Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-10

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The nurses at the Toronto general hos
pltal have asked for an eight hour day.
A delegation of French leather work
ers is making tour of the United
States,
The carpenters of the City of Mexico
have organized league for mutual pro-
lection,
The baseball players of Galveston.
lex nave organized labor union af.
hiiated with the \. +, l..
The national executive board of the
United Mine Workers of America has
held an important meeting at Indianapo-
One of the latest labor organizations.
the alligator CatcherS union of south
ern Florida, has been disbanded.
Paving cutters contemplate the estab-
lishment of the eight-hour day through
out the craft in all parts of the United
States,
Kansas City, Mo-. is the headquar-
ters of six interna tional organizations of
organized labor. with a combined mem
befSRip OF @OVupb
The railroad employees in the Republic
of Mexico are planning the formation of
a union for the purpose of excluding
Americans from the service.
The American Federation of Labor has
Endorsed the label Of the American So
eiety of Equity, the organization of the
farmers.
AT Lethbridge, Canada with popu-
lation oe 1000, there are about 1000
members OF trades unions.
The Woman's Suffrage league of New
York city has asked the support of the
labor organizations in its agitation for
political equality.
Louisiana, Connecticut, Nebraska, In
diana, Rhode Island, Washington, New
Hampshire aud Massachusetts, as well
as Oregon, have the ten-hour day for
women now IN force.
A compilation of trades union statistics
in the principal countries OF the world
| places the number of members in good
standing at 100000. or 100000 more
than last year.
| Samuel II. Donnely of New York, sec
! rotary of the board OF arbitration of
| the building trades council, has gone to
Panama, for the purpose of investigating
| labor conditions in the canal zone.
| resolution providing for the estab-
/ tishment of 4 labor paper at San Juan,
! Porto Rico has just been passed at a
convention there OF representatives of
| ITO unions having atiiliation with the
American Federation of Labor.
About 100 representatives of the pot
| ting industry OF the United States and
Canada will assemble in Atlantic City
early next month for the eighteenth an
nual convention Of the National Brother
hood Of Operative Potters.
The subject of state industrial col.
lege Is being considered in Massaehu-
setts 1t Is proposed to establish the I'M
stitute in Boston or vicinity and that
i shall maintain both day and evening
Glasses.
Witha view Of supplying harvest la
| borers to the farmers of the west and
| middle west Secretary of Labor Straus
has sent out 1,23O,000 double postal
cards TO rural employees all over the
country.
The thirteth annual convention Of the
| New Jersey State Federation Of Labor
will be held in the Assembly chamber
at Trenton, y. j., on Monday aud Tues
day, August II and 49, Cornelius Ford
Of Hoboken will preside.
| The proposition to remove the interna-
| ti0nul offices of the International Broth
erhood OF Bookbnders from New York
to more central location WAS defeated
/ "a "a a. AZ
convention of the brotherhood
The recent reduction Of wages at Fall
River has increased the number of opera
tlyes in the cotton mills of New England,
whose wages have been reduced during
| the present year to about 10000 and q
further cut * feared
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor has made
an appeal to organized labor throughout
! the country TO vote against all candi-
dates for Congress, who have on former
occasions voted against labor measures.
At its convention in Cleveland, O., the
| international Association of Photo-E En-
gravers elected II. G. g. Stiles Of Wash
ington. u. G.. president; II. A. GatcheH
! Of Philadelphia, vice PRESIDENT Frank A.
Clark OF Cleveland secretary and John
Z. Bragdon Of Pittsburg, Pa treas
| urer.
The first use Of the word "strike" IN
| rs present accepted sense occurred ia
the London Chronicle in 1865 In Sep
TENDER Of that year are numerous refer
| ences to great suspension Of labor
/ IN the northern coal fields. aud the col.
Hers are stated to have Struck OUT
4 for higher wages
/
Ihe last reports presented TO the Gas
/ Workers union were tp the effect that
/ all the members Of the jurisdiction. Which
| includes tire unions ia san Francisco,
/ SON Jose, Oakland and Sacramento ara
1 ~ work. and that this craft has been
| particularly fortunate IN having work
for the membership during the last ten
months.
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