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Show oo LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Trevortoo and Shamokln (Pa i mmc workers' union have adopted resolutions resolu-tions to work on days that colliery employes who were killed in the mines are burled, and will give the widow $160. If a breaker boy is killed, tho parents will receive $50. Trade unionism Is quite an inno ration in Chinn and the recent organization organ-ization of the gold workers in Shanghai Shang-hai is regarded by the employers with considerable alarm and by persons generally with vreat Interest It is stated that 'lie action of the gold workers Is probabiv the first instance on record where trade union action has been tarried to such an extent In China. It is proposed by President O'f'on-nell O'f'on-nell of tiiv met.-ii tradee department of the Amenc.au Federation of Labor to invade the cities where large numbers num-bers of tho metal trades are employed employ-ed for the purpose of conducting an active organization campaign to the end that tbc efforts of the depart I ment may be merged and the repre sentatives of the several metal trades organizations work In complete unl-' ty, and with but tho one end in! view. Increases approximating 10 per cent In tho wages of railway conductors, trainmen and engineers, together w it b I improvements in certain general con-J ditions under which the men work.' are being demanded of all the rai'.- roads in the eastern association, Including In-cluding the Canadian Pacafic and the Qrahd Trunk. The following have been selected as United States fraternal delegates toj the next session of the British trades union congress that will shortly meet) in Manchester, England: Louis Kemper Kem-per secretary of the United Brew ery Workers, and Charles L. Baine, secretary of Boot and Shoe, both representatives rep-resentatives of international organizations. organi-zations. V. J McBorley, president if the International Union of Lathers, has been selected as fraternal delegate dele-gate to the next congress of Canadian Cana-dian trades and labor organization s. Monday, February 2". has been des- ignated organizing day for the state of Georgia for the year 1913 by the Georgia state federation of labor Meetings will be held on this date In every city in the state where there is a local union The purpose ot these meetings 19 to arouse members of organized labor In the state to greater actlvltj In their struggle for improved conditions. |