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Show fi LABOR NEWS OF ALL COUNTRIES In Calgary, Canada, every man who In joins the Carpenters' union Is subject fc to a strict examination by a special fa committee of first class mechanic:, a appointed by the local union There are 100.000 union machinists .:- in this country To prevent a slum district a Los If Angeles society will build cheap houses for workmen When the Australian Workers' un ' Ion got together at its annual inter state conference it carried a motion M "That this conference opposes assist ed Immigration as at present carried out by the state government To counteract the loss of income jt through illness of its employes the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system 1b to ' establish a bureau of medical Inspection Inspec-tion for the benefit of Its conductors, guards and trainman Henceforth absence ab-sence from duty because of illness will be permitted only on the certifl cate of the eompany'6 physician Prices on farm products have fallen J in Little Rock, Ark., due to the ad i jt, vent of the Farmers' union into the local grocer tra.de The Little Rock store was a success from the day It k'4 started, and it is probable that the j f Farmers' union will open others in the cities of Arkansas. Forty-eight national and interna tlonal unions report the follow in -benefits of organization for the year Total increase In wages, $30,188,08.8. 68,; total reduction in hours of labor, la-bor, 21.113,093, wages represented by reduction In hours of labor. $6,270, 980 72 U3ing the initiative and referendum I for the first time, hundreds of Tole do, O. union labor men hae signed I petitions, addressed to the legislature, demanding enactment of a law to pay to wives, children and other depend ,entB the earnings of criminals con fined iu state penal institutions. The minimum wage measure draft I .ed by the Consumers' league of Ore Igon has beeu indorsed by practically every organization within the bound arles of the state Children of school age and children l who are hardly more than babies arc' , iworklng under terrible conditions f ifrom forty to eighty hours a week in Boston's sweatshops Another movement has been start j ed in St Paul. Minn., for the purpose of building a labor temple This time 1he Building Trades' council has tatt-jjs tatt-jjs en hold of the proposition and there B is every indication that It will bell be-ll brought to a successful conclusion K After a struggle of many years' e duration the local of the United 1 IB Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- I C ore of America of Wheeling. . a 0, has succeeded in bringing within Che union fold every contracting carpen-ft carpen-ft ter in that city . ,0 Under the leadership of the Federated Feder-ated Trades council of Fargo. N. D., the unions of North Dakota are mak- J ing preparations for a legislative cam- H paign to secure the enactment 1 |