Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-20
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San Francisco. Cal, is to have build
ing trades temple.
Over one thousand bartenders of New
York City will demand higher wages.
The work of organizing the machinists
Ct Cleveland, Ohio, is advancing rapidly.
William Foley of Boston, Mass, is the
new head of the International Steel and
Copper Plate Printers.
Street car men OF Chic<yo want
weekly pay day, an eight-hour day and
minimum wage of 80 cents an hour.
Unionists of Roanoke, Va, have declar
Cd their local baseball team as unfair
because they use non-union printing.
There is a movement on foot in Pitts
burg, Pa, to organize a new union labor
party. Prominent trades union officials
are the projectors.
Labor unions are being formed in Mex
ico, and when they are conducted along
legitimate lines the government does not
interfere with them
The structural steel builders of New
York have decided to form a national as
ISOLATION for the purpose of fighting the
unions of steel workers
Retail Clerks International Associa-
ton will begin the payment of sick bene-
fits to members who have been in con-
rinuous good standing on the books for a
period of twelve months or more.
The United Railways and Electric
Company of Baltimore, Nd, has shown
its interest in the welfare of its employees
by fitting up club room where its army
of men can find rest and recreation when
off duty.
The first annual convention of the new
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders' In
tcrnational Union will be held IN Boston.
Mass, next April. The selection was
made on a referendum vote just COM
pleted.
Boston, Mass, musicians local No
49,, of the American Federation of La
bor, the same international to which the
big Boston Musicians Protective Union,
40. 9, belongs, was officially organized
last week. 1t is composed exclusively Of
colored men.
President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers has been roundly criticised by
some of the union leaders because he
Gined with a number of bankers and
fnanciers at Columbus, Ohio. on Labor
day, and did not call upon the local Off
GERS Of the organization
A movement to organize the machinists
at the naval gun factory, Washington,
d. c.. is meeting with success The
Trades Unionist, organ of the Central
Union, is leading the agitation, and, de-
spite strong Parr. organizati ton, are
bringing the competent workmen into line.
On Sept. l a number of German min
ers, who had been engaged ostensibly TO
fill new places in the mines at Jumet.
Belgium, but who found that they were
expected to take the place of number
of striking miners, fatty refused to go to
work and proposed to prosecute the com
pany for having I1isled them.
London England printers have OBJ
aimed a decision from the Court of Last
Appeal, which states that picketing is
legal, and that no damages can be col
lected by the employer. The union had
been sued by a large publishing house
The firm Won decisions and awards Of
damages in the lower courts.
Chicago iron manufacturers are pre-
dieting the end of the molders' strike as
result of the installation of a new type
Of molding machine 1t is said that this
machine turns out as much as three skill
ed iron workers, and orders have been
sent to New York for 800 of the new ma
chimes. New machines have been ordered
also for the mills in Milwaukee.