Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-16
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Grain handlers and elevator men in
| Cincinnati, Ohio, are forming a union.
| The blast furnace workers of the c0un-
try receive an advance in wages ranging
from 10 to 1919 per cent May l.
An effort is being made to form an
Actors Union in England. Every actor
and actress in the country is being asked
to join.
Canadian Nor&ingmen's Educational
Association has passed resolutions de-
manding of the government free and COM
pulsory education.
The National Association of Steam
and Hot Water Filters and Helpers has
again been refused a charter from the
American Federation of Labor
All the contracts Of the different labor
unions have been agreed to by the Lake
Carriers Association and the labor board
has been all cleaned for the 1905 season.
An effort will be made at the meeting
Of the Montreal Canada City Council
to reach a proposed bylaw which asks
that a approximation fund be started
for civic employees.
The referendum vote of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners on the
amalgamation of the AmaIlamated So
ciety of Carpenters and Joiners was
against the plan.
A new division Of the Order of Rail
way Conductors of America was organ
lied at ST. Mary's Pa, recently, among
employees exclusively on the Pittsburg,
Shawmut and Northern railroad
Carpenters Union at San Francisco,
Cal, has unanimously passed resolutions
calling for enlarging and extending the
scope Of the Chinese exclusion act so as
to include japanese and Koreans.
Dues paid by each member of the
United Society of Brushmakers of the
United Kingdom are 43 cents a week, or
S1T3 a month, while the average pay in
the trade does not exceed IS a week.
United Metal Workers International
Union has voted to withdraw from the
A. f. Of L. The organization. which is
not a very large one, was dissatisfied
with several decisions made against it
in jurisdiction matters.
J. c. Butler, Jr., chairman Of the Bes-
semer Pig Iron Association, says that out
Of the 1913 furnaces using Lake Superior
ore. on April /, 173 were in blast. being
% per cent Of the total capacity in blast,
an increase Of , per cent during the
month.
The Amalgamated Association Of Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers is waging the
battle Of its existence in the Calumet
region. The association had complete
control Of all the steel mills in that dis
trfct. as well as those in Joliet and Mil
waukee. before the great strike In 1902.
At that time local lodges Of that section
refused to participate, and as a conse-
ouence lost their charters. Only one
lodge remains in the territory included
by East Chicago. Hammond and Indiana
Harbor and that one is threatened with
extinction.
Michael D0nnelly. president Of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen. has returned from an organ
ization trip through the packing centers.
and be says that matters look more hope
ful for the butchers than they have since
the strike Of last year. In East ST.
Louis the butcher workmeu have got
fair organization again. and AZ Fort
Worth. Texas, the men viii soon be
as well organized as they were before the
strike. Only six locals are left in 5le
stock yaxds at Chicago, bat they are
steadily Increasing in strength More
than % per cent Of the sheep butchers
are again in the union.
All records for movement Of ore on
the lakes is expected TO be surpassed by
the movement this season. TIE United
States Steel CORPORATION expects 10 re-
eeive between 33,0O0.C00 end 100000
tons durine the season. The former high
water mark for ore shipments was a.
100000 tons.
International President c. p. Shea Of
the teamsters wen a strike against the
George A. Fuller Company. The CON-
pany had employed a n9n-upion contrac
tor in Boston. Shea went TO Chicago
and tied up the material for two build
ings being erected by the company. AZ
ter four days the company agreed to
employ union men in Boston.