Show WORLD OF LABOR San Francisco firemen want a twelve hour day S Lake freight steamboat cooks want to be organized Tin pinto workers are to ho cut 25 percent per-cent In their salary by the trust Toronto District council has Instituted eighteen new unions In alx months Preparations for big Labor Day demonstration dem-onstration urcNbelim made throughout the country Toronto machinists strike was settled by arbitration They will receive about 20 I cents an hour The Owners and Miners Conciliation hoard at Durham England has reduced miners wages ili per cent at Toronto Can carpet workers have froincd themselves Into a Union of Textile Tex-tile Workers and struck for flftyllvo hours instead of sixty with the sam pay as they t now receive for the hitler time 4 M I The Follcnsbce Bros Co of Plttsbnrg Jobbers In Iron and stool will build a sheet mill and tinplate plant nt Mahan Station V Va The plant will cost about 100000 and will employ when completed MO menThe 0 S The awarding of the contract for the printing of tho postage stamps for tho Post Office department during time next four yearn to the Utircnu of Engraving and Printing gave general satisfaction to tho union printer of Washington There worn 1071 strikes during 1001 In Germany involving 111220 persons an against i112 strikes nf 29SM9 persons In JIW In 200 csnos in 1001 the strikes wore successful In 2ST cases they wero par tially successful and InSTl cases they ailed C S Members of the International Gold Beaters Beat-ers union are on iitrikc The men arc paid Kenurally n i centS a book of twenty live leaves and make from 52 to 2V a day working plccmvork The demand of the l union is for S cents a boolr or a weekly wage of 21 to m o A resolution has been adopted by tho Central Labor Union of Brooklyn to as sess the Individual members of the afflll alod unions 5 cents n week in order to create n fund toward the assistance of the minors on strike In the coal Holds 1 of Pennsylvania S S S The delegates chosen to the National Association of Loiter Carriers from all sections of the country are making prep arations for their annual convention which convenes nt the Collocum hall Denver Colo September 1st The sos sions will he held each day to and In eluding tIme Cth S S S The Minnesota Republican convention was kind to labor in building Its platform u i pJnJ of which isnys Vo recommend that eight hours should ho considered days work on all work controlled bv a public authority Wo favor the use of the 1 union label on Slate supplies when ever practicable S 0 Tn North and East Lancashire Eng land the total number of persons em ployed In and about the coal mines last YIII1 Wan 1zr5 hell1l 1iOl > nioro IIl11n ln tho year 185fl and 27oG more than In tho year ISM The number of persons cm ployed underground III 1001 was 31232 be Ing JouO more than in 1000 3111 more than In till year 1S30 and 1203 more than In the year 1SHS SanlL Fe hollermnhoivj and apprentices who have boon mil 011 itrlko for len weeks won their demands last week John L Compton hns rolurned to Denver Den-ver from the eonvenlion of tIme National Alllanco of Stage Kmployes l at Norfolk Va Ho was it delegate from The Denver local I The convention voted to allow no local of lIt raft to affiliate with any organization t dual ID I I lie I American liVd crallon of Lnh > r I Tho Denver local I will now he obllqil to withdraw from t Ito American Labor union Mr Compton ro colvcd a high honor In being chouon ns the ilelegaio to I the convention of tho American Federation of Labor at New Orleans next October r lime enpo of the striking minors and 1 organizers at Wheeling v Va decided In Judge 3 Goffs court agalnl the lIe tlllonom I for It writ of habeas cnrpiiu Is to be appealed to hue I higher I courts Counsel 1 for defense saul lie would proceed pro-ceed ai once with tho step to carry th case lo the Supreme Court of Appeals or the United Stitts It may not got Into thai t tribunal u in time for a sflllemcnt to bo reached hnfore the mlnerH havo nerved 1 their sntenees but thc t iUesilon doemcd to bo Involved I will I I be adjusted for all time The decision of tho defense to continue tho light Is attracting wide spread attention S S S The Munlcal Protective ansoclntlon has enlcrcd upon negotiations with tho man agers of the then ters In Toronto with a view to securing an advance In the rnUs of pay for tinIt1 u I orchefUrul I music In the theaters where dally matlnesi are given an advance from 15 to S17JV per week IK asked Proportionate Increases In lie other theaters aru asked An other point upon which a change Is de sired by the i Musical I I Protective aHpocl atloa Is an i to the selection and manage ment of each orchestra the leader lo be given full control both ns lo selection nnd iniiuufcnMil of time musicians under him iho management of llio theater to have no right to Interfere In1 I the meat ler S S i The organization of women trade work ers Into labor unions Is an achievement of recent years and on o the most no lablo of tho t omamilmm ions composed en tirely of crnflawomen Is the Womans Bindery union which ban a total I of 2t local unions In as many cities of the Ilillcd Stales and Canada with an ag gregate membership of over 2700 Tlio stronger of all these locals however nnmorlcilly it nil financially IP Local No 42 In Hi bindery of the CJoornmont printing office In I Washington This lo cal has OV members of Its cilIa or nearly twollfihs i of Iho I membership of iho na tional organization neil ll rcprescnlu ono of hue u largest organizations of the hook binding Industries In the world This organization Is limo result of a plant to unIte the women workers In the Govern ment bindery and to secure lo llieni time advantages of unionism |