Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
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A New Sheet Metal Workers Union or
ganized recently in Red Wing, MINI.
San Francisco retail grocery clerks
met recently and formed a union.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Labor Tenn
pie Association has decided to commence
work on it's building.
The total membership of the Women's
Trade Union League in Great Britain is
in excess of 135,000.
The Brooklyn silver workers strike for
the nine-hour day resulted in a complete
victory for the men.
In the Gloucester (England) district,
the foundrymen's wages have been adj
vanced one shilling a week, with one
hours reduction in time.
One of the pioneer labor unions of this
country is the Journeymen Stone Cut
tiers of Newark, n. j., organized May 10,
1884.
The headquarters of the International
Union of Carriage and Wagon Workers
of America will shortly be established in
Washington, D. G.
The Horseshoers' Union of Boston has
won it's increased scale for the current
year and all the men have returned to
work.
An immigration bill now pending in the
British Columbia Legislature imposes an
educational qualification, which it is be-
lieved will result in barring Chinese, Japs
and Hindoos.
In Boston many of the labor unions
make their meetings interesting and in
structive by having men well versed on
trades and mechanics deliver short adj
dresses or lectures bearing on the prac-
teal in the particular trade of the union
addressed.
More than 90 per cent of the stereo.
typers and electrotypers of the United
States and Canada are within the ranks
of the union, while in many Of the larger
cities it is not an uncommon thing to find
every workman at the business a member
of the union.
An important step toward Cancellation
has been taken on the northeast coast of
England by the decision recently to es-
tablish a Cancellation board for the regu-
lation of wages and the settlement of
trade disputes. and with arbitration
should the parties fail to agree.
Wages of the coal miners of England
and Wales are to be increased per cent.
This applies to all underground labor and
to the wages of surface labor engaged on
the pitbanks and screens in manipulating
the coal.
A strong branch of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor has been established in
Mexico. The organization takes in all
classes of labor. SO far the membership
is confined to Americans who work in
Mexico. The organization has nearly
$4,000 new members in the southern re-
public and the promise is held forth that
the membership will soon be doubled.
A new union of blacksmiths has been
organized at Hudson, Wis, and organizers
are at work among other trades there
with view to forming several other or
CARNATIONS.
Nome (Alaska) miners who walked out
demanding 81 a day and recognition of
their union, have compromised, the OPP
orators acceding to the wage demands,
but refusing to recognize the union.
A meeting of industrial insurance
agents in Boston resulted in the organ
ization of a union. Reduction in the pay
of agents in this line of insurance is given
as the reason for the formation Of a
union.
St. Paul tailors. who have been affll-
lated with an independent union for
long time, have concluded TO become a
regular organization.
Organized labor of Seattle is warning
all laborers to keep away from Alaska,
on account of the strikes, actual and pros
pective, in that section
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor. is now
engaged in the preparation of the manu-
script for work on the origin. rise and
progress of organized labor in this coun-
try. giving a complete review OF union la
Dor and what it has accomplished for the
laboring man. In all probability the work
will take up two or three large volumes.