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puTluY May -ISt elHpiOyeS were
in Canadian industrial accidents.
Austria has 2,4O4 local unions, with .
total membership of 323,099.
The forteth annual British Trades
Congress will assemble at Bath, England,
Sept. =.
Oklahoma City 60. T.) -four mill EN-
ployes have organized and applied to the
international union for charter.
The strike of railway employees at
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, has ended. Dis
puted questions will be arbitrated.
The iron molders at Winnipeg, Canada,
will go on strike for better wages unless
q suitable agreement is reached.
Chief Statistician Pidgin of Massachu-
setts says that the increase of cost of
living for 1906 exceeded the average wage
increase.
The British Postmen's Federation held
its sixteenth annual conference recently
in Leeds. The membership was stated to
be 15,3SS, an in ease of 446 in the year.
The school janitors Of Minneapolis
have taken steps to form a union, and
as soon as the organization Is completed
they will apply to the American Fedora
tion of Labor for charter.
The Scottish miners have decided to
renew their demand for 121a per cent al
vance 70 wages to the conciliation board.
The mems representatives declare that
the demand must be enforced.
| The Broommakers' Union, at San
Francisco is making fight against con-
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labor not to purchase any broom that
does not bear the union stamp.
! At recent meeting of the Manchester
(England) Trade Union Golfers resolu-
tions were passed in favor Of urging upon
their representatives in Parliament the
necessity for supporting the miners eight
hour bill.
The metal trades division Of the Trades
Council of Cleveland Is considering the
ndvisability of establishing and maintain
ing a legal department that shall take
charge of all the legal business Of the
unions and members In that city.
From the American viewpoint the
wages paid both skilled and common Ia
borers in France are very low, while the
cost of living is relatively higher in
France than in the United States, with
the exception of house rent and servants
wages.
The factory inspectors of the Grand
Duchy of Baden have published COM
prehensive report on the home industries
of their country, which has attracted
much attention because of the picture it
paints of the misery and destitution in
which large portion of the population
lives.
The central committee of German
trades unions has published a statistical
table showing the wages earned in each
of the siXty-six organized trades Of the
empire. The most remarkable thing
about the table is the evidence it brings
that in twenty-seven of these trades the
average daily wage is less than IS cents
The Central Labor Union Of Detroit
has added to the Labor day celebration
feature that will give much added interest
to labors national holiday. The new fea-
ture is the election by popular vote of
Queen of Labor Day." The crownng Of
the queen" will be one of the attrac-
tions of the day.
Encouraged by the success of the OPP
erations of the loan fund plan which was
established six months ago, the Mime
apolis Cigarmakers' Union has decided to
60 a step further in the way OF looking
after it's membership in a pecuniary way.
plan is to be considered to establish
banking system on a small scale, to be-
operated under the direction of the union.
Recently about 1900 laborers at Sal
ford docks, England, ceased work, owing
to refusal on the part of officials to
accede to an informal request for an
increase in their wages. The men engag-
ed in unloading timber began the trouble,
by making a verbal demand for payment
1t the rate of Sd an hour, or 6s day, in
stead of I'd an hour, the present rate OF
| pay.