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Show THE WORLD OF LABOR. There are 4610 lawsera In Chicago. Troy has fifty-seven collar nnd cuff establishments es-tablishments Kansas farmers are about forming a milling trust. Australia supplies J5o 000,000 worth of wool u sear. AIlls Chalmers machinists at Chicago may strike again Armour approves of his butchers Joining Join-ing a labor union Iiorton striking brewery workmen may start a labor union Trade unionists of Marietta, O , are now publishing a dalls paier The Wisconsin dalrs Industry emploss PCO hands at an annual cost of wages of nearly tlftmoo Tho annual convention of the Team Drivers International union will open In Toledo on bejtembcr Sth next Engineers on the Santa 1-e have given notice that the) will not handle engines repaired by non-union machinists Chicago street car men are considering the iresentatlon of a now wane scale to the munagers of the roads of that city. Tho Cienerul 1 lectrlo company s em-plosies em-plosies In Lsnn Mass propose to form iifllllntrl unions of nil crafts to secure better wages Baltimore rantmskers' union won an lncrene In wages after a two weeks strike at an expense of J1000 to the organization organ-ization It is estimated that there are lOfiOO organized or-ganized vi aye workers In tho city of New Orleans whero the next convention of the A T of U will bo held All the section foremen nnd laborers working for the Caiuillnn Pacific and Ca-nnllan Ca-nnllan Northern Hnllwas companies In Manitoba nnd Asslnlbol i aro organizing The chorus Klrls who deslro to organize will be nttncbcil to the ctors National t nlon while lhe supernumeraries may Join the Theatrical Stage I.mploycs The New York'cJun) district of the Ilrotherhnol of Cvrpeiiters and Joiners has declted to demand a wage scale In Manhattan of Jt 50 a day for members of the croft to commence on Mondas, September Sep-tember 1st The present union scale Is Jt a das T V Powderly. ex-commlssloner of Immigration Im-migration and who was formerls at the head of the Knights of I nbor movement. Is now at the head of a 1 OKium compans tint Is opening up operations In the an. thraclte coal Held of lennsslvanla near Treriont Consider lhle Interest Is being taken by laloi leaders In the coming national convention con-vention of emslosir and tmploseo which will le held In Minneapolis rtemter 22 K. The I lei Is a novel one unt grew out of an attempt to have a convention called to cons! ler the best means for In-augur In-augur itlng u generil right-hour das Imminent students and writers on economics eco-nomics have promised to attend the ci n-ventlnn n-ventlnn ns well as mans large m inufac Hirers and nillonal labor leaders Sam lei Oompers In sn Interview In San I ranrlsco said 'lhe foundations of tho American Pederatlon of Labor were I ild In I'M nt Pittsburg anl already we have more than fxiioi American wnrklngmen and women on our rolls There are nlnets one national and International Inter-national tinlos nftlllatfd with the federation federa-tion and these have apnrnvlmaiety lliw local trades unions o have In n Irtl-tlon Irtl-tlon 13M licnl unions chartered dlrectls by the federation because not set organ. Ize 1 Into national bodies The State tranches numbir 2 t o cits central branches T9J anl beetles the l local organizers we have w general organizers and 30 who are regutirls on salirs This shows the tremendous prcgress of the trules union Idea Pnlnnlsm Is growing In strength nnl dignity every day ' All of the Central I abnr bodies In To-ronto To-ronto havo ricelved circulars from ths I- deratel Trades ciuncll of Milwaukee relative to th foimatlm of a central bod) federation The movement nrl.ln-and nrl.ln-and In Milwaukee anl the tentral tody at that place has unpointed a committee to communicate with the central bodies throughout the Unite 1 States and Canada Can-ada relative to this move The object or at hast one o' tho objects of this amalgamation of the central labor bodies of the countrs Is to secure control of political matters In the cltbs anl States The circulate requrst that each central bods here appoint a committee to com-munlcata com-munlcata with the Milwaukee lommtltee relative to the nttltulo of the former on th mniement When ol' the central bodies nr a majorlis of them have teen heard from a call will be Issued for a conventliu and this federation will be effected ef-fected It is reported in railway circles Ihat the (Treat Northern will replace Us Japanese Japan-ese workmen thromihnut the Western States with Puropean labnr and that the change will be male as soon as practlcn. hie The rallwiy compans Is understood to hnv fo in I the work of the brown men nnprnru ible und that the change Is In ih. nut ire of sn experiment While Ihe iiminns has not set brought the Jnps eust It has anl dies now employ over 10 ii on Its Montana lines nlont It Is there that tin change will le made At on. Montana point arrangements urs now 1 elng mod It Is sail for the scenmmo. dull n of 200 1 iiroreuns T hes will re. eeUe in cents an hi ir Tie employment of Japs on the Ureal Northern has long been a matter of annnsnnco to the different differ-ent union men on the ssstem White Ihe f rmer are too small for boavs work, tliev havo done fairly well In lighter work ant tlelr cost to the compans Is said to have been nominal |