Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-31
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Pittsburg painters may strike for $500
day.
Milwaukee's girl messenger service is
success.
Indianapolis may have new carpen-
ters local.
Steam6tters at Duluth, Mimi, have
formed a union.
Toronto's clothing trade workers are
on strike for higher wages.
The standard rate of wages for hand
compositors in England is $9.4S a week.
Miners in the Russian iron mines work
ten hours day. Night work is unusual.
Des Moines, Iowa, horseshoers have
made a successful demand for nine
hour day.
The normal Swiss working day is
eleven hours, and Sages range from 30
cents upward.
Anderson, Ind, non-unionists building
trade workers are organizing in opposi-
ton to the union.
A bill is before the Utah Legislature
limiting the hours of labor of conductors
and motormen to nine hours a day.
Journeymen plumbers at st. Louis,
Mo, have been granted their demand of
So a day, an increase of 81 over the cid
scale.
Michigan labor unions are protesting
against prison-made cigars in that State,
claiming that they enter into competition
with union labor.
Chelsea. Mass, Aldermen have unani-
mously voted to give organized labor the
preference in all matters of construction
Of public works.
Wages of the 300 employees of the Os-
wego, y. Y, starch factory have been
voluntarily increased, the increase aver
aging 81 a week per man.
Cheyenne. Wye, local Carpenters I'm
ion has gone into the building business
and employed all of tb striking carpen-
tiers at the union scale.
OF 224 trade unions reporting to the
labor department of the London Board Of
Trade 26. 454 men, or As per cent, v ere
unemployed last month.
The executive board of the InternS-
tional Brotherhood of Papermakers has
decided TO hold the next international
convection at Erie, Pa, on May II. A
general plan for raising a $10O.IJO de-
Tense fund was adopted.
Circulars have been sent TO every
union of painters in the country announc-
ing the formation of a new painters or
gailization in New York. one without IS
! sas.ments. dues or salaries 10 natloaal
officers The move is a preparatory one
to the action to be taken by the craft
next spring, when strike for better con-
ditions xiii be inaugurated.
The National Association Of Blast
Furnace Workers purposes TO take a ref
erendum vote on the question Of a gen
eral strike for an eight-hour work day.
The child labor bill now before the
California Legislature is meeting with
considerable opposition from the fruit
growers, as well as the manufacturers.
The Kings County q. " district Of
the Brotherhood Of Carpenters and join
ers appointed a committee of four to
notify the boss carpenters OF Kings
County that the local unioEs had decided
that from May / a union wage seale for
the craft Of 80 cents an hour would Se
demanded. The present wage scale is
40 cents an hour.
The question cf wages OF the South
! Yorkshire lEnglandl coal miners i stiil
I under consideration. with the prospect Of
q slight advance for the men.
Nine hours instead Of ten hereafter win
be considered a working day II all Of
the ircu works Of Portland. Ore, with
cut any reduction Of pay
Chicago brickmakers hare voted in IA
/, vor Of "a increase in wages averaging
about 21a cents an hour. The wages AZ
present ran from 81 a day TO $40. No
laborel around a brick yard in Cook
County receives less than 81 day, while
some Of the pieceuorkers make AZ high
as S. for eight hours. There y net .
non union brickmaker In Cook County.