Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01
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During May 2ST employees were injured
in Canadian industrial accidents.
Austria has 2,4o4 local unions. with
total membership of $4,000.
The fortieth annual British Trades
Congress will assemble at Bath, England,
Sept. q
Oklahoma City 90. tt Hour mill en-
ployes have organized and applied to the
international union for a charter.
The strike of railway employees at
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, has ended. Dis
puted questions will be arbitrated.
The iron molders at Winnipeg, Canada,
VIII go on strike for better wages unless
a suitable agreement is reached.
Chief Statistician Pidgin of Massachu
settS says that the increase of cost of
llVlhg for 1906 exceeded the average wage
increase.
The British Postmen's Federation held
its sixteenth annual conference recently
in Leeds. The membership was stated 90
be 1883, an increase of 446 in the year.
British boilermakers and iron ship
builders, according to the annual report,
had a total membership at the close of
1906 of 52,056, an increase of 2,426 in
the year.
The report of State Factory Inspector
John c. Delaney of Pennsylvania shows
considerable improvement in factory
conditions in that State during the last
year.
The school janitors of Minneapolis
have taken steps to form a union, and
as soon as the organization is completed
they will apply to the American Fedora
ton of Labor for a charter.
The Scottish miners have decided TO
renew their demand for 1919 per cent adj
vance in wages to the Cancellation board.
The mems representatives declare that
the demand must be enforced.
The Broommakers' Union, at San
Francisco is making fight against con-
vict-made brooms. 1t has asked organized
labor not to purchase any broom that
does not bear the union stamp.
At recent meeting of the Manchester
(EnglandD Tide Union Golfers reSolp-
tions We're passed in favor of urging upon
their representatives in Parliament the
necessity for supporting the miners eight
hour bill
The metal trades division of the Trades
Council of Cleveland is considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing and maintain
ing a legal department that shall take
charge of all the lega, business of the
unions and members in that city.
From the American viewpoint the
wages paid both skilled and common la
borers in France are very low, while the
cost of living is relatively higher in
France than in the United States, with
the e. option of house rent and servants
wages.
The factory inspectors of the Grand
Duchy of Baden have published a COM
prehensive report on the home industries
of their country, which has attracted
much attention because of the picture il
paints of the misery and restitution in
which a large portion of the population
lives.
The central committee of German
trades unions has published a statistical
table showing the wages earned in each
of the sixtysix organized trades of the
empire. The most remarkable thing
about the table is the evidence it brings
that in twenty-seven of these trades the
average daily wage is less than 70 cents.
The Central Labor Union of Detroit
has added to the Labor day celebration
feature that will give much added interest
to labor's national holiday. The new fea-
ture is the election by popular vote of
Queen of Labor Day." The GROWING of
the queen" will be one of the attrac-
tions of the day.
Encouraged by the success of the OPP
erations of the loan fund plan which was
established six months ago, the Mime
apolis Cigarmakers' Union has decided to
go a step further in the way of looking
after it's membership in a pecuniary way.
A plan is to be considered to establish a
banking system OF a small scale, to be
operated under the direction of the union.
Recently about 1900 laborers at Sal
ford docks, England, ceased work, owing
to a refusal on the part of officials to
accede to an informal request for an
increase in their wages. The men engag-
ed in unloading timber began the trouble,
by making verbal demand for payment
at the rate of Sd an hour, or 6s a day, in
stead of I'd an hour, the present rate of
pay.