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Show LABOR NEWS OP I ALL COUNTRIES Locomotive Engineers Want Shorter Day Labor Day to Be Stata Holiday Machinists Sign Three-Year Contract Youngstown Foundry Owners Sign New Wage Scale. A widespread and interesting discussion dis-cussion is being maintained in tho monthly Journals of the Brotherhood of Locoinotlvo Engineers and other railroad organizations in behalf of a shorter workday. The labor unions of Sacramento have decided to ask the board of education ed-ucation of that citv to declaro Labor day a holiday for the public schoolB to "give tho children a chance to participate par-ticipate In the festivities of that day. Machinists of Kansas City. Mo., havo signed up a three-year contract con-tract with the breweries for an cigbt-hour cigbt-hour day and a minimum wage running run-ning from 48 cents In 1912 to 50 cents In 1913 and 53 cents per hour thereafter. there-after. Driven out of every industrial community on the Pacific coast, the 'ndustrlal Workers of tho "WorM threaten to imado Walla Walla, Wash., and tie up the wheat harvest unless they succeed in forcing wages up and hours of labor down. Walter Macarthur, editor of tho "Coast Seamen's Journal," has left for Glasgow, Scotland, where he will represent the International Seamen's Union of America at the convention of the International Union of Seamen and Firemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Ire-land. The annual report of the Executlvo council of the Society of Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Tool Makors, Engineers and Machinists Ma-chinists (England) shows a membership member-ship of over G.OOO and a gain during the past year Of 1,4 53. Tho reserve fund held by this organization is over ?120,000. Providence, It. I., steamfitters' strike, which has been on in this city sine April 13, has ended The steam fitters will return to work and will receive a substantial Increase in wages, an eight-hour workday and half holiday on Saturday throughout the whole year. Railway C3r men on the Southern railway and allied lines, in conjunction conjunc-tion with other crafts of the system federation, havo recently secured a renewal of thoir agreement in which a substantial increase in pay and beneficial working rules wore secured. se-cured. After negotiating for forty-six days tho Youngstown foundry owners signed tho new wage scalo presented by Youngstown local of the International Interna-tional Moldcrs' union, which gives the journeymen an increase from 53.30 to $3.60 in tho minimum rate per day. |