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Show QUESTION COUPON ;' (Tb Salt Lake Telegtaia.) ' ' This eonpoa moat accompany your 1 1 letter., If aa Immediate or lengthy ' i reply la required er desired enclose . 1 stamped aad addressed envelop. . address all letter te V. Tbe International labor aTews Sareaa. ' ' ' -1- Chicago. .. v " t ANSWERS TO COBBESPONDENTS. (By H. G. Creel. President International Labor News .Bureau.) - Note: Limitation of space render Impossible Impos-sible th answering of all question through this department. Each week Mr. Creel will elect end answer here At. or six question baring a national Interest. Other correspondents correspon-dents will be answered by quail. O. C. M. There ar 122.84 women belonging belong-ing to labor unions In England. Tbe Garment Gar-ment Workers' union I tbe largest labor organisation or-ganisation in the United State to be composed com-posed chiefly of women. R. D. R. P. H. Horrissey I grnd master of the Brotherhood of - Railway Trainmen; baa been an organizer for the union alnc 1X88; he Is U year old. R. c. 8. Organised labor baa don. much for th. can, of temperance among working-men. working-men. There I probably no purely philanthropic philan-thropic organisation which has don more ia this direction. In many instance there 1 a prohibition clause in tbe contract with th. employer. Often rule -of th onion declare that an injured man will not receive tbe weekly benefit If the injury was sustained while be was intoxicated. . More and more labor anion meetings are being held In ball which are free from saloons. Rarely do they meet on Sundays. H. B. The American Federation of Musician Musi-cian claim to bar been the first labor organisation- in the United States to advocate the municipal ownemhlp of public utilities. L. a. C The remittances to China made by coolies or laborers at work in other countries coun-tries ts pow estimated to reach $50,000,000 nnuallr. including $5,000,000 said to be sent . bom by the Indentured coolies in the Trans-raal Trans-raal mines. LIVE LABOB NOTES. (Compiled by U. S. correspondent of Tb. International Labor New Bureau.) Spokane. -Waab.. Retail Clerks' union will aoon undergo complete reorganisation, in order that women may be admitted to the union. Tbe clerks expect to bar. on of th. strongest union in th city. Portland, Or., City Council Is considering n ordinance providing for a uniform wag. of $3.25 for eity laborer. Mankato, Minn., Trades and -Labor Assembly Assem-bly ba .gone on record as favoring a truancy law. Washington. D. C. clgarmaker bar won a complete victory, and all have returned to worki Des Moines. Tow, street railway men recently called a strike and twenty-four hour later twenty-five professional strikebreakers strike-breakers aniTed In the city. Seattle. Wash., carpenter working for tb city bsv petitioned th. City Council for a wge of $4.00 per day. - Philadelphia, Pa., has organised a union ot Italian furniture-workers. Haselton. Pa.,- ironworkers bar. been granted an unsolicited wage increase of 7 per cent. - i Omaha, Neb., report that the Burlington railroad at that point ba notified It clerks, stenographer and tscbnlcal-workers that they will be discharged If they join a union. Springfield, O.. Trades and. Labor Assembly has arranged for a course of five lecture tbia winter. - Chicgo, I1L. machinist ar. enjoined from Intimidating strikers, but barring this. In th. language of the Judge, they may "talk their bead off" If they wish. - Butte, Mont, miner bar. been granted as unsolicited increase from $3.60 to $3.75 per day. Spokane. Waah.. Chamber of Commerce ba donated $2000 to secure the next convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiner. '- ' ' Tacoma. Waab.,' longshoremen have mad a demand for the closed shop. . Moberly, Mo., car-workers bar. voted against tbe Introduction of tb pleo work ' system In th hop. 8acramnto. Calif.. - glass -worker bar. reached an agreement with their employer and returned to work. Both sides made concessions. con-cessions. ' ' MarysTille, CallL. grocery wagon drivers are agitating for a shorter work dy. Touogstoivn, O., cement-worker ar. oa atrike. They are receiving $3.00 for a nine-hour nine-hour day. and ak $2.36. New York. N. Y.. convention of the National Alliance of BUI Posters will probably go on record a favoring aa advance of $10,000 a month In the wage eal. Th. body will convene con-vene December Detroit, Mich., unionist will bold a Labor Contest r.arrljval,;ro ,NaTetpher 2$ to Sit- Ussier, S, .. . v ., , .. , J |