Annals of Toil

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 65, 7 June 1912, Page 5

Annals of Toil

I The members of the Liverpool (England) Shipwrights' Society have just voted in favor of affiliation with the lloitcrmakrrs' and Iran and Steel Ship Builders f Society, and the members of the latter body were to have voted at the April rmnthly meeting as to whether they would accept the Liverpool Society. * * » A large majority of the people o! Switzerland have decided by a referendum to accept tho Federal workmen'! invalidity and accident insurance scheme. * » » An agitation is on foot in Wellington to prevent tho Ohineso from establish- ! ing themselves in the furniture trade in ', Now Zealand. The action is occasioned by a minor that an attempt is being made by or on behalf of a party of Chinese* craftsmen to establish a factory in Christchurch. * * * Kobe, Japan, is shortly to have h free public library, supported by the municipality. It will be housed is tho old building of the Kobe city office, which is now being submitted tn various alterations for the purpose «. » ♦ Tlio United States Supremo Court has decided that employees in the carrepairing- department of a railroad are fellow servants, of employees in tha operating department, thereby relieving the employing railroad from liability for injuries to the former class by the latter. * - • The arbitration award in connection with the dairying industry in West Australia provides for 60 hours' a© tual work per week and a wage of £S lGs. See yonder poor o'erlaborcd wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who bogs a brother of the earth To givo him leave to toil; And sco his lordly fellow worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.