Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

books in good standing than was the cas-,
one year aga. The fetal membership IN
good standing now is 199,S23. which
means thar the brotherhood has actually
more than 25u.oU0 members,
Tie eleventh annual convention of the
tennessee Federation of Labor, held ~
Gently. took practical steps looking
toward obtaining child labor and other
Legislature measures of benefit 10 the
workers, and Il campaign will be insti-
tut@' 70 obtain more thorough organiza-
/ t'on of the laboring peuplc.
Industrial conditions are greatly inn
proved in Bridgeport, Conn Practically
ali OF the large factories have resumed
operations, the most OF them in full
force and some which are running ON
Short time have arranged 60 increase thu,
number of working hours each week
The Vancouver Trades and Labor
council has decided "a try 10 secure a
supply of cheap fuel along the lines fol.
lowed in Seattle, and has appointed n
committee 10 inquire into the question.
In Seattle the unions have bought coal
MINI, aud hope To build railway line
g IT, The savings already amounts To
- i ton,
IL IS estimated that the recent strike
OF telegrapherS cost their union nearly
S2OOOO0. About 100000 was paid ont
III strike benefits by the various locals.
and S96,393 was distributed for the
same purpose from the national head
quarters,
The Wisconsin Central railroad intends
10 test the validity of the Elyer eight
hour law applying To telegraph operators
of the railroads of Wisconsin. which
went into effect January /.
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor has appointed Pres
ldent Gompers of the Federation: presi-
dent Huber of the United Brotherhood
Of Carpenters and Joiners. and Presi-
dent Duncan of the Granite Cutters
National union, as a committee TO set
tie the many disputes between building
trades and unions in New York.
h. st furnace men in the north of
England have had to submit to re
duction in wages as the result of re-
cent meeting of the Cancellation hoard.
The output of the iron trade has consid-
efahly decreased of late.
Museums of Safety Devices and gen
eral industrial hygiene have been es,-
tablished by the governments Of Holland.
Germany, France, England and several
other countries of Europe These do
magnificent work IN educating employers
aud employed, as well as the public gen
orally.
Nearly $1,000 has been raised 10y popu-
Tar subscription among workingmen for
the proposed monument to the late Au-
gustus pollack of Wheeling. w. Va Mr..
Pollack was probably the largest stogic
manufacturer in the world aud made
liberal requests to the Stogiemakers' Ma
tional league.
Sixteen British trades unions. with a
membership of BOG. 900. are supporting
a movement TO establish 1-cent eight
page daily newspaper in the interests
of labor, The parliamentary committee
of the Trades Union congress win man.
age the venture The suggested capital
t is 100000.
\ bill recently introduced in the Gen
eral Assembly at Albany provides thai
laborers who take up temporary resi-
dence iii the vicinity of their work any
where in the state of New York must b.
supplied with sanitary quarters.
The printers were the first craft Of any
importance 10 extend their organization
throughout the United States. The Ma
tional Typographical union was es
tablished in 1852. Ten years later il
was changed to the International Typo
graphical union in order to take in Can
| ada.
The right of state Legislature under
the constitution of the United States t.
enact law prohibiting the employment
of female laborers for more than ten
hours q day. in which the state of Ore
gon is involved, was argued before tue
supreme court of the United States re-
Gently.
After twenty years of effort the Assoc
citation of National Stogie Makers of
America succeeded in arranging for a
Joint conference with the executive board
of the American Federation of Labor,
and the meeting resulted in the recogni-
ton of the stogiesmakers rs part of the
American Federation of Labor by that
body and the Cigarmakers' union.
Because Of numerous instances in
which wealthy men have cast aside their
wives. the workngmen of Pittsburg will
try TO have the divorce laws made more
stringent On behalf of several trades
unions. Robert ii. Heath. a miner, has
announced his candidacy for the Legisa-
ture on the platform of mo divorce
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