Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-07
WHAT LABOR rs DOING

WHAT LABOR rs DOING
Organized labor in Milwaukee win
tablish relief board for the bance,
those of their members out of a,.--l- "a
ment. The proposition will be placn4 =,
fore each separate union for referaTdJ.-
vote and if adopted, of which tn.
seems little doubt. assistance win H.,
medlately be provided the unempleva5
1t is estimated that $4,000 a m6ntE
can be raised for this purpose.
Labor Commissioner Eyder of Nehros-
ka has notified all theater manoVa,s =;
that state not TO permit children undar
10 Years OF age TO appear on the stage
In his annual report Chief Factory In
speetor j Lllery Hudson of Rhode Is
land states that the year 1907 showed
marked decrease in the percentage nf
child labor employment in that state
The Missouri Federation of Labor bas
appointed committee to solicit dona.
tons Tor monument to Martin Irons
the leader of the great Southwestern
railroad strike in 1885.
The future home of the international
Union of Farmers will be in Chicago
1t will be known as the international
Lquity OHlOu anu cooperative
change. 1t is proposed to invite all py-
listing unions of farmers to affiliate wifb
the new body.
The Yukon members of the Industrial
Workers of the World held mass con
yention recently and discussed the ad-
visibility of organizing the workmen to
demand an eight-hour day in Dawson
and vicinity next spring.
The longest strike in the history of
union labor in Vermont is that of the
Slate Workers union Of Fairhaven.
which was begun nearly ten months ago
and is now no nearer a settlement than
the day it started.
Through the efforts of organized labor
the manufacture of cigars in the prison
at Marquette, Mich, is abolished. The
conyicts are to begin the manufacture of
overalls. so that the garment workers
must now take up the fight.
Tom l.. Lewis, who is to succeed John
Mitchell as president of the United Mine
Workers, is one of the best known men
in the labor movement in America. He
is a powerful speaker and is thoroughly
versed in the affairs of the organization.
Outside of the American Federation
important of which are the knights of
Labor, the Stone Masons' international
union, the Bricklayers and Masons' I'M
ion, and the various orders of railroad
employees.
San Francisco steam laundry workers
have decided to discontinue payment Of
the usual tax to the International union.
This will deprive the local of interna-
tiOnal protection
A joint board of the three leading labor
bodies of Great Britain has issued re-
port on unemployment, in which it is
recommended that trade unions be urged
to abolish overtime, and that where this
is not wholly possible, it be restricted
to the narrowest limits, and that when
worked, it be penalized to the fullest eX-
tent.
Embraced within the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers are the trades of
steam engineers, smiths, shipsmiths,
angleiron smiths, filters, turner's, roll
turner's, pattern makers, millwrights, ma
chine men, brass hnishers, copper smiths,
electrical engineers, machine ioiners, die
sinkers and drophammer forgers. The
society was organized in England early
in 1851.
A labor candidate for vacant seat in
the Australian Parliament has hit upon
a novel idea-"young age pensions" on
the ground that they are wise and
merciful and would be commercially
profitable to the commonwealth" He
Ids that they would conduce to good
citizenship and ENABLE the struggling
parents of large families to bring up
their children decently and with credit
to themselves and the community"
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