WORKING CONDITIONS IN ITALY.
INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS OF PRACTICAL NATURE.
RESULT OF THE NEW SYNDICAL LAW,
DELEGATES POSTED IN FACTORIES.
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Rome-An interesting develop tire laws. The employers urge that ment of a practical nature has just the introduction of this personage arisen in the workings of the into the factories is evon against Italian syndical law which regu- the principles of the syndical laws lates the working conditions and which are considered one of the pay of the opentives, the duties basic supports of the Fascist re and responsibilities of the employ-gime.
ers, and the relations between It has even been suggested that
masters and men.
the workers delegate or
T
"work A good deal of take has been shop fiduciaries have a certaía lately heard of a new figure in the kinship to the old "workmen's in- industial workshops of the coun- ternal commissions" which four- try. This is the so-called "work-ished with political utility during abop Bduciary," sometimes also the pre-Fascist regimes. cailed workshop correspondent,
or factory delegata."
"Factory Delagate."
A polemic of considerable pro. portions ie at present turning round the right, or otherwise, of this new factory personality to exist.
doca
As a matter of fact, he exist, though so far without any atate authority, and it in expected that Mussolini will at an early date
work declare whether or not the thop fiduciary" or "factory dele. gate" is to be allowed to continue ar to be suppressed.
..
Vigorous Dental.
This in vigorously, denied by the workmen and their delegates, who Nato that the presence of the work- men's delegate in the factory is a matter of simple convenience, and has no political significance what-
crer.
The workers urge in favour of the recognition by the state of the workers' delegates inside the factories that it is a practical im possibility for the operatives to have frequent and regular recourse to their syndicate in case of need. They allege that when they finish their day's work,, they cannot spend several hours in travelling to their oficial syndicate to report some workmen and the workmen's syn-trifling non-observance in the work. dicate which represent them.'
ing rules of the factory to their
The functions and duties of the "factory delegale" are to act as a sort of liaison officer between the
The delegate is always a work-proper representatives. man engaged in the particular
They further point out that the factory which he represents, where clerical personnel of the syndicates ns, the syndicate, appointed by the government under the celebrated ot in a position to handle a corporation" laws often has its rumber of claims complaints and regarding auch office at some distance from the representations factory or workshop, and often in. matters as over-time, insurance, premiums, vacations, etc., in the deed in. another city entirely.
time available to workmen after their daily laboura,"
Reasonable Demand.
For this reason, the workmen, of Italy are demanding that they should have a representative on the spot, who can follow the daily in cidents and foutine of the factory and make the due complaints to the syndicate to which the factory as attached of any non-observance of the labour contract or other obligations on the part of employ ers and masters of the factory.
The Press is somewhat divided on the subject, but there is gener ally a tendency to consider the new institution favourably.
In practice, the "workers' dele- gates are already carrying out their duties in numerous factories, with the tolerance, and sometimes with the tacit approval of the masters, who recognize their usefulness.
The whole matter will probably, come up for discussion in one of the meetings of the Fascist Grand Council, which begin next month. The Duce will then make a pro- pouncement whether these factory
In general, the owners and heads of factories and workshops are opposed to the ides of the work ers delegate. They declare that he is not necessary, as the workers' interests are duly and most amply intermediaries are to be given a cared for under the complicated judidien position or to be forbid system of the syndical and corporn. ' den.
'DRIEST" TOWNS IN BRITAIN.
REVOLT AMONG CLERGY- MEN.
CHAMPIONS OF THE SOBRIETY VICAR WARNS GIRLS NOT TO
CENSUS.
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The soberest towns in England are Plymouth and Walsall; the blackest," so far as drunkenness statistics are concerned, Blackpool, Brighton, and Hastings.
MARRY ONE.
Revolt occurred among the clergy last month in England when two vicars published protesting letters' to their parishioners. are as follows:-
The cases
Tho cotton town of Buy, which used to be twenty-third on the
"Girls, never marry a 'parson'. sobriety table, made a gallant fight You will get all the difficulties of in 1929 and rose to fourth place.
life without the compensations." So much is revealed in licensing statistics which were issued as a This is the postscript to the letter Bluebook last month. They make it by the Rev. A. W. Orr, vicar of St. clear at the outset that there has Paul'a Kingston Hill, Surrey been a steady decrease in drunken- The letter draws & melancholy pic- ness and in the number of public-ture of the financial burdens borne houses, and an increase in off-by the average clergyman. licences and clubs-all these for the second year in succession.
Mr. Orr refers to senseless vicarages," and continues: “A man At the beginning of 1998 there with: £600 a year appears com- were in England and Wales 78,603 fortably off until you see that he is. inns and hotels, 92,180 off-licences living in a house that none would and 12,778 registered clubs. In take unless they possessed £1,000“ A twenty-five years clubs have in-rear." ereased by 0,404; and on-licences ( have decreased by 20,075.
Week-end Arrests,
IL
Chorley Wood, the most peaceful of prosperous villages scattered bo tweer railway station and a The famous common, is roused. vicar, the Rer. W. E. Woodburns Denhamn, writes:-
All these figures are in themselves proof of the more temperate habite of the people; and, in addition,
"I feel a strong protest should be it is stated that convictions for drunkennens last year were at a made concerning the attitude of lower level than in any years since those who are nominally members 1978, the figures being 56,642, a de of the Church of England and yet, crense of 3,524 on 1027. February who consistently ignore her active The clergy was the only black month show work and teaching..
are only too ready to be of service, ing a light increase.
Both in England and Wales 60 myself included, but is it fair, is per cent. of the arrests loading tot just, is it cricket, is it playing convictions for drunkenness took the game, that support, both moral place at week-ends, the worst towns and material, should always be left
to the comparative few
being seaside resorts. Eighty-four Mr. Denham, commenting on the per cent, were men, representing 40 failure of appeals to people to come per 10,000, and 10 per cent. women to church, declares: ExcUSCH DTO representing 7 per 10,000 of the fabricated only to evade the sup- population aged twenty-one and
renie issue-the essential matter. Someirars it is the weather, either fa London there were 20,440 too hot, too cold, er too wet; Bum- drunk" convictions last year, as day, recreation, inconveniest times. compared with 54,550 in the rear be of servicce; Sunday visitors; or fore the war. The industrial areas of Lancashire and the midlands who again length of sermons or a cold
church."
aver,
even more striking decreases of 38.633 to 8,017 and 17,299 to 5,114 respectively.
One serious aspect of the report is that methylated spirit drinking, is on the increase by 4 per cent., from 428 in 1927 to 440 in 1998,
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THE THEATRE IN BERLIN.
FIVE NEW PRODUCERS.
'ATTEMPTING A RENAISSANCE.
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Berlin.Five mom, each darütless nursing a secret hope that he may turn out to be another Saltenburg, n Barnowsky or a Reinhardt, madd their debut as producers at the opening of Berlin's new theatrical season. The advent of so many new theatre directors at one timo has given rise to much commend on the part of the dramatic critics, but while none of the commentatory has gone so far as to predict spectacular futures for the five mon, a are agreed that their ap pearance at this time gives promise of one of the most successful sensors in Berlin since the war,
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Mr. Ligley Oddie," the coroner, made this statement at a recent Weatrainsar inquestion Mr. George Arnold Jones, aged/thirty-two, & solicitor, of Gower-street, who died while under the inducñce of chloro- formi given for the purpose of an operation in Westminster Hospital...
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The coroner secorded a verdict of: "Death by misadventure.”
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