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Show LABOR NEWS,OF Apprentice Printers' Union Organized in San Pranciscr Fishermen Purchase Bonds in Labor Temple Michigan and Tennessee " Require That Married Women Be Allowed to Collect Their Own Earnings i Employes of tho textile mills of Philadelphia arc to have their hours of toll reduced three hourB a week from tho logal 5S-hour schedule. An apprentice Printers' Union hes been organized under tho auspices of tho San Francisco Typographical Union Un-ion with a charter membership of 100. A roprosentatho of tho A. F, of L will attend tho next annual comen-tion comen-tion of tho Farmers' Educational and Co-operativo Union as a fraternal delegate. At tho labor exchanges in Germany S,708,000 men and women operathes offered their services for sale In one year. Employers made 2,20S,000 applications ap-plications for employes. Tho two-year agreement with the motormen and conductois of Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh expires April 30. 1012 The men at present get fiom 23 1-2 cent3 and hour to 29 1-2 cents an hour, nc- 'cording to the length of tlmo they Save been employed. Their days average eight and a half hours. - Members" of tho, Uvoipool. Eng.. Shlnwnghta' SoclQty have just oted fnKrf affiliation with tho Boner-makers Boner-makers and iron and Steel Ship Builders' Society. iv, nRBist tho San Francisco Labor CouSci in erecting a $260,000 Labor Temn'o, the Alaska Fibhormens Union has voted o purchase-?3,p0&, worth of bonds l v A movement toward tho organization organiza-tion of co-operative silk mills has been started In faterson. N. J tho Qiitgrowth of tho broad silk strikes In tKThouso District of Columbia Committee has recommended for passage pas-sage a minimum wage for laborers emplojed by the government in the District of $2 per day. During a meeting on tho minimum wage question at Colchester, England, a woman said she got C cents each for making soldiers' shirts, hut had to find hor own cotton and trimmings. The Union Label Trades Department Depart-ment of tho American Federation of Labor, has jurisdiction over tho official of-ficial labels of tho different unions. An effort will be mado to get all unions un-ions to adopt a uniform label. |