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Show the United Etatea. The following are torn of to retail price: Beefsteak, 24 eenta a pound; pork, 20 centi; bacon, 21; ham, 29; real, 19; mutton, 18. and butter, 80 eenta a ponnd; chicken, 59 eenta each; egg, 20 eenta a dosea; milk, 5 eenta a quart; tea. 48.95 eenta, and coffee, 24.48 eenta pound; flour, $9.04 a barrel; applet, ft, and potatoes, 24 eenta bushel. INTEBNATIONAL VOTES STRTTTR. BUFFALO. N. Y. Aug. 8. Papertnakert In the thirty-three mills of the International Paper Pa-per company in the United State and Canada Can-ada hare given notice that they will g on strike August 0 unlets their working hour re reduced to eight hour a day without reduction re-duction in th scale of wages. Th Paper-makers' Paper-makers' union will hold meeting la New York on Monday to form plan of action. The International Paper eompanr has been preparing for such a situation. ANOTHER TRADES UNION BANK. Following -he foottteps of the Chicago tradea.nnionltta. tha labor union of Covington, Cov-ington, Kt., hr started a movement for a trade union bank. The bank will hare a paid-up stack of $50,000. All the itock has already been subscribed by the labor unions,, and the majority of th directors will be members of the trades unions. LAB02TTE TO HAEVAED. , The Boston Kewsboys, 'a protective union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, La-bor, Toted to send' on of its member to Harvard university in tha fall. The union and w hear of no mora strikes till tha u-preme u-preme strike of 1789. ' IMPORTANT DECISION. The Supreme tourt of Kentucky recently handed down a deciiion which if not reversed by the court of laat resort, will compel labor onion to adopt rigid laws against unsafe fcaffoldinr, etc. The decision in inbstance exempt the employer from all responsibility of injury to workmen employed under a "closed shop." The Kentucky court holds that nnder the closed shop rules the anions hare taken npon themselves the responsibility of determining whp is or who is not competent, and therefor there-for tha employer ia Teleased from liability for acta of incompetency which causa injury to other employees. The ruling nullifies every fellow (errant law enacted, should it b allowed to stand. FOEEION. . (Official Correspondence to The International Interna-tional Labor News Bureau.) - Australia. Tour correspondent at Newcastle reports an Australian plan to provide for tha unemployed. unem-ployed. It relates to Queensland province, and th scheme Is thus summarised: Suitable Suita-ble farming land is provided by the Government Govern-ment for groups of men and their families that will ultimately form village settlements, bnt they are not to be co-operative; each settler set-tler will stsnd or fall on hi own merit. A Government overseer'' will guide and instruct the aettlers for, two year, and the. house erected for hi use can be used aa a publio hall or school. Plain ration. Implement, a small stock of cows, poultry, etc., roofing material, water tanks, etc., will be supplied for th first year. This will all be charred aa a loan, and must be eventually refunded to the Stat. The men will first be taken on six months' probation, and may cultivate what crops they choose. Saxony. Coincident with th discussion of the wsge question in the United States, a foreign correspondent cor-respondent of the International Labor New Bureau write that tha wage conditions In his district would make those of the United State seem rather well off by comparison. Th worst condition are to be found in tha Trsebirge district. In the lace,' trimming, flower and top industries. Although It is possible pos-sible in aom esses to find wagea as high as 7 cents aa hour, th usual rat is 2H eenta, and there are many cases of half a cent and three-quarters ebinr paid. The workshop is usually in th dwelling, and also constitutes tha bedroom and kitchen of tha family. Th working hour In many ease amount to ninety Dour week, and every member of the family, from th children to th old people, peo-ple, take part in the work. At the same time the cost of food is higher, as a whole, than la aoma time ago started s icaoiarsnip luna, hoping to raise 5000. Tna fund now amounts to 92500, which yields an income of 9100. President Eliot, an honorary member of the union, urged the body not to wait until un-til the fund is complete, offering to accept the income of the present amount until it is larger. The beneficiary of the fund will be selected by competitive examination. SWITCHMEN' IN A F. OF L The Switchmen's Union of North America has affiliated with tha American Federation of Labor. The union - numbers about 12,000 members, with permanent headquarters at Buffalo. This makes three railway organizations in th A. F. of L. Th other two fere the Order of Railway Telegrapher and the Brotherhood of Railway Expressmen. The engineers, firemen, conductors and brakesmen are still holding aloof from the rest of the labor world. LAY COBNEB-STONE LABOS DAT. At th Labor day parade to be held in Los Angeles, the garnit corner-stone of the new labor temple will be borne on a special decorated deco-rated float. ' "Union Labor Temple, Labor Day, 1906," is tha inscription that will appear ap-pear on the stone. The corner-stone will head the Labor day parade. It will be placed upon a decorated float, drawn by four hacdsome horses. At the conclusion of the parade the stone will be laid by th president of the Bricklayer' Brick-layer' union, th mortar used being furnished fur-nished by the presidents of th two Laborers' unions,, Nos. 1 and 7. EVOLUTION OF WORKDAY. Prior to 1830 tha workday waa eleven to thirteen hour, or from sun to sun. In that year the agitation for a ten-hour day became -quit common and resulted in a number of strikes. Tbe merchants, msnufacturers and employers generally pledged themselvea not to employ laborera unleaa they would agree to work twelve hours for 91 a7- From 1830 to 1865 the ten-hour eontest resulted in hundred hun-dred of trike and lockouts. The conspiracy conspira-cy law aent hundreds of our wageworkers, fathers and grandfathers to jail, the militia waa called out on th slightest pretext, and the ten-hour agitator were openly denounced a lazy, worthies gang of loafera and drunkard. The los in wage through trike and lockout resulting from this agitation agi-tation amounted to hundreds of. tbousanda of dollars. ' i EASILY FIXED. "What was th matter with , that woman wom-an I" demanded th editor. "W called her a 'strong-minded person la our paper and h object." "Very well: call her 'weak-minded hereafter.'' here-after.'' PhiladeTphiaedger I THE WORLD OF LABOR Copyright, 1806, by THE INTERNATIONAL. LABOR NEWS BUREAU. , BBBBBWafjsaaBBaaiaBjiaaBasBaBBBBSBSSSsa Accuracy Guaranteed by tha Associated Labor Pre. LABOEITE HONORED. Because ha facetiously mad a motion that tha next convention of the Brotherhood of Painter and Decorators of America be bald in Dublin, Ireland, Timothy O'Keefe, a member mem-ber of Chicago local No. 147 of tha above organisation wac this week presented with a Wedgewood syrup jug with a sterling silver cap. Tha jug ia the gift of the Dublin Central Cen-tral Labor union, and was presented by four members of tba organization who are touring the United Statea investigating industrial conditions and labor organisationa. Th men who came from tha Emerald Isl are Michael Callahan, -John O'Rourke, M. Rafferty and Humphrey O'Donohu. When th delegate arrived in Chicago and inquired for tha sponsor for th motion, they were informed that ha waa working at his trade on a building in Bute street. Thither they went and found O'Keefe perched on a scaffold four stories in the air. It was necessary ne-cessary to send a man to tha top of tha building in order to communicate with O'Keefe. Ha and his partner lowered the scaffold, and upon reaching th ground th "loving molasses bowl" was presented to O'Keefe ia behalf of the Dublin council. WILL FIGHT THE UNIONS. Th Citizen' Industrial Association of -America ha sent out a notice in which it ars: 1 "To check the political ambition of th onion labor leader, the National Citisens' Industrial In-dustrial association is submitting to political candidate throughout the country two questions: ques-tions: " 'Hare you pledged your support to th union trust or to any other trust, organization organiza-tion or corporation seeking special legislation! legisla-tion! ' 'Will you or will you not represent tha citizen a a whole and ek to protect them from class legislation, whether by organized capital or organized labor, whea such legislation legis-lation is In the inteert of the few to gWe power orer th many! "The plan prorides that the names of candidates who stand for labor or capital trusts shall be supplied to the different citisens' citi-sens' associations now organized in oyer 500 towns and cities,, in order that citizens of all parties can yote for anti-trust candidates at th coming election." - NOVEL PLEA. The norel plea of the Cincinnati laundry eombina that ft is a labor organization deserve de-serve mora than pasting notice. Thirty-nine laundry companies are made defendanta in an action based upon the Valentine law charging charg-ing them with maintaining a combination in restraint of trade. But the laundry bosses reply that they and their association represent repre-sent labor only and are in th attitnde of a labpr union and ' not amenable to th provision provi-sion of th anti-trust law. FIRST STRIKE FUND. The earliest "mention of a strike fnnd occurred oc-curred in the strike of the Parisian stocking weavers in 1724, when a crown a day was subscribed for every striker, and all blackleg wars boycotted. But the biggest strike under un-der th "ancient regime" waa that of tha ilk factory hand at Lyon in 1744, when 12,000 men went oa strike. . Two month later th King-lent dowa 20,000 soldiers, |