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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES The carpenteis of Winnipeg. Man., both Amalgamated and Brotherhood, nave determined to amalgamate. The question has been practically settled and a meeting is scheduled for the purpose of working out the details of the amalgamation. A majoiitj of the hotelkeepers at Toronto. Can., havo signed up the new schedule placed before them by the Bartenders' union. Tho new scale call3 for a wage of $15 a week and meals for a sixty-hour week, and $18 a week without meals. The men who belong to the Western West-ern Federation of Miners and who aie employed in Oatman, Ariz., have entered a protest against the non- , union goods sold by tho mine owners at very high prices and hae decided to start a co-operative general store. Tho strike of ships' stokers at Yokohama, Japan, proved a very 1 short-lived affair. In less than a week the agitation was started, a strike declared, and the trouble ended by the employers giving way to the men'fa demands, which involved an Increase of $1.50 a month. The Montreal, Can., clothing manufacturers manu-facturers replied to the threats of a , strike made by the local garment workers' union by posting a notice ' threatening to prosecute anybody caught attempting to Intimidate help. The manufacturers have decided to ' run open shops. , Fiom the American Fedoration of Labor headquarters at Washington ' combs the Information that as a rc- r suit of President Qompers' efforts there is a Btrong sentiment among the members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in faor of affiliating af-filiating with the A F. of L. |