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Show ' EtwOr UwiiS . . .. . s , Plumbers st Hamilton, ' Canada, hav J- snked for an increase' of wages of 10 per "" cent, to take eCect on Juaa 1st . Union . pavers at San. Francisco, Cal.. have adopted h new wags schedule for (3 a day. The present wage is 84.. Tannery men at Fond du Lac. Wis., Khave been granted a voluntary increase In wages. It amounts to 12Vs cents a day. A' royal commission, may be appointed to Inveutlgate. and report on the situation regarding labor in British Columbia. An increase In pay has been asked by the letter-Carriers' association at Ottawa , for carriers throughout Canada. Dock and riverside ' labor emnloyed In Tendon England. Is more than 2000 below the weekly average of the past six years, Vnton painters and decorators are on strike at Lynn. Alass., because of a refusal re-fusal of their demands for $1S0 a day and eight hours. Tn response to a demand by the union the master carpenters of Kingston, Ontario, On-tario, have Increased wages to 82.23 a day i. for nine hours' work. ' Journeymen carpenters of Salem, Pea-body, Pea-body, Danvers and Veaverly, Mass., have gone on strike for an increase of 60 cents a day In wages. |