Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
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Rubber workers in Maiden. Mass, have
formed union.
Prison guards in New York State are
asking for more pay.
Cigarmakers have unionized another
shop at Rochester, N Y
The leather workers Of Toronto will
ask for an increase of wages.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
is spreading rapidly throughout Califor-
MIA.
The convention of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor meets in st. Cloud in
| June
The Eighth hour League OF America has
been organized for the universal eight
hour day.
Salpt Lake City (Utah) plumbers are
on strike for wage for IS day. The
pay heretofore was $3.50.
All st. Augustine (Fla.) contractors
have signed the carpenters closed shop
| eight-hour day agreement.
| Union ship painters at San Francisco,
Cal, have obtained an increase in wages
from $3.50 to $500 day.
The silver workers strike for the nine
hour day in Brooklyn, n. y, resulted in
complete victory for the men.
Strikes and lockouts in Holland during
1905 amounted to 132, affecting 1854
workers. with 1896 strike days.
The Mattresses of Phoenix, Ariz., de-
Jnsnd a ten-hour day. They have been
working eleven and twelve hours.
The Structural Building Trades Ali
ance of America has a membership of
100000 workers outside of New York.
1t is the intention of the International
Photo-E ngrayers' Union to establish a
fund for aid of consumptive members.
Members of the Milwaukee Sign Paint
ers' Union have had their wages raised.
| The increase ranged from 90 cents to 81
a day.
The electrical workers of Cleveland
have presented new scale asking for
an increase in wages from 10 to 80 cents
an hour.
The percentage of unemployed in Great
Britain in 1906 was only IL per cent,
or Is less than in 1908, and "a less
than in 1904.
The San Francisco Iron Trades Coun-
Gil has decided to allow the question of
an eight-hour day to rest entirely with
the individual unions.
Drug clerks in the West are rapidly
| joining the Retail Clerks Union and it is
predicted that this movement will spread
toward the Atlantic coast
st. Paul union painters will receive 40
cents an hour the present season. An
agreement has been signed between the
union and the contractors.
The International Association of Ma
chinists of Greater New York and vicin-
| ity, $4,000 strong, has voted to demand
an eight-hour day in the near future.
The March report of the Mutual Assoc
citation of Journeymen Coopers of Great
Britain and Ireland shows a poor condi-
tion of trade, with many men out of en-
! ployment.
The switchmen's unions of the country
are endeavoring to bring about the cleo
ton of their national officers by referen-
dun vote, instead of on the floor of the
annual convention.
Diamond workers, members of the Dia-
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manding better wages from the diamond
manufacturers of America, the Associa-
ton of Gem Dealers.
The union BARRIERS of Cleveland are
seeing to it that the Sunday closing law
is enforced. Three proprietors were ar
rested recently for breaking the law. They
were placed under a bond.
Much systematic work has been going
on throughout California to form the
retail clerks into trade unions. The lat
est and one of the most promising was
formed in Sacramento recently.
The strike in the hat manufacturing
business of Orange, \. j., has been set
tied. The 1000 men and 700 women
went back to work when the manufac-
turers agreed to arbitrate the difference.
The first trade-union agreement entered
into by the city of Boston, Mass, is that
effected by the music department commits
soners with the Boston Musicians Pro
tective Union, which will be in force
for the summer.
The Iowa State Federation of Labor
and the Amdgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
joined in securing the enactment of
vestibule law at the recent session of the
Iowa Legislature.
When the Electrical Workers Union
was organized in st. Louis, Mo-, in 1891
wages ranged from 1925 to 50 a day
| from sunup to shutdown. To-day the
union has $4,000 members, who receive
from SO to So a day of eight hours.
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the farmers of Minnesota and the labor
! unions will be working hand in hand.
| The farmer and the labor unionist have
met on common ground and talked the
matter over, and both are agreed that in
| cooperating with each other many untold
benefits may accrue to both.
! All the great trade unions now in ex-
istence in England were founded before (
| 1882, beginning with the engineers in
1850. The boilermakers and iron ship
| builders, carpenters and joiners, the iron
| founders, the shipwrghts, the tailors,
| shoemakers, the bricklayers and others
were reorganized in the early sixties. be-
| fore the royal commission was constitute
ed in 1867. The Trades Union Congress
was established in 1868.
San Francisco (Cal.) union freight
handlers are receiving $3.50 day for a
nine-hour day, and they demand an eight
hour day with slight increase in wages.
Congress spent s20O,OOO,O0O.
Clerks Of the House and Senate com
mittees on appropriations have made
their annual complete statement Of the
expenditures Of the last session of Con-
gress. showing total Of LOS, l43, OF
which about S1J0,000,000 went for pen
sions. S212, 100000 for the postoifice, near
/ 5000, 100000 for the army and navy, and
| Sill. 100000 for the civil list
Coal Line to New England.
| The Delaware and Eastern railroad
hos ARRANGED an extension TO connect