Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
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Germany has over 4OO trusts.
Shoe factory employees are organizing
at Milwaukee.
Toronto, Canada, concrete PAYERS are
organizing a union.
Retail clerks of Chippewa Falls, Wis,
have organized.
Indianapolis clerks won their s O'Clock
closing demand.
San Francisco's united railroads have
recognized the union.
Retail clerks have formed an organ
ization at Aberdeen, S. d.
Ice wagon drivers at Kansas City,
Mo, have formed union.
Rope factories in Cuba pay from $685.
600 to 100000 a year in wages
a. union of stationary fremen has been
organized at Albany, n. Y.
Chicago plumbers demand $3.50 for an
eight-hour day, beginning May /.
Union carpenters on strike At Wor-
cester, Mass, have returned to WORK.
An effort to organize the furniture fin
ishers of Cleveland. Ohio Is being made
In the ranks of labor there are 1853
women employed as "boatmen" and sail
ors
Reports from Tacoma, Wash, indicate
an unusually large number Of unem-
ployed.
At Portland, Ore, the strike Of ma
rine engineers on river boats is practi-
cally at an end.
There will be no more Sunday work In
the shops Of the Southern Railway at
Sheffield, Ala.
Union machinists at San Francisco,
Cal, are agtating a movement for
nine-hour day.
At Topeka. Kan, all the painters of
the Santa Fe have been granted al in
crease in wages.
British pottery works employ 10000
work people, of whom about $4,000 are
women and children.
The Kingston and Pembroke Canada
railway trainmen have been refused an
increase in wages.
Glasgow, Scotland, carpenters and
joiners have decided not to handle any
American building material that does not
bear a union label.
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question being submitted to them by
Postmaster McMichael. voted to have
only union labeled uniforms.
The Official report Of the labor bureau
Of New York says that the trade unions
Of the State increased 20 per cent in
membership the last six months Of 1902
Pittsburg has about 10000 skilled
workmen in the building trades. snd adj
vances will only be asked on May / In
cases where just rate was NOT con
ceded last year.
The unions Of bartenders, waters.
cooks and hotel employees Ct Illin9is are
10 form a State union similar 70 and
based on the agreement Of the New Eng
land alliance Of those crafts.
At the fifth annual convention Of the
Illinois State Bottlers Protective Asso-
citation and the Interstate Brewers and
Bottlers' Association. at Chicago, State
associations were formed for al Of the
Central Western States.
Representatives Of the street railway
mems unions Of Br0ckton, Taunton. Fall
River and other points on the Ola Colony
street system conferred in Boston re
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scented to the management.
The present year viii mark an epoea
in history Of organized labor if the plans
Of the various labor bodies over the en-
tire country materialize. Ia neatly ev-
cry principal city IN the land maaT labor
organizations have modified the employers
that an Increase in pay viii be looked for
during the coming spring Washington
Is no exception. many local employers Of
union labor having been requested to con
slider such a proposition