Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-10
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There are $4,000 employees on the
Louisville and Nashville's pay roll.
Steps are being taken to reorganize the
building laborers of st. Paul, MINI.
All the printing offices of Lincoln,
Neb., are now working on the eight-hour
basis.
A weekly pay bill for railroads will be
introduced in the next New York Legisla-
ture.
There are 10000 members of the Inter
national Tobacco Workers Union in the
United States.
In one year preceding November, 1906,
S3,96S, 1886 was paid out in strike ben
efts by sixtyfour international unions.
The Structural Building Trades Ali
ance of America now has a membership
of 100000 outside of New York City.
japanese in some Union Pacific mines
are drawing as high as ST a month,
and it is feared wages will go still higher
The Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
has a membership of $1,000 distributed
throughout TIE United States and Can
ada.
Work in the painting industry in Min
neapolis, Mimi, has fallen off, and there
are many men idle. Many workmen have
left the city.
The government of Belgium, having re-
fused to pass a measure reducing the
hours of labor in mines, was defeated on
a vote taken in the Chamber of Depu
ties.
During a period of ten months, 800
new charters have been granted by the
American Federation of Labor, which is
an increase of 40 over the same period
last year.
As a result of the agitation fostered
by the Missouri Federation of Labor,
much valuable legislation was obtained
for labor at the recent session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
In order that all metal molders may
become members of the organization, the
Iron holders Union of North America
has changed its name to the International
Molders' Union.
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill
limiting the hours of railroad telegraph
ers to eight a day, and also passed law
giving street railway employees a ten
hour day within twelve.
The cigarmakers of Minneapolis will
try the plan of organizing a banking
system on a small scale, to handle the
funds of the union and individual mem
bers They have been encouraged to this
step by the operations of loan fund
which they established some months ago.
The total number of wage earners, Gov
ering all classes of employees in manu-
featuring establishments in Canada for
the year 1900, was 344.035, and the wages
paid amounted to $50, while for
the year 1905 wage earners employed
numbered 391 ,4S1, and the total wages
paid amounted to S164, 1874 400.
Wages 10 ESr cent higher than paid
last year are offered throughout the Do
minion of Canada to all who want to
work on farms.
Wages of South Wales miners have
peen advanced another > per cent. bring
ING I'D the rates 10 within 212 per cent
of the maximum.
The BARRIERS strike at London, Canada,
has been settled, and the men get guar
antee OF 81 week, with per cent over
So taken in a chair
Massachusetts State Federation Of
State. City and Town Employees Unions
will urge a pension bill for city employees
before the Legislature.
Miners of Rock Springs, Wyo, have
become members of the United Mine
Workers to the number of 1900. Union
sentiment is spreading to other coal min
ing camps on the Union Pacific system.
State Factory Inspector Delaney, in
his annual report for 1906, transmitted
to Gov. Stuart, says that Pennsylvania
can show a less percentage of employed
children under 16 than any State in the
Union.
In the last twelve months, through the
cooperation Of the man who wishes to
buy labor and the man who has labor to
sell, the pay of the workman in num-
Der of instances has increased more than
Is per cent.