Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-28
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Pittsburg has a servant girls union.
The Detroit United Railway firemen
want an eight-hour day.
There are 7,13O members of organized
labor in New Haven, Conn.
Efforts are being made to organize the
patternmakers of Columbus, Ohio.
Iowa records show 720 local unions in
the State, with a membership OF $4,000.
City carriers at Toronto, Canada, will
demand a substantial advance in wages.
Brockton, Mass, electrical workers
have procured 20 per cent increase in
wages.
Shortsville, N. Y, drill makers have
received voluntary increases from 10 to
20 per cent.
Efforts are being made at Toledo,
Ohio, to form a union of the trunk and
travelling bag makers.
Eight hundred shipbuilders in the
Humber, England, district submitted to
a reduction in wages.
Fourteen hundred bakers will cult
work May unless their employers make
some agreement with them.
uc -NdEtOudl 1AdlAhdg 1ACthS Assn
citation, which was formed recently, has
already a membership of 1000.
Efforts are being made to settle by
arbitration the strike of the journeymen
horseshoers in New York City.
The girl ticket agents of the Brooklyn
I. road have been ordered to work twelve
hours day instead of ten and they have
organized to resist.
The Pittsburg policemen threaten to
90 on strike if the City Council refuses
to grant their demand for an increase of
20 per cent in wages.
In Winnipeg the street cars run only
six days of the week, and the local trades
unions are fighting an attempt to rCn
them on the seventh.
John Blue, of indianapolis, is organ
izing an international union of book
agents. Several cities have local unions
of the workmen in that line.
OF the $3.50 white children in the
cotton mill districts of South Carolina,
two-fifths never enter school, and only
one-fourth are in daily attendance.
Union carpenters at Kansas City.
Kan, will ask for 40 cents an hour after
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pay of a carpenter is 80 cents an hour.
One of the greatest victories for the
boot and shoe workers union is the re-
cent application for the union label of
some of the big Chicago manufacturers
The convention of the Amalgamat
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers in Columbus. commencing Tuesday,
April IA. will be a gathering of import
ance to working men.
| For amalgamation with the iron mold
ers was the result Of the referendum vote
| of the Coremakers' international Union.
In conformity a committee has been APP
pointed to arrange the merger.
The Osserve.ore Romano, ths official
organ of me Vatican at Rome. missed an
issue Id January for the first time in the
forty-two years of its existence. A strike
of fne printers employed on the paper
wSs the cause.
I Frank A. Jones, Of San Francisco. is
the new president of the National Asso-
citation Of Marine Engineers. succeeding
President George Uhler. who hash been
appointed supervising inspector general
of the United States steamboat inspec-
ton service
Milwaukee. Wis. Is the home of the
largest machin, shops. the largest iEdi-
v:dual tannery. 'he largest hreweries, the
largest tin and sheet metal goods fac
tories. the largest malleable iron works,
the second largest agricultural machin-
cry works and the second largest stove
works IN the United States.
Union stonecutters throughout the Uni
ted States and Canada. il is said. will
demand an eight-hous workday from
MAY /. There are about 10000 men en-
gagged in the industry in both countri=s
The general wage scale of the Inter
national Association of Marble Work
Eers has been signed By the National As
sociarion Of Marble Dealers. and work
ers' organization is recognized for the
first time il its history
The convention Of delegates Of all com
mercial telegraphers' unions, which have
been amalgamafed as the Commercial
lTelegraphers' Union Of America. viii be
held in New York July 19. the twentieth
anniversary Of the great strike OF 1SS2