Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
IN THE LABOR WORLD.


A party of English and Welsh coal
| miners, the first batch of 1000, has ar
rived at Sydney, Noyia Scotia, to work
Ia the mines Of the Dominion Coal COM
pany
The ministers of Coffeyyille, Kan,
| have adopted a uniform scale of prices
! for conducting funerals. and they pro
pose to extend their organization to all
parts OF the state.
Since the worknen's compensation net
/ came into force in Great Britain the
members Of the Dockers' union have
received by way of legal awards for ac-
cidents the large sum of $1S5,3T1.26.
A demand for an eight-hour day and
q 20 per cent. increase in wages was
recently voted by the national conven-
ton of the Metal Workers union at Gin
cinnati, which has membership OF
1000.
State officers of Pennsylvania have !,e-
gun an investigation into the claim that
4 between 1000 and 5000 miners and
breakers now employed in mines are an
der the. legal age required by the child
labor laws.
Twenty-eight new locals of the Brick
layers and Masons' International Union
of America have been organized in
North and South Carolina and four or
i five locals reinstated during the last
ten months.
More than 80 per cent. of the stereo.
| typers and electrotypers of the United
States and Canada are within the ranks
of the union, while in some of the larger
4 cities every man at the trade is a mem
Der of the union
The Cooperative Bank and Trust
/ company of Oklahoma City, promoted by
/ the Farmers union and the labor unions
4 of Oklahoma, has been chartered with
a capital stock of 100000. No stock
is to be sold except to union men.
The trade union Of garment workers
and the masters employing trade union
labor in England have fayorably consid-
/ cred the suggestion to fight the sweating
! system by union label to be affixed 10
all garments not made in sweat shops.
4 The latest addition to the ranks of or
gained labor in Cincinnati is the Milk
ers' union, which has received charter
from the American Federation of La
Dor. 1t is composed of men who do the
actual work in supplying the city with
milk.
Machinists and boilermakers in the
shops of the Great Western railroad at
i Des Moines and 0elwein, Ia. will work
nine hours instead of ten hours here
after. The men will also receive time
and one-half for overtime and Sunday
/ work
! Chicago woodworkers employed in the
| flooring and planning mills have signed a
new agreement with their employers, at
/ 10 per cent. increase in wages. The
agreement provides for the employment
of union men exclusively, and is effective
| for one year.
During the past two years, according
to the report of President w. ID. Mahon.
the Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of
| America increased its membership 6000
and paid out nearly 100000 in sick
| and death benefits.
The report submitted by Secretary
Frank Morrison to the recent convention
Of the American Federation of Labor
at Norfolk showed the present member
ship to be 1,53S,9Ic. as against 264.S25
| in 1891 1t now has defense fund
on hand amounting to more than $780,
600
The recent convention of the New
\ York State Workingmen's federation
adopted resolutions upon the following
| subjects: FavOring labor men as mem
hers of school boards, election BY. pop
! alar vote of state labor commissioners.
1 denouncing the cigar and tobacco trust
for employing children lat starvation
wages"
The International Typographical I'M
- a. IL Id ri
| favor of the establishment of pensions
for aged and incapacitated primers. The
ltyDographical union thus becomes the
| first American labor organization TO
adopt the old-age pension system, al
| though it has been feature of British
unions for many years.
The division of information of the
| Bureau of immigration. of which Il. V.
| powderly is the chief, proposes TO have
| we'll qualified men and women travel on
steamships and mingle. with incoming
aliens for the purpose of Informing them
of labor conditions in the United States
and what they may expect upon arrival;
| Through these agents, too, 1t IS expected
to discover attempted violations of the
alien contract labor law.
The Joint board of the parliamentary
committee of the British Trades Union
congress. the General Federation of
Trades unions, and the Labor party of
Great Britain, have issued report on
unemployment, in which il is recon- |
mended that trades unions be urged %
abolish overtime. and that where this |
| Is not wholly possible, it be restricted 10
the narrowest limits. and that when
worked, il be penalized to the fullest exs
tent.
John Il. Tobin of Boston has been re-
elected general president of the Boot
and Shoe Workers union. This marks
the end of the contest begun in the
unions election of 1906, when Thomas |
| h. Hickey 81 Broekton claimed that he
was elected president over MIR. Tohn- |
This claim was not sustained by the |
last convention of the union Mt Toronto |
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