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Show LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES Nearly three -fourths of 'he. members mem-bers of the trades r-nions of the United Kingdom belong to the build ing mining, quarrying, metal, engi aeering, motal. engineering, shipbuilding ship-building or textile trades. New Orlean ha a system of pen sIouh for teachers, but It Is created b deductions from salaries 1 per ceni for those who bave taught ten years. 2 per cent, after twenty years One or ibe most gratify lug results of the work of the California state I tabor b ireau during the past year has , ,, ,,. practical elimination of 1 chdd labor in that state and the lay - !iiiK of a firm foundation tor the en Iforcemem of the chtld-labor laws with to prrvpntinn forever this V j froni obtaining a foothold in Califor-i Califor-i nla. A system of pensions for infirm and superannuated cmp'tues 01 the bureau of Insul.ir affairs is recommended recom-mended by Brlndler General Frank! I Mclntyre in hlu annual report of the sork Of the bureau He also vigorously vigorous-ly recommends an increase In ih-salaries ih-salaries of emriloycn. At the preaenl time -n Bnajlanl theru are L38 profit-sharing schemes in private firms and companies in , operation These schemes involve .J 106,000 workpeople, and the general Ui Opinion u4.emiiloyers is that they N produce excolli'iit results in the dl- it rectlon both of developing a higher A I degree of efficiency on the purt of 1 employes and of hrlqginj; pbpili more II hrmenjpus relations between em- plovers and mploy.J In .about mm three-fifths of the schemes a bonus I Is paid in easb, in others it Is put Into Hi n provldeai Und, or party paid in M cash and partl put to the f ind. Un; 311 a morv rommpn plan is ro retain ail Bjl or p ;t ior investment in the capl- nil lal of thl III m |