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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES The German co-operative societies aro holding their annual exhibition In Berlin. Thev have taken the largest building aailable for the purpose in the city and filled It with Baraples ajid exhibits of all kinds At the present time thej claim a membership of V 325,000, a figure which has doubled Itself in the past seven yearn and h Increasing at the rate of 12 per cent annually The turnover for 1911 amounted to J126.500.000, a sum sufficient suffi-cient to affect materially the general retail market It la the Intention of the Western Union Telegraph company to institute a pension system, which shall automatically auto-matically extend to all the -40,000 of St3 employes, it Is announced Ho-soon Ho-soon this plan Is to go Into effect I not stated. All employes of twenty yearB' standing who have reached tho nge of Ecventy ycarB will be given pensions. Disabled employes, whoso disability is not their own fault, may also be pensioned. Alarmed at the growth of labor unrest un-rest throughout Japan, tho mikado's advisers aro urging the speedy passage pas-sage by the diet of an amendment to the factory law designed, as it is expressed ex-pressed In Japan, to prevent future "outbreaks of dangerous thought." By the amendment's provisions lar?e manufacturers are required to set asld a percentage of their profits for their employes In addition to their regular wages. The employes will re-colve re-colve this mono', however, only upon completion of specified terms of service. |