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Show GENERAL LABOR NEWS Many more mines In Mexico are closing down. Unemployment In France Is reported report-ed as rapidly declining. Fuctory workers In Soviet Russia receive from $.'55 to $40 a month for a 40-hour week. Expulsion of foes within and a crusade cru-sade to extend organized labor Into new fields were alms undertaken by the Amerlcun Federation of Labor In Its annual convention. The Corn Products Refining company com-pany will add a sugar refinery to Its Kansas City plant. The addition, where corn sugar will be manufactured, manufac-tured, will furnish employment to 200 additional workers. The United States employees' compensation com-pensation commission ruled that It Is necessary that a longshoreman or other employee be employed on navigable navi-gable waters In order to recover for Injuries under the longshoremen's and harbors' act. The Mine Workers' union Is not sufficiently well organized In the Southern states and In the nonunion fields of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky Ken-tucky and Tennessee for the recent settlements tn affect the situation In those districts. The Iowa coal strike was settled nnd miners who have been out since April 1, last, returned to work. Settlement followed a meeting of the Iowa Coal Operators' association, nt which the operators agreed on a plan similar to the one formulated In Illinois. Illi-nois. A preliminary , Injunction restraining restrain-ing the United Mine Workers from attempting to retain striking miners In houses owned by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal corporation was granted grant-ed In an opinion Died In Federal court nt Pittsburgh by Judge F. P. Schnonmaker. Agreements to continue work at the outset of the bituminous coal suspension sus-pension Inst April 1 and settlements reached by miners and opcratorg affect af-fect roughly 125,000 union miners, according to computations made at (ho headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America. Negotiations between the employers employ-ers In the window-cleaning Industry and representatives of 1.200 workers, who demand recognition of their union and a $3 Increase In weekly wages, have been broken off, nnd there was a complete tie-up In the In dustry at New York. Seventy-five union miners of the Upson Mining company, Perry county, Ohio, voted to return to work at rates Raid to be near the Jacksonville f ale. This Is the first group of Ohio union miners to reach an agreement with operators. The Upson company operates oper-ates one of the largest mines In the county. , Another pledge to nationalize the coal mines of tirent Hrltaln was given on behalf of the Labor party, at Its Ulnckpool conference, Former premier pre-mier MacDonald said: "If a labor government comes Into office, tt Is going go-ing to take on the duty of nationalizing national-izing the mines. Taking them In hulk, there Is no body of employers In the country who act with more harsh tyranny than the coal owners." ' British labor laid Its tributes before be-fore the Amerlenn Federation of Labor La-bor and pleaded the cause of an International In-ternational federation of working-men. working-men. Will Sherwood, one of England's fraternal delegates to the federation's forty-seventh annual convention, asked America's hosts of labor to lend support to curtailment of armament arma-ment and lay the foundation for a brotherhood of nations which would forever prevent war. There Is scarcely a section of the world In which the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor has not hnd some Interest In-terest during the year. It finds itself opposed to the propaganda of two powerful dictatorships those of Russia Rus-sia and Italy; not reconciled with the International Federation of Trade Unions nt Amsterdam; closer to the Spanish-American nations, but actively active-ly leudtng Its voice pro or con all over the world ln connection with all manner of foreign tangles aud problems. |