Show Lt Ls II LABOR NEWS NEWS II I 1 S 'S T The o Bricklayers Bricklayers' ers union meets at No 3 Federation hall hill tonight Union Job printers in Denver Dener Colo Cola have secured the hour eight workday Th The building laborers hold their regular meeting e t ing a al No o. o 2 F Federation hall tonight Representatives of ot th the Socialist LabOr Labor party will meet t tonight at Federation h hall ll No o. o i. i 1 The and Stonemasons' Stonemasons unions hold meetings at the Federation Federation- hall hail this Is evening S The m members of New York city's two building trade unions have been united unit unit- ed i In one organization lI n to have a a labor temple Its 9 w ow union men are arc t to be taxed 5 cents a week to raise the funds The spirit of ot unionism has pervaded every branch h of ot Industry There are now t. t two o national unions of f farmers It Is reported that the Iron trades strike a at t San Fra Francisco which has been on for tor ten ton months may thay ay b be amicably l abl ably adjusted Str Street t. t r railway empl are still on strike in Terre Haute Ind md Eugene V V. Debs recently addressed one of or their mass meetings carpenters carpenter have asked th that t their scale eale of wages be raised from 2 25 to SO 0 o cents an hour for eight hours' hours work beginning April Js WorkIngmen Jn In New New Y rk city are planning plan plan- ulnA ning ng to erect u a monument t to the memory of ot John Juhn Swinton and the city will be he Ilk aek d to donate a site for the monument Members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters Car ar- ar I penters venters enters in Camden N N. J. J will demand an increase In wages from a a. day to on and after Tuesday April 1st with a holiday half on Saturdays A mass meeting of the building Industries industries Indus Indus- tries of Brooklyn In favor of the bill now before both branches of ot the State Legislature to amend the tenement-house tenement law Jaw so far as Brooklyn n is affected by it ft is contemplated The of ot the Fels Naptha Soap Manufacturing company of Philadelphia Phila- Phila delphia were last Saturday presented with 10 per cent of three yC years years' rs wages the gift girt of the company as a token foken of good will The rhe total sum aggregated about The employment of Qt child labor In Jn Illinois Illi Illi- nois according to the annual reX report rt of the Sta State te Factory Commissioner has in increased increased In- In creased 3 39 ai per cent during the year ear just ended There are children at work in mt the e factories of Illinois I at the present timeS time lime S Co operation Is labors labor's war war cry in the East There is a co hat store a co operative shoe store a co operative grocery store stort a operative co-operative printing establishment establishment establishment es es- es- es a cooperative rug and carpet carpet car car- pet factory sac and a operative co-operative w laundry in operation in Philadelphia h la Pa |