Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-10
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formed in Maryland.
Farmers of Michigan are being organ
lied into labor unions.
Pasadena (Cal.) unionists cortemplats
the erection of labor temple.
Trades unionists of Galesburg ILL.,, are
deeply interested in labor temple pro-
ject.
Journeymen blacksmiths' total member
ship is now more than 900 and steadily
growing.
Hebrew paperbangers of Boston Mass,
have formed ar independent union of
their own.
A new organization of sheet metal
workers has been established at Newport
News, Va.
The Wisconsin State Federatioa of La
Dor will mail literature to the farmers
explaining unioniSm.
Boston (Mass.) carriage and wagon
workers lost their strike through lack of
a sufficient defense fund.
Chicago (Ill.) Federation of Musicians
has appointed committee TO obtain To-
cation for a Musicians Club.
Another great strike of miners has oc
Cured in the South Wales coal fields
against the employment of non-union
men.
Complaint has come to Gov. Folk to
the effect that many children under IA
years of age are working in factories in
| St. Louis.
Boot and Shoe Workers Union gen
eral officers have recommended that wom-
ans auxiliaries be formed by the vari-
Gus locals.
The Industrial Workers of the World
are now engaged in a bitter war with
electricians and machinists' unions of
| Chicago, Ill.
The new Iowa child labo, law prohibits
| the employment of children under Is
years of age in any occupation injurious
to the health
The Cigarmakers' International Union
has paid $2201 ,266.43 in sick and ST.
| 514, $3.50 in death benefits during the
last % years.
Boston general truck drivers have
reached an agreement with the Master
| Transfers Association, which calls for a
raise of 81 week.
] In all probability new political party
will be launched in st. Paul, Mimi, this
fall as a result of a meeting of trades
unionists held to discuss the matter.
Prospects are now bright for the com
piete organization of the custom taiors
in Boston, Mass, under the banner of the
International Journeymen Tailors Union.
There are POI shoe factories in the
United States which make union label
Ill. tbrAx.
other factories manufacture women's
| shoes.
Labor Day this year marks the twenti-
eth anniversary in Massachusetts, and the
Boston Central Labor Union is to make
an especial effort to have every organ
izatjan parade.
Calgary (Canada) Trades and Labor
| Council has just acquired a site for a
labor temple, which it is proposed to erect
in the immediate future. 1t is proposed
to erect building TO the value of $4,000.
The success of trades unions in raising
wages may be shown by the following
facts In 1850 the average factory wages
were $247 year; in 1890, STAG. Wages
10 cotton factories in 1880 were A cents
day; in 1873, $1.40.
voluntary wage increase of 10 per
cent has been granted cotton-mill en-
ployes in Wndham and New London
counties, Connecticut. The action of the
mill owners affects 10000 persons.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, Mass, has
assured the representatives of the Cen
trail Labor Union of that city that in the
future all work done for the city under
| L L., H.
conditions.
Union Mattresses at Seattle, Wash,
have reduced their working hours in six
| years from twelve to ten, and have in
creased their wages. They maintain an
employment agency and rest rooms for
their members.
English United Pattern Makers had a
bad year, because nj the Clyde strike,
which cost the organization more than
$4,000. However, the union. with a
membership of 6,051, has more than
$225,000 in its treasury.
II is estimated that $4,000 men are on
strike in France, $4,000 of whom demand
an eight-hour day. The majority include
building operatives, carriage makers and
| jewelers., all of whom have large trade
unions. This is exclusive of the miners,
who are returning to their work.
The Building Trades Council of San
| Francisco, Cal, has done manly action.
All dues to be suspended, and men are
to work as many hours as they please I'M
til San Francisco has arisen from the
ashes. The current wages are TO prevail,
and no advance to be asked or taken.
Colorado Springs, Colo, where the
! Union Printers Home is situated, is in
the race for the proposed $4,000 inter
national home to be built by the Plumb
ers', Gasftters' and Steamitters Unions
of the United States and Canada. The
| Chamber of Commerce is booming the
movement.
| A bill has passed the Legislature of
| Massachusetts which licenses strike pick
/ cts. One picket is allowed for every
| twenty strikers. 1t is made lawful for
such pickets to patrol the public streets
in the vicinity of the place and inform
persons intending to go to work of the
actual trouble existing.
Basing their plea on humanitarian rea-
sons, 300 members Of the Egg Inspectors
| Union Of Chicago-men who see very
| little of daytime while they are at work
are asking for reduc IN Of their
hours Of labor from ten to nine.
Short Personals.
Sir Gilbert Parker. the novelist NJ. r.,
does most Of his writing nowadays while
standing up.
Thomas Garfield only brother Of the
martyred President, is a farmer living five
miles from Hudsonyile. Mich. He has
never been in Washington, d. G.
Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist, likes
to 20 from one room to another writing