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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Patternmakers to Resubmit Referendum Vote May Day to Be 1 General Holiday in London Labor's Memorial Day, Fourth a Sunday in May Large Number on Pension Roll. : Tho Pattern Makers' Union has sent notice from headquarters in Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, O that tho referendum vote on tho proposition to hold a convention conven-tion of the League of Pattern Makers this year was defeated but that the same question will be submitted to tho subordinates next year. May Day in London, Eng., this year is to be declared a general labor holiday, holi-day, although It falls upon a week dny. It is to be made the occasion of tho greatest labor demonstration ever seen in that country. Hitherto tho principal May Day celebrations havo been hold on tho first Sunday i in May. There aro now 906 members on the pension roll of tho International Ty- pographlcal Union. Nearly seventy applications aro on file and pending. At this rate and by this time next month, there will be at least 1,000 i pensioners, who will draw $5,000 per week or $20,000 each month. Labor's Memorial Day, the fourth : Sunday in May, will bo observed to a greater extent this year than ever before. Heretofore the second Sun- H day In May has been officially desig- E nated Memorial Day, but by a resolu- 3 tion adopted at the Atlanta Conven" Itj tlon for the American Federation of --! Labor, it was changed to the fourth -"l Sunday In May. j4 |