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Show j DvOr nous. 1 1 Northwest Iowa teachers are urging a demand for higher salaries. Some of the teachers are considering the advisability of organizing in affiliation with the Federation Fed-eration of. Labor. - ' Hod-carriers at Ithaca, N. Y., have made a demand for an eight-hour day and pay at the rate of $1.75 a day. They state that they believe their demand will be granted by the contractors. The latest thing In unions- is a section hands' union, formed at Topeka, Kan. The name of the order is the National Union of Railway Trackmen, and its headquarters will be at Fort Scott. It is officially stated that the Retail Clerks' International union now has a good standing membership of 60,000. and that it has been recently increasing at the rate of 4000 a month. Throughout the Indiana gas belt, where non-union unions have been formed, the project is spreading rapidly. Labor or-ganizatlons or-ganizatlons regard the movement with disquietude, dis-quietude, but say that it will not last. The number of persons occupied In the world's mining operations In 1901 was 1,700,-173. 1,700,-173. of which number 1.624,630 - were engaged en-gaged In Great Britain and Ireland, the colonies, dependencies and possessions. |