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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES In there were trade dis putes In the United Kingdom, Involving Involv-ing 961,980 workers, who loet 10,319,-591 10,319,-591 working days At the close of the old year the United Mine Workers of America had a pajd-up membership of JS0.965. The prelous high record was on Novem-i !er 80, when the paid up membership was ",77,394. Syracuse, N Y , is making prepara- I tions for a union forward movement I The compensation commission, j created by the Inst general assembly Of Missouri, has, after nearly two years, completed the draft of a bill which it will recommend to the legislature. legis-lature. No organization In New York except ex-cept the Hotel Workers' union has piven (he I W. W recognition so far, and in an official statement iHsued by it recently it was declared that there had teen no affiliation William D Huber, the retiring president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters aud Joiners of America, Amer-ica, has served thirteen years and four months When Mr Huber was elected president of the brotherhood it had a membership of only 32,000, and about $20,000 In the treasury. Todav the membership exceeds 250,-D00 250,-D00 and more than $300,0cm le In the treasury Efforts to secure the passage of a law providing ior an olghl-bour day foi all engineer! of the state of Washington Wash-ington will he made at the proswm' tiebsioii of the state legislature D) members of the International Union of Stessu Engineers. Fifteen directors of the Unitrd Charitie.- of Chicago, mo9t of ihrm emplovers of labor, have adopted ior. olutlont urging the leglBlatun- to appoint ap-point a committee to investigate wages aud working conditions and to repon at the next session u (fell considered bill establishing a minimum mini-mum wage commission. Claiming that motor trucks nrr operated op-erated by 'portable engines." and that the American Federation of Labor La-bor has ruled that Hoisting and UortaPlc BnlgeneeN' uulon I OD titled to jurisdiction over all portable engines the San Francleeo union uow insists 'hat the ruling of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor be enforced Id that city. Salaries of all municipal employes of Evolcth. Minn, were recently m raised Hi per cent. Women teachers of Scotland arc I campaigning for equal pay for equal work. |