Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17
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French labor unions have a membership
of 100000
There are about 100000 laundresses il
this country, according to the last census
There are tifty-seven active labor unions
in Santa Clara county. California. OF
which forty-one are in the city of Sar
Jose.
The Chinese government has established
school at Shanghai to instruct the sons
OF fishermen in modern methods of fish
| culture
In 1923 the Workingmen's party, a To-
cal political organization, appeared in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other
| large cities.
| BostonS labor movement is to have an
eight-hour labor chorus of women mem.
| bers of Boston unions along the lines of
the famed women wage earners' chorus
of Chicago.
The law of New York forbidding bows
and girls under fourteen years of age
from selling newspapers in the streets be-
tween 10 p. m. and a. m. has gone into
effect.
About $50 labor measures will be pre-
sented to the next California Legisla-
ture by the State Federation of Labor, the
State Building Trades Council central
bodies and individual unions.
Wages of the Cleveland England iron
stone miners and Weardale quarrymen
have been reduced by three quarters of
per cent, a majority on vote of the
employees having agreed to these terms.
sought by the employers.
Fifteen different municipalities of AL
sace-Lorraine. ranging in population from
1000 to 10000, conduct employment bu-
reaus which aim to keep in close touch
with the various organizations of employ
ers and employees.
Work toward the formation of a metal
trades department of the Boston Mass.
Central Labor Union has been started by
locals of the international unions which
are affiliated with that new department of
the American Federation of Labor.
The State of California has sent out a
special labor commissioner to the CONT
nent of Europe, New Zealand and Aus
tralia to study labor questions, especially
as to strikes and lockouts. in order to
find. if possible, some plan of averting
them by legislation.
The first japanese emigrants to Brazil.
1913 in number. have just sailed for that
country from Toxic. They will work on
the Brazilian railroads Brazil pays two
thirds of their passage money, and after
six months will give each grant of land
to induce him to settle.
In Mertz Germany, with $1,000 popu-
latiOn, there are three unskilled to every
four skilled workmen. MueIhausen, with
100000 population. has sixty-nine unskill-
ed laborers in every 100. In Strassburg,
with a population of 10000, there are
two skilled to every three unskilled
In the fall of 1892 the pioneer union of
the shoe workers was organized in Phila.
delphia. 1t grew to be considered
power, and in 1896 a strike in all the
shops of the city was ordered to enforce
demand for an increase in wages. 1t
lasted but few days, the employers rec
ognizing the demand.
Boston Mass stationary fremen's
union has organized class in steam en-
cheering which will take course at the
Boston mechanics art high school under
the evening industrial school system.
The Spanish labor laws fix the maxi
mum working hours for children between
the ages of ten and fourteen at six hours
in industrial establishments and eight in
shops and offices, with no work at night
Central Federated Union (Manhattan.
New York. has decided to cooperate
with the Charity Organization Society of
that city in its efforts to arrest the pro-
gress of tuberculosis among the various
crafts.
A vigorous campaign of organization
has as its objective a tri-State Central
Labor Union. taking in the District of
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia
Recently a party of about score of
French artisans have been visiting the
great centers of British trade in order to
study English methods of work, conditions
of employment. hours of labor, wages and
the home life of British work people