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Show oo I LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES At the recent meeting of the Union Printers' Home trustees a motion was adopted that the membership of the I International Typographical union he notified that the twenty -fifth anniversary anni-versary of the institution's establishment establish-ment would occur in 1917. aud that it he suggested thst ihe membership J he requested to look kindly on the Idea of holding the convention that year in Colorado Springs, with the view of featuring and celebrating an aunlversary. Prominent among the demands which win shortly be presented to the clothing manufacturers in New York are the abolition of the sub-I sub-I contracting system the abolition of i loot power, that no work be given lout to be done In tenement houses, I overtime to he paid for at the rate of I time and a hair, double time for holidays, holi-days, a forty-elght-hour work week I and a general wage increase of 20 per cent for ..11 the workers iu tho 'garment Indiibtrv . |