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Show CaDor notes. " Bakers at Winnipeg. Man., have started in business on the co-operative plan. This step is the outcome of the employers em-ployers refusing to pay union wages. After a short strike, trackmen on the San Francisco railway were granted their demanil for an increase In waes of 25 cents a day and two 8unday holidays in each month. Foundry employees at Troy, N. T.. have been granted an increase in wages of 23 cents a day and have had their working houw reduced without a strike. The New Orleans City Council has passed an ordinance which prohibits any street car employee from working more than ten hours a day. Since January 1st all municipal printing print-ing in Reading, Pa., bears the union label. The bricklayers at Pittsburg, Kan., have won a strike for 62ft cents an hour in wages. 4 Every machine shop in Chicago, with the exception of a few of the smaller ones, works on a nine-hour workday basis. Labor day is now a legal holiday' in the following States: Alabama, California, Califor-nia, Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois. Indiana. Iowa, Kansas. Louisiana. Maine. Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. Minnesota. Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. |