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Show LABOR NEWS OP ALL COUNTRIES The newspaper publishers of Du-luth, Du-luth, Minn., have signed a two-year agreement witlf the Typographical union by which! all employes in tho composing room will recehc an Increase In-crease of 51 a week for the first year and ?2 a week for the second year and thereafter. All overtime after .January 1, 1913, will be paid for tt the rate of time ami a half. The union sho; prevails The unions of Salem, Ore , have succeeded in having the city council pas? an ordinance providing that res!-dent res!-dent laborers shall l.c given the prof-erence prof-erence over non-residents with contractors con-tractors on public work At the last election tho city charter was amended to the effect that resident laborers should have the preference and the ordinance carries lljo amenument Into effect. The demand of the atreot car employes em-ployes of Chicago, III., for an Increaso in iages and a change In their contract con-tract vith the street car companies was presented rocently The demand of the mon for an average advance or 3 cents per hour to all employes, if granted, will increase the companies' pay rolls almost $1,000,000 a year, it is expocted the controversy will be amicably adjusted and the possibility of a strike Is remote To the accompaniment of a choru"? of rage and lamentation from employers em-ployers who think It wrong to force them to contribute toward Insuring their employes, the Workmen's insurance insur-ance law became effective in Great Britain recently, with 10,000,000 wage earners on the rolls under Its provisions. provi-sions. -Ten thousand Liverpool dock workers struck to signify their objection ob-jection to Hie method of collection of Insurance premiums from the workers work-ers themselves under the new law. |