Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-14
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Britisy Amal=anated Engineers now
have membership OF l04.632.
Dockers in Germany increased their
membership in 1905 from 1900 to $500.
Boston (Mass.) sheet metal workers
helpers recently organized a union.
Montreal Cam telephone girls have
organized in afiliation with the Electric
Workers Union.
Foundry laborers are making national
move to enforce the nine-hour day where
it does not exist
Between Jan. /, 1901. and Jan. i, 1906,
there were 29S strikes and nineteen lock
outs in California
1t is the intention of the International
Photo-Ensravers' Union to establish a
fund for the aid of consumptive members.
Minneapolis and ST. Paul retail clerks
associations are joining hands in an effort
to obtain the early closing of retail stores.
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
are the only remaining Northern States
which permit factory work at the age of
i years.
Unions of st. Augustine Fla. are be-
ing sued for $4,000 damages because they
urged dealers not to sell to an unfair
contractor.
The average annual wage of the entire
membership of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes is 500.
In Colorado during 1906 there were 13S
trade disputes, affecting 26.094 work peo-
pie and causing loss in the aggregate of
1919 working days.
At recent meeting of the Fishermen's
Protective Union of the Pacific coast and
Alaska a committee was chosen to confer
with the various Alaska So incorporating
companies ON schedule of wages and per-
centage for the season of 1907
Building contractors and the Citizens
Alliance of Tacoma, Wash, have joined
hands to fight the unions. Announce
ment has been made that unionism will
not be recognized in hiring men for the
construction of some of the large struc-
lures to go up during the year.
BY way of carrying out the idea of
unity among the seafaring craft. the Sail
ors' Union of the Pacific many years ago
adopted a system of exchange with the
Seamens Union of Australasia under
which members of either organization may
join the other without payment of initia-
ton fee.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Interna-
tional Union is taking a referendum vote
on the question of holding a convention
this year. The boot and shoe workers
seem to be little "up in the air. as to
what they could do even if they held a
convention. The recent election tangle is
still before the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts, with little prospect of decision
| being given for some time.
Representing a combined membership
| of 10000, nine unions in the metal trades
have formed a Metal Trades Council, of
Pittsburg, Pa, and vicinity, to replace the
old Machinery Trades Alliance, which
| took in trades only intimately connected
with machinery. The new organization
| will aim to combat the efforts of the
| Manufacturers Association in the indus
tries represented to force the open shop
! principle.
A striking feature has developed in con-
nection with the French boot and shoe
makers strike at Fougeres, Were some
1000 operatives are out. The factories
were opened recently for such as desired
| to resume work, but only about 10 per
cent of those out presented themselves for
employment. Great distress has prevailed
in the district by the prolonged cessation
of work. To alleviate this distress French
trade unionists in other districts are car
rying out the ''paternar' principles they
profess, and are taking the strikers chill
| dren into their homes.