Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
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The town of Perkasie, Pa, manu-
features more cigars than any other
town in Bucks County, and more than
any other town of its size in the United
States.
There has been an increase In the
membership of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
of from 1900 to 1900 since the new
scheme of organization went into effect.
The cement industry at Fogelsville,
Pa, looks so promising that farm land
in the neighborhood is commanding I'M
usually high prices. Farms which used
to go a-begging are now sold for sew
eral hundred dollars an acre.
The secretary of the United Mine
Workers asserts that organization shows
the largest number of members in its
history. 1t now stands 100000 ahead
of airy labor body IN the country in point
Of membership ard is he largest in the
world.
Tie LABOR organizations of that sec
ton OF the country are sending out no
tees warning the workers that Califor-
MIA is Overrun with unemployed men and
that hardships will stare in the face of
those who come to the coast without
means.
Two boys n the Morea colliery at
Hazleton, Pa, induced seventy-fve
breaker boys to quit, thus forcing 700
men and boys into idleness for a half
day. The fathers of the two boys set
tied the strike with a paddle. Work
was resumed the next morning.
Kewanee, ILL.,, claims to be the banner
union city in America. Every shoe
store in the city is a union store, the
policemen carry union cards and so do
the street cleaners. The Mayor is
union man and the sexton of the GEM
etery also carries a union card.
The first organization in the building
trades of Pittsburg to arrange the wage
scale for 1906 is the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paper Hang
ers. A settlement has been reached with
the employers by a committee of the
district council ON the basis of last years
scale of $40 day of eight hours and
all of the existing rules.
On July 1 the wages of 1900 carpen-
tiers N New York City will b. increased
from $3.50 per day to $3.50 The agree
ment was reached between the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners and the
Master Carpenters Association of that
city after conferences lasting over two
months. This is a compromise, the car
penters asking for So per day.
The union woman has become an i'm
portant factor in label agitation. A
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in the making of gloves, suspenders,
mems clothing, corsets and other arti-
Giles of apparel. At one period 1t was
a common complaint in the unions that
the wives and daughters of union men
persisted in buying goods without the
label but it is now said that they are in
many cases more careful than their hus'
bands and fathers.
To place the wages of its shifting"
crews at Reading, Pa, on a parity with
| those paid for similar work in Philadel-
| phia, the Reading Railway proposes to
| advance the former. Conductors in
| Philadelphia are paid So a day and
| brakemen 1882. In Reading conductors
receive 1924 and brakemen 1920. More
| than 400 men will be affected by the
brought about by the difficulty expert
enced by the company in securing and
retaining experienced men at the lower
wages.
A strike of 1000 slate workers is on
at Poultney and West Pawlet, VT, and
Granville, n. Y. The company reduced
the wages of the men per cent. They
quit work Immediately. They had no
union, but Immediately organized one
after going out. The company claims
the reduction in wages is due to over
production, and that it has 100000
squares of slate, valued at S750,000, in
stock, and the customary winters falling
off in demand is at hand. The strike is
the largest ever known in the slate in.
dustry of this or any other country, it
is said.
Owing to the unprecedented demand
for all grades of iron and steel the holi
day shutdown in the majority of the
steel plants throughout the country was
limited to a few days. Tuesday all the
idle mills were in operation again, and
the prospects are that they will continue
indefinitely. Practically 80 per cent of
the sheet and tinplate mills in the coun-
try are working three turns a day, max
ing this branch of the industry active.
According to the current report COM
piled by the Amalgamated Journal,
showing the conditions of the union
mills, the outlook Tor 1906 in the iron
and steel trade is bright.