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Show LABOR NEWSoF , ... ALL COUNTRIES Letters haro been sent lo all the piano manufacturers of Greater New York by thrae officials of tho Piano, Organ and Inetrunient Makers' union, un-ion, in which an Increase in wages or' 15 per cent Is asked for Such an increase would affect mor ethan 5,000 workers. Rollers in the steel Industry of China earn ?4 to $6 a month, while the same class of labor in the United States earns 58 to S10 a day. The Knights of Labor local in Boston has capitulated and has come over bodily into the freight handlers organization. This brings into tho union between 800 and 900 members and this Is the last of the dual unions' in the eastern section. Tho Boston local was In existence for nearly thirty years. In Massachusetts there are now 379,775 women wage-earners, one-quarter one-quarter of the entire female population popula-tion of the commonwealth. Of this number 91,000 arc married women, three-quarters of whom are mothers, with families averaging four children The United Association of Journeymen Jour-neymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Stoam Fitters, and Stean Fitters Helpers of the United States and Canada, has made a distinct gain of Blightly over 6,000 In membership during the past two years, and is now close to the 30,000 mark in total membership. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters Car-penters is preparing to make a big fight at the noxt meeting of the A. F of L. to bo held In Rochester. It will demand that Its society be rec-cgnized. rec-cgnized. The Canadian membership eayB it is a BrltiBh born institution and something must be done to protect pro-tect it. The Trades Union Congress of Newcabtle, England, recently passed a resolution which the syndlcaallst3 Btrenuously opposed, pledging tho support of the Independent working classes of Great Britain into political action in the industrial fight for a more equitable share of the wealth of the country |