Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
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OF a grand total of 4,962,3l4 union
workers in Europe only $4,000 are
women.
Stonecutters' International Union, the
oldest in the country, has affiliated with
the A. Il. of L.
The Labor Temple Association of Kan
sas City, Mo-, has decided to commence
work on its building
New Bedford (Mass) Viewers Union
has voted not to apply for 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 2,600 members % cents
each to assist the striking cgarmakers of
Antwerp, Belgium.
Carpenters Of Stockton, Cal. have mo-
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, 20 assist in the vigorous
organizing campaign to be undertaken in
that trade.
Exclusive of seanen, 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
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 three-story frame building
containing halls and banquet rooms. The
cost of the structure will be $4,000.
Conditions in the eigarmaking industry
in Winnipeg, Man. have been 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 settlement.
The Prussian authorities have so inn
proved the appliances needed in coal min
ing and have adopted so many precaction-
airy measures to protect the lives of min
FRS, that while. OF the average. 81 min
ers out of every million annually lost
their lives during the decade 1SS1-1S9O.
this record has been steadily reduced un-
til. in 1905. only twenty-nine persisted
from explosion by fire damp.
Boston (NIass.) Brass Workers Union
recently withdrew from the metal polish
ers. 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, riNe and
progress of organized labor in this coun-
try. giving a complete review Of union
labor and what it has accomplished for
the laboring man. In all probability the
work win take up two or three large vol
umes.
Steps are being taken to reorganize the
boilermakers at Brainerd, MINI. 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 a day,
and plumbers will ask for Sc a 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 w. Craig of the Danyile
Hll.) Circuit Court has just rendered
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 l. that maintained by the unions,
and unless otherwise stipulated in con-
tract. union wages must he the standard
of wages figured on.
RoSton Mass. c. l. y. has asked the
state Labor Statistics Bureau to inquire
into the public loan Offices o. Paris, with
q view Of ascertaining il 1T is in the
interests of the public to open similag
establishments In that State.