Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
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Utah has organized a State Federation
of Labor.
The membership of the Cigarma&ers'
Union in Porto Rico is more than 1000.
The Federal High Court, at Sydney,
New South Wales, has declared that the
registration of a trade union label Is I'M
constitutional.
The recent Scottish Trades Union Con-
gress passed resolutions in favor of old
age pensions and in favor of compulsory
intervention in labor disputes.
St. Louis, Mo-, has a man named John
Samuels, who is 90 years of age, and still
takes an interest in organized labor, and
writes articles for publication, his favor
lite topic being cooperation.
The Trade Union Congress of England
passed a resolution asking Parliament to
enact a measure under which the organ
izers of strike-breaking movements, as
well as the men themselves could be prose-
cuted.
Until 1901 the United States and Great
Britain had more trade unionists than all
the rest of the world put together, but
since 1901 the rate of growth of the
unions in France and Germany has been
very marked.
The eight-hour demonstration in Bris-
bane, Australia, recently was marked by
the participation for the first time in the
history of the day of organized women
workers. The new recruits represented
the Clothing Trades Female Employees
Union.
School Director DIR. W. G. Weaver of
the WilkesBarre (Pa.) School Board,
proposes to pension the aged teachers in
the employ of the city by appropriating
a pension fund of $4,000 which the
board saves to the city annually in the
salaries, fees and other expenses: the
teachers to contribute their pro rata share
to the fund.
In Italy for admission to labor in mines
and tunnels the age must be thirteen full
years, when mechanical traction is EN-
ployed, and full fourteen years when me-
chanical traction is not employed, and
females of all ages are forbidden to labor
of this nature. Females of less than u
years will not be admitted to dangerous
labor of any kind.
James E. Roderick chief of the De-
partment of Mines, of Pennsylvania. in
issuing his report for the bituminous dis
trict for 1907, urges a fund for the re-
lief of widows and orphans by tax of
three-fourths of a cent ton on all coal
marketed.
The government of the city of Liege
Belgium, not only does all it can to PIE
vent idleness, but it encourages the work
ing class to obtain homes instead of vast
ing their earnings. The government in
1866 commenced to contract houses for
workingmen, selling them at minimun
cost on the installment plan.
Krupp's workmen's colonies at Esset
are called the West End, the Nordhof, the
Baumhof, the Schederhof, the Cronen-
berg, the Alfredshof, the Frederichshof
and the Altenhof (the latter for disabled
and pensioned workmen), and they con-
tain 5000 residences, including some de-
tached houses at Essen. In addition the
firm has rented 31S residences from pri-
vate owners for number of years. The
firm has erected a large number of hos
pitfalls. eating houses, lighthouses, etc.
Mr.. P. NJ. Draper, secretary of the Do
minion Trades Congress, has been nomi.
mated as the labor candidate for the board
OF Control of Ottawa, Canada.