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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES A Paris jury has convicted nineteen nine-teen committee men of the Paris Ma- IBfl sons' union for seeking to collect a cent a month from members to spread B anti-militarism in the army B In Franco 21.23 per cent of the pop- B ulation is engaged in farming, while H iu England the percentage Is 5.5S. BjBJ The local union of cigarmakurs at BH New Westminster, B. C, has been BBfl granted an Increase of $1 per 1,000. jB Of the 17,000 odd miles of railways BH in the Commonwealth of Australia H over 15,000 are owned by the govern- BB menL 1 Thero are 969 Iocnl unions with a H membership of 75,914, In the Bricklay- BB crs and Masons' International union. BBBJ Boston., Mass., has tho second lar- IBB gest street car employes' union in tho BBBJ country, there being a membership of IBB approximately 7,000. IBBBJ Among 915,063 employe-. "In Pennsyl- B vanla Industries last year, there wero H 1,309 fatal and -19,662 non-fatal acci- BBBJ dents, a total of 50,971. BBBJ The American Federation of Labor IB has gone on record as officially in- H dorsing woman suffrage, and is pledg- H ed to do all it can in support of the H BBBJ Australia has established a training H school for boys who wish to becomo H expert farmers but who lack the H means to obtain proper instruction, IbbI Tho number of persons insured in DBBb Ireland under the Insurance act Is l roughly estimated at S25.000, or 75 per BH cent of tho insurable population. BBBJ About eight million men aro In reg- B ular employment in the United King- H dom, and of these over half work for a weekly wage of less than $7,50 BBBJ Wages in Japan have arisen on tho average over 50 per cont In tho last BBBJ ten years. During that tlmo the av- IH erage price of commodities hns In- BBBJ creased about 33 per cent. IH |