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Show LABOR NEWS OP ALL COUNTRIES Thousands of men are working ten to fifteen hours a daj' in tho forests of Louisiana for wages of $1.50 per day. Detroit, Mich,, local union of Structural Struc-tural Iron Workers has secured an increase from 50 csnts to 60 cents an hour. The rights of the boycott and of peaceful picketing in Tennessee were upheld recently in a sweeping decree iby Chancellor Hclflk'ell. Tho local union of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters at Madison, Madi-son, Wis., has obtained an Increase in wagos of 2 1-2 cents an hour, making mak-ing the minimum wage in that city 50 cents an hour. A state Inspector of hotelB, nine foot sheets, and abolishment of roller towels are reforms demanded by the New York SUito Contention of United Unit-ed Commercial Travelers in session recently in Watertown. . |