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Teamster at Emporia, Kan, have
formed a union.
Dye workers at Minneapolis, Mimi, re-
Gently organized.
Operative Plasterers' international
Union has joined the A. f. of l..
Retail clerks at McAlestcr, Okla, have
obtained a reduction in working hours.
Albany On. " labor unions 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. Y, after many years Of warfare.
The labor unions of Sacramento, Cal,
are working enorgetically fer the erection
of a building trades temple in that city.
1t has been decided by the leather work
ers to make q universal demand for the
eight hour day within the newt two years.
United Brewery Workmen of America
have a cash surplus on hand of $01 ,622.41
and an investment in municipal bonds Of
100000.
A neW labor law passed by the State
of Oklahoma orders that all school books
issued to 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 OF
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers.
The Appellate division Of the New
York Supreme Court, second department.,
has decided that a contract made by q
corporation with a laso 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 14,oS2.
Paper mills. of which there are eight
in India, employ 4,7Oo persons, but this
is not at present Il progressive industry,
as European wood pulp paper Is largely
imported. There is a prospect of the eS-
Establishment 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. 1t has "a membership of some
thing more than 300, all women employed
as workers in the hotels, boarding houses
and residences of the summer population
of that resort.
In Russia, where over fifty men arc
employed in one mine, It is provided that
"every colliery must have a rescue corps
trained to work in irrespirable gases:
that 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 at
each colliery must not be less than three"
The Australian Parliament appropri-
ated 100000 for the increase of the
tea chers' salaries, and the men teachers
attempted to get the whole amount ap-
piled to themselves. The member of the
Woman's Progressive Association, oil of
them voters, did not see the logic Of such
a division of the appropriation, and OBJ
jected to it so strongly that the men were
forced to share the money with them.
There is a movement in the East on
the part of a number OF labor unions to
eliminate from their respective conStitu-
tons the clause which bars the discussion
of politics ut meetings Of the o%rganiza-
tons. The leaders in this direction assert
that they are moved to this action by the
changed conditions in the country, and
demand that such a step mast BE- taken
for the better protection of organized la
Dor.
The Cigarmakers' International Union
of America will not hold a coaventa6a
this year. An amendneat to the ooaati-
tuition designed to make a convention pos
sible has been defeated in the r~eferen-
dunn by the narrow majority Of BOG.
The validity of that section Of the labor
law providing that ne work men upon pub
lie work shall be permitted or required
to work more than eight hours in one
calendar day is upheld by the New York
Court OF Appeals. The court in substance
holds that a violation Of this law is justi-
fcation for the Withholding of payments
for such work from contractors.
A school for wives is the latest under
taking of Chicago club women. Courses
will be given in the making of clothes,
cooking. household economies and general
housekeeping. The idea is to make good
housewives and to make them through
organized and unified effort.
What promises to be the largest and in
many respects the most important annual
convention of the American Federation Of
Labor is scheduled to open in Denver On
Monday, Nov. 8. 4 novel feature Of thu
program will be IN 0eDrsion to Colorado
Springs, embracing a visit to the Union
Printers Home as th guests of the In
ternational Typographical Union.