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Show LABOR NEWS OP ALL COUNTRIES 'Frisco unions employed in the garment gar-ment making Industry are planning the organization of a district council. The proposed council will include the Independent Tailors' union, Journeymen Journey-men Tailors' union, Garment Cutters' union, Independent Ladies' Tailors' union. Cloakmakers union and United Garment Workers' union. The twelfth biennial report of the Minnesota labor bureau made two years ago, showed that over 10,000 persons wore killed or Injured in tho industries of that state in one year. The labor department believed that this number could and should be materially ma-terially reduced. As a result of its activity to this end and the co-operation it receded from the employers, there has been a reduction of 23.G per cent in fatal accidents and of 28.6 per cent in non-fatal accidents during tho last two years. , Organized labor has increased wages, has shortened the workday of millions of men and women. It has ahanged tho tollers from servile creatures crea-tures to Independent and self-reapect--ng citizens. It is responsible for all tho laws enacted in the interest of workJngmon, women and children. It has fought for j-ears and is still fighting fight-ing for the emancipation of child laborers. la-borers. It 1b fighting for a decent wage and decent treatment for the millions of womon forced to work for a livelihood. To ameliorate the condition of worklngmen and make them more self-dependent, the labor council Is informed that the parliament in Sydney, Syd-ney, South Australia, will provldo $500,000 annually for the use of worklngmen work-lngmen who desire loans to enable them to build a dwelling house or enlarge en-large the one already occupied or to discharge mortgages on their homes The law requires that those who are to benefit by this fund shall earn four-fifths four-fifths of their income by actual personal per-sonal exertion and that they shall not have an income exceeding $1,500 a year. |