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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES A general strike In the ladies' neckwear neck-wear and white goods trades of New York City against the reduction in wages following the reduction of working- hours to fifty-four hours in conformity with the recently enacted fifty-four hour law for women and minors seems imminent unless the employers withdraw their decisions to reduce the wages of their women employes. em-ployes. President Christopher Timmins, of the Hod Carriers' and Building Laborers' La-borers' union of Chicago, which has a membership of 19,000. is in N'cw York City for the purpose of bringing about affiliation with the International Internation-al Hod Carriers' and Building Laborers' Labor-ers' union, which has a membership of 25,000 in the United States and Is affiliated with the Amorlcan Federation Federa-tion of Labor Quite two-thirds of the work In Portugal is done by women. In the cultivation of the vine and olives the most important Industries of the country women do the hard labor under men overeers Women also work in the quarries and, are engaged In rowing the heavily laden barges on the river3. Wherever the work is the hardest women are found performing It at r. ery meagre wage The new Ohio constitution is prob-ablj prob-ablj the most thoroughly democratic framework of government in America, if not in the world It include? a limited lim-ited Initiative and referendum, empowers em-powers the state to regulate hours of jabor, establish a minimum wage and an industrial insurance fund;; prescribes pre-scribes eight hours as a day's work on nil public undertaking?, and abolishes abol-ishes contract labor in prisons In Melbourne. Australia, a contract was recentlv entered into between the street carmon's union and the company. com-pany. All employes are allowed ten days vacation each vcar on pav. Fo'rtv-eight hours constitutes a week's work, which brings the average train-Irann train-Irann a wage of about ?15. Sunday and holiday work is paid for at the rate of tlpie and one-quartor and extra ex-tra men, or "casuals," as thev ore called, aro quarantecd a minimum wage (42 shillings) each week |