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Show LABOR NEWS OF " ALL COUNTR8ES I -- -- K Big Membership of Trade Unions Ice Handlers' Union Makes New Agreement Optional Pension System Wood Carvers in Philadelphia Secure Forty-four Hour Week, 'Longshoremen at Vancouver, B. C, are organizing. International Brush makers' Union Is organizing a new local in Chicago, 111. The total membership of the trade unions in tho world Is over 12,500,000. Next year's Scottish Trados Union Congress will be held at Dumfries. The women constitute 12 SS pel cent of all tho organized workers of Italy. The Ice handlers' union at Peoria, l 111., has made a new agreement, in- f creasing wages 50 cents a day. An optional pension system ha J been adopted by the Brotherhood of Locdrnotive Eugineors. I The operative joiners of Motherwell, Mother-well, Scotland, have demanded an in- I ciease of 1 cent an hour in Lhoir wages. j Union housesmiths at San Frau- j Cisco, Cal., will demand an eight-hour day on and after August 26. The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen Car-men recently Issued a charter for a local union at Sarnia, Ont , Canada Woodstock, Can , hodcarrlora and building laboreis organized recently and obtained a 2 1-2 cents an hour increase. in-crease. I In July, at Atlantic City, N. J., National Na-tional Brotherhood of Operative Pot- I torB will hold Its anual convention. I The State Federation of Labor of Louisiana will bo reorganized and affiliated af-filiated with the American Federa- I tion of Labor. j Wood carvers in Philadelphia, Pa , have secured the forty-four hour week in all architectural and custom shops in the city, |