Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30

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lied new machinists' union.
The Glass Workers Union has 5000
members and 100000 in the treasury
\ branch of the Canadian labor party
has been formed in London. England.
The advance in wages of the miners
has been general throughout Great Brit
ain.
Bartenders of Denver, Colo are taking
steps to organize union to procure the
eight-hour day.
BARRIERS of Hamilton. Ont, want more
wages and threaten to strike if their de-
mand is not met
The forty-frst annual trade union con-
gress of Great Britain will convene at
Nottingham on Sept :, 1908.
Labor organizations of Baltimore, Nd,
are assisting the policemen of that city
in an effort to have one day off each
week
A convention of Independent shoe work
ers' organizations. to form a national or
ganization, is to be held at Lynn, Mass,
this month.
W. Z. McEwen, secretary-treasurer of
the Minnesota State Federation of Labor,
is being urged by many of his friends to
run for Mayor of Duluth at the spring
election.
At a conference of representatives Of
national photographic organizations re-
Gently held in Washington, d. c., it was
decided soon to amalgamate the allied
photographic trades.
record in England was that of the quar-
rymen at Bethesda, which commenced in
1900 and did not terminate until the close
of 1903. 1t cost the district S1,S20000.
The State Federation of Labor of Okla
home, at a recent session, adopted a
resolution in favor of woman suffrage.
The federation proposes TO make this a
test question in the support of candidates
for office.
Preliminary steps have been taken in
Minneapolis. Mimi. to induce all unions
in the building trades to cast aside petty
jealousies and join the building trades
council of that city. This is with a view
to strengthening the central body.
Max Morris, one of the vice presidents
of the American Federation of Labor,
has formally extended an invitation to the
Western Federation of Miners to return
to the A. L. of L. The invitation was
signed by President Samuel Gompers.
The Rhode Island Label League de-
clares its intention publicly to fight the
trusts by the use of the union label. The
league will conduct its operations in that
State, and.it is hoped to get every union
throughout the State affiliated with the
organization.
Since the national convention of textile
workers of the United States in 1906 the
international body has issued sixty char
tiers to new unions.
In Austria 541 per 1000 work ten
hours or less each day, and 43S from ten
to eleven hours. Comparatively few work
more than eleven hours
There is strong movement in the
State of Washington along the line of
establishing cooperative stores. One has
been opened in. Seattle and since it has
been in operation it has done so well
that it has purchased a coal mine, with d
view to sell the products to union people.
In consequence of a dispute over an
agreement between the employers ana
the boiler makers the labor barometer in
the shipbuilding trade of Great Britain
at present shows stormy
Ben Tillett, the English labor leader.
has sent word that be is again TO visit
this country. He is now in Australia.
Mr.. Tillett is also a member of Parlia-
ment. He is a decker union official.
The Eight-Hour League of America is
conducting an agitation among the trades
unions with the object of making the
universal eight-hour workday" the para
mount issue of the coming presidential
campaign.
The United Hebrew Trades an organ
ization of about 120 Jewish trades
unions, in New York City, has member
ship of some $4,000 most of whom are
Socialists working in the clothingS fur
and cap industries.
Plans for the formation of local and
district anti-child labor leagues through
out New York have been completed at
Albany. A State League will also be
formed The recent convention of the
New York State Workingmen's Fedora
ton at Syracuse adopted resolutions IA
voring the league and instructed the dele
gates TO take the matter up with their
locals and do what they could toward eff
sectiVe organization.