Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-28

dent of the Illinois State Federation of
Labor for two terms and has held other
offices in trade union organizations.
Labor Notes.
The oil fields near Delagoa bay, in
Africa, are expected 30 prove among the
most productive in the world
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Sunday closing law relating
to barber shops is constitutional
The latest addition to labor's ranks
is the United brotherhood of Rural Hor-
ticultural and Agricultural Wage Farmers
of America. The headquarters is in Dali
las, Texas.
The Irish lahorers' cottage bill passed
its second reading in the British House of
Commons recently. The bill authorizes a
loan of 22,500o00 to provide Irish la
borers with cottages.
At meeting of the General Federation
Vt Women's Clubs, held in St Paul, res
sutton was passed to stand by the work
ing girls in their demand for an eight
hour day wherever made.
AT a meeting of the Carpenters Dis
trict Council, embracing thirty-two
unions, held in Boston, Mass, it was de
cided TO assess the 5000 members 81 each
to be used as defense fund
The experiment of building houses to
rent to members which has been tried by
the British Steel Shelters Iron and Tin
plate Workers Association has proved so
successful that it is to be extended
Butchers at the Chicago stock yards re-
port the dullest season for years Cattle
butchers are working only % hours
week, and most of the other departments
only work two or three days a week.
NJ. Olemenceau, the French minister of
the interior, estimates that 80 per cent
of the strikers identified with the May
demonstration We're forced to discontinue
work by being afraid of molestation by
the 10 per cent minority.
Returns relating to the state of en-
plOyment in Germany during the FIRST
quarter of 1906 were supplied to the
Imperial statistical Office by trade
unions with an aggregate membership of
1,221,7 100 OF these, 1855 or IL per
cent, were described in the returns as
unemployed
The tobacco trust, to prevent strikes
and its employees from Joining labor Or
CARNATIONS, has devised a system of in
surfing the lives of its employees free. All
employees of a years standing are entitled
to name a beneficiary in case of their
death, and the beneficiary will be Tslid the
amount of years salary, if under $500,
and $500 if the, salary for a year would
be greater than that.
Colorado Springs, at which the home
for union printers is located, has offered
inducements to the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen to locate its proposed in
stitution for incapacitated and INDECENT
members there. The brotherhood has now
been in existence % years and has 72S
lodges, with a total membership of $4,000 :
and treasury of 81, 100000. 1t pays out
about $4,000 a month in claims, has
over $S7,000,O00 insurance in force anc
has paid out since its foundation 81,
100000 in benefits.
The temperance crusade among labor
unions started by Stephen G. Sumner,
business agent of the Milk Wagon Driv-
ers' Union, Chicago, has called attention
to the fact that the men at the head of a
number of local unions and some inter
national organizations are total abstain
ers, says the Chicago Record Herald.
While the milk We gon drivers lead the
procession in this line, FIVE of the seven
members of their executive board being
total abstainers, there are other unions
worthy of honorable mention" John
Fitzpatrick president of the Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor, drinks nothing stronger
than buttermilk, and +. G. Hopp, finan-
cal secretary of the same organization, is
also a total abstainer. p J. Flannery,
president of the Freight Handlers Union;
ii. J. Conway, president of the Retail
Clerks International Protective Associa-
ton; Max Morris, secretary, and r. d.
Hogan, organizer of the same oTganiza-
ton, are all advocates Of temperance and
drink only water. John Mangan presi-
dent of the Steamftters' Union, is as
strong an advocate of cold water as is
Sumner and has organized several
branches of the Knights of Father Mat
thew among workingmen. The Milk Wag-
on Drivers Union is known as the strong
est total abstainers local in the city, hav-
ing 100 members who do not drink intoxi-
csnts.
1t is estimated that the Farmers Union
cotton-growing States Of the South alone.
In eight years the population Of Osaka,
Japan, has increased from S1i 800 to over
/ ,026,OO0 The number Of factories has
increased by 991.
For the first time since May ! the "a
affiliated unions Of the Boston Carpenters
District Council have not single man
on strike The wharf and bridge builders
strike for the eight-hour day is not yet
settled, but all the men who struck have
been placed at work under union condi-
tiODs.
Some ef the Chicago unions have start
ed the Salvation Army method of organ
izing. Last week, with drums and flags
and a parade they held meetings on street
preached the gospel of unionism.
sang industrial songs in ragtime and col
Iected applications for membership In all
the unions.
The Federation OF Musicians Of Chi.
cago is considering scheme which is de-
scrfbed by its sponsors as a plan for
carrying high-class music TO the doors
Of the poor" 1t coniemplates among
other features the charity" band, which
s to furnish free street concerts during
The summer in crowded residence districts
Of the city.
The tobacco trust, to prevent strikes
and its employees from joining labor or
CARNATIONS, aas devised system Of in
surfing the lives Of its employees free All
employees Of years standing are entitled
to name a beneficiary in case of their
death. and the beneficiary viii be paid
he amount Of a years salary, IL under
$500 and $500 IL the salary for a year
would be greate- than that.
George Westinghouse, Jr., son of the
millionaire airbrake magnafe, h mem
Der Of labor union, working az an APP
prentice in the plant of the Westinghouse
Air Brake Company, and receives SIPS
day. He is Yale graduate and works