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Show Cabor notes. 1 - The labor union meetings 'to 'be held In Federation of Labor, halls tonight are as follows: Hall No. L" Brotherhood of Locomotive 'Firemen;-. hall' No." 2, Building Laborers: hall No. 3,-BrlckIay-ers; hall No. 4. Car Builders, and in hall No. 5 the Stonemasons. .'.. , , Railroad engineers in France earn about $36 a month, and In addition have a commission com-mission on the amount of coal they 'can save over a certain fixed .quantity., by which a man can raise his wages to $50 a month. . v Since Its organization, only six months ago, the Stair Builders union at Indianapolis. Indianap-olis. Ind.. has brought the wages up to 87 cents' an hour, from 20 to 80 cents, and has reduced the day from fen- to eixht hours. The most serious problem that the labor unions of Canada have to face is the Asiatic immigration, especially In British Columbia, where the Chinese and Japanese Japan-ese are taking the place of white labor in many important branches of industry. |