Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-08
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ida Tor organizing purposes
The Actors National Protective Union
VIII hold its annual convention in New
Boston (ATass.) Hebrew Painters
Union has established $3.50 a day as the
minimum wage.
President Roosevelt cannot attend the
convention of the brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, which meets in Mem
phis, Tenn.
Boston GLASS; Boilermakers' Lodge
No. 8, has withdrawn from the INTERIM
tionai and joined the new organization OF
dissatisfied unions.
A new district council of metal polish
ers', buffers. platers' and brass and silver
workers unions will begin business in
Boston, Mass, on July 1.
Only IA per cent of British workmeE
are trade unionists, yet their party was
able the other day TO compel the govern
ment to reconsider its position upon a
labor bill.
Union men of Cleveland, Ohio were
considering the proposition to open a de
partment store, but the plan was vetoed
by the United Trades and Labor Council
of that City.
In Allegheny county, Pa, there were
killed or injured during the year 1905
5000 persons in the iron and steel mills
and blast furnaces, 1000 in other mills,
and 400 in the coal mines. 1t is needless
to make any comment ON these figures;
they speak for themselves,
Carpenters Brotherhood International
executive board has just made the follow
ing decision: believing the Industrial
Workers of the World a dual organiza
ton 10 the United Brotherhood of Car.
penters and Joiners of America, we deem
it inadyisable for members of the United
Brotherhood to hold membership in said
organization; hence, the decision of the
board is that afiliation with the Indus
trial Workers of the World acts as for
fixture of membership in the United
Brotherhood.
Meats, milk butter, eggs and vegeta-
bles are higher in price now than for -
years, according to the last statement is
sued by Dun'S agency. Bread and bread
str6S are a little lower than they were
a year ago. Clothing and everything that
the people use, including all the Industrial
metals, are at the top price since 1884
This means that the cost of living is
greater now than for nearly generation
past, which is taken by political econ
omists to indicate that the wave of pros
perity in America is on the crest, with
no sign though of immediate break The
advance in clothing and metals has beer
more pronounced than in food
The Maryland Legislature. which -ad-
journed recently, after being in session
90 days, passed more labor bills than
any of its predecessors. Among the bills
passed were the Dorton child labor bill.
prohibiting the employment of children
under - years Of age in factories or
workshops. The telegraphers' eight-hour
workday law was satisfactorily agreed
upon by the Joint Reference Committee.
and the bill was reported to both houses,
which concurred. 1t was sent to Gov.
Warfeld for his signature The amend
ment to the bill made in the Senate pro-
vided that the bill should not apply to
railroads over which not more thcA eight
passenger trains pass each way each day
of 24 hours.
Marble Cutters and Settlers Union No
so, of Boston, was not called upon to
strike, as had been voted. The employers
granted the full demand tsat the mini
mum rate OF wages be increased from SO
to $3.50 a day, and it was also agreed
that all outside men receive A. cents an
hour. The wage request has been pend
ing for more than a year. The union
submitted it last fall, but withdrew it at
the suggestion of the bosses. until bust
ness improved. 1t improved almost at
once. The request was remade a few
weeks ago. The bosses offered as a com
promise that the date for it to become eff
fective be Sept. /. The union declined.
and voted to strike unless iC was signed to
take effect at once.
The journeymen horseshoers. usually
among the most conservative of the la
Dor unions in Chicago, are to demand a
Saturday half holiday when their pres
ent agreement with their employers ex-
pires, June 1. The horseshoers are di-
vided into three classes. The foormen
receive 1925 a day, filters and drivers
are paid $3.50 and fremen S3.75 a day.
The workday is nine hours, and eight
hours on Saturday. No advance in wages
will be asked for at this time, except that
the men want the same weekly scale with
four hours off Saturday instead &C one
hour, as at present. There are about 600
journeymen horseshoers in the union, and
they believe they will be granted the CON
cession without having TO strike.
Labor can do in this country what
it has recently done in England, and now
To ha Con 70 FoI,o
make ourselves felt" says Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. IF we had 20 or 80 rep
resentatives of labor in Congress, do you
suppose we would have met with the re-
ception accorded us recently, when we
called to present the grievances of labor?
Well, / think not, and so it has been
made plain to us tLat we must appeal to
the people, and that is what we will do.
Labor leaders all over the country are in
earnest, and the rank and file have had
it put to them in such a manner that they
know there is but one thing for us to do
to get anything, and that is to put Only
the friends Of labor on guard"
A number Of non.union Boston (Mass.)
machinists, specialists in tool and die
making anu Oit-siukiAE. nave mace re-
quest that a machinists' lodge be formed
exclusively of those men.
In response to a question raised, Dep
uty Attorney General Chase of Michigan
has ruled that official ballots of any kind
for primaries or general elections must
not bear the printers union label.
The International Union Of Flour an6
Cereal Mill Employees gives a union but
ton to each member securing the admis-
sion of new member or the re-instate-
ment of an old one who has gone wrong.
The shortest strike that ever occurred
in Allentown, Pa, has just been settled.
Thirty-one girls, employed at spinning
company's plant, demanded higher wages.
When refused they walked out A half
hour later the girls gained their point
and returned to work.
In Chicago. April /. the carpenters,
steamfitters and steamftters' helpers ali
received an advance under renewed con-