Show J WORLD QFLABOR Fort Worth has forty unions f Y o W There are 45000 union merchapts U O J f Philadelphia Is to have a labor temple a v II Fort Worth has a Womans Label league I Brooklyn bricklayers Jaborcrs J get t3 a Day I t III io f Louisville carpenters get S2EO for nine i 1 hours Columbus SC bricklayers won nlnc I f bour day Tn New York the prices of horses have Doubled u I work Pawtucket R I plumbers now tight > hours per day I eSt e-St Louis brick and file makers now f earn + 1Y Q per day m 9 Charleston painters were conceded the f r ninehour day I f i f Corning N T painters no v work nine I t hours no strike I Thera are two union men In the St Augustine Fla City Council o Equality ill city laborers have been I ranted eighthour clay 00 Alton TIL City Council has established i I the eighthour day for laborers S Wewanec Ill bricklayers secured the eighthour day without reduction in Swages Only union men are employed on city work in tho street department of Alton t 311 J r e Butler Pa carpenters painters and ut decorators secured the ninehour day I without reduction of vase a 4 r i Youngstown carpenters plasterers plumbers and sheet metal workers secured se-cured a raise of 25 cents per day a I r Anaconda machinists and Iron I moldcrs won their strike for the ninehour day and are receiving 450 a day It Is tho ambition of the Chicago Servant Ser-vant Girls union to put tho union label on all things domestic from the garret to S tho cellar V s 1 Schuylklll Pa street railway employees F em-ployees have secured the ninehour day I null Iii 23 cents per hour Every man to t employed Is a member of the union a r O 1 Plumbers BInghamton N Y secured the eighthour day without reduction off of-f wages and threeyear agreement as to hours with a promise of increased wages j next season I Great Falls Mont carpenters brick masons stonemasons plumbers and hod carriers have tho eighthour day other trades nine hour Retail stores close at 6 oclock except on Saturdays r 1 There is In the minds of some earnest men engaged 1 in tho labor movement a j desire to bring about at once a great industrial in-dustrial union taking In any and everyone every-one in a single vast comurchcnslve organization Gompcrs J At tho annual meeting of tho British Medical association Dr Alexander Scott of Glasgow mado the alarming assertion that most railway accidents were duo to neurosis of railway men caused by the nerve tension of a their duties i Pedro Alverados Income is 200000 a month Less than a year ago hd < 3 was a J laborer He la more talked about In his home city and In every mining camp In that part of Mexico than any other mann man-n that country President Diaz not excepted ex-cepted r Labor must bo right In Its demands Jt must possess might to enforce the I right but it must be right In order to appeal successfully to public opinion which outsldo of tho strength of the r organization Is a factor upon which It may depend for much help Gompcrs New Orleans street railway employees without having to strike have changed their hours and wages as follows From twelve and fourteen hours a day to ten nnd ten ntdn half wages advanced from IS1 h cent per hour to IS cents This Is looked upon as a great victory considering con-sidering that the men were only organIzed organ-Ized twenty dayst t e Harry White general secretary of the United Garment Workers of America has instituted a suit for libel against two mombers of tho Rochester local l union who aro charged with Issuing n circular defaming the general secretary and intimating that he had been In corrupt cor-rupt collusion with certain clothing manufacturers of Rochester e e e Fnslands luxurious houseboats have a rival It Is tho new American floating hotel Only a few days ago this unique deepsea enterprise was inaugurated Its projector Is Mr John Arbucklc of Brooklyn Brook-lyn l Tho fleet comprises three vessels It Is In tho nature of a philanthropic measure for the benefit of NeW Yorks sheltering thousands during tho hot months r Not Including the savings banks or In Kiiranco companies there arc on deposit In New York financial Instltutlonn 1800 l ttOCCO and at the rata of growth It will not be long before tho figures representing represent-ing the total currency in circulation In the j United States and tho total deposits In Now York financial Institutions will bo practically the same Much of this growth has taken place since 1E26 e While fishermen and Indians numbering some COCO are on strike on the Fraser I liver About 2100 Japanese are on the river Big mass meetings have denounced the Immigration policy of the Dominion Government Eight strikers have boon arrested there and excitement Is high The Cnnncrs association Is controlled bv English capitalists An AntiMongolian nypoclatlnn has been formed Object To control the politics of the province on matters pertaining to the driving out of tho Mongolians The meetings are held in secrecy and the names of tho mom bern are not divulged Already there la a big membership The English Government habitually pays less than the market rate of wages with the result that there la always discontent dis-content and not Infrequently disloyalty Quito rprcntly valuable and confidential information leaked out of the torpedo department de-partment at Woolwich with tho result that tho French War derailment la now engaged the manufacture of a Btccra Wt torpedo to the Inventor of which the British Goornment paid 1 a large sum Instead of mooting 1110 demands of tho men the Government has practically thrown down the gauntlet to organized I labor and It Jooko as though there would fihortjy lw 5orloiis trouble Tho Government I Govern-ment cpuld pnvlly placate the majority of J the malcontents who aro day laborers and whoso chief demands are for SC a week of fortyeight hoursNow York Sun 0 e Thrn Rl11nni ond International unions pay to5he AmcrJein Federation of Labor one thi lr1 of l cent per member per month or I cent a year for caHi member The IncomiinISS7w84 210iSi in 1000 It amounted to J71123R There are now OCO w 0 paidup members that Is the unions have made reports that aggregate that membership > But President Gompera Ibid t me wltli a smile that having to pay In proportion the extent of their mom I honshlp some of the unions had learned the art of taxdo ring by falling to report re-port the full strength of their number After careful consideration oC this matter ho was led frconcludo that the real num IMT3 of the American Federation of Labor could not fall short of 1500000 The annual an-nual congress of trades unions In Groit Britain rorc cjtH nti many men nit thin but this roiifjrois Is made up of delegates from distinct and separate unions When the congress udjournb tho unions separate and act apart except as they have settled on u common policy But they have no Permanent bond of union as do those cm bodied In tho American Federation of L Labor Philadelphia North American |