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Show LABOR NEWS OP ALL COUNTRIES Tho Ford Motor company of Do-trolt Do-trolt haB Informed Its 5,000 employes that tholr working day would bo reduced re-duced from te'n hours to nlno hours nnd that tho pay of nil employes working on an hourly rate would be Incrcneed fifteen per cent. Twenty cents an hour Is the scale agreed to for carpentcrB and jolnore under tho now agrccmont with the Manchester, Salford and District Building Trades Employers' Aassocla-tlon. Aassocla-tlon. All crafts omployed In local theaters thea-ters are now affiliated with tho San Francisco Theatrical Federation, which will conduct ItB business on tho policy that "the concern of one Is tho concorn of all. Whereas, In New Jersey, Pennsylvania's Pennsyl-vania's chief competitor In tho silk Industry, nearly half tho employes nre men, In tho Koystono state only nine out of every' hundred workers In tho silk mills aro grown men. Tho fourteenth birthday is now tho lowest limit for children In the Northern states, with the single exception ex-ception of Now Hampshire and In four Southern states. Kentucky, Tennessee. Ten-nessee. Louisiana and Virginia. There has been n large Increase it, tho membership of the Amalgamated Amalgam-ated Society of Railway Servants of England Irelnnd, Scotland and Wales. The fortieth nnnual report shows nn Increase from 75.153 to 11G.51C during tho year. The trade unionists of Oalosbirrg, 111., hnve organized a labor temple association, as-sociation, and the actlvo spirits in the association are working diligently to raise a sufficient amount of money to purchase a site and erect a oulldlng for a home fo. union labor. Representatives of the stale nnd nntlonnl organizations of the moldere trado have petitioned tho New York factory Investigating commission to recommend legislation prohibiting the employment of women In molding shops of that state. |