Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
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attic, Wash, has declared a dividend of
10 per cent
Revere, Mass, town laborers have re
ceived an increase of % cents a day in
their wages.
Every one of the 40 lamplighters in
Boston, Mass, is a member eff the Lamp
lighters Union.
Chelsea, Mass, Horseshoecs Union has
obtained the Saturday hssf-holiday for
July, August and September.
Transport workers to the number Of
$1,000 are affiliated with the General Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions in Germany.
The Tackmakers' Protective Union of
the United States and Canada is the sec
ond oldest labor organization in America
There are about 1000 laborers in the
Federal service at the port of New Y Dirk,
and they receive an average of $3.50 a
day.
For the first time in recent years the
general officers are unopposed for re-elec-
ton in Boston (Mass.) Cigar Makers
Union.
W. ]. Smith of Columbia, S. c., was
elected president of the South Carolina
State Federation of Labor at the annual
convention
One of the wealthiest trade unions in
the United Kingdom is the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers, with a bank ac-
count of $3,6O0OoO.
Fifty-one cases of violation of the fac
tory laws in New York were brought to
final issue during May, and the aggregate
amount of fines imposed was S47O.
Theatrical stage employees unions have
been advised by the international body
that they may admit to membership oper-
ators of moving pictures who are not af
fliated with the international body.
Similar leagues to the League of Ameri-
can Workmen have been organized in sew
eral cities of the Northwest within the
last two years. The Spokane League has
a membership of between 500 and 600.
At the recent session of the Oklahoma
Legislature thirteen out of the sixteen
labor measures were passed. This includes
many of the bills Endorsed before Con-
gress by the American Federation of La
Dor.
At Woonsocket, r. L., an anti-tubercu-
losis association has been perfected, and
among the committee appointments is
factory committee, which will care for
and investigate conditions in the local
mills.
Word comes from Providence, r. l.,
that the typogra phical unions are consid-
ering the formation of a New England
label conference of their own, similar to
those of the cigarmakers' and other
unions.
The largest percentage of idleness in
is found in the textile cities
of Lawrence and New Bedford, while the
percentage as a whole is larger through
out the State than in the cities of Boston,
Worcester, Brockton and Lynn.
Master horseshoers at Boston, Mass,
have perfected an organization, the pur-
pose of which is for united efforts on tie
part of the bosses in conjunction with the
union for the mutual advantage of both
the shop owners and the workmen.
From the international headquarters of
the Journeymen Tailors' Union al Bloom
ington, ILL.,, it was announced recently
that through referendum vote the union
had refused to consider amalgamation
with the United Garment Workers Union
About twenty firms have already signed
the desired new wage scale and working
agreement of Boston Journeymen Bakers
Union. 1t asks for no increase in the
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sented since the disastrous strike of sew
eral years ago.
Trade Unions in the British leather in
dustIy, with a membership Of 800, re-
porting for April to the London Board OF
Trade had 8 per cent of their members
as compared with IS per
cent in March and 81 per cent a year
ago.
United States Census Bureau figures
for 1904 show that in the cotton industry
the average earnings of men were in New
England SS.52, in the South S5.14, a diff
ference of S3.3S. For women the average
was in New England $7.23, in the South
S3.77, a difference of $3.46, while for chill
dren the average was in New England
81 .45, in the South $2.73, a difference of
SLIP. For all classes the average weekly
earnings in the North were S7.62, and but
81 Is in the South.
Norway is probably at present the most
thoroughly strike-ridden country of the
world. Strikes, lockouts and labor con-
ficts are innumerable, although some OF
the difficulties have been patched up.
and wood pulp workers have
tied I'D the timber interests of the nation,
and the strike spirit is spreading into |
other manufacturing lines. The tanners
and the textile workers were the first to
joih the general strike, and it is expected
that workers in several other industries
will Join in the national strike condition.
At the close of 1907, the grand total of
benefits paid by the Cigarmakers' Interna-
tional Union since the Inauguration Of the
benefit system in 1879 (twenty-eight |
years} was S7,7S6, 527.S7. The member
shin increased upward of 1000, bringing |
the total up to 47,953 members.
The textile mills of Union, s. c., have |
gone back to full time work. This means
-hey-are all putting in sixty hours week |
instead of four days, which was the time |
that some of the mills had curtailed tc |
weeks ago because of the slight |
demand for cotton goods throughout the |
Figures taken from the annual report |
n the State Commissioner of Labor Of |
Missouri indicate that in that State are
ZAP labor unions of which POS are n St
Louis: eighty-six in Kansas City, thirty
nine in st. Joseph and 800 outside Of |
hese cities. In St. Louis there are 1888 |
members of organized labor.
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