Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-17

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| Navy yard machinists at Boston have
been granted an advance of "a cents .
day.
Steps are being taken 60 organize tho
hotel and restaurant employees of Min
| neapolis.
Toronto fCanada) electrical workers.
have gone on strike. They wish IS oent9
an hour, the present pay being 271a cents
A new union of quarry workers has
been organized in Mankato, MINI, under
the Jurisdiction Of the Quarry Workers
International Union.
Skaters at Bangor, Me-, who have bean
on strike for some time, recently succeed
ed in defeating a move to operaBs ths
| plants with strike breakers.
The FIRST member OF Boston (Nfass.)
Newsboys' Protective Union to go to
Harvard under the unions scholarship
fund wiz begin his studies this year.
Fourteen more Hrachine shops some Of
them the largest in the vicinity of Bes-
ton, Mass, have established the fifty hour
work week for the maehinist within the
last month or so.
The memorial fund started three
months ago by the United Brotherhood OF
| Carpenters and Joiners fos the widow
and family of the late r. J. Mcclure
aggregates nearly $4,000.
Brockton, Mass. the great shoe work
ing center, has enjoyed Industrial peace"
since 1898, and has seen wages advance
| from 10 to 20 per cent, while the shoe
| industry has increased one-rhir6.
Organized workingmen of Reading, Pa,
have about perfected their plans FER the
erection of an icemaEing plant to fight
the ice trust. 1t is thought operations
will begin about the beginning of next
year.
Boston Bricklayers' Union, which has
declared go cents an hour, and the SAT
urday half-holiday as new rules has so
| few men on strike for the new conditions
that it is not even maintaining q strike
headquarters.
The executive board Of the Massachu-
setts State branch OF the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor has decided to request
Gov Guild to select one member of or
ganized labor for the proposed technical
trade school commission.
Plans are being made by the Baggage
and Parcel Delivery Drivers Union, Mt
Chicago, TO increase the wages of single
wagon drivers employed by firms in the
ExpreSsmen's and Furniture Movers AS
ISOLATION from S13 to $t4 week.
West Virginia Federation of Labor, in
its Wheeling convention, recently passed
resolutions giving permission to delegates
to enter politics and to have committees
in each county for the purpose of in
vestigating the assertions OF all political
candidates.
The strike Of street car men at Allen
town, Pa, took on a serious aspect Tues
day, when a platoon of State constabu-
larry fired into crowd and injured boy.
A mob gathered and threw stones at the
police. The two men who were accused of
firing were locked UP and charges prefer
red against them.
Pittsburg reports reaction from the
speculative in favor Of the Industrial mar
ket, to the discomfort of the brokers, but
to the comfort of the rest Of the COM
munity. The payroIls are said to be
larger than ever before, and would be
higher if workers could be obtained. This
is especially true in the steel and coke
industries, and negroes arc being imported
from the South as lab rers
The A. r. of l.. issued 30 charters
during the eight months, as follows:
Three international unions, State
bodies, AZ city central bodies, Ga federal
labor unions and 101 local trade unions.
There are now affiliated with the A F. of
L, lis International bodies 36 State
branches 674 city central bodies, TO To-
cal trades and federal unions making n
total of 26,320 local trade unions direct
ly or indirectly affiliated.
As result of the Dupont Powder Com
pany's refusal to grant an eight-hour day
to its employees, the works at Wilmington.
Del, are badly crippled by a strike, and
members of the millionaire Dupont family
are engaged in the dangerous task of driv-
ing powder-laden wagons from the mills
to the magazines and storehouses. As
this company owns nearly all the powder
works in the country, it is expected that
the strike will soon spread TO other places.
The New Zealand Trades and Labor
conference passed a resolution tlIat the
arbitration act be amended to bring all
State employees under its provisions, re-
affirmed the principle of land nationaliza-
ton, decided to urge the government to
nationalze the mineral wealth and to
adopt seIf-reliant policy and cease Dor
rowing except for redemption of loans,
approved a universal compulsory half
holiday and resolved TO support a pro-
gressive income and absentee tax and the
abolition of duties on the necessities of
life.
Women cooks to the number of 100
have organized the Cooks Union, of New
York. All of its members 80 far are
working in Yidiish restaurants on the
East Side, but the lenders are hopeful
that before long all the women restaurant
workers of the city, and eventually of the
country, will be organized. A careful in
quiry is made into the character of appli-
cants, and none bat ''ladies" are admitted.
The good so far accomplished has been
to reduce the hours from rs to II. and
to "unionize" in every way the restau-
rants in which the union cooks operate
A basket mailing machine has been in
vented which promises 20 do away with
the present system Of mailing by hand.
The basket frame revolyes at the will OF
the operator, who has both hands free to
place the bands and sides, while treadie
worked by the foot manipuIstes the ham
mer, which is a strong magnet. The tacks
are fed to the machine through a slot,
heads ap. The hainmer. by one operation,
picks up the tack and drives il. The aver
age basket mailer viii not put up more
than go baskets in ten hours, while with
this new machine, It is believed. an aver
age Of 100 per hour can be maintained
An agreement has been reached where
BY Sacramento, Cal, becomes closed
shop" town, so far as building trades are
concerned. The agreement is signed by
The Builders Association. the Contract
ors' Association and the Building Trades
Council and includes all trades and con
tractors engaged in the building industry.
The work OF organizing he railway ex-
pressmen OF the United States and Cam
ada il being quietly pressed under diroc-