New York Labor Bulletin Vol 9 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...planing mill products; flour and grist mill products. (40) Ithaca----patent medicines and compounds; firearms. (41) Watervliet--collars and cuffs; woolen goods. (42) Mt. Vern0n--gas, illuminating and heating; silversmithing and silverware. (43) Saratoga Springs--druggists' preparations; foundry and machine shop products. (44) Port Jervis---cars and general shop construction and repairs by steam railroad companies; plated ware. (45) New Rochelle---lumber, planing mill products; printing and publishing, book and job. (46) Plattsburg----foundry and machine shop products; lumber and timber products." INTERNATIONAL LABOR TREATIES. Largely through the activity of the International Association for Labor Legislation, the American branch of which was organized in February, 1906, the hindrances to necessary and useful pro_tective labor legislation are in prospect of disappearing as a result of international agreements among the governments of competing countries. Note was made in the BULLETIN of September, 1905, of the international conference held in Berne, Switzerland, in May, 1905, to consider the prohibition of the work of women in factories at night and of the use of phosphorus in the manufacture of matches. The two agreements then drawn up have been adopted in an amplified and improved form at diplomatic conferences held in Berne, September 17-26, of the present year, and will enter into force upon their ratification by the signatory powers. The earliest labor treaty was the one entered into between the governments of France and Italy, April 15, 1904, which assured to the 200,000 Italian workmen in France equal treatment under the French insurance laws and established factory inspection in Italy for the purpose of enforcing the...