Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-10
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Cloth hat and cap makers at ST. Louis
recently organized.
Holland now has an estimated union
labor membership of 10000.
The Trades Unionist of Washington. d.
c., devoted to union interests, has been
taken out of the receivers hands.
Engine drivers in Germany, woh have
run their locomotives for ten years with
out accident are rewarded by the govern
ment.
The Iron Molders' Union of North
America is planning to celebrate its fifth
pirate manner.
On Sept / there were 1S2 subordinate
unions affiliated with the Bakers and Con
fectionerS' International. and the numer-
ical increase during the last term was
1888.
A bill to provide for a State tax to be
used for the aid of injured miners and
families of men killed in the mines will
be presented to the Pennsylvania State
Legislature.
Inc next convention u the bullulHS
Laborers' International Protective Union
will be held in Boston. Mass. the date
to be decided upon by the international
executive board.
Coal forms 50 per cent of the mining
output of Germany. Other minerals are
salt. iron ores, copper. lead, zinc, pyrites,
gold. silver. manganese. arsenic, saltpeter.
vitriol and alum. The workmen number
about 100000, and the companies about
1000
The production of finished iron and
steel in Pennsylvania in 1907 involved the
employment of 1912 people, who earned
S91 .4133S4 during the year. More than
one-half of this product, or 30 per cent
was manufactured in the county of Ale
heny.
Nominations for officers of the Cigar
makers International Union are now be-
ing made. and the election will be held
in December. International elections are
held every five years.
Public employment bureaus, whose ser
vices in placing laborers are gratuitous,
exist in the larger cities and towns of
Alsace-Lorraine. as well as being more or
less developed all over Germany.
A new regulation in Spain prohibits
women under % and all children under
IS working in trades wherein there is
danger from poisonous fumes and dust,
or risk from fire and explosion.
The organization of new lodges of the
brotherhood of Railroad Clerks at Hart
ford and New Britain, Conn, is reported.
Two more are in process of formation at
Torington and Waterbury. With these
organizations the clerks will have twenty
locals on the New Haven system.
A leading publicist. basing his argu-
ment on German official statistics. has
reached the conclusion that the German
workingman is now in a position TO spend
from 10 TO - per cent more for necessi-
ties and pleasures than in 1895. He as
serts that a similar investigation in the
United States shows an advance of s
per cent in the same period.
In the American Federation of Labor
there are now affiliated III national and
internat ional labor unions, representing
approximately $1,000 local labor unions.
The number Of State federations of labor
is thirty-six, and there are al central la
Dor unions In the aggregate about p
100000 men are members OF the body or
are affiliated with it.
In 1907 the aggregate time lost by la
Dor disputes in proportion TO population
was less than quarter OF a day head
of the Whole Industrial population of the
United Kingdom, exclusive of seamen and
agricultural laborers. these not being in
cluded in the records of disputes kept
by the department of the Board of Trade.