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Transfers at Emporia, Kan. have
formed a union.
Dye workers at Minneapolis, Mimi. ~
Gently organized.
Operative Plasterers' International
Union has joined the A. F. OF l..
Retail clerks at McAlester. Okla, havs
obtained a reduction in working hours.
Albany On. W labor union have erect
ed and opened a tuberculosis pavilion.
The various central bodies of Orange
county, New York. have Joined a county
labor union.
A reorganization OF the building trades
unions has been brought about In Buffalo,
n. T.. after many years Of warfare.
The labor unions of Sacramento. Cal.
are working energetieally for the erection
of a building trades temple in that city.
1t has been decided BY the leather work
ers to make a universal demand for the
eight-hour day within the next two years.
United Brewery workmen of America
have a cash surplus on hand Of Sy7 .622.4l
and an investment in municipal bonds Of
| 100000.
A new labor law passed by the State
of Oklahoma orders that all school books
issued 10 the children of that State must
bear the union label.
Additional death benefits of $3.50 for a
membership OF seven or more years and
$500 for one of ten or more years have
been established by the brotherhood oil
Painters, Decorators and P~aperhangers.
The Appellate division OF the New
York Supreme Court, second department,
has decided that a contract made by a
corporation with a labor union, whereby
only union men shall be employed should
be upheld as valid and binding.
Bakers and Confectioners' International
Union has adopted a plan to fully organ
ize all the large cities of the United
States, with the idea Of having a mem.
bership of 100000 within a stated time.
The present membership is 1859.
Paper mills. of which there are elgh,
in India, employ 400 persons, but this
is not at present a progressive industry
as European wood pulp paper II largely
imported. There is a prospect of the -
adjustment of wood pulp manufacture in
India.
The Women's Club Of Magnolia. Mass.
is said to be the only one of its kind in
existence. Ii has "a membership OF some
thing more than 800. all women employed
as workers in the hotels, boarding house,
and residences Of the summer population
Of that resort.
In Russia. where over fifty men arr
employed In one mine. ii is provided tina
every ~colliery must have a rescue corps
trained to work in irrespirabie gases"
chat "the number Of men In each corps
must be equivalent TO 4 per cent of those
engaged In the largest pit or shaft work.
and that the number of completely
equipped sets OF breathing apparatus al
each ~colliery must not be less than three
The Australian Parliament appropri
ated 100000 for the Increase Of thu
teachers salaries, and the men teacher
attempted to get the whole amount ap
piled to themselves. The members OF th,
Woman's Progressive Association, all o.
them voters, did not see the logic Of sucl
a division of the appropriation. and OBJ
jesed 10 il so strongly that the men wes,
forced to share the money with them.
There is a movement In the East OF
the part OF a number Of labor unions d
eliminate from their respective ~constitu
tons the clause which bars the discussion
Of politics at meetings of the organixa
tons. The leaders in this direction asser
hat they are moved TO this action BY III
changed conditions in the country, an,
demand that such a step must be take
for the better protection OF organized Ia
Dor.
The C~igarrnakers' International TnioI
OF America will not hold n convention
this year. An amendment to the consti
tuition designed TO make a convention pos
sible has been defeated in the refereu
dun by the narrow majority OF BOG.
The validity Of that section OF the labo
law providing that no workmcn upon pub
lie work shall be permitted or requires
to work more than eight hours in on
calendar day is upheld by the New Yorl
Court Of Appeals. The court in substanc
holds that a violation of this law il just
6cation for the Withholding Of payment
Tor such work from contractors