Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-03-11
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A San Francisco theatcr labels union
acts.
Chicago carpenters want so cents an
hour.
Providence labor upions are projecting
a new labor temple.
Sacramento waiter unions are battling
against Chinese cooks.
Chicago now pays her superintendent
of schools $4,000 a year.
Goubet, the inventor of submarine tor
pedo boats, has become insane
Street car conductors in Switzerland
are paid so cents n day for twelve hours.
Manufacturers of garments which bear
union labels have formed a national or
ganization.
Trade unions in New York increased
20 per cent in membership during the
last six months.
Telephone girls at Butte, Mont, have
secured an increase of $50 a month after
a short strike.
Clothing cutters at Baltimore, Nd,
will receive an increase of % cents day
beginning April /.
shipbuilders' union has grown from $50
to $4,000 members.
Building trades at Birmingham. Ala,
will form an alliance and act as one body
for mutual protection.
Providence II. l., labo~ unions are pro-
jecting d new labor temple to be erected
and owned by union men.
The clerks of the soda water fountains
In Chicago have formed a union, and
asked for increased wages
International stonemakers' union has
decided to affiliate with the National
Building Trades Council of America.
In Belfast, ireland. district no fewer
than 10000 people are employed in con-
nection with the linen manufacture.
Chicago, I;k, electrical workers will
demand an increaFe of 81 a day, begin
ming April /. Their scale is now S4.
Glove makers. at San Francisco, Cal,
viii present a new wage schedule to their
employees to go into effect March /.
The Senate of the State Of Arkansas
passed bill designating the first Mon
day in September in every year as La
Dor Day.
Wages of members Of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners in Manhattan
are $3.50 a day, and $500 o day in
Brooklyn.
Increase in wages has been gained
throughout Greater New York by nearly
5000 members of the United Brotherhood
of Cloakmahers.
The pay Of all freight handlers employ
ed by the Erie Railroad at the Jersey
City terminal was increased from II to
1871 cents ar hour.
A new scale of wages TO be presented
by the hosting and pile-driving engineers
Of Omaha, Neb., has been approved by
the Central Labor Union.
The Illinois State Free Employment
Bureaue obtained situations last year for
$4,000 men and 10, 1874 women.
Virginia House Of Delegates has pass
ed an act prohibiting factory labor for
children under y and regulating the
work Of those between II and IA
Toronto, Canada. union painters have
decided to demand IS cents an hour le-
ginning April 10 Heretofore wages
have been 30 cents an hour for an eight
hour day.
New York State Federation will adyo-
cate twenty measures before the State
Assembly this year. One is a bill to pre-
vent the issuance Of injunctions Ia cases
Of strikes and lockouts.
Committees Of telegraph operators rep
resenting the various railways centcriug
at st. Paul, MINI, have submitted
sew schedule for an increase Of wages
and a new book Of rules.
The American Federation Of Labor ex-
ecutive council has Endorsed the more
ment TO send a special commissioner 10
investigate labor conditions In Hawaii.
TIE Philippines, China and Japan.
Dissatisfaction is reported to exist
among the motormen. hremen, guards
and clippers employed on the Manhat-
tan Elevated Railroad Cd account Of
wages and hours Of work.
Union Pacific strikers have unanimous
ly voted not only not 10 accept piece
work, but voted that the subject would
not again be considered in conference
as basis for q strike settlement.