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Show f Eabor notes. j Representatives of the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Journeymen Carpenters' union and the Master Builders' association met and ratified rati-fied the agreement reached concerning the wage scale. All Journeymen will receive 45 cents an hour hereafter, regardless of skill. Denver (Colo.) locsl of the Order of Railway Clerks of America, similar in scope to the several brotherhoods, has been organised. This newest of protective protec-tive and fraternal bodies of railroad employees em-ployees has taken in 2000 members within the past three months. It has been decided to extend the strike in the Dunsmulr (B. C.) collieries to the mines in Cumberland by the Western Federation of Miners because President Dunsmulr has refused to meet a delegation delega-tion of Ladysmlth men. who have been on strike for over a month. White worklngmen In Hawaii are organising organ-ising a union for the purpose of driving the Orientals out of the country. A demand de-mand has been made for legislation requiring re-quiring licenses for all mechanics, with such restrictions that neither Chinese nor Japanese could become eligible. The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has pa.'sed a resolution resolu-tion which provides that alp the trades and labor councils In Canada desiring American Federation of Labor charters In future must first affiliate with the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. |