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Show LABOR NEWS OP I ALL COUNTRIES I Press Feeders Get Increase Number of Wage Earners Increa-r-' M Ten Thousand Unemployed Building Mechanics in San H Francisco New York Passes Fifty-four Hour Law jH for Factory Operatives. H London. En?., theatrical stas hands demand a minimum wago or 60 cents per )erformaucs. Michigan's legislature has passed the employers' liability and workmen's work-men's compensation act. It Is estimated that SS per cent of tho land tilled by Gorman peasant farmers Is owned by them. Des Moines carpenters are to receive re-ceive 55 cents an hour, beginning July 13 and future wage scale controversies controver-sies aro to he settled by an arbitration arbitra-tion board. International Glove Workers' uniou reports that the organization mado an increase in membership during March of 25 per cent. Press feeders at Fargo, N. D hav M secured 20 per cent increase. M Tho number of wage earners in fl this country ha? increased 40.4 per cent since 1S90. Holland has a special law prevent- JA ing striking among railway employes. IH Stirlingshire, Scotland, Miners' tin- IH Ion hat; S.000 members and fuids H amounting to $70,000. M Brotherhood of Railway Carmen M within tho last sixty days has or iH ganlzed seven now lodges. H There arc 10,000 unemployed un- M ion building mechanics In San Fran- M Tho Now York legislature has pass- H cd the fift -four hour law for tic- M tory operatives. H |