Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-05-05
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Chicago carpenters get 30 cents an
hour
Cleveland plumbers won the eight-hour
day. with S4 pay.
In Indiana the average work day is
a little over nine hours.
The labor unions at Niagara Falls are
planning to erect labor temple.
London (Ont) iremen are asking for
10 per cent increase in their salaries.
Montreal bookbinders struck for an
So to $12 week scale and fifty-four hours
work.
San Francisco tanners strike has been
settled The men gained the half time
demanded.
There are nearly 125.000 miners in
Belgium, not 10 per cent of whom make
a dollar a day.
The standard rate of wages for brick
layers and plasterers' lahorers in Eng
land is 81 week.
Union printers at Waco, Texas, have
presented a new wage scale calling for a
substantial increase.
Steamftters at New Haven, Conn.
will demand $3.50 a day, an increase of
80 cents, after May /.
In Austria no trade union, as such. can
engage in a strike. Strikes must be con-
Quoted ey secret organizations.
The international Brotherhood Of Pa
perhangers has adopted a general plan
for raising a 100000 defense fund.
In less than three weeks the Boot aI,l
Shoe Workers stamp has been granted
E.. T., t. IL, ,lot iue,
10000 hands.
Jougneymen butchers of Pasadena,
Cal, have organized, and will demand
shorter work day. They now average
sixteen hours a da,.
The National Trades Congress of Can.
ada has issued an appeal 70 organized
labor to join with it in advancing the in
terests of Canadian labor.
Miners at Nanaimo, =. c., have afil-
lated with the Western Federation of
Miners, in direct antagonism TO their old
leader, Ralph Smith, NJ. 7.
Montreal, Canada, journeymen bakers
have decided to make apprentices serve
three years at the trade. ard that they
shall be controlled by the union.
BY referendum vote it hes been de-
cided that the 1905 convention Of the
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers shall
be held in Salt Lake City. Sept. IA.
1t is asserted that the recent parades
of the London, England, unemployed that
have drawn so much money from the
pockets of the charitable onlookers have
been largely composed of newly arrived
alien pauners instead Of unfortunate
British workingmen.
Recent developments Indicate that
many thousand skilled window glass
workers will be displaced by the intro
duction Of machines. There has been a
great deal of uncertainty al = the sue
cess Of the invention, bit al do.,bt has
at last been removed oy the action just
taken by the A.aerican Wintsaw Glass
Company. which owns the exclusive right
to the blowing machine A charter was
applied for in New Jeraey BY the Alneri-
can Window Glass Machile Company,
with capital stock of 0,O00 900. This
concern will manufacture qhe machines
for the American company, and the work
OF installing them viii be conducted as
rapidly as possible Giass-blowng ma
chimes are being successfully operated at
the plants Of Alexandria and Gas City.
Ind. and according 20 estimates. eight
machines are required for a nfty-fOur
blowt. tank. The capacity Of the Ameri-
can Company at present is nearly LOO
pots. but less than 1000 have been III
operation, owing to scarcity Of skilled
blowers. In order to get full production
:sve company will install ST an early
date from $50 to 300 machines. When
ali are running satisfactorily the COM
pany will be able not only to supply the
entire demand Of the country, but also
to export window glass The skilled Ia
Dor that will be principally affected By
the Introduction Of the machines vii
be the blowers and gatherers. and snap
perx also viii suffer. 1t il now believed
that employment will be found for ali IL,
cutters and f1atteners, bat il ID dOuBtfu
If the high rate Of wages for these elasses
Of workmen now prevailing will eon-inua
A franchise was recently granted to
a street railway company at GAINESVILLE.
Ohio. providing for a two and one-half
cent fare for working merl at certain
hours
Bakers and Confectionery lrtefuation-
al Union convention at Buffalo Is consid-
ering issuing an ultimatHnl to the crack
ers trust TO unionize all its plants OF
face a strike. The factory 10 Chicago is
now a union one.
The brewery workers Of Columbus.
Ohio. have refused 10 accept the A. r. Of
L. decision that brewery engineers and
frenen belong to their respective craft
unions instead Of the brewei-T workers.
union. ard they lave stxlGA-