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Show THE WORLD OF LABOR. 6L Louis has a Jt 500 000 restaurant com- bin. Minneapolis labor men will not put up a Hbor ticket nootblacks of cw lork numbering WO have orRanlzed, Pittsburg m striking machinists hao rf ache 1 an ngrcemnu A laborers 1 rutectK soclition has been formed at Montreal (.anaila New ork5 Printers union has started a movement to erect a labor temple. Arritigcments are being made to form an international union or press ft e-iiers Cleveland his WK toward Its new labor tempi' A stock companj will bo formed The new Centinl Inbfr union of Phi dflphla anl vlrinlt has effected nerr nent organization Toronto s striking: street rallwn em plnvees averted IS rtnt an hour fo first v ar emiilones and i cents nn hour thcreifter Cnnadlan Paclllc rillwiiy brldgemen hae rrcrlved an Inerease of wages from tl 4" to Si M a da , the lotemtn from to $3 a da Abrut v miners employed In the Pu-ran,v,o Pu-ran,v,o (folo ) coal district are on strike bet mse tho operators failed to accept the scale sul milled b) the union which colls for p j er dai foi underground work and $3 50 a day for outside work The local union of the United Mine Worker In thr PltttMiurg district areto b uruid t elect represi ntatlves to the Fncdfif nnltonnl convention in Indlnnapi-lfs Indlnnapi-lfs Juh Ith where tho question ot n gen. era! strike order to aid the anthrm.Uo miners will bo taken up tnlons rei resenting nil branches of labor la-bor crnploved In the works of the frt 1)uIh l ur company mpolntel delegates to wait upon the nffkerH an L request a nine-hour nine-hour worlula) If tho compan should not ac.cdt. to the request a central strike Is pr bnblc Ihe tumpauy cmp!o)s about IjW men The coal and coke workers in the Con-nelsvllle Con-nelsvllle I a district are belnk organized Thr- reason 1 h1.1 to lie In tho clalin of thr mlneri that Ihe coke from the ton-nellmllle ton-nellmllle regh n Is King shipped hast to take tht nlato of anthracite coal at tho I astern furnicra and ulso at tho West Mrglnla furnaces The tires In the plants of the Indepenl-cnt Indepenl-cnt Window OIiish company are out mr the summer Ihls closes the longest lire known In the window glass industr) for years bntit fort fnctorlea cloned, with u pot ctptclt) of lib nit 13 About W-i members of the Denny organization of the WniKhtti of labur nru cmilo)ed In the factories Tho laws of Kansas provide that libor unions shall form a male organization to bo known as Ihe Stale Hoclety of Ialr anl Industr und this soclPty shnll meet in convtutlon and ap olnt tho Lai r Commissioners for the btite This enables tho unions to hat nno of their own men In this most Important position A serious condition confronts tho wheat farmers of Kanan Ten thousand extra men nro needed for the harvest flld ami onh uW ire avail ible The State 1 mpl"-intut mpl"-intut Jtureau his been adverllclnu for men tn help the farmeis snve their wheat Iwo weeki ntto It was announced that ft-t") extra harvester were needed, but onlj vrt have reported Fully I0fM men cmplojcd along the lake front In Ituffalo nr netti-rUng an organization or-ganization which will have for tt rln-clpjl rln-clpjl ol"kct the nbolltinn of nil Kuril i work Tho lfet Inclunes scoojers shovel-rs shovel-rs coal heaver lumlur shoer freight handlers plk drivers, ma rim firemen en-Hlnoera en-Hlnoera and tugmen The United Ira lea and Inbor Council h Interested in tho matter. In Toronto Ontario there will meet one of the largest convtntlons ever hell in tho history of irKtnlzed labor When 1 resident Martin Vox calls the twniiv second session of th- Iron Mol lers nnl m of North Vrnerlca to order thero will be assembled rtt dele. tit os representing tx local unions The mol lera nave ret lined the oi 1 method or ehctlng officers in on eitton but this enr there will be n df termlnel pffiirt made to secure the odop tlnn of the referendum This with ther Important measures suggested win be dlDcu'tcd A most Important event of the pint wepk In libor circles wan the signing uf the brewery workmen a contrat t wl Ich Insures peace ltwen ori,anlrftl labor and the Milwaukee Hrevvrrs assodntlon for the next three ears The contract Is gmernlh regarded as the most favorable that the trewr) workmen hav ever re-celved re-celved although a numler of the older workmen It 1 repotted hnvo been objecting ob-jecting to the i pulsion which ntrltts the beer drinking of tho emplojees to quitting hours it noon and at night It Is sail that the nvn have found It dlffl cult to become used to the new rule ant that the nqtiln 1 r In tho ml 1 llo uf the fort noon and In the middle of the af-tcrnojn af-tcrnojn us lurctofori The Miner and Orerotor n trade Journal Jour-nal In c mmentlng on the conl strike sa)s riiert are too niinj mint workera n Htrik to l j roper 1 1 sut ported llnan-ctall) llnan-ctall) b ihotfe tontluuliig nt vork anl from the actuimilatel funds of the organisation or-ganisation loth uitlnnol anljtstrlct Th. r an t o Tew nifii mt on sirlki to enublo the mine workers t win b forte nnl will nut financial aid against such formllthle anl diterinined on MUlmi as that now lonfroutlng th m In each striking strik-ing section It is lu omit g mop at parent everv dH tint the ml tin workers nre now inlng little for the life of th. Ir national order The destruettm of the national in ion woul 1 1 e a i nl unllv nit ont to th" it lne workers but to all those engaged In the coal trade tf the mine workers win out in th t resent eontert It will In b unb nllng IomiM to th.tr union in 1 b jcrsonal sacrilhi friraft int.-rcts |