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Show LABOR NEWS OF m ALL COUNTRIES K , There are seventy-five union la- ; H boltf. ffi New York City has 7,000 union '. mfc prlntors. pjfij Paris seamstresses earn 50 cents i ' gJQ a day. Jj There are 9,000 union carpenters m ' in Chicago. Ir jjni i There are women nod-carriers In Bl Hungary. m Yucatan is said to havo an agri- cultural school. vj , In Italy smiths got 77 cents to j f-jp ' $1.35 a day. Paisley, Scotland, thread mills em- J fti ploy 10100 personB. V 3 Thirty-six states restrict night ( fg work by children. , jfjjj Female farm laborers In Japan- -,-. li earn fourteen cents a day. Jj In CoJiurg, Germany, plumbers get :: H $1 to $1,20 a day (10 houni). ' L In "Washington alono thero are : r 40,000 government clerks. g The monthly wnge of carponters I in Athens, Greece, Is S15.-1B. " la Lyons, France silk mill weav- Jj-r. ers earn 58 to 77 cents a day. mA Greater Now York's thirteen gas Jj! companies employ 40,000 persons. - S.1 In Arabia the pav of cooks and ; ' KF house servants runs from $8.30 to , $13.20 per month. "U? Prosident Von Buren established J the ten-hour system In tho navy ? : yards of the United States In 1S40. ;?$ The first protest against convict ' i s labor was made by a convention of i mechanics In Utica, N. P., In 1S34. ' ' i The trial of tho fifty-four union ; I men for complicity in the alleged ,M dvnamlte conspiracy has been set for '"li October" 1. ; i In every thousand of the wage- I earning population in the United ; 19 Kingdom, forty-two earn less than , jl A 50 a week. ; Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, wife of : fl J. G. Phelps Stokes, is working to m organize the New York hotel women ' (I employes Into a union. : II In tho year 1010 thero werfc more jH thim 35,000 deaths from Industrial WM accidents, while over 500,000 more H men were Injured during the same H tlmo H There are 3,000 women clerks in H the British jioatofflce on salaries H which begin at (325 and rise by $25 H annual additions to a mlximum of -!H $550. MM " BI |