LABOUR NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 April 1901, Page 4

LABOUR NOTES.

From tho beginning of the past month school children can travel over the San Francisco tramlines at half fare.

During last year the Iron Mouldors' Union of North America paid no less than £20,600 in sick benefits to its members. Tho Kanaka, who is the cause of so much trouble in Queensladd Labour circles, is paid £6 per year as wages, and gets hut-accomodation and food.

In Germany landlords have been raising rents to such an extent that the city authorities in 'various parts of the country have taken steps to furnish small homes for worker.?.

The Dunstan Times states that the building trade in this district is so brisk that it is absolutely impossible to get a carpenter to do a casual job, and there is every likelihood of the present rush continuing.

Equal wages for men and women who perform like labour is provided by a Bill now before the Missouri Legislature. A violation of the Act, should it become law, will render the offending party liable to a fine of from £2 to £2O.

The Typographical Journal says that since the beginning of the great coal strike in the United States of America a wave of unionism has been sweeping over the coal, region. Scores of new unions have been formed by all crafts, and everything now sold by merchants in the district must bear a label showing that tho article has been mado b„7 unionists.

Giving an. employer's view of trades unions in the Engineering Magazine, Sir B. C. Browne says :—" I think any one who has known the labour market for the last 30 years will say that the demands are almost without exception far more moderate in their character than they used to be before the men were so much under the influence of the unions." Female letter-carriers are employed in Aachen, Germany. Thus the Timaru Herald upon the Easter Conference of Tfrades Councils : " We can only express regret that a body which might serve a useful purpose if it limited tho area of its work to about a fiftieth part of its present proportions, and treated that part in a fair and judicial spirit, having regard to the interests of the community as a whole, has gone far to -earn for itself a character for promoting reckless and mischievous innovation."