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

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WHAT LABOR rs DOING.
The Montana 16-hour law for railroad
employees in the train service has been
declared by the state supreme court to
be valid and constitutional
The employees of all the railroads in
Uruguay have gone on strike. There are
about 1900 miles of road in Uruguay,
which are controlled by British capi-
talists.
A big campaign has been instituted for
the organization of boilermakers and
iron shipbuiders at Buffalo, y, y.
In Norway and Denmark laws have
been enacted granting government sub
sides to trade unions, which pay un-
employed benefits to their members.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, one Of
America, win hold its annual convention
at Youngstown, o., the first week of
May.
A japanese imperial ordinance which
was promulgated in 1898, forbids the
employment of foreign labor in Japan
except under limited conditions, which
restrict such employment only to the old
treaty ports where foreigners congre-
gate.
Gov. Fort of New Jersey was recent
" interviewed by a delegation of union
labor leaders, who entered Il protest.
against the employment of paroled con-
yIcts on construction work at the Ral-
way reformatOry for less wages than
the union scale demands.
The department of labor at Washing
ton is having printed report covering
twenty five years, showing that there
We're 36.707 strikes and 1916 lockouts in
the United States from 1881 to 1905 in
elusive. a total of 3S,309 labor distur-
Dances. involving 199,94J establishments.
In fifteen states that report mine ac-
cidents. 1886 miners of all grades were
killed and injured in 1906. And in the
remaining fifteen states where mining is
important, the deaths are estimated at
1000 and the injured at 1000.
An effort is being made to have Ill
cement workers unite under the juris-
diction of the American Brotherhood Of
Cement Workers.
Since the strong campaign against
child labor was started in 1906 legiSla-
ton for the protection of children or
for compulsory education has been
passed in seventeen states of the Union.
The motor omnibus strike in London
ended recently. The collapse was due
ctr
the men declared was promised, did not
amount to nearly so much as they were
led to believe.
The annual convention of the Interna-
tlonal Printing Pressmen's union will be
held IN Mobile next June The question
OF the elght-hour day will be the most
important matter before the convention.
The National Railway Trackmen are
planning for the establishment of
home for their aged and INDECENT mem
oers: 1t IS proposed TO acquire a tract
OF o0O acres near Fort Scott Kan, as
the location for the institution.
Italy, Austria Hungary and Slavic
countries of eastern Europe are at the
present time the principal sources of the
gnskilled labor supply of the United
States.
There are bright prospects for the
passage of a child labor bin by the Mis-
slssippi Legislature. The measure calls
for tfty-six hour week and places the
minimum age at which q child can be
employed in gainful occupation at IA
years.
There are 131 1873 BARRIERS and hair
dressers in the United States 1,565,450
walters and S3,ST5 barkeepers.
The manipulation Of the Adelaide.
Australia. tram service has resulted in
shortening the hours of labor. aud an
increase in the wages of employees.
In Italy the membership Of trade
unions decreased from 240.6S9 in 1902
TO 204271 in 1907.
Union labor men have planned to start
George X. Gurgan. the labor mayor Of
Lafayette, in the race for the Democratic
nomination for governor Of Indiana.
Affiliation Of the different metal trades
union bodies Of the United States was
discussed at a recent conference in Gin
clnnau. The proposed merger will take
in the blacksmiths, boilermakers, mould
ers, patternmakers and others.
The circuit court of Vigo county, Ind.
has upheld the constitutioBality Of the
miijers warehouse act enacted by the
last Indiana Legislature. The act com
pels mining operators to furnish and
equip with hot and cold water wash
houses for the use Of the miners.
The Brotherhood Of Carpenters and