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Show LABOR NtWS Of . ALL COUNTRIES Moving pictures, their development and production, mean steady employment employ-ment in all the branches and ends of the business for about SO.OQO persons throughout the country. The New York State Federation of Lab'or Is requesting all legislative candidates can-didates to pledge themselves to voto lor aworkmen's compensation measure meas-ure In tho next legislature. Tne second move of the American Federation of, Labor to reorganise the stockyards unions, broken up at the time of the great butchers Btrlke in 1904, will bo made this" winter. The Trade and Labor congress of Canada has grown to proportions where It has become tho great mlll tant forco in Canada for tho protection protec-tion of the interests of organized and unorganlztd workmen. Prior to 190C there was not a single sin-gle representative among the nation's lawmakers who stood politically for labor principles. But in that year, six of them were elected to membership In the lower branch of congress. The popular belief that tho Panama railroad was constructed at a cost of one life for every railroad tio is a gloss exaggeration. There are 140,r 000 ties, and In the five years of its construction a total of 7,000 laborerr. were employed, The Massachusetts State Federation Federa-tion of Labor has passed a resolution domandjng that the legislature pass a bill for a Saturday halt holiday, without loss of pay, the year round, for all laborers and mechanics In tho employ of the commonwealth, Toronto, Can . machinists arc working work-ing ten hours, a day and are ono of Jthe,very few. tradea working longi bours. An effort will be made Bbortly by the metal trades in Toronto to assist as-sist them In obtaining the niuo-hour work day or -19 1- hours a week. Since the beof trust was organizes! strikes have occurred in Chicago on the average of about once every nine or ten years. There was a striko in 1S79, another in 1SSC, a third in 189 i, aud the last and greatest in 1901. Another An-other Is duo next summer San Francisco, Cnl .Barbers' union adopted a resolution that every member mem-ber of that organization will, In an effort to help the movement for union un-ion goqds, wear five garments that bear the union label. |