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Show LABOR NEWS OP . ALL COUNTRIES The Printers' union of Montreal has signed aif agreement with their bosses The new agreement provides an increase from ?1C to $18.50 per week for hand compositors for two years, for the next two years $19.50, and for a further time of one year $110 per week. Machine operators will re-celvo re-celvo one dollar a week above theso rate3. At the Retail Clerks' International union convention, held in Columbus Ohio, it was decided to Invade Canada and organize it from one end to the other An army of men will start out at once with the Intention of placing plac-ing a local union In every town and city in the Dominion. Twelve members of tho SL Paul Barbers' union went to SL Joseph s orphan asylum on a recent Sunday and cut the hair of eighty-eight orphan or-phan boys there free of charge, making mak-ing this tacriflco of thoir holiday for the good of the union and organized lnbor In general. Stops were taken at a meeting of wircloss operators In Hoboken to arrange ar-range for the organization of a worldwide world-wide union of wireless telegraphers, and a resolution was passed to put tho question of forming such a union to a referendum vote of all the oivcr-ators oivcr-ators In the world The American Ice company Is to have a bitter rival in the business of selling ice to Philadelphia families, stores and fuctories, none other than the International Union of Steam Engineers, En-gineers, among whose members are the men who walked out from the ten local plants of the company nearly five weeks ago.- It has developed that the Indian fruit pickers employed In the Nlapara peninsula have banded themselves together to-gether with an' agreement that they will not pick any fruit where white people are employed to pick. It has been tried by several fruit growers and the Indians have got up and quit the Job. nn |