Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
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Sixty operators at the Kutztown. Pa,
shirt factory turn out go dozen shirts
weekly.
Insulators and Asbestos Workers
Union of Boston has notified the en-
ployers of desired 30 cents a day wage
increase. The employers have asked for
a conference.
One manufacturer in Berks county,
Pa, made $4,000 washing machines last
year. About half this number were sold
in Berks county markets. The remain
der went to Canada and England.
Hugh Frayne, organizer for the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, said at York,
Pa, recently, that that was a lawless
State. He declared that $4,000 children
are working in Pennsylvania in violation
of the child labor law.
The American tin plate company has
announced that it's mills would be run
on the open shop plan in future, but
without discrimination against present or
former union employees. The present force
of workmen are all in the union.
The San Francisco Bulletin manage
ment asked and was granted the privilege
of paying the 10 per cent assessment
for all of its employees during the eight
hour strike. That was certainly a prac-
teal way of showing friendship for union
printers.
Sheet Metal Workers Unions Inter
national Executive Board has notified the
Boston local of its approval of it's pro-
posed new wage scale of $3.50 day
and states full financial support has al
ready been voted in case of any diff
Guilty over establishing it.
Union carpenters of Sharon, Pa, and
vicinity have been granted an advance
in wages of % cents a day, to become
effective on April 1. This will be the
highest rate of wages ever paid them.
Outside carpenters will now receive 1925
and inside workmen $40 day. No
other changes were made in the scale.
Mr.. Merrick. secretary of the Toronto
(Canada) Employers Association, was
recently mucted to the extent of $50
in the police court for having engaged a
non-union photographer in New York TO
work in that city. This is the gentleman
who issued circular telling how he
helped to break the printers eight-hour
strike.
tor of Pennsylvania, who is making a
tour of the factories of the Wilkes-Barre
district says there will be a large in
crease in the number of employees of the
local industrial concerns during the pres
ent year. He predicts general prosperity
in the manufacturing trades there. He
estimates that 5000 employees will be
added to the 1900 at present listed as
working.
The labor unions in Omaha are con-
Quoting a unique campaign which, accord
ing to reports, the Open-shOp advocates
are viewing with alarm" Through the
columns of the Western Laborer they are
advertising free of charge the merchants
who carry union-made goods. The mer-
chants have, of course, no objection to
being well advertised and they are heart
lily supporting the movement. The re-
suit is that the stores are being filled
with union-labeled articles and the Citi-
zens' Alliance is doing much less bust
ness than formerly.
President John Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers conferred with the dele
gates of the Pittsburg district Wednesday
and announced that the national organ
ization recognized the acts of the conven-
ton in deposing District President Dolan
and the officers in sympathy with him.
Pending the result of a new election, Mr..
Mitchell has appointed a new committee
to take charge of the organization work
in that district To a reporter, Presi-
dent Mitchell said that so far as he knew
there would be a strike in the bituminous
fields, intimating that he was not so sure
about the anthracite outcome. He return
ed to New York, and on Thursday pre-
scented to the anthracite operators the de-
mands of the union as heretofore out
lined