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Show j Cabor Hott$. g The following labor union meetings will be held In the halls of the Federation of Labor tonight: Hall No. 2. Plumbers; hall No. 3, Butchers; hall No. 4. Newsboys; anu in hail So. 5, Tailors' union. 1 State ' LaMor Commissioner Varner of North Carolina has strongly urged the enactment of laws for the State in relation rela-tion to child labor. After Mav 1. 19C3, 40,000 union stonecutters stone-cutters In the United States and Canada will refuse to work more than eight hours in any one day. New Haven. Conn., bakers will Invoke the aid of the General Assembly to secure se-cure legislation which will result In doing away with night work. In nil Important lines of Industry and in commercial affairs the outlook is most promising for Mnine, and labor was never bo fully employed as now. The census shows that each wage-earner wage-earner In our manufacturing establishments establish-ments produces wenlth to the amount of $3.75 a day and receives $437.00 a year. The scarcity of men in the bridge and Structural ironworkers' trade in Indianapolis. Indianap-olis. Ind.. still continues. Many men could readily obtain positions in this line of work. Birmingham fEngland) ironworkers wages will remain at 8s M a ton for puddling, pud-dling, and millmen's wages in proportion, propor-tion, from December S, 1902, to February 7, 1S03. Locomotive works in the suburbs of Vltnna. Austria, within a year have reduced re-duced the number of their employees from 21C0 to 1100, and 500 workmen's families have left. |