Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-08
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| MeinpnlS unlonlSIS contemplate builu-
| ing a labor temple to cost $4,000.
Shipbuilders tiron, at Portsmouth. n.
| H.. and Bath. Me-, have organized.
Tacoma (Wash.) longshoremen have
made demand for the closed shop.
A Building Material Transfers Union
was organized recently in San Jose. Cal.
The Coppersmiths Union in New York
reports that its helpers are being organ
lied
The work of organizing the machinists'
apprentices of the Pittsburg district has
begun.
At meeting recently held in Grass
Valley the Nevada County Labor Council
was organized.
A reduction in the hours of labor in
the rubber factories of Providence, K. l..
has been granted
The Mankato Mimi Trades and La
Dor Assembly has gone on record as favor
Ing truancy law.
Three ministers were recently seated as
fraternal delegates to the Toledo (Ohiol
Central Labor Union.
International Steam Shovelmen's Union
has formed a local of all steam shovel
workers in Oakland, Cal
Findlay, Fostoria and TfIin, three en-
terprising cities of the Buckeye State,
have formed tri-city labor congress.
New York police have formed an or
ganization to obtain the eight-hour day.
They are asking assistance of the union
men.
Nashville (Tenn> machinists have
new scale. Those working in the machine
shops of the city will receive 80 1-3 cents
| an hour
Labor organizations of America have
gained l,204 new unions during the past
year, embracing a membership of 100000
individuals.
Sacramento (Cal.( glass workers have
reached an agreement with their employ
ers and returned to work. Both sides
made concessions.
Quie number of Boston (Mass.) la
Dor unions have decided against permit
ting political resolutions or discussions
in the unions meetings.
Strike benefits were paid TO the amount
of $143. 069.5S and death benefits of 500
SO by the International Association of
Machinists in the last fiscal year.
The sum of 1,1100O0 kroner (S300,-
O00) was expended for strike benefits aud
aid to boycotted union men during the
last three years by the unions of Sweden.
During 1903, twenty-three new organ
izations in England registered under the
trade union act and seventy-three organ
izations dissolved or had registration can
celed.
All the building trades of Nashua, ~
H., have decided to act as a unit and
request the eight-hour workday and
25-cents-a-day raise for each trade on
May l.
In decision recently rendered by JUS
tice Stafford, OF the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, the right to issue
an unfair list was upheld and decided to
be legal
After many weeks of effort, representa-
tives of the Master Horseshoers' Associa-
ton, of Minneapolis, Mimi, and the union
journeymen have succeeded in reaching a
joint working agreement
Jewelry workers "a Chicago. H.. who
went on strike to obtain an eight hour
day, have called off the strike and re-
turned to work. Many of the shops af-
fected have been operating with non-union
workmen.
The Womans Trade Union League of
Great Britain is now on a solid founda
ton and is steadily growing in numbers
and influence. The increase in member
ship during the year just closed was more
than 11.000.
To discover to the last cent just what
it costs a family of five to live in these
times of high prices is the chief object
of an investigation, plans for which have
been announced by the Charity Organza-
ton Society of New York City.
In the future all cigars made in Wash
ington. ID. c., will bear the union label
and the men who make them will be paid
full union wages, the Cigarmakers' Union
having been successful in placing its scale
before the local manufacturers.
If. as expected. all members of the Al
lied Building Trades Unions in Washing
ton, ID. c.. 90 on strike to help the Plumb
ers' Union in its fight against the Mas
ter Plumbers Association. between COCO
and 1000 men will shortly be idle in that
city.
The American Federation of Labor will
soon begin campaign of political edu-
cation among its millions of members and
their friends The statement has been
made on good authority that the working
men will figure important factor
in the great national struggle of 1908,
and that they will have to be reckoned
with by the political managers of all par
| ties.
Labor Commissioner VI. j. Mcleod Of
Michigan is preparing an amendment to
the laws governing the employment of
women and girls The employment Of
girls under q years of age during the
night in factories and stores is prohibit
ed. and it is proposed to make this apply
to all women The commissioner will try
also to limit the hours of labor week
for women and girls to sixty in stores as
we'll as factories.
Retail Drug Clerks Association of San
Francisco. Cal. is taking steps toward
establishing a better wage schedule and
the enforcement of the State ten-hour-day
law, which is being violated by a large
number of drug store propretors.
The last census showed that more than
100000 women were engaged in gainful
occupations and tiiat their average wage
was less than $40 a year and that more
than 30 per cent Of them were not "A
~ears old The census also showed that
the proportion Of women employed in fac
tcries IS Increasing more rapidly than that
of men.
The laboring men Of Hamilton, Canada,
are so jubilant over electing a candidate
for the Dominion Legislature that the
talk now is of indorsing candidates for
mayoralty and for aldermen.
Chicago CID German Hold Carriers
and Building Laborers' Union, No. ], has
Just completed labor temple in that
city. costing in all 100000. and paid for
entirely from the unions treasury.
The American Federation Of Labor will
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