Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-08
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Nailmakers in England get S3 a week,
and IN this country $50.
Shoemakers in Austria get s. a week,
while in Lynn, Mass, they get S12.
The National Alliance OF Bill Posters
and Billers of America will hold its an
nual convention in New York Dec. 5.
1t has been definitely decided by the
Central Labor Union of Scranton, Pa, to
build $4,000 labor temple for the use
OF the trades unions
The bootblacks of Montreal, Can. are
organizing, with view of improving their
condition and enforcing a general charge
OF 10 cents for Il shine.
In 1904 the unions in the building
trades of Denmark showed the largest
membership, the aggregate for $50 unions
being nearly 1880 members.
The remittances to China made by COO
lies or laborers at work in other countries
is now estimated to reach S50.O00,000 an
nually, including 100000 said to be
sent home by the indentured coolies in the
Transvaal mines.
As compared with last year, out of 90
British trade unions, with membership
of 596,010 making returns, 22,52S were
unemployed at the end of August, being
only 5.S per cent as against Oh per cent
in August, 1864 big drop.
Not a child is working n any cigar
factory in New England. The New Eng
land conference alone spent $4,000 on
label agitation and advertising. The ag
gregate spent by the local unions in ad-
dition is estimated at probably 100000
The New Jersey State Federation of
Labor charges that wholesale violations
of the child labor law prevail through
out the State. The employment of chill
dren at night work, which IS contrary to
the law, is declared to be a common prac-
tice.
Rhode Island State Bureau of Indus
trial Statistics has issued its annual re-
port for 1908. 1t shows that the number
of wage earners has increased nearly 10
per cent over 1904, with 80, 43S as against
81, 1S9 the previous year. In the same
period the total wages paid increased more
than II per cent. from so $50, 536 to
$50, 1868 An even greater increase is
shown in the value of products with
gain of IS per cent. the figures showing
$126,440.252 in 1905, as compared with
sos, 14O, 1913 in 1904.
Boston man just returned from San
Francisco says: while it would be
difficult problem to designate the salaries
paid to the various kinds of labor, | know
positively that bricklayers get $40 a day
for eight hours work. and their tenders
receive no less than s. for the same hours
of labor. Stationary engineers are paid
So day for eight hours, and the unskill-
ed labor is paid at least So Cay. Plas-
terers demand and receive anywhere from
SIS to $40 a day. These are only a few
of the figures, but all the other wages
can be easily estimated from these
John Mitchell. president of the United
Mine Workers of America, was asked by
a Pittsburg, Pa, reporter what the for
mer thought of the entry Of the American
Federation of Labor into politics. Mr..
Mitchell said: being officially connected
with the Federation, the move certainly
has my hearty endorsement. As it has
been made on a nOn-partisan basis, it is
one that will commend itself to the Amer
lean voter, and, consequently, succeed.
We aim in this campaign to stand by our
friends and resolutely to oppose the men
who are allied with the forces that can
be honestly classed as enemies of the
trades union movement. | feel confident
that the step taken by the Federation is
the only correct way of solving the situa-
ton