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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRBS The C. P. R. complains of the scarcity of railway laborers Ohio steel mills are bogging for unskilled laborers at ?1.75 a day. Special efforts to organize are being be-ing amdo among the retail clerks In the Province of Ontario, Can. Societies affiliated with the British Brit-ish General Federation of Trades Unions Un-ions contain 900,000 members. A movement has been started to organize the moving picture operators throughout the Dominion of Canada. During the second quarter1 of this year the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers granted charters to eight now locals. Members of the Dredgemen's Union Un-ion are on strike on the Sacramento and San Joaquin, Cal., rivers for tho 6x-day wook. Electrical workers at Denver, Colo., have made an agreement' with thirty local contractors. The scale from September 1 will bo 54.50 a day. The American Federation of Labor La-bor is conducting an active campaign of organization among the workers in the Iron and steel Industry. Less than $2.48 ropreaents the pay for a full week's work for more than one-fifth of tho adult women in twenty twen-ty tradeB of England. The San Francisco Labor council, through Its organizing committee, will endeavor to reorganize the Leather Vovclty Workers union. Beginning in October it will bo corapulsorr for every largo factory in NTew York City to have a fire drill at least once In every three months. |