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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Stationary Firemen Demand Eight-Hour Day Laborer's Pay Fixed at Three Dollars for Nine Hours Utica Labor Temple Completed Com-pleted and Elaborate Dedicatory Exercises Held. Cleveland, O.. stationary firemen will demand Uho eight-hour day. The Dominion Trades Congress will meet at Guclph, September 9th. Georgia forbids tho employment of children undor the age of 10 yoars. Nearly one-half of the people of Denmark llvo exclusively by agriculture, agricul-ture, i The United States kills annually more coal miners than all the rest of the world combined. : Winnipeg, Canada, electric linemen who went on strike hno settled for five cents an hour Increase. The Shops Act, passed by Parliament Parlia-ment in London, secures to the clerks a weekly half holiday. Tho City Council of Mcrritt. B. C, has fixed the rate of pny for laborers . in their employ at 53 per nine-hour day. A biennial convention of tho International In-ternational Union' of United Browory' Workmen will be held at Denver, be-, ginning September fl. The Canadian government, by law proposos to restrict tho working hours of the Btroct railway men to six days) of ten hours each. I A law has been pawed in Donmark under which the government makes loans to farm 'inborcrs who desire toj become small farmers. JackRonville. Fla., lodgo of rail-1 way conductors recontly adopted a, resolution that all uniforms hereafter' ordered by the lodge must bear the ' union label. Tho City Council of Regina, Saskatchewan, Sas-katchewan, has passed o fair wage ordinance, which compels contractor to pay the rate agreed on by the builders' exchange and the unions. .Milwaukee. Wis., steamfltters are to receive 5 a day. nn increase of' fifty cents, nnd tholr helpers $2.50 a day, an Increase of 25 cents. The contract provides for aa eight-hour day. The comer atone of Utlca's Labor Temple was laid with appropriate ceremonies on July -1. 191 L Sinco that Umo the edifice has boon completed, com-pleted, and on July , 1912. dedicatory exercises were hold. |