Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-27
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cents a day.
A recent ruling makes Fargo On. ID
unions eligible 10 membership in the Min
nesota State Federation
In Harrisburg, H., there are eight
mills using the union label of the Flour
and Cereal Mil Workers Union.
All the road roller engineers are now
in the hosting and portable engineers
union by an international decision.
Union men atsToronto, Canada, assert
that plumbers are being brought from
England to take the places of the strik-
erS.
Hosseshcers employed by the city of
Boston have been granted the 1907 wage
scale of Boston Journeymen Horseshoers'
Union.
A labor and capital love feast to take
place on July 4 is being arranged by a
number of labor leaders and business men
of Chicago.
Eight hundred union BARRIERS in Chi
cago have been granted a new schedule of
wages and working conditions by their
employers.
The Provision Trades Council of Chi
cago and vicinity represents more than
$4,000 individuals employed producing
or handling provisions.
A new organization of vehicle painters
has been organized at Chicago. 1t is
known as the Chicago Carriage, Wagon
and Auto Painters Union.
Lowell (Mass.) textile unions have ac-
cepted the offered per cent raise of
wages under the condition that it be
granted to all employees of. the mills.
On and after Oct l the members of
the Operative Plasterers' Union of Bos-
crease, which will make their wages S4.SO
day
| Local union, No. 81, of the Garment
| Workers, made up of women working at
| the trade in Pittsburg, Pa, has started
an agitation for the Garment Workers
union label.
United Hatters' International Union
has established an international death
benefit system and also extended its juris-
| diction so as to include the men who
make mems straw hats.
The labor unions of Minneapolis,
Mimi, are to conduct crusade against
| all concerns which do Sunday business
| in that city. This is against all con-
| Germs where labor is employed seven
days in the week.
Musicians local, No. 6, which has in
| its jurisdiction San Francisco, Cal. Oak
| land, Alameda, Berkeley and Point Rich
mcnd now has about 1000 names on its
membership roll, which includes all
| classes of musicians.
The Machinists' Union of Pittsburg,
| Pa, is devoting some time to the better
| ment of conditions in the city. Recently
| it appointed a committee to see that a
| better car service was established 1t
proposes to interest all other labor or
| CARNATIONS in the matter.
| In the Chicago Federation of Labor
| there are 40 local unions which, in addi-
| ton to the leading industries has unions
of chandelier makers, coffee roasters, egg
| inspectors, feather buster makers. gold
| beaters, hair spinners, passementerie max
| ers, tuck pointers, front cleaners, ward
| robe tenders and we'll drillers.
Plumbers of Omaha, Neb., have return
! e6 to work in the closed shop and at an
| increase of 80 cents a day in wages The
| plumbers won by the undivided support
| OF organized labor. There was no arbi-
tration agreement to the settlement, the
master plumbers agreeing to the demands
of the union, and the victory was a COM
| plete one.
During the last year great strides have
been made in organizing the building
trade mechanics of the Southern States.
In cities and towns where last year there
were no organizations at all there are
now lively local unions of different crafts,
while in localities where year ago unions
barely existed they are now in a healthy
condition and thriving.
Among the larger labor unions in Ger
many are the clothing industry, with
242, ZOO workers, receiving so cents a
| day; the Saxon textile industry with
225,OO0 workers, averaging rs cents
North German Textile Union, with 1884,
900 workers, wages Go cents South Ger
man textile union, with $4,000 workers,
wages 30 cents, and the tobacco indus
try, with $4,000 wages 40 cents. The
lowest rate of all is paid to the textile
union of Siesia, AZ cents.
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