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Show mi i w rmo on ingcmsa qj i iiim -IM-ya LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES - - j n Eight-Hour Law Decision by Attorney General Oarmody French Miners Warn Government Studying Industrial Diseases Two Thousand Union Bakers Sign New Scale. The eight-hour "law does Dot apply to the construction of bridges on stale highway Improvements outside of cities and towns, according to an opinion of Attorney Gcneial Carmody of New York. The leaders of the French Minors, by way of warning to the government to proceed with their contemplated legislation without delay, proclaimed a twenty-four-hour strike. Tho demands de-mands of the pensions, and a reduction reduc-tion In the hours of labor Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Italy and Franco h;ivo recopnized the importanco of studying industrial diseases, dis-eases, and by caroful inspection and by eliminating defective methods and dangerouB machinery efficiency ha-s been increased and the percentage of Industrial illness loducccL After a. long contest tho Central Trades and Labor council of Jacksonville Jackson-ville has succeeded in having the city council pass an ordinance fixing tho hours of labor for all city employes at eight por day; the ordinance to take effect January 1, 1013, Two thousand union bakers in Chicago Chi-cago havo signed a new scale with i thoir employeis, which ghes the day I men $2 more a week than they were j receiving, and ghes the night men $1 more. This puts both the day and the n:ght men on the same basis of $20 a week. Permanent boards of arbitration or lopclhation for the adjustment of labor la-bor disputes are proposed by the Hon. r, W. Crothors, Canadian minister of labor, to be located In the different Industrial centres of the country. For any pain, rrora top to toe, rronj any cause, apply Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Eclec-tic Oil. Pain can't stay whero It la used. - |