Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05


The ordinary Cuban bricklayer does
well if he can put up 500 bricks a
day. The American on rough work can
lay 1900.
There are about 1900 carpenters in
Cuba. Good men are paid from $3.50 to
81 day in the cities; in the smaller
places they work for much less.
Thirty-two new cigar factories were
started during October in PennsyIva-
MIA, as against Is in September, 80 in
October, 1904, and 81 in October, 1903.
A few days ago James L. and Joseph
g. Murphy, merchant tailors of Chicago,
were held for the grand jury for misuse
of the label of the United Garment
Workers
Nine more companies employing over
5000 men, are dismissing their working
force and leaving Chicago forever. for
the country, on account of tie ceaseless
labor troubles.
Belgian female workers on handmade
lace earn but from % to so cents day
of twelve to fifteen hours work. In
eastern Flanders the wages are still
lower, ranging from 10 to 20 cents a
day.
The general membership of the Broth
erhood of Painters, Plpcrhangers and
Decorators by majority of 1900 has
voted to hold a convention during the
coming winter. Memphis. Tenn, will
probably be the place. The union has
not held a convention in four years.
Boston lodge of machinists has ac-
cepted the recent wage increase given
by the n. Y. n. II. & II. r. r.. and
which will increase the machinists' pay
roll of that system just $1,000 year.
The increase will not interfere with the
increase expected May 1 of next year,
it is said
The annual report of the New York
State Commission on Prisons for 1904
shows that all inmates able to work
were Employed that the sales of manu-
featured articles for the year amounted
to SOS, 1913. and that not one dollars
worth of prison-made goods was sold in
the open market
The United States District Attorney of
New York has caused the arrest of eIev-
en- heads of manufacturing concerns of
that city on warrants charging them
with having conspired, through the me-
dunn of an employers association, to
violate the alien contract labor law by
the importation Of foreign workmen.
The printers have adopted the follow
ing slogan in the present eight-hour cam
paign: 1--WE propose to sell to the en-
ployer s hours out Of "a and we will
do as we please with the remaining 16"
This is the union printers answer TO
the aspersiOns made upon the union by
its opponents in their effort to cast obi
I'M upon She movement of the men for
the shorter workday.
A joint convention of the United Mine
Workers of the three anthracite dis
tricts will be held at Shanokin, Pa,
beginning Thursday. Dec IA. This con-
Vention will formulate the demands to
be presented to the operators next
spring. The chief demands will be as
follows: An eght-hour workday; wage
payments according to weight; uniform
wages for all employees; Il uniform scale
for rock slate, water and dead work;
an agreement between the United Mine
Workers and the operators.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men is going to hn:ll an international
home, and $4,000 Las been set aside to
start with. The business organizations
of Colorado Springs recently held a
meeting and decided TO make an offer
to the trainmen of 4 tract of land and
such other inducements as will practi-
cally insure the location of the insti-
tuition in that city. In this connec-
ton it may be of interest to know that
the Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen
has been in existence % years, that il
has 72S lodges. with $4,000 members,
81 100000 in its treasury, pays out
$4,000 every 80 days in claims, has
over $S7 100000 insurance in force, and
has paid out ST., 81, 636.13 in benefits.
At the close Of 1904. England. Scot
land and Ireland. with a population Of
41,500,000, had n trade union member
ship of 1902, 30S In other words, / in
% of the population was trade union
ist. In Germany there were 1.276,S31
trade unionists in Il population of &c.
100000, or / in A. In France, with a
population Of 3S.3OO,0 600. there are 49,
$40 trade unionists, or 1 to 30. Italy,
with 30 100000 population, reports 49,
80 members of trade unions, or / to
$50. In Austria the trade unions have
III, 1872 members in a population of &c.
10000, or l to 100. Spain has a pop
Ulation of 1S,600,0OO and a trade union
Of $4,000, or / to $50. Hun
gary has 81 40 trade unionists in pop
ulatiOn of 19,500O00, OF ] to 1885, In
Denmark the ratio is to %, and in
New South Wales | to 81