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Show 'I !J!!!!!l.J 1 Members of the Leather-Workers' union 2 at Hamilton, Ont., have , quit work, de- manding a 15 per cent incrense. 4 Superior fWls.) team owners are organ- 7 Izing a union to demand affiliation with T the American Federation of Labor. T Agitation Is on foot In Germany against I Chinese labor in Samoa, where the tirst 1 shipload of Chinese coolies has arrived. I Owing to a fire at the Welsh Tlnplate Enameling works. Swansea. 300 hands 4 have been temporarily thrown out of 4 work. i A strike of miners at Blrmont, Ala., has rT been declared because of a refusal of the T operators to sign the uniform day scale. T It is expected that a wage ecale will I shortly be put before the employers by the 1 trunk and bag-workers at San Francisco, i CaL , I Springfield (Mass.) union painters and 4 paper-hangers have presented demands T for an. Increase in pay from J2.50 to $3 a 7 day. 4 Namaino B. C.) miners have decided to 1 proceed with the formalities of organizing I a union under the Western Federation of 2 Miners, i I Demands made by the union black- 4 smiths at Boston, Mass.. for a nine-hour 4 day at the rate formerly paid for ten 4 hours' work are being met. 4 Ottawa (Can.) street rallwav employees 7 will accept a 10 per cent increase and not T press for recognition of the union and I shorter hours. . . . -7 Of the 20,000 mill hands emplojed in 2 Lowell, Mass., it Is said on good authority 4 that less than 5000 are members In good standing In labor unions. 4 |