Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-02

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a newspaper of their own.
Minneapolis building laborers will ash
for So day after April 1.
| A building trades council has been
formed in Lawrence, Mass.
A new union of cigarmakers has been
organized at Crookston, MINI.
Labor unions of Richmond, Va, ara
planning to erect 100000 temple.
The cloth hat and cap makers will
meet in convention May / at New York
City.
Master horseshoers of San Jose, CAL.
have granted the journeymen the wage
raise demanded.
Efforts are being m adeto organize
thoroughly tie Italian tailors and press
men of Boston, Mass.
The International Butchers Union is
building up rapidly, forty-two charters
having been issued last year.
A meeting to form Massachusetts,
State organization of city employees
unions will be called in Boston.
Mattresses of Phoenix, Ariz., are on
strike for a ten-hour day. They have
been working eleven and twelve hours.
The International Brotherhood Of
Blacksmiths and Helpers recently organ
lzed branch local in the isthmian canal
zone.
Kanakas. in Queensland, Australia, ex-
empted from deportation, are forming a
union for the protection of their own in
tereSts.
| The Associated Blacksmiths of England
report that this is the jubilee year OF
the society, which was established in Au-
gust, 1851.
have decided to amaIgamate, there being
2S99S votes in favor Of amalgamatlOn and
4S9 against.
| The Cooks and Walters Union of Val
lejo, CAL, is making a determined fght
| against the non-union restaurants and
hotels of that city.
Union printers of Norfolk, Va, have
made a demand for an increase in their
wage scale of $3.50 a week. The increase
is based on the increased cost of living.
A reduction of one and one-half hours
day has been obtained for the Waltham
! BARRIERS by the Boston journeymen's
union, which includes Waltham in its jur-
| isdiction.
| Union carpenters of Oakland, CAL, ara
| banding together to build labor temple
Articles Of Incorporation have been fled
| by the Union Carpenters Hall Associa-
ton. The capital stock is 100000.
Reports from the general headquarters
of the Iron Molders' Union of North
America are to the effect that 1856 names
of molders and core makers were added
| to the membership rolls during 1906.
Officers of the New York Harbor Boat
mems Union recently announced that
there would be general strike of tug
boat men unless their demands of SO .
month increase in wages is granted.
The following scale of wages paid In
| China will give some idea of the daily
returns received for labor done Gin Unit
ed States gold) Laborer, 10 cents; ma
sons, 10 cents; artisan, 10 to 20 cents,
and clerk, 40 to 30 cents.
Sacramento is soon to have a hand
some and commodious labor temple. The
| building is to be erected by the Sacra-
mento Labor Temple Association, COM
posed of representatives of the various
labor organizations of the city.
The Operative Brickayers Of England,
with a membership of 10000 men, have
resolved to make their executive a per-
manent body, to meet daily for the trans
action of business. The executive is 10
be elected for two years instead of one.
According to a Census Bureau report is
sued recently, women wage earners are
increasing steadily and are engaged in
| 316 of $50 industries. The greatest in
crease is shown for the manufacture of
tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. New York
State leads in the employment of women,
with garment-making most prominent
| Chicago, Ill.,, has just formed new
labor union, articles of incorporation hav-
ing been granted by the Secretary OF
State. The organization is known as the
Retail Drug Clerks and Soda Dispensers
Benevolent and Protective Association.
The organization has made no move to-
ward utilization with the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor.
After being organized for nearly two
years without making any formal re-
quests from the lumber companies, the
representatives from unions of the Inter
national brotherhood of Woodsmen and
SawmiIl Workers have formulated plans
for a uniform scale of wages and hours
for the various camps and mills of Hum
Ooldt county, Colo.
The organized farmers of Colorado will
raise no beets next year. This was de-
cided at a convention of the Beet Grow
srs' Union at Fort Collins, recently. The
executive board of the union reported
that it had failed, after negotiating with
the sugar trust, to get the price paid for
oeets last year restored The trust had
announced that it would reduce the price
5 per cent.
committee Of five from the Laks
Seamen's Union has met a similar com
nittee from the Marine Firemen, Oilers
and Water Tenders Benevolent Associa-
lion Of the Great Lakes, the purpose BE-
ing to provide means for closer relations
between the two organizations.
and, Ohio, have signed an agreement for
Two years with all contracting firms ex-
eept one, which provides for the closed
shop and the nine-hour day, with tbs
same pay as received for ten hours. Ths
new agreement will 90 into effect on
April 1.
The Retail Clerks International Pro
tective Association expended during the
month of January for sick and funeral
benefits the sum Of $1,975. The total
cash in the treasury to date is $30,O45.2S.
The percentage of children under tbs
legal age employed in New Jersey fac
tories is less than it has been for many
years, according to the annual report Of
Col. Bryant, State commissioner of labor
When first chartered six years ago the
pay of the members of the Fresno (Cal)
Painters Union was S1.75 to S2.25 a
4ar Of ton,