Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-24
LABOR NEWS NOTES,

LABOR NEWS NOTES,
Twenty-three international labor I'M
ions in America paid out sick benefits
amounting to 1868, 431.61 in 1906.
James NJ. Lynch, president of the In
ternationai Typographical union, has
announced his candidacy for reelection
Twenty-one new unions of horsesboers
were organized in the state of Massachu-
sets during the year just ended.
The Portland (Ore.) branch of the In
ternational Typographical union con-
templates the formation of a mutual aid
society.
The salary of President Gompers of
the American Federation of Labor has
been raised from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
and proportionate increases have beer
made in the salaries of Secretary Morn
son and Treasurer Lennon.
japanese laborers We're present as
recognized delegates at a convention of
district %. United Mine Workers, re-
Gently held in Denver. 1t was the first
instance of its kind in the history of
organized labor in the United States.
OTdllle cutters OF the IWln CltleS
have completed the formation of union
that embraces practically every member
Of the craft in both Minneapolis and
st. Paul.
The Interna tional Typographical union
intends to bring the strike against the
New York Methodist Book concern, for
an eight-hour day, before the general
conference which is to meet in Baltimore
this year.
Census reports show that wages
among the shoemakers of the United
States have been steadily increasing.
The shoemakers in the Brockton MasS9
factories are said to be the best paid in
the world.
The societies not affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor have a
membership of about 100000, which
with the total membership of the fedora
ton, makes the aggregate membership
OF all the labor societies in the United
States about 100000
A cooperative bank and trust company
has been organized in Oklahoma, with a
capital of $4,000, promoted by the
Farmers union and LABOR organizations,
in which no stock will be sold to any but
union men.
The Amalgamated Engineers society
is credited with being the wealthiest la
Dor union in the world. 1t has a fund
of nearly S4,000,000, invested so that the
income would render the organization
self-sustaining, providing the members
paid no dues.
The Stove Mounters' international
union has won a general strike for the
nine-hour day. Cleveland Cincinnati and
other cities were the principal centers
of the strike, but the result extends the
shorter workday generally to members
OF the craft throughout the country.
Heretofore the Carpenters unions in
South Dakota have had total mem
bership of but few hundred men. A
campaign of organization has been I'M
der way, however, with the result that
new unions are being formed in Aber
ready exist in Sioux Falls and Yankton.
Labor union meeting places in the
state of Colorado are having union-made
drinking cups, bearing the timers union
stamp on them, supplied them by the
various organizations. The idea origl-
mated with one of the locals in Denver
and through the efforts of the Union La
bel league the movement spread through
out the state.
One of the most important matters to
come before the annual convention of
the Tennessee State Federation of La
Dor this month will be the child and
woman labor questions, in respect to
which a conference was held in Mem
phis recently attended by employers and
representatives of organized labor.
A conference is to be held between
the officers of the Hat Trimmers' union
and representatives of the United Hat
tiers of North America to pass on the
question of permitting more girls TO be
registered as trimmers. There have re-
Gently been so manv marriages that the
trimming departments in the big fac
tories are crippled.