Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-01
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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
50 a day in the cities; in the smaller
places they work for much less.
Thirty-two new cigar factories were
started during October in Pennsylva-
MIA, as against IS in September 80 in
October, 1904, and 81 in October, 1903.
A few days ago James B. 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 the ceaseless
labor troubles.
Belgian female workers on handmade
lace earn but from % to 80 cents day
of twelve to fifteen hours work. In
eastern Flanders the wages are still
lower, ranging from 16 to 20 cents a
day.
The general membership of the Broth
erhoed of Painters, Paperhangers and
Decorators by a majority of 10000 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 &C.
copied the recent wage increase given
INV tha NJ NJ a. IT p
which will increase the machinists' pay
roll of that system just $4,000 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 $7OS, 1928, 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 elev-
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: eve propose to sell to the en-
ployer s hours out of "a, and we will
do as we please with the remaining Is"
This is the union printers answer to
the aspersions made upon the union by
its opponents in their effort to cast obi
um upon the 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 Shamokin, Pa,
beginning Thursday, Dec A. This con-
venton will formulate the demands to
spring. The chief demands will be as
follows: An eight-hour workday; wage
payments according to weight; uniform
wages for all employees; uniform scale
for rock slate, water and dead work;
an agreement between the United Mine
Workers and the operators.
At the close of 1904, England, Scot
land and Ireland, with a population Of
d, 100000, had a trade union member
ship of 1907, 1903. In other words, 1 in
% of the population was trade union
list. In Germany there were 1,276,831
trade unionists in population of &c.
100000, or / in a.. In France, with a
population of 3S3OO,O0O, there are 49,
SIC trade unionists, or / to SO. Italy,
with 32,5OO,00O population, reports 49,
$50 members of trade unions, or l to
100. In Austria the trade unions have
1852 members in a population of &c.
10000, or 1 to $50. Spain has a pop
ulation of 1S,6OOOOO and trade union
membership of $4,000, or to $50. Hun
gary has 50, 40 trade unionists in a pop
ulation of 19,5OO,OOO, or 1 to 366. In
Denmark the ratio is I to % and in