hour day until just prior to last
Labor day, when force of circum-
stances increased the minimum
wage in the lowest paid localities |
to $3.50 a day.
Because of the governments in
activity in raising wages and pro-
viding a retirement pension, the |
National Public School Teaches
association in Paris has voted to |
align itself with the French FEEDER
alton of Labor and will hereafter |
be recognized as a bona-hde trade |
union.