Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-29
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Los Angeles elevator operators are
forming union.
Chicago tunnel workers, 200 in num-
bel, have formed a union.
Louisville municipal laborers are agi-
tating for an eght-hour day.
The Transvaal government has appoint
Ell committee to inquire into the indus
trial distress prevailing in that country.
Des Moines Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, is cooperating width the Commercial
Club to bring the city into greater prom
inence.
Journeymen Plumbers Union of Sac
ramento, at recent meeting decided to
insist on an increase in wages and have
a half-holiday On Saturdays.
The recent convention of the Seamens
international Union, held in Boston,
adopted resolutions opposing the admis-
sion of large numbers of japanese to the
United States.
At the recent meeting of the Arkansas
State Federation of Labor, held at Fort
Smith, it was said that not over one
half of the labor unions in its jurisdiction
are affiliated with the State body.
The Woman's Trade Union League will
aid in obtaining the passage of bill be-
fore Congress providing for an investiga-
tion of the conditions of labor of women
ard children in the United States.
st. Paul painters have decided to ask
foS an increase in wages. The new scale
calls for a fiat rate of 421a cents an
hour, being an increase of 8 cents an
hour. Increased cost of living is given
as the reason for asking the increase.
Sixteen States have safety appliance
laws. These laws are specific as to the
classes of machines to be safeguarded,
and also require belt shutters, loose pull
leys, shaft and we'll holes to be inclosed
and all possible provisions made to pro-
tect life and limb of the employee.
BY referendum vote the Brotherhood
of Painters locals at Pittsburg have ac-
oepted the employers proposal of 40 cents
an hour for an eight-hour day and car
fare for 1907. This is the old scale, but
some of the unionists favored 40 cents
en- hour, while still others voted for 80
cents
A closer utilization between labor or
CARNATIONS in this country with those of
Great Britain is the aim of men promi-
nent in the movement on each side of the
Atlantic. Several internationals have
made arrangements for transfer of trav-
cling cards and practically ire one or
ganization.
Organized labor in Los Angeles is
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framed and operated wholly by trades
unionists. 1t is proposed to place the in
stitution in the new Labor Temple. In
stead Of running it on cooperative prin-
ciples, the bank will be organized as a
ST ock company.
Bakers in the Manchester and Stafford
(England) district are agitating for an
increase in wages of 70 cents a week
tbe present rate is 50 they demand 1915.
The employers refuse to concede this
amount, though negotiations have been
going on for some time. The men are
organizing with the view of pressing their
demands.
The treasury of the General Federation
of Trades Unions of Great Britain con-
tains an emergency fund at the present
time of approximately 100000, and it is
increasing upon an average of $4,000 a
year. Ii is the intention gradually to
raise the strike payments until they
reach $1.25 and $3.50 week for the two
classes of benefciaries.
Aberdeen (Scotland) plumbers have OBJ
lained reduction of three hours on the
working week in the summer, from fifty
one to forty eight and of five hours in
the winter-from forty-eight to forty
three. The rate of pay is raised / cent
an hour, but owing to the Encouragement
Of the hours the total amount payable
weekly will remain the same.
A bill has been introduced in the Ger
man Reichstag which proposes to alter
the law with regard to trade unions. 1t
is a permissive bill to enable trade So
rieties to register themselves and there
b. acquire the status of corporations to
be able ito sue and to be sued" The
chief purpose is to get legal ground for
attaching the trade union funds.
The action instituted by the Miners
Federation of Great Britain to recover
damages from the United National col
Iieries, Wallstown, on behalf of the vic
tins in the recent explosion, has been
smicably settled, the company agreeing
10 pay $4,000, including costs, in excess
of the amounts recoverable under compen-
ration. This guarantees to each widow
81 800.
The undue prevalence of tuberculosis
pmong workingmen, which has led pretty
tearly every national union in the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor to consider plans
for the establishment of homes for their
Consumptive members similar to that
maintained by the printers is illustrated
in the quarterly report of the Amalga
mated Association of Street and Elec-
tie Railway Employees just issued. The
alortality record for the past three months
showed that one-third of the entire sixty
deaths was due to the great white plague.
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