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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Prussia has traveling schools to .teach housekeeping arts. London board of education has raised the school age from 14 to 16 years, and will give these older chil dren manual training or domestic sci. jence education. An eight-hour day and semi-tnonth-lv payday has been obtained by city 1 employes of Altoona, Pa. Shorter hours of work have been persistently mi;ghi for h the barbers international Sunday work ban been eliminated and an average of more than two hours a dav cut from the I other six days of the week or more I than twenty hours a week for "O.nfin 'men. accomplished without reduction in wages. Edmondton. Canada trod'tig and I labor council hag decided to erect a I Ialor temple. Forty-four states have adopted an age limit for working children. San FranClSCO, Cl., Typographical union has a membership exceeding ' loon. More than seven thousand women are taking the i-orresondence courses of twentv-four lessons in housekeep-ng housekeep-ng which the Kansas Agricultural college Ins arranged for use in club meetings this winter Massachusetts contains 16,000 union un-ion carpenters. Advices Indicate the certainty that the Mississippi statute limiting the davs ol labor in factories and Indus-I Indus-I trial plants to ten hours will go to the supreme court of the I'nited States for final construction. New- York's streets abound with poor ;in, sickly workers who cannot I work on account of their condition 'and who. many of them, have been discharged from the tuiblic- Institutions Institu-tions as "cured" or "convalescent." i Realizing this, a number of Socialists Social-ists are organizing a society which will have for its purpose the estab-lishment estab-lishment of a home to which such persons can apply for aid and a place to rest and thoroughly resuscitate I It Is to be called ihe 'International Labor Home." |