Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19
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The Order of Railway Conductors has
voted to hold its 1909 biennial conven-
ton at Boston.
More than 100000 railway servants in
England are required to work from twelve
to fifteen hours a day.
The sixty-hour-a-week schedule will be
put in force in the cotton mills of South
Carolina Jan. !, 1908.
Average wages in Canada have in
creased q per cent in five years, accord
ing to the census report.
The number of wage earners employed
in Virginia cotton mills in 1905 was
6,619, receiving $1,647,739 a year.
Eight hundred union BARRIERS in Chi
cago, have been granted a schedule of
wages and working conditions by their
employers.
An effort is being made to establish
a federation of labor in Oklahoma. If it
is organized it will have about $4,000
workers under it's jurisdiction.
The Amalgamated Society of British
Engineers will, after this year, cease at
tending the Trades Union Congress, and
absent itself for at least four years.
A National Association of Carpet
Workers of America has been organized
This will have jurisdiction of about 20
900 persons employed in carpet mills.
The demand of the Havana cigarmak-
ers that they be paid in American money
has been granted by the Cuban manu-
facturers, and the factories will imme-
diately be reopened.
Garden truck bearing union labels is
the latest thing proposed in Newburgh,
n. Y, farmers in that vicinity having
organized and asked for utilization with
the Central Labor Union.
There are thousands Of women and
girls who are members of unions of trades
in which most of the workers are men,
and these unions are, naturally, controll-
ed by the male members. The printers,
telegraphers, garment workers, tobacco
workers and several other trades admit
women to membership in their unions,
and their rolls show goodly number of
women members. ''"~s>~ -
The Council Of the canton of Tessin,
Switzerland, has decided by "a against
q vo.es to repeal the act prohibiting
night work in bakeries. The men are
badly organized and will probably not be
able to resist the attempt OF the masters
to reiLtroduce night work.
The Union of Sawmill Workers in the
north Of Sweden has beaten one OF the
biggest employers after a most bitter and
prolonged fight, during which several hun
dreds Of families were evicted from their
dwellings, the employer in question haV-
ing adopted for some time the device OF
housing the men in his own cottages.
The quarterly report of the Central
Iron MoIders' Association OF Scotland
shows a membership at the end Of the
quarter of 4,264, an increase of 245 as
compared with the previous quarter.
The dispute Of macAinists at Belfast,
Ireland, has developed into most seri-
GUS situation. 1t is reported that the
employers have decfied en- general
lockout, and the meo on general strike.
Plumbers of Chicago have started a
movement for TIE establishment of
home for aged and infirn members along
lines similar to those Of the Information
al Typograplical Union at Colorado
Springs.
Advanced wages and shorter hours in
the large majority of cases without re-
sort to strikes, is the report that organ
izers are sending in to the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. The result of the con-
.inued prosperity of the country has been
felt among the workingmen. There rs
hardly a trade that has not received an
increase. In some places it is the carpen-
tiers. in other the bricklayers and SO on
down the line.
In Belgium the minimum pay of print
ers, roofers, GLACIERS, painters and boiler
makers is z cents an hour, or 20 cents a
day. Black smiths, locksmiths, carpenters,
masons, plumbers and electricians are
paid 80 cents day.