Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-18
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Of a grand total of 4,962.314 union
workers in Europe only $4,000 are
women.
Stonecutters' International Union, the
oldest in the country, has affiliated with
the \. f. of L.
The Labor Temple Association of Kan
sas City. Mo-, has decided to commence
work on its building.
New Bedford (NIass.) Viewers Union
has voted not to apply for a charter to
the United Textile Workers.
The next meeting of the Massachusetts,
State Council of Electrical Workers
Unions has been called for April IA, in
Boston.
Boston (Mass) Cigarmakers' Union
has assessed its 2600 members % cents
each to assist the striking cigarmakers of
Antwerp, Belgium.
Carpenters of Stockton. Cal, have no.
titled the contractors that they want $3.50
a day. The date fixed for the raise to
take effect is June 1.
Twelve national organizers of the Unit
ed Garment Workers Union are to visit
Boston. Mass, TO assist in the vigorous
organizing campaign to be undertaken in
that trade.
Exclusive of seamen, the number of
British work people reported as killed in
the course of their employment during
December, 1906, was 260, an increase of
four as compared with the previous
month. and of thirteen as compared with
December, 1905.
There is no child-labor law in Japan,
and some very young children are work
ed. The mills do not want to work any
under twelve, as it does not really pay,
but in order to get help they often have
to take the whole family, and so a good
many younger children are employed.
The Union Carpenters Hall Associa-
ton of Oakland, Cal, has purchased a
lot for $1,000. Six of the stanchest
unions in Oakland are represented in the
association. 1t is the intention of the
corporation to proceed at once with the
erection of a three-story frame building
containing halls and banquet rooms The
cost of the structure will be $4,000.
Conditions in the cigarmaking industry
in Winnipeg, Man, have bean unsettled
for some time, owing to differences be-
tween the employers and the union. The
local in that city has been unable to
come to any satisfactory understanding
with the bosses. so the international
union was appealed to to send repre-
sentative to Winnipeg to make an effort
to effect a settlement
The Prussian authorities have so i'm
proved the appliances needed in coal min
ing and have adopted so many precaution-
airy measures to protect the lives of min
Prs. that while. on the average. 81 min
ers out of every million annually lost
their lives during the decade 1SS1-1S9O
this record has been steadily reduced I'M
til. in 1908. only twenty persisted
from explosion by fire damp.
Boston Mass Brass Workers Union
recently withdrew from the metal polish
prS. buffers. platers and brass and silver
workers international. and formed an in
dependent local of its own.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor. is now en-
gagged in the preparation of the manu-
script for a work on the origin. rise and
progress of organized labor in this coun-
labor and what it has accomplished for
the laboring man. In all probability the
work will take up two or three large vol
umeS.
Steps are being taken to reorganize the
boilermakers at Brainerd. Mimi. and a
representative of the State Federation
will shortly visit the place for the pur-
pose of starting the organization.
Union carpenters OF Santa Clara coun-
try. Cal, are now receiving $3.50 a day.
Union painters will ask for an increase
in their wages from $3.50 to 81 day,
and plumbers will ask for Sc day.
The eight Brockton (Mass.) shoe firms
which declined to renew their union
stamp contracts on a new basis desire to
arrange with the shoe workers for the
reference of all disputes to the State
Board of Arbitration.
Judge James ". Craig of the Danvile
CHI Circuit Court has just rendered a
decision which settles what is meant by
1.-The prevailing rate of wages" and, incl
dentally gives a boost to trade unions
The decision is to the effect that the only
scale of wages known to the general pub
lie is that maintained by the unions,
and. unless otherwise stipulated in con-
tract. union wages must be the standard
of wages figured on.
Boston (Mass) c. L. Z. has asked the
State Labor Statistics Bureau to inquire
into the public loan Offices of Paris, with
a view of ascertaining if it is in the
interests Of the public to open similar
establishments in that State.