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Show I LABOR NEWS OF I ALL COUNTRIES H At least one-half of the industrial' Hl accidents reported are caused by lack H of safeguards around machinery and H In the casos of sickness, it is claimed, H the majority of caBes are directly' H traceable to the lack of sanitary con- Hj I dltions In shops, stores and factories, i H At the last convention of the In.-' Hl ternatlonal Ladies' Garment Worker?', 1 I'nlon, held at Toronto, Canada, the H delegates sanctioned a general strike of waist makers and promised to as- fl sist in such a movement In case a H general strike is found necessary. H The Miners' Federation of the Unit' H ed Kingdom passed a resolution in fa- H vonaf a five-day week at their recent H meetlnga. The proposal will be sub- H mlttcd to a ballot of the men in all H the mines of the country. H Occupations dangerous to health H apd morals arc singled out by some H few states and forbidden to minors, H but comparatively few states have cn- H acted and are enforcing laws for the H safeguarding of the health, morals and fl lives of children. H In six years labor has changed, from H a negative to a positive quantity in H the, halls of congress, and the Cora- H mltteo on Labor of the House of Itep- H reseiitaUves form a body that had but H little sincere concern for the Tiohls of j H the laboring man to one that 1b" fight-j H lng tooth and nail to obtain for him 1 Just representation. I Hj The International Brotherhood of! 1 Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and 1 Holucrs has about 08,000 members In1 H gcod standing and paid up. gamed j about 10,000 merabors in the last twp H years, and , in the same period, since1 H Its last biennial convention, it has H made a gain of about $C0,U00 in its' B General headquarters of the Inter- B national Union of Steam Engineers H will be located In St. Paul, Minn., and H an assessment will be levied on the H members throughout the United States B and Canada to raise funds to erect an H office building, If plans now under H v,ay materialize. The business men H of St. Paul have offered a suitable site H for a headquarters building. |