Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06
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According to statistics just made pub
he, H.7O0 men have been killed or maim-
ed in the Allegheny (Pa) mills during
the last year.
The Electrical World estimates that
the production of electrical apparatus in
1905 amounted to $200,000,000, Of which
over S12,000,000 was exported
There are 500 shoe factories in this
country using the union stamp, according
to report recently issued. These fac
tories give employment to 10000 union
shoemakers.
According to the figures obtained by
the Labor Gazette of Canada. changes in
wages and hours of labor in Canada dur
ing April, May and June affected an APP
proSimate total of 1880 men and the
final result of the changes involved a to-
tai increase of S13,415.51 and total de-
crease of $S,S25, leaving a net increase
of $4,590.41 in weekly earnings.
No small stir has been made in the
religious world by the recent conversion
of Edward Everett Hale, Jr., third son
of Boston's eminent Unitarian patriarch,
from Unitarianism to evangelical Chris.
tianity. Mr.. Hale is professor of Eng.
lish literature in Union college, Science.
tady, n. Y, and he will soon join the
First Presbyterian churen of that city.
The railroad employees who wealt to
Washington to protest against RAILROAD
rate legislation are getting little synhpa.
thy Snd many hard knocks from their
brethren in the labor world. The Off
cial journal of the switchmen in a recet
issue calls attention to the fact that none
of the railroad employees who oppose rate
legislation represent their organizations
officially.
Housesmiths' Union, No. IA, of Pitts
burg. Pa, which inaugurated a strike for
an increase of five cents an hour, has
had its demand granted. All of the
working conditions were agreed upon
and the men affixed THEN signature to a
scale. The plasterers received an in
crease of 20 cents a day, while the tile
layers helpers obtained % cents more
a day. The prospects for the building
industry are excellent.
An American officer who has spent
several years on the Island of Guam
says the United States authorities have
established there a system of public
schools, which are attended by 1900 pu-
pills in the evening, after they study
some trade in the day time. Thirty boys
are in an agricultural school and many
others are apprenticed as carpenters,
plumbers electricians, butchers, clerks
dentists, hospital nurses and musicians
The union musicians of Lancaster.
Pa, have decided to again celebrate
Gilmore day" in honor of the famous
band leader, p. S. Gilmore. This fes-
tival was inaugurated last year by the
Lancaster musicians, and the celebration
was such a success that its promoters
have decided to make it a permanent in
stitution. The matter has also been tax
en- UP by musicians in other cities, and
it is probable that Gilmore day Will be
appropriately observed in different parts
of the country.
A movement to replace the women
stenographers in the City Hall of st.
Louis, Mo-, with men who have fami-
lies to support and can do the work just
as we'll as women" was inaugurated at
the meeting of the house of delegates.
A resolution introduced and unanimous
ly adopted brought about the appoint
ment of committee of FIVE "to ascertain I
the number of women stenographers in
the city departments, their names, sala-
ries, and the character of work per-
formed by them"
The Weekly Bulletin of the Clothing
Trades speaking editorially on the print
ers' strike, says: ION the score of health
IL +IaO =, IoI tho ~
hour day. Printing is. one of the dan
gerous trades. 1t stands fourth in the
list of occupations in this country in the
proportion of victims of tuberculosis. OF
the printers who die annually ope-third
succumb to this disease. The eight-bour
day in the newspaper offices, now estab-
lished for eight years, has not only no.
ticeably improved the health of the men
in that branch of the trade, but uplifteG
them morally, financially and intelectu
ally"
Owing to the scarcity of skilled work
men and the consequent gripping of on
erations in many of the large window
glass factories ia the Sharon Pa.) dis !
trict, Simon Burns, president of the
knights of Labor, has announced that
all apprentices who are able to turn out
a days work are eligible to become mem
bers of The union. BY this means it
is hoped to ill the jobs of blowers and
gatherers. Heretofore the apprentice
was compelled to work three years prior
to becoming journeyman. Under the
latest rule of President Burns he is pro-
NOTED as soon as he is able to make 60
rollers, which constitute a days work.
One of the highest marks of honor
that labor has ever received lies in the
proud boast of thc printers, who pro-
claim that they have conducted slug
less strike" Every honest man who be-
longs to a labor union hopes that the
right to make the same proud boast may
come to labor in future strikes. In the
light of past and recent labor history
it is too much to hope that the era of
strikes will end in the immediat' ~
ture Arbitration is steadily gaming
ground, but labor leaders who speak
their own minds are of the opinion that
strikes will figure in the disputes of
workingmen and their employers for
some years to come.
On agricultural lines, both in England
and Ireland, the cooperative idea has
found successful adoption. In Ireland
the agricultural cooperative societies
number about 500, with 10000 members
and controlling a trade Of $7,200,00O.
The photographers and the stereo-
typers and electrotypers have already a
4S-hour week in the printing industry If
the printers are successful it will follow
that the pressmen and bookbinders will
make the same demands, and the nine
hour day in the printing establishments \
Of the country will become a thing II
the past.
At the last meeting Of the New York
Central Federated Union two members Of
the New York Presbytery, Rev. II. S.
LittleGeld and Rev. John b. Devius, were
formally admitted as fraternal delegates
on condition that they are to have neithi
er voice nor vote. In his last appeal
for admission Mr.. Littlefe1d caused APP
plause by saying that he represented a
closed shop meaning the ministry. "ev-
cry member of which has to be thorough