Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-06
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Granite cutters of Hardwick, Vt, have
won their fight for better wages.
district council of cement workers
will be formed in San Francisco, Cal.
San Jose (Cal.) Street Car Mems
| Union is agitating for an increase in pay.
Laundry Workers Union of Alameda
| county, Cal, has made demand for an
eight-hour day.
Union labor is renewing interest in
proposition to establish labor temple
in Boston, Mass.
The San Francisco (Cal.) building ma
| terial teamsterS' union now has on the
roster $500 names.
The Winona leather workers union
has affiliated with the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor
Announcement has been made that all
Italian barber shops in San Francisco
have been unionized.
| Leather workers on horse goods at To-
ronto, Can, are asking an increase of Is
per cent in their wages.
The International Union of Horse
| shoers of the United States and Canada
was organized in 1879.
| The New York police now desire an
| eight hour day. Several hundred of them
recently met and organized union.
The Ontario branch of the Canadian
Labor party was recently organized at
| lively meeting of labor men at Toronto.
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citation hopes to have its $4,000 temple
ready for occupancy by next Labor day.
Agricultural laborers at Arsenta, in
the Province of Ferra, Italy, are on
! strike for more equitable division of
| labor and wages.
The New York Labor Bulletin, just
| issued by the Department of Labor, gives
| the number of organized men and women
| in the Empire State as 39S, 494.
A new lodge of the Brotherhood of
| Railway Carmen was instituted recently
in Minneapolis. The membership is al
most wholly from the 500 shops.
There is a movement on foot to estab-
lish a weekly labor paper in Oakland,
| Cal The Central Labor Council of Ala
media county is behind the project
| A special committee from the Mime
apolis Team Owners Union is investi-
eating the feasibility of the Union going
into the feed business on the cooperative
plan.
Louisville (Ky) union paperhangers
| who voted to strike gained the advance
in wages asked from the wall paper deal
ers, and returned to work under years
| agreement.
More attention is to be given to South
! ern states by the American Federation
Of Labor, which is planning to build up
a stronger labor movement in that section
| of the country.
Stogiemakers intend to apply for
| charter from the American Federation OF
Labor Their application hitherto has
been contested by the International CT
| garmakers' Union.
A compromise proposition to end the
strike of the photographers for the eight
| hour workday, and which has been on
since Aug. 4 last, has been sent to refer
endum for action.
Patternmakers' League of North Amer
| lea spent $4,000 in organization work in
the Eastern Coast States last year, and
| since that time new members of the union
have received 100000 in wages as a di-
rect result of that work.
Electrical workers, machinists and
blacksmiths of Great Falls, Mont. who
recently went on strike, have signed
contract for five years. All the smelter
employees are now back to work, and all
| hound NV Eya-yn1r contracts
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has given his official
sanction to a merger of the San Fran
cisco Water Works Union with the gas
workers The organization will be known
as the Gas and Water Workers Union.
| Metal Workers Union, at Minneapolis,
! is making preparations to institute
new union composed of factory and as
sortment workers and can workers. The
workmen of these crafts are timers, and
there are large number employed in the
various local factories.
A movement is on foot by the Amalga-
mated Engineers of England for fur
Their advance in wages, notices for which
have been given to the officials of the
! Employers Federation. The matter will
come before the joint committee at an
early date in London.
Washington Cd. c. Central Labor
Union recently passed resolution to
the effect that the various trades con-
nected with the body, and not belonging
to the building trades be induced again
to take up the question of an allied coun-
ell of miscellaneous trades and form an
organization to be known as the Allied
Label League of the Central Labor
Union.
If present plans are carried out, Chi
cago will have a union hotel, built by
union men exclusively, all its Furnishings
and appointments to be union made, and
every person employed, from bell boys to
manager shall be members of labor or
CARNATIONS. 1t is believed that the labor
unionists Of Chicago, regular residents
and transients, who live in hotels are
sufficiently numerous to make a very
large hotel success.
San Francisco Plumbers Union is one
of the most progressive trades organiza-
tons in the city. Recently it took an
option on a lot valued at $4,000. If the
title is found perfect the Union will pur-
chase the IOL anu eIeCL a SuildDlc
for its growing membership.
At the interstate conference of trade
union representatives, held at Sydney,
New South Wales, during the eight-hour
celebration, it was unanimously resolved
to recommend a uniform trade union
label, to be placed on all articles pro
duced under union conditions OF labor
in the commonwealth.
Women compositors of Christiania and
Bergen, Norway, are to be paid the same
| rates as men, after five years apprent-
iceship and the passing of a test as to
| being fully qualified.
Knoxville (Tenn.) carpenters have
reached an agreement with the contract
ors whereby the carpenters will receive
thirty cents an hour, nine hours day
and union shop conditions.
The weavers, who have been on striks