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Show LABOE NOTES. (Compiled bv IT. 8. Correspondent of the International Labor News Bureau.) - New York striking ferrymen have returned to work after getting an increaae in wsgea. Providence, R. I., has formed a label league. Atlanta. Ga.. machinists have asked an increaae from $3 to 3.2.) per day. Evanaville. Ind, employers have taken steps' to import a number of unskilled laborers. labor-ers. Ksn Diego. Cel., labor temple trustees are advertising in local papers, inviting nonunion non-union men te use the reading and club-rooms. club-rooms. Toledd, O.. City Council will aoon introduce intro-duce an ordinance to compel employers to been refused eommiasions as special police during tbe strike now in progress. Washington. Ind.. atriking boilermakers ef B. O. 6. W. R. R. have returned to work. Chicago. 111., Undertakers' association thia week prevented for- an hour the burial of a I union man by a union undertaking establishment. establish-ment. It waa claimed that the deceased was indebted to a member of the association; union members deny this and claim the affair waa one of many attempts to drive them out of business. , pay their men in rash instead of checks. Boston roofers will aoon make a demand 1 for an increaae in wagea, claiming that the cost of living wsrranta tbe ralae. At the preaent time the all around roofer ia receiving receiv-ing $5, gravel roofers $2.75 and helpers $2.25 a day. This will be the first increase asked for by Ibis union in aeventeen yeara. The C'nited Mine-Workers of America are planning, a civil service te apply to all mines wherein the members are employed. - Ardmore, I. T., t rsdes unionists are planning plan-ning a labor temple. Property owners of Kan Francisco bare appointed a committee to confer with local trades unionists and material men to arrange a acale of wagea and prices for the next two years. Ardmore, I. T., trades unionists sre plan-formed plan-formed a union. , Oakland, Cal, employers have organised. j Newark. N. J., tradea unionists are to have a labor temple. In the ssraa eity a subscription sub-scription of (30,000 haa been raised to start a daily labor paper. Cleveland, 0., carpenters hare set aside 5X0 to be ased In organising tha city. Jisoiat City, Mo., master plumbers have . ' . - - , |