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Show IsssssBssnl LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Washington will probably be the sbbWS first state to pay pensions to mothers, nLsH as the bill providing payment of $15 aaaiBB a month for tho support of the fir-'. 'Rr child and ' monthly additional for sLK' each additional child of destitute I mothers lias Just passed the house. fHSf? According to statistics published In lIssflHr tho Correspondonceblatt, the central organ of the German trado unions, ILbbbh the so-called free trado unions on lbiffl January 1 had 2.625,000 members as IHK against a round 2.400,000 at the be- iHt ginning of the past year Ib British railway workers, who In un- tR ions number 185,379 members, appear Llr' to be within 9lght of successful amal- gamation. The same appears to bo Hk the case with the building workers, HHftp who lately voiced their opinion by bbbbbk; casting 31,500 votes against 12,150 aiBBinr for amalgamation into an industrial iSbV union IlliBmB- The International Secretariat has Ba Just issued an appeal for the support Ss of the trade unions of Servla and Bui- iEk garla In order that these may be able Hw to preserve their labor temples, their Km press and further assist tho families HSi& of members who have been hard hit 9" by the war jRI Tho American Federation of Labor HflF has entered on ono of the most exten- Hf. slve organizing campaigns ever con- Kii ducted in the world, and it will be Bj& continued throughout the year, as Bsf- plans have been perfected which will rar cover that period to execute. ,Bg; A branch of the American Fedora- tlon of Musicians has been establish- 'Bis: ed In Guelph Can Ks&a' A compulsory school attendance law HaPf has been Introduced In tho North Car- flwffl olina legislature Bwf Portadown Ireland, weavers have Er,. ' obtained an Increase in wages amount- ;BK'' lng to from 5 to 7 1-2 per cent BH-i Kentucky, Maryland and New Jer- 'Bfr'r sey have in the past year passed ten- WB&V hour laws for women. fi',- The Gorman Typographical union. has now 65,000 members: L e., 90 per Kf?- cent of the printers employod k-'" New Hampshire and some of the southern states will probably raise the 'wB' I age limit for working children from 'saVv" 12 to 14 years A minimum wage has been adopted B"' by the Denver, Colo., city government iHg''""' ,of $2.25 for unskilled labor and $4 50 K; There are 110,000 men employed In gft- the lumber industry in the state of wSf, ." Washington. Br-- Of all the children of the United IL' States up to 16 years of age only 12 Wf? per cent are in schools. j There is no state or city In which street parades are prohibited to all Bp. under 14 Ef , .' |