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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Since its foundation on November 1, 1881, the American Federation of Lahor has increased in membership from 50,000 to 1,761,835 paid up and reported membership, of the directly affiliated local unions and international interna-tional organizations. A bill providing that all public Institutions In-stitutions In Indiana, including all Institutions In-stitutions in any way supported by, taxation, shall burn only coal mined1 by eight-hour labor, probably will be introduced at tho 1912 session of the legislature. Under a new agreement the Canadian Canad-ian Telegraphers' union has established establish-ed tho highest scale of wages for commercial tolcsraphcrs in thirty years, and places the , maximum wage m Canada considerably above that Paid In tho United States. In Massachusetts there are now 3 ( 9,775 women wage-earners, one-qnarter one-qnarter of the ontire female popula- i tlon of the commonwealth. Of this I, 1 ' '. -,- - -" ' - - number 91,000 are married women, three quarters of whom are mothers, with families avoraging four chlldron. A general strike of tho employes of the Wall Papor Manufacturers' association, asso-ciation, which has thirty-five factories throughout tho country, one of the largest of which is In Brooklyn, Is threatened for the rcucwal of an expired ex-pired agreement. Thlrty-ooven states have employers' liability laws, In seventeen of which the old common law defense of "follow "fol-low servant" has been abrogated and in seven othors modified, and several fitatoa havo modified the common law defenao of "assumed risk" and "contributory "con-tributory negligence." The "servant problom has grown so acute in France that a seen-Btovy apartment houso has now been built with the aim of enabling the Inhabitants Inhabi-tants to dispense altogether with domestic do-mestic help. oo |