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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Within the past nlue months seventy-six organizations, representing a membership of 5,400. have affiliated with the California State Federation of Labor, making tho total membership member-ship approximately C,100. Local organizations of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railway Carmen haAe boon organized at Fort Worth, Texas, and Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. Reports Re-ports coming Into headquarters of tho carmen lndlcato an Increasing membership. mem-bership. The Domestic union In Germany Is tho youngost organized only two years," ago. and numbers 25,000 now Tho law does not permit strikes In this union. Should a servant leave her mistress without due notice she Is arrested and jailed. Labor conditions In Humboldt county. coun-ty. Cal . are bad. due to lack of organization, or-ganization, though the building trades In Euroka arc fairly well organizod. it is reported that the woodsmon received re-ceived only $1 50 to $2 per day of ten hours. Any member of the International Longshoremen's union who participates partici-pates In the Now York strike will be expelled Th'e National Transport Trans-port Workers' union Is not a part of the International Longshoremen's association. as-sociation. After several conferences held between be-tween the prepresentatlves of tho International In-ternational Brotherhood of Paper Makers and tho management of a number "of paper mills In Kalamazoo, Mich , in which the paper makers sought to secure an eight-hour day tho manufacturers refused to eonccde and a strike Is in progress The gates of twelve cotton cloth manufacturing plants in New Bedford, Mass., were closed recently and lo.OOO operatives wore Idle, following the strike of wcaers and loom fixers for tho abolition of the grading system of paMnent Of the Idle operatives, 8,000, it was estimated, were on strike, and 5,000 have been thrown out of work The section hands employed on the Wnbach railway between Fort Wakno and Toledo and between Fort Way no and Montpeller are on strike. Thoso men have been receiving a wage of $1 50 a dav of ten hours and a demand de-mand was made for an increase to $1.05. The officials of the company peremptorily refused concessions. |