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Show LABOR NEWS Or ALL COUINTRiES Officials of the International Typo- i graphical Union report an increase of i 3.51S members during the last year. . Number of members on pension roll, i 1,038. Total earnings of members , during the year, $55,738,902, an increase in-crease over last year of $3,608,234. Average Av-erage yearly earnings of members $932.04, an increase over last year of $17.91 per member. The board of school trustees of South Vancouver, B. C.. recently awarded contracts aggregating over $100,000 for tho erection of additions to three-of tho school buildings. In tho specifications for these buildings was Inserted a clause which requires that union conditions, insofar as wages and hours are concerned, existing ex-isting in the aoveral building trades at the time of aignlng the contracts, shall provall throughout the construction con-struction of tho additions. From a report just issued by Secretary Sec-retary Frank Morrison, of the executive execu-tive council of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor it uppears that during dur-ing the first seven montliB of the current fiscal year members of the federal labor and trades unions, . fcblch.have-no international organlza i Tfyysfrrgs ' lV"ltfwianWyf , .urn- Lion, but are affiliated with the Am-srlcan Am-srlcan Federation of Labor, have received re-ceived In strike benefits, on a basis of 54 a week per man, an aggregate of $50,050. Labor Sunday (September 1 of this year) was flrst'instltuted by the Presbyterian Pres-byterian Bureau of Social Service sov-en sov-en years ago, the Rev. Charles Stel-zlc Stel-zlc being the originating factor. This bureau has been merger Into the Fed-oral Fed-oral Council Commission on the Church and Social Sen-ice. The American Am-erican Federation of Labor has given giv-en lis endorsement to the observance observ-ance of Labor Sunday. This year the Federal Council Commission is making a systematic effort to have Labor Sunday generally observed in all churches throughout the country and is sending out literature, explanatory explana-tory In character and urging pastors to feature this day. on |