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Show Mnlea. The United Hitters of America havt appointed a committee having for Its purpose the unionising of all non unl on hat factories In thlt country The Hoot and Rhoa Oneratlvea' union of flreat Ilrltaln haa forfeited II 500, because a branch ttruck Work contrary to the terms of tht arbitrator t award One half of the world a production of petroleum It credited to tho United fltatet and the Standard Oil company controls a pretty good share of both the home and foreign yield Mr T II Ynung the livery man ot flyrncuse N Y who precipitated the trouble that ended In the dlsrupllnn of the Hark and Cab Drivers union, or that city, a few weeks ago, haa been told nut by tha sheriff The federal Industrial commission at a body haa adjourned for tha summer sum-mer vacation, although three or four sub committers will remain at wnrk during the two months when tha com plete body will not be In session 1'acklng house employes to the number of about COO held a meeting In tht tlnckyards district of Chicago and formed tha Tacking House Km plo)cs' union, the purpose ot which Is to take Into one organisation nil the I empl tt's In the yards other that-those that-those which ara organised at the prrt ent time I'actory Impectort In tht district In and around 1'lltsburg have started a crutado against violators of tha state factory lat Proceedings aro being Instituted against laundry rompanles and owners ot Isrge establishments here women girls and minora are employed more than tlxly houra per week Tht tettlement nf the street railway atrlke at Cleveland la a victory for the atrlkert The) went out becauia the company refuted lo recognise their labor la-bor union and tn deal with the employee em-ployee at an organised body, and they come back with the union "recognised "recog-nised ' and under an agreement that (0 per cent ot tha old employes be taken back and the rrtt within a very thort time Tht Journal of the Knlghta of Labor aays 'One of the leading questions which must be decided next year Is whether the now albponerful trusts shall ba permitted lo exist and flourish flour-ish regulate tht supply and fix tho price of nearly every commodity which the people require, despotically rule leglslaturra), congresses, the natlunal administration and the courta tn abort, whether the trusts or the people that! hereafter control the American ltepubllc N Dlicuiilng the outlook for the machinery ma-chinery trade, tht Iron Age aays that additions to the Iron and steel producing pro-ducing capacity of the country will not be made so rapidly aa many people hope llrlck and stone can be had In unlimited quantities but projectors of new works find trouble In securing CMlpment Ilullders of engines confirming con-firming to modern requirements are crowded with work, and It Is doubtful If contracts could be placed for the delivery de-livery of blowing engines or hsavy rolling ml'l englnea much under a year and a half A large steel company com-pany recently arranged for engine, for a projected plate mill, and the beat delivery that they could get waa fifteen months |