Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-07
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Hartford carpenters want So day.
Toronto will have a labor temple.
Toronto cutters won their strike for
recognition.
san Francisco bricklayers won a Sc
day of eight hours after seven weeks
strike
Dry dock employees at Milwaukee have
organized and will make demand for
an eight-hour day.
The laws of Massachusetts provide
that no child under IA years shall be en-
ployed in factories.
In France there are seventy firms en-
ploying upward Of $4,000 workmen en-
gagged in building motor ears.
Organized labor at Nebraska City,
Neb., will make a general demand for
Increased wages by May l.
a demand for an eight-hour day win
be made by the $4,000 members of the
Blast Furnace Workers Association.
In Belgium the State has erected
dwellings for workingmen in certain To-
calities, and has arranged so that they
can buy them on easy terms.
Pittsburg street car men had the wage
rate fixed at 20, % and 24 cents an
hour according to length Of time employ
ed, and the union has been recognized.
Honolulu, Hawaii, Federation of
Trades has passed resolution against
the proposal to permit Asiatic labor to
enter Hawaii to engage in agricultural
pursuits only.
The Amalgamated Painter is the title
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the National Association of Amalgamat-
ed Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers of America
The International brotherhood of Pa
permakers is making efforts to influence
union-made paper, and asks all laborins
men to patronize stores which wrap their
goods in paper bearing the union label.
The scarcity of British seamen is at
tributed to the fact that whereas Ger
many makes a demand upon a popula-
ton of 46,000.000, Great Britain has
only 100000 from which to draw sea
men.
ST. Louis, No, union carpenters have
| demanded an increase of so cents a
day, and if the demand is not conceded
by April /, they will quit work. The
scale at present is 40 cents an hour for
the eight-hour day.
There are three national organizations
Of painters, decorators and paperhangers
| In the United States. Two of them-the
Amalgamated Society and the Journey
men Painters, Paperhangers and Deco
rators of the United States-have been
organized recently. The first body, whose
Headquarters are in Manhattan, held its
| first annual convention in New York City
last January; the second has its head
quarters in Muncie, Ind, and was organ
| lied under the State laws of Indiana, on
| Nov 6, 1902 Both associations have al
ready an exceedingly large membership.
| The first limits its operations to the East
ern, Northern and Southern States, and
| the other to the Western States. The
third body is the Brotherhood of Paint
ers and Decorators and JPaperhangers of
America. 1t is the oldest body, and is
in active antagonism to the other two
bodies.
Columbus brewers in their proposition
| to their employees insist on the right of
hiring and discharging men within the
limits of the union, but without arbitrd-
| ton. To these conditions, it is under
stood. the unon objects, and strike may
result.
The United AIineworkers of Illinois
have adopted an amendment TO the con-
stitution which prohibits locals from be-
Ing composed exclusively of men of one
nationality. Another amendment pro-
yides that any member accepting a per-
manent position as a saioonkeepeT shall
forfeit his card.
| Numbers of unemployed British work
| Ingmen have appeared in the streets of
suburban London, playing on Ole hcrdy-
gurdies and hand organs. They are gem
uine Iaborers. wear their working clothes
and ornament their organs with picks
and shoyels.
| The first annual convention of the
National Association of Tube Workers
win be held in Pittsburg ON May 4. The
new organization has about 10000 mem
| bers and Is growing rapidly. A national
wage scale viii be arranged at the CON-
| ing convention. The officers If the assoc
citation are Charles Sable Of Washington.
Pa. president, and John b. McDonOugh
of Reading. secretary
The railroad employees Of Holland have
decided 10 cease work. with the object Of
preventing the adoption OF the proposed
| law prohibiting railroad strikes. A meat
| ing of the leaders of w0rkmen's unions,
having a Premiership Of 10000, has re
solved to support the railroad men
Chicago Typographical Union pays
pension benefits. The union sets
/ aside $50 a month. from which pensions
of 81 a week are paid TO printers who
have been continuously contri buting
members to Chicago Union for twenty
years. and who are physically fncapaci-
| fated for earning living. The surplus
accruing in the fun3 ID invested IN inter
] est-bsering s0ns-