Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-29

z5fN

Paducah, Ky. is organizing an anti
child labor organization.
King Edward VII of England is a
firm believer in union labor.
The total membership of the engineers
union of Great Britain is 102.2O2.
4 union of laborers of the Charles
town. Mass, navy yard has Eeen organ
lied.
Memphis (Tenn.) stereotypers' union
has just secured a contract which guar
antees the eight-hour day.
An increase of pay from 10 to 80 cents
a day has been granted junior employees
of the Inter- Colonial railway.
The Prince law in New York, which
makes it misdemeanor to hcibe labor
official, is to be tested shortly.
Foundry employees in San Francisco,
Cal, have obtained an advance of 20
cents a day and a minimum CT S4.
Sheet metal workers in Des Noines,
Iowa, have obtained a raise in their min
imum wage scale from 80 to 3712 cents
an hour.
Electrical workers of Wilmington, n.
c., have been granted an increase of 80
cents a day and reduction o. one hour
in their working time.
In giving the conditions of employ
ment on public work one or two States
so far have required printing contractors
to use the union label on public print
ing.
The Typographical Union of San An
tonic, Texas, has organized a stock COM
pany and equipped an up-to-aate printing
plant to compete with the open shops of
that city.
A Virginia court has decided that mo
employer or contractor has any legal
right to advertise for workingmen dur
ing a strike and attract them TO a city by
misrepresentation of facts
THE eight-hour day and SO a week.
is sure to be the slogan of 10000 Chi
cago factory and store girls if plans
made by officers of the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor are carried out.
Returns received from three co-opera-
tive wholesale societies in the United
Kingdom for the first quarter of 1906
show total sales in their distf!5utive de-
partments amounting to over $30,000,-
OO0
The proportion of union carpenters
and joiners out of work in the United
Kingdom has fallen to 81 per cent, tax
ing all unions into account. This is a
lower percentage than for a long time
past
From the standpoint of organized labor,
Streator claims to be the most Thoroughly
organized city in Illinois. if not, indeed,
in the United States. Every industry is
organized-even the scrub women have a
union.
Until lately the mining regulations of
Formosa strictly limited all mining op-
erations to japanese subjects; no foreign
ers might participate. Now any person,
properly registered under the japanese
law, can work the mines.
The Ohio law providing that after
railway trainmen have worked fifteen
consecutive hours they may rot be re-
quired to give further service until they
have had at least eight ho1rs' rest is
valid. Attorney General Ellis has given
an opinion to this effect to the Ohio Rail
way Commission.
The Union Traction Company, which
operates the street car line a! Albany
n. Y, is going to try plan to reduce
the number of accidents. 1t will pay
bonus at the end of the year to every
emplaye who has not been involved in
an accident through his own fault.
The Grand Trunk has decided to es-
tablish a pension fund in which all their
employees will participate. 1t will be con-
Quoted on the same principle as the pen
sion fund in operation on some of the
chief United States railways, and the
amount of the retiring allowance Will be
based on salary and length of service
A general wave of agitation for more
wages and better conditions is spreading
among the railroad employees of every
branch of the business in the great
freight and passenger carrying systems of
the Middle and Western STATES