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Show OF INTEBEST TO LABOR. . Plumbers and steam fitters have perfected per-fected organizations in Philadelphia, Berlin women shirtmakers reeeivn only 30 cents a dozen for making fine shirts. The Labor party of New South Wales ! holds the balance of political forces there. . . . j Philadelphia upholsterers have ar- ranged a uniform wage scale for all the shops there. .: . Shirt factories in Delaware report the' busiest' season in their history, .with a shortage in operatives. Nearly all the glass workers in Richmond, Rich-mond, Va., have gone into the union formed in that city recently. Branch offices of the American League for Social Service have been opened in London and Edinburg. Returns from American trades unions, representing 29,577 members, show only 1.06 per cent. out of work Sept. 30. I Proceeds from a street fair given by I the unions of Syracuse, N. Y., will go ! toward building a temple of labor there, j The last election at Rochester, N, Y.. showed a gain of 30 per cent in the j Socialistic Labor vote as compared with ! former elections. Philanthropists at' Toledo, O., will build a home for workingmen. and have askd for committees representing various var-ious crafts to co-operate. Railway men at Birmingham. England, Eng-land, have begun a struggle for the shortening of the present twelve-hour day and seven days a week term of service. " The report of the New York Charity Organization society for the year ending end-ing June 30, just issued, shows a large decrease .in the people reported out of work. Sixty-six mining' companies at Johannesburg, Jo-hannesburg, South Africa, have suspended sus-pended operations on account of the war, and as a result many families are destitute. The progressive Typographical union j in New York is having trouble over the issuance of a label said to resemble closely that of the Allied Printing Trades council. London authorities will devote $50,-000 $50,-000 to a building for the families of workingmen whose houses are in pro-cess pro-cess of disinfection incident to health department rules. Inquiries for space are larger than was expected by the management of the printing exposition to be held next May and June in Grand Central palace, New York. At the December convention of the American Federation of Labor, President Presi-dent Gompers will report the investigations investiga-tions he is making relative to offers of several wealthy Chicagoans of land ajid cash contributions, made on condition that the federation establishes permanent perma-nent headquarters here. |