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Show jitS:r:ne:;;. T' "Western Federation of . Miners Js cr: plating unlor.izlni; ' the hosts of Ch . 4 and Japanese employed in the rn!- abd smelters In the Northwest and truuiB Columbia. These foreigners have frequently ahown- themselves to be la sympathy with unionism. Providence. R. I..L tnotormen and conductors con-ductors of the Rhode Island company have received a - Voluntary increase in wages ranging f rent" $J for the first year to $J.50 for the second year of service, eact year'a increase being 10 cents. Eleven Ele-ven hours will constitute a. day's work. It is likely that' the labor unions of Texas will be tn politics within the next two years.' The matter has been quietly discussed among the leaders of th State P'ederatlon. who beiieve that labor Is-now at a critical point la Texas, and that getting get-ting into politics is the only hope for salvation. sal-vation. , - . There is great scarcity of labor among the Ironworkers, boilermakers, machinists, pnt ternrnaker .and molders - in British Columbia. The wages of boilermakers are $j so for a 9-hour day; for-machinista, for a 9-hour day and for, patternmakers, pattern-makers, $4 fox. a 9-fcour day. A labor carnival, with a "midway" and all trimm'-fr. wiil be given by organized labor at Cleveland, O., from June 22nd to July 4th. Labor leaders ear it will eclipse anything in he carnival line ever at'eu pted In the country. The proceeds wi.i be" used In the erection of a new labor tempte. - - - |