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Show j EaSorncifo 1 Mississippi W. C. T. IT. and. the organl-rmion organl-rmion of the King's Daughters of that State will Join forces to obtain the enactment en-actment ef stringent laws by the next - rcssion of the Mississippi Legislature against the employment of child labor. A movement has been started to form a Central Labor assembly of all the labor organisations In and around Bessemer, Ala., with .headquarters at Bessemer. Phould this be accomplished nearly 4000 members will be under the direction and control of the central body. At a meeting of Brooklyn builders and contractors a movement was Inaugurated for a struggle between labor unions and employers in the building trades. An organisation or-ganisation was effected under the name of Builders' Protective association of Brooklyn. Boston brewery engineers have presented present-ed a new scale, which the master brewers brew-ers declare they cannot grant, and a general gen-eral strike threatens the breweries of the State. The new scale, besides providing for an Increase in wages, includes other demands that the brewers declare to be extravagant and unfair. The Order 6f Locomotive Engineers commenced com-menced with twelve members thirty-nine years ago, and now numbers over 40,000 In the United States and Canada. In 1887 the Insurance department was established, conducted on the assessment plan, and it has paid over 811000,000 in benefits to widows wid-ows and orphans. Independent shoe workers' unions In New England will call a convention short-ly short-ly of their eighteen unions and will form Federated Shoe and Leather Workers' 4 Alon. It is expected that the member- rtVP win be 10.000 to start with. The object ob-ject of the new organization is to further carry on the fight of the independent union against the Boot and Shoe Workers' Work-ers' union. |