Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-10
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Minneapolis viii entertain the 1905
convention of the Bartenders' Union.
A new district council 81 carpenters
has beea organized at ST. Paul, Minn.
Boston Wood. Wire and Metal I.athers'
Union has established a local sick and
des.a benefit system.
The Sheet Metal Workers Union New
England convention decided on vigorous
organizing campaign in all the six States.
The second quarter of this year result
ed in an increase in wages for 1910 men
employed in the building trades of Cam
ada.
Unions affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor publish 40 weekly
or monthly papers devoted to the cause OF
labor.
Work has been delayed on the Labor
Temple in Los Angeles, Cal, bat it is ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy by the
first week in January.
The International brotherhood of
Transfers has spread over the United
States and Canada, and has IN aggregate
membership of over 125,000.
a recent conference at Swanson, Eng
land, between unions engaged in the steel
trade and the employers resulted in an
eight-hour working day being conceded
The district over which the Chicago
Carpenters Union extends contains about
1900 men, inclusive of about 1000 wood
workers in the mills, who nave lately
Joined the carpenters.
Members OF the International Union of
Flour and Cereal Mill Workers will use
the stamp system in the payment of dues
hereafter. The change was decided upon
at the recent convention in Bloomington,
ILL.,
The Typographical Union of Denver,
Colo, has taken steps TO have sanitary
rules carried out in printing Offices in that
city. 1t will, through committee, pay
particular attention to light and ventila-
ton.
Electro-magnets are now much used in
connection with cranes and other convey
ors for lifting heavy pieces of iron and
steel. The Illinois Steel Company has a
magnet weighing 1000 pounds which lifts
six tons.
Shipwrights formed society IN New
York City in 1903, and the tailors and
also the carpenters did this in 1906 in the
same town. This may be said to have
been the beginning of labor unionism in
the United States.
The last season has been record
breaker for the Structural Iron Workers
Union at Minneapolis, Mimi, and there
has never been time since the building
season opened last spring when enough
men were available to meet the demand.
John II. Brinkman. secretary treasurer
Of the International Carriage and Wagon
Workers of North America, announces
that a. an early date he will begin the
publication of monthly journal which
viii be the official organ of his organiza-
ton.
The labor situation in Austria is un-
settled. Railway men are threatening TO
strike, and much dissatisfaction exists
among miners, textile workers and other
workmen. Three thousand foundrymen in
Vienna are on strike for a nine-hour day
and higher wages.
Boston Methodist ministers meeting Is
to join the Boston G. l.. u. 1t will send
fraternal delegates who will have voice
but no vote. The Womans Trade Union,
Womans League and several ether sim
liar organizations are already affiliated
under the same plan.
The experiment of recruiting skilled
labor in England for Canadian factories
has now been tried for seven months and
the committee of the Canadian Manufac-
turers' Association, which is responsible
for the Labor Bureau in London is album
dainty satisfied with the experiment so
far as it has gone.
As a means of inducing a coed attend
ance of members at it's meetings, the
Millwrights' Union of Minneapolis has
adopted novel plan. As an inducement
to members to turn out to the regular
meetings it has been decided to have
drawing at each meeting, which viii give
some member a receipt for a months
dues. Names OF all members present will
be placed on slips and handed 10 the sec
rotary, and at the next regular meeting
one of these will be drawn. In order to
get the prize a member must be present.
In Sweden the present year shows a
marked increase in disputes between EN-
ployers and employees; and although some
serious disputes, affecting large number
of hands, were luckily settled without
strike or lockout, the number OF strikes
during 1907 has been doubled as compar-
ed with the same period Of 1905. Dur
ing the first quarter of 1905 there were
thirty-seyen cases of work being stopped,
directly affecting 102 employers and 200
men; the figures for the same period in
1906 were forty-eight stoppages OF labor,
affecting ffty-three employers and 2,300
men, and during the first quarter of the
present year there were seyenIy-two stop
pages, affecting eighty-seven employers
and 3,4O0 men At the time of drawing
up the report five disputes were still
pending, forty-nine had resulted in
strikes, thirteen in lockouts and ten were
Of a more complicated nature.
Representatives Of more than 100000
members of the building unions held a
general convention recently in New York
City for the purpose Of planning among
building trade unions in that city a giant
central body in the building trade and
putting an end to all rivalry.
Owing to the action of the masters in
refusing to grant raise Of 70 cents a
week, the pstternmakers, at a meeting
in Belfast, Ireland, decided to 90 on
strike Nearly two hundred rien are con-
cerned, and It is feared tlIeir action may
affect the whole engineering trade in the
city.
President W. d. Mahon and other Off
GERS were reelected at the recent conven-
ton in New Orleans Of the Amalgamated
Association Of Street and Electric
Railroad Employees Of America.
The Coal Cancellation Boara for the
federated area Of Great Britain met re-
Gently to discuss and decide uion the
Qiners' demand for a further advance Of
5 per cent in wages, making the third adj
vance this year, and bringing me aggre-
gate wage up to the maximum Of 60 per
cent above the standard. The coal own
ers could not agree, and the matter has
been referred to Lord James Of Hereford