Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
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Paterson (N, j. carpenters have been
conceded an increase of 60 cents a day,
effective May l.
The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Is going to build an international home
and $4,000 has been set aside to start
with.
st. Paul cigarmakers adopted a reso-
lutic which was signed by every mem
Der pledging themselves to buy none but
union label clothing.
Many unions in Great Britain pag out
of-work, sick, funeral, superaauuated
benefits, and, in addition, have 3 special
fund to provide homes.
The new birch factory erected at Here
ford, Pa, gives employment to several
men, who are cutting down the birch sap
lingS and distilling the oil.
Berlin Germany photographers and
litho printers have, without a strike, OBJ
tanned an eight-hour day for hthograph-
ers and nine-hoar day for printers.
The great increase in the cost of liy-
ing and the rise in rents in Buenos Ayres
are causing great inconvenience and dis
content among the working classes.
The Saturday half holiday all the year
round has been decided upon by Boston
bricklayers' unions and has been made
part of the working rules of that city
and vicinity.
The interlocking tower operators and
switchmen of Indiana are trying to Sc
cure the passage of an eight-hour law.
They are now employed twelve hours a
day at 500 per month.
The Pennsylvania Child Labor Com
mittee announces that the factory inSpec-
tors in Philadelphia are vigorously en-
forcing the laws against employing chill
dren under the legal age
Owners of English cotton mills in the
north of England have granted an in
crease in wages amounting TO 21a per
cent, to take effect May I. This increase
will affect about 10000 operatives.
The Patternmakers' League of North
America at IT'S recent convention raised
the assessment of its members from %
to so cents per week. 1t is proposed 70
use the money that is paid IN dues in
strengthening and building UP the or
ganizatiou and pay for placing organ
izers in the field in this country and
Canada
BY order OF The Prussian Minister Of
Public Works, dated Dec. %, 1905,
nine-hour working day was introduced
recently liz the state railway workshops
in the Berlin, Frankfort-on-Nlain, Madge-
burg ard Posen railway DISTRICTS and
time wages were increased so that no de-
crease in the workmens wages should
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hours.
The returns of the vote for amalga-
nation between the United Garment
Workers of America and the Journeymen
Tailors' Union of America are now com
plete and are as. follows: United Gar
ment Workers-For, 1923: against,
3,37S. Journeynen tailors-For, 2,2S3;
against, 1888. Many locals did not vote
on the question at all, or sent their re-
turns in too late for tabulation.
The report of David T. Williams, i'm
spector of the fourth anthracite coal dis
trict (part of Lackawanna County, Pa.)
for 1905 shows there are forty-two mines
in the district They employ SIG men
and boys inside and 3,035 men and boys
outside. Thirty-six fatal accidents oc-
CURED, nunDeF OF wives maze WIDOWS,
49, number of children made orphans,
GO. The production of coal was 5,497,-
81 tons.
The United Association of Plumb
ers, Gas Filters and Steam Filters,
No. 100, of Chicago, is vigorously
protesting against the methods adopted
by trade schools which advertise that
they can teach the art of plumbing in the
short space of three or six months and
are warning the public that advertise
ments Of this nature should be ignored,
as those statements are false, and danger
Gus to the health and general sanitary
conditions of the people.
Cigar manufacturers in York County,
Pennsylvania complain that the 'leaf"
and stock" they ordinarily use has been
increased so much in price that hey
cannot afford to pay the same wages as
formerly and sell cigars at the old price.
This, it is said, affects the smaller man
ufacturers principally, because they can
not afford to buy in large quantities.
Tobacco that sold at and 10 ceuts, the
complaints allege, is now selling at q
cents. Other grades that sold at 7 cents
are now selling at IA and 10 cents. In
spite of this, however, the cigarmakins
business is brisk in that county.