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Show LABOR NEWS OP ALL COUNTRIES Spanish Railroad Employes Demand Twenty-five Per Cent Wage Increase Machinists Union Winning Fights-Photo Engravers En-gravers Issue New Charters Agreement Between Blacksmiths and Miners. A strlko' nioe out recently ,ip0ng 'the'erriploycs of the Northern railroad or SDaln.- Four thousand 'men employed em-ployed on the lino in Valladolid and the surrounding distilcts have Btgp-pod. Btgp-pod. They demand an increase of; 2a per cent in tboir wages. ReportB from the northwest indicate indi-cate that tho Machinists' union 'is , fast winning its fight tor ah eight-hour eight-hour day, th.e closed chop a.nd a minimum min-imum wngo. many of. tho flrmn havlnir already granted these demands of the1 union. The Sheffield, En., railway workers work-ers have adopted rosolutlong-'dortand-Jng that if the government legislates upon a minimum wage the lahor party cnall not support any measure which doos nol guarantee a minimum wage tor all workers. During 1911 the Photo Engraes' International union issued sl char-teis char-teis to new subordinates; theie waa Q, gain of 277 members and thore vera four strikes, pne of which was won and three are pending. The cost of strikes was $24,:1C3. An agreement has been reached between the International Brotherhqod of I?laclqsmltlis and ihe Western Federation. Fed-eration. 'of Minors whereby there qhail be an interchange of working cards between tho two organizations without with-out additional expense to the members. |