Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-16
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A movement is on foot in California to
form State council of carpenters.
At the close of 1905 the building trades
in Germany had 26,653 union members.
The Shirtwaist Makers Union of New
York City is preparing to make demands
for higher wages and recognition of the
union.
johannesburg (South Africal unem-
ployed are making their presence known
by daily professions through the streets
of that city.
steam, hot water and power pipe filters
and helpers unions has been called for
April IL, at Hartford. Conn.
Boston (Iass.) Cigarmakers' Union
has added a local sum TO $3-a- week-out-
of-work benefit paid by the International
to all unemployed members,
An agitation has been begun to secure
for the blast furnace workers an eight
hour day instead of the twelye-hour limit,
toned.
The New South Wales Hairdressers
and Wigmakers' Onion is urging the ne
ceSsity for government inspection and
supervision of hairdressing saloons in the
interests of public health.
According to the opinion of prominent
labor leaders, the most satisfactory em-
ployment of convict labor would be on
the building of public highways and the
reclamation of State lands.
Some of the Washington Cd. CO labor
leaders are much interested in forming
women's trades unions and in establish
ing auxilaries to their locals, which are
to be composed of members of the fair
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Labor unions of Cleveland, Ohio, have
a new scheme to build their labor temple
To add to the amount already raised it
is proposed to have individual unions sub
scribe for certain number of shares Of
stock each month.
The average union scale of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees is 1914 cents an hour.
the average service day a fraction less
than ten hours and the average number
of days worked year 300.
New Bedford (Mass.) Textile Council
has sent circular letter to the various
textile unions in New England urging
them to join in asking the manufacturers
to shut down their mills the last week in
August for a weeks vacation.
A strike has been declared at the Port
land (Ore.) lpmber mills owing to the
refusal of the employers to grant a raise
in wages and to shorten the hours. The
men demand $3.50 for a nine-hour day.
They have been receiving $1.15 for ten
hours.
According to the American Federation
list, 947 labor unions, with a membership
of 102,510, reported % per cent of such
members without employment in January.
In December the ratio of unemployed was
Al per cent, and in January, 1906, the
percentage was 2.2J.
None but American citizens will be
permitted to work as section hands ON
railroads if new labor union, embrac-
ing all section hands employed on rail-
roads West and Southwest, succeeds in
getting its demands granted by the gen.
eral managers committee in Chicago.
The sailors on the great lakes are dis
satisfied with their hours and wages. In
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that they are going to demand better con-
ditions when their committee is called
into conference with the Lake Carriers
Association to make a contract for the
coming season.
The Ohio Federation of Labor has gone
on record against the products of con-
vict labor being placed in competition
with free labor. Ohio, Wisconsin and
Illinois have laws requiring the convict
labor label to be placed on all goods made
by convicts. There is proposed federal
law which would require all conyict-made
goods to bear the label also.