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Show T" INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. . a!? j"?" Tailors' union has adopted a label to be placed upon all garments gar-ments made by members of that organisation. organi-sation. Laurence Gronlvmd, author of "The Co-operative Commonwealth," is about to take up hia residence at the Socialistic colony of Kaweah, Tulare countv, Cal. He has been chosen secretary of the colony, col-ony, to succeed J. J. Martin, the Pacific Coast war horse, who needs rest after three years of the hard labor of putting the enterprise on its feet. Reports received by Secretary John E: Lennon and published in the union's official of-ficial organ, The Tailor, indicate a present pres-ent improvement in the trade over the spring months. At the recent convention of the Democratic Demo-cratic party in Illinois a resolution pledging pledg-ing the organization to the eight hour work day was adopted. The Central Labor union of Boston has sent out circulars asking the cooperation co-operation of all unions in the city in collecting and compiling instances of the violation of the child labor law. The superintendent of public schools charges that a largo percentage of the violations are due to tho connivance of parents, and the Central Labor union proposes to get the facts. Mr. T. V. Powderly, general master workman, stated recently that there .were 23",000 members in good standing in the Knights of Labor. This would indicate a wonderful growth in the past year. Mr. Powderly says charters are being issued at the rate of seventy a month. In Chicago over 1,000 builders and contractors employ over 18,000 men on building, street and other improvements. Street railways, telegraph and telephone service, gas and electric lights employ over 8,000 persons. In all departments of the public service except the postoffice the day's labor has been reduced to eight hours. The carriers car-riers have an eight hour day, and the bill before congress making the same regulation for postal clerks should become be-come a law. |