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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES A $100,000 labor temple is proposed at Akron, O. Pittsburg Is to have a working girls' home. Twenty-seven states enforce sanitary sani-tary regulations in factories. Wages in Belgium are lower generally general-ly than in any other European country. coun-try. Tho blind telephono girl has boon tried and proven a success in Baltimore. Balti-more. Meiidian, Miss., unions are advocating advocat-ing establishment of a local tuberculosis tubercu-losis camp and hospital. Unions at Guclph, Onl., are publishing pub-lishing a WGekly labor paper. Moro than a million persons are employed em-ployed In tho textile mills of Great Britain. The National Civic Federation has organized a national department on industrial in-dustrial mediation laws. The Canadian federal immigration department will send lecturers to England. Brass Foundry Workers' association associa-tion has fused with the International Molders' union. There -will be 22 members of farmers' farm-ers' and trades' unions holding seats in the next session of the Colorado legislature. A permanent exhibit of devices and means to prevent accidents to workmen work-men has been opened at Copenhagen, Denmark. Nationalization of the coal mines and railroads of Great Britain is the object of English labor unions Minneapolis, Minn., United Card Labor Council is arranging a campaign cam-paign for the demand of the union label. la-bel. Bangor, Me., Railway and Electric company has just conceded an increase, in-crease, which approximates 2 cents! per hour. A minimum of 25s. (S6.0S) a '-eek! for nil ablo-bodied men will henceforth rule in the municipal service in Glasgow, Glas-gow, Scotland. " The pension plan of the International Interna-tional Bricklayers. Masons and Phis-teffqrers Phis-teffqrers union will not go into otfect on January 1, as was expected. Tho two great problems of the British Brit-ish cotton trade are the proposed forty-eight hour working week and the reduction of fines. Seven shillings ($1.GS) per dav is the minimum for the laborer in many parts of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia' and Tasmania. Tas-mania. A board of arbitration has decided to fix the wages of the lumber handlers hand-lers in Santa Clara, Cal., at $3.37 a day for nine hours' work. i Street sweepers of New York city m-.i wm. ii, imrmn.i Winnianinia in have petitioned to have their wages I increased from $7S0 a year to $920. ' Extra pay for Sunday work is also I asked for. 1 era iui..-nw.iiirrii ii i ,, -!. |