Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-06
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China coppersnllths earn 81 DAY.
England has nearly 1000 female butch
ers.
Columbus, Ohio, freight handlers will
organize.
Longshoremen at Providence, r. L.
will organize.
A law legalizing strikes is in prepare
ton at st. Petersburg. Russia.
Los Angeles plasterers won 81 in
crease They now get Sc day.
The demand for skilled white labor
Is steadily increasing in South Africa.
New Orleans, La, has nineteen negro
labor unions, numbering l1,0O men.
In the German Parliament there are
over eighty representatives of working
men.
Seamen on native river craft get SO
month in China; on seagoing Chinese yes
sells, So.
Mine owners of Sonora are arranging
to employ Chinese laborers in place OF
Mexicans.
A union of paper box makers in Chi
cago ILL.,, composed exclusively Of wom-
en- numbers 5000.
Scotch shae miners have agreed to
ask for an advance of Is. day or I'D.
ton on their wages.
International Typographical Union will
make a determined effort for a general
eight-hour day, commencing Jan. l, 1908.
Painters at Chattanooga, Tenn, after
being out three weeks, won their strike
for an eight-hour day and 3i1A cents On
hour
Napaimo, B. c., miners are strongly
considering the question of severing con
nection with the Western Federation OF
Miners.
New Orleans, La, horseshoers have
! presented demands calling for recognition
| of the union and a new scale of wages
and hours.
The headquarters of the Amalgamated
Leather Workers International Union
has been removed from Olean, \. T., TO
Philadelphia.
A colored man was elected as inter
national vice-president at the convention
Of tho longshoremen held at Bay City,
Mich, recently.
Losses incurred by the strike Of the
workers ut the naphtha wells, Baku,
Russia, amount to no less than ! 10000
/ pounds to the owners alone.
A cooperative grocery, the company
4 for which was incorporated May -, has
been launched at Elkhart, Ind, the Lake
Shore shopmen being the prime movers.
The marble workers union threatens a
I general strike throughout the United
! States, in order 10 force the Employers
4 Association to sign a scale for the en-
suing year.
Boston. Mass. union bricklayers, after
being on drike since July ], have re-
turned 10 work, securing rate Of 50
cants an hour. and full recognition Of
the union.
The popularity Of Germany's railway
minister Herr Buddel is illustrated By
the fact that nearly 10000 laboriDg men
bought his latest portrait-a autograph
costing - cents.
plan has been suggested in England
for the erection Of sanitarium for the
reception Of tuberculosis patients on
terms that would be within the means
Of the working classes.
The estate Of the late P. NJ. Arthur
Is probably worth from 100000 10 $780,
I 600. Mr.. Arthur's wealth was In Cleve-
land real estate and a limited amount
I Of gilt-edged securities.
Il has been voted to remove the ma
tional headquarters Of the international
/ Brotherhood Of Stationary Engineers
from New York City to Omaha to faciii-
I tate crusade to organize the hremen Of
the West.
Master plumbers Of Holyoke have re-
ceiyed copies of a new agreement that
the journeymen plumbers desire them 70
sign, calling for an increase in wages
from S2621a to SO a day.
i The organization Of women wage WORK
ers throughout the country has become
popular, and Is increasing rapidly. In
Chicago there are twenty cra1s
organized, with 81 900 members.
The strike Of the boilermakers on ne
Omaha system at St Paul. MINI, has
been settled, the men accepting the oner
Of $500 a day for ten hours work n
the st. Paul and Sioux City Shops, and
| s3.45 a day IL che roand-b0use, where
the boiler repairing IS done.