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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES t - The Madrid, Saragosa and Allcan-to Allcan-to railway in January will allow 5,-000,000 5,-000,000 nesatas to lalse the wages of the workers and 4,000,000 for pensions Earl Barnes in an article in the 'Economic Independence of "Women," says that a woman's wages should be one-halt of what her husband earns "Loan sharks" in -New York do an annual business of $20,000,000 and more than 100,000 persons, including 30,000 municipnl employes, are in their clutches. By the formation of a new butchers' butch-ers' union at a Chicago mass meeting the work of organizing tho 80,000 stock yard toilers in the Windy City has been greatly advanced. Encouraged by the recent victories of the furriers, ladies tailors and other oth-er trades, the New York Shirt Makers union has started an agitation to or- ganlze the workers employod in the shirt shops. For practical charity organized labor la-bor has a record becond to no other human institution Every year it disburses dis-burses millions of dollars In death, sick, out-of-work and old-ase beno-fits.. beno-fits.. Tho number of wage-earnors in the automobile industry in the United States is 75,721. and the automobile wase standaid is said to figure out somewhat higher than in other industries. indus-tries. Since the convention held bv the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen In Atlanta, Ga., in 1909, there have been organized by the officers of the Brotherhood Broth-erhood and organizers of the craft and the American Federation of Labor 2S'o now local unions. The changes in rates of wages in England taking effect in September, according to tho "Board of Trade and Labor Gazette," were all lncreabes and amounted to $77,000 a week in the wages of 2C0.000 working people, St. Louis glaziers demanded an increase in-crease from 47 1-2 to 55 cents an hour Under tho new three-year contract they are to recoivo 50 cents an hour the first year, f52V cents tho second and 55 cents tho third year The latest reports tegardlng tho strugglo of the Iron molders thiough-out thiough-out Ontario, Can., for the nine-hour day aio encouraging. Many settlements settle-ments have been secured and present indications aro that success is in j HlghL , Tho French minister of education j in a speech pledged the government to improve the salaries of the ieach-i ers; nevertheless the teachers con-tinuo con-tinuo thoir agitation in the provinces i and many workers' unions arc prof-1 fering their support ' |