Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-15
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1871 ;

The Holyoke papermakers lost their
strike.
There are 12S cigar factories in the
Cuban capital
Planers in Holland are paid at the
rate of cents an hour.
The price of labor in Alaska is $3.50
to $3.50 a day, with board.
Carpenters at Hoquiam, Wash, have
demanded an eight-hour day.
Cab drivers in Paris, France, threat
en- to strike for increased pay.
French Canadian carpenters at Provi-
dence, r. l., have formed a union.
Union BARRIERS at San Francisco have
received reduction of one hour day.
In Saxony, Germany, there is an In
dustrial school for every 1851 inhabit-
ants.
In honor of Peter Henlein, the in
ventor of the watch, a monument is to
be erected at Nuremberg.
The strike of building laborers at Min
neapohs, Mimi, is causing a departure of
many bricklayers to other fields.
A legal bureau has been established
by the Chicago Federation of Labor to
fight injunction and other court proceed
ings.
The Retail Clerks International Union
now numbers 10000, and has recently
been increasing at the rate of 1000 a
month.
Silver workers at Toronto, Canada, are
out to form a union of their calling. They
~, bn foJ Al,
workers.
In the Austrian textile industry the
working hours are ten to eleven a day.
Mems weekly wages average $780, WON
ems $3.50.
Tailors and cutters at Indianapolis,
Ind, will demand a uniform system of
work, a minimum wage scale and uni
form hours.
The General Federation Of Trades
Unions of Great Britain suggests the
formation of national Cancellation
board to adjust labor disputes.
Toledo, Ohio, viii probably be chosen
as the national headquarters of the Flint
Glass Workers, one of the strongest
unions financially in the country.
Ohio labor leaders and other persons
working for the welfare of children in
that State are preparing amendments to
be csFered at the coming session of the
general assembly. which viii increase the
safeguards for the youth of the State.
The American Window Glass Com
pany has announced that the wage scale
for the coming year in all Of its pot
pla2ts has been signed. The new scale
is an advance of 10 per cent above last
year, md is the highest ever paid IN the
glass trade.
The number of workmen novF employ
ed III all the automobile factogies Of Po-
tezux, France, is calculated at about 90,
COO. According to the latest statistics
on the matter, the automobile industry
has exported from france during the
past year automobiles 30 the value of
&C, 600 900 francs. With the best of good
will the French manufacturers are IN
able to fiu all the orders they get prompt
", and many of them have orders for
four years TO cone.
The Brewery Workers Association
has a membership OF 80 900 members.
St. Louis has the largest number and
New York and Milwaukee are about
equal as claimants for second place.
San Francisco (Cal) Street Car Mems
Union has determined 70 take care Of its
own sick and injured members A fund
has been established and $1,000 per
month viii be added through a 50-cent
monthly assessment
In February, 1887. the State Of Ore
gon passed q law Iegalizing Labor Day,
making it the first State in the Union TO
legalize the first Monday In September
as a holiday. In every State except
seven Labor Day Is holidax-