Show THOSE WHO TOIL many bicycle firms have increased their labor force especially in the east and production for 1897 is rushing over men are now involved in the great shipping strike at hamburg germany and dock work is at a standstill A deepwater deep water harbor in south california will cost for labor aal supplies work will be commenced at once because of a drought and a bad season the south australian government is distributing seed wheat to impoverished farmers A society of workingmen has been organized at rochester N Y for the purpose of dealing with political labor questions the first eight hour demonstration ever held in west australia took place at perth lately all the unions com bining for the occasion A federation of all the coal miners in australia is contemplated in the scheme of reorganization of the new south wales miners association skilled men arc lacking in the engine rooms of the warships of the united states navy and the chief engineer has made a request for more wages of carpenters in australia have been increased 12 cents a day by agreement between the union and the bosses association they are now a day A new clause permitting jewish workmen to toil on sundays to make up for lost time on saturdays will be introduced trod in the factories and workshops bill of australia during tle last fiscal year the farmers of the united states were paid by foreign countries for produce next years crops promise to be greiter and the benefits are felt in many directions london cabeen cabmen are carrying on a guerrilla warfare against the railway companies which is conducted like a boycott they refuse to enter any of the stations with passengers or baggage and are otherwise disobliging thirteen million persons will have to be supported by the government because of the famine thousands of square miles of crops have been parched and destroyed by ithe suns heat this means large exports america |