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Show LAUOK NOTKS. Matters oflnterest to Mechanics and Work-' Work-' log Men Generally. , The Toronto stonecutters demand 45 cents an hour. Tho Pittsburg carpenters will not de-maud de-maud the eight-hour day. , It is claimed that the tailors in cities get $1.25 for making a $10 pair of pants. There are now afliliated with American Ameri-can federation of labor, 750,000 workers. work-ers. ' ' ';: .San Francisco' liattern makers will parade with the eight-hour league on Mayl- The Denver team haulers have now fully organized, with a membership of nearly 200. The local horseshoei-s' union, Denver, will elect officers at its next mocting, Wednesday evening. All the brick yard hands in Denver have organized and arc now working iu hannquy. Throughout the country the Granite (hitlers' National union make from $3 to $5 per day. Attorney General Mishener, of Indiana Indi-ana has 'declared officially that the state eight-hour law is constitutional. " Baltimore .stonemasons demand $4 a day and eight hours on .Saturdays. They are now working ten hours at $.1.75 per day, ' General Master Workman T. V. Pow-derly Pow-derly proposed that in 18811 that a half hour be cut from the day each year till eight hours had been secured. By this time the movement should have succeeded. |