Show z w u Jabor s u uX 44 jt v i aY w X Following are the announcements of the regular meetings to be held tonight in the Fe halls No 2 Building Laborera Laborers Laborers Labor Labor- ers era No 3 Bricklayers No 5 Stone Masons Ma Ma- sons f i iThe The strike movement in northern Italy among the rural laborers has nearly col col- col- col lapsed Last year the labor leagues were Vere elmost almost uniformly victorious s now the employers em eat- have succeeded But the condition condi condi- tion of the laborers Is still serious There is s a movement t on foot among the m members r ro o of organized I labor labor-in New London Lon Lon- don Conn to petition the Court of ot Cornmon Corn Core Com mon Council to enact an ordinance to the effect that eight hours 0 shall a working day lf Jn in tal all city r departments rf Congressman Gardner of ot tho the House House Committee on on Labor has recommended for passage a bill providing an hour eight-hour system fo for fot laborers and mechanics emp employed emy em- em upon p work done n for t th the United t t States or any y territory or r the District g of Columbia 2 1 The Worthington Pump works plant at Elizabethport N. N J. J called th the employees employees em en- em- em together recently anc and Informed them that thereafter a days day's labor would be nine hours' hours work ork for which they would receive the same wages as when they tiley worked ten hours The Laborers Laborers' Union Protective e ol of Greater e ro New York composed o of o masons' masons laborers has signed an agreement agree ment for a year ear with the Mason Builders Builders' association by which Its members secure an advance of 2 cents an hour and an hour work The Barbour Flax Spinning company of Paterson N. N J. J which employs about one thousand persons ha has hc d to its employees es that an nn Increase of ot wages amounting from 5 S to 10 per cent would gO so Into effect This action was entirely voluntary on the part of the company which made the advance anee because of the prosperity of the business |