Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
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San Francisco chaufeurs have organ
lied a union.
A branch of the Union Label League is
TO be organized in Memphis.
Vancouver, B. c., will soon have
building trades council in working order.
At Lethbridge, Canada. with a popula-
ton Of 1000, there are about 1000 trade
uniOnists.
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters will meet next month in Atlantic
City, n. ].
Minneapolis will entertain the 1909
convention of the International Musicians
Association.
The eight-hour day for all municipal
work has been introduced in the City
Council at Louisville.
The Women Suffrage League of New
York City wishes the support OF the labor
organizations in its agitation for political
equality.
The Moyagana Railway Company of
Sac Paulo has just constructed in its
shops the first locomotive which has been
built in Brazil.
The Central Labor Council at Rich
mond, Contra Costa county, Cal, recently
reorgaRized, has already fifteen unions
affiliated with it.
Boston (Mass) Upholstery Union is
admitting mattress makers to its ranks for
the first time in It's history and has al
ready taken in nearly 100 of those men.
San Francisco Laundry Workers Union
has decided to contribute 10 cents per
capita on the membership in support of
| the movement against japanese laundries.
The child labor law, with fourteen years
as the age limit and the eight-hour day
for persons under IS years of age, was
! recently passed by the Kentucky Legisla-
| ture.
The recently organized Building Trades
Council of San Mateo county, Cal, now
| has fifteen unions affiliated with it, and
| the aggregate membership is in excess of
| 1000.
| The extra appropriation given the Low
! ell Textile School by the State of Massa-
| chusetts, will enable the trustees to lay
| the foundation for a thorough engineering
| education.
A resolution providing for the estab-
| lishment Of labor paper at San Juan,
Porto Rico, has just been passed at a
convention there of representatives of 40
unions having affiliation with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The call for the New England conven-
tion of the Metal Polishers', Buffers
Platers' and Brass and Silver Workers
unions has been issued. 1t will be in
Boston July ). The Boston unions are
requesting the international for a per-
manent Boston organizer.
| The Scottish coal owners have put for
ward a demand for a reduction in wages
| of % per cent. Only a short time ago a
matter of reduction was referred to arbi-
tration, as the Cancellation board could
not agree The award was for a reduc-
ton of Ga per cent; now comes the claim
for % per cent.
The subject of a State industrial col
lege is being considered in Massachusetts.
| Il is purposed to establish the institute
| in Boston or vicinity, and that it shall
maintain both day and evening classes.
The main object of such a school is to
develop men for the lower and middle
supervisory positions.
The last reports presented to the Gas
| Workers Union were to the effect that all
the members of the jurisdiction, which in
cludes the unions in San Francisco, Cal,
San JOSE Oakland and Sacramento, are
at work, and that this craft has been par
| ticularly fortunate in having work for the
membership during the last ten months.
The new wage agreement between the
cotton manufacturers at Fall River
Mass. and the Textile Council, which
will be in force until next November
became effective last month. Under the
agreement the $4,000 operatives accept a
wage reduction of 1874 per cent. The
cut swells the number of cotton opera
tives in New England whose wages have
been reduced this spring to about 10000
Labor is to have a newspaper system
covering the entire country. A syndicate
has been formed and the enterprise CAPT
talzed, it is said, to the extent of issuing
a paper in the cities of New York, Phil
adelphia, Washington, Chicago. st. Louis
| Denver and San Francisco. Publication
will begin Sept. 1, and the policy will be
one of ultra conservation, the object be.
ing to restrain the labor movement from
merging with the more radical socialistiC
element that has been making great in
roads on the membership of the unions
composing the skilled crafts.