Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-08
WHAT LABOR rs DOING

WHAT LABOR rs DOING.
The National Print Cutters Assoeia-
ton of America will meet in annual con-
yention in York, Pa, next month.
The international headquarters of lie
Marble Workers union have been moved
from New York to Boston.
The Brieklayers' international union
has disbursed more than 81 100000 iii
the past ten years for benevolent pur-
poses.
Socialist leaders in Montreal declare
that their May day demonstration will
this year surpasS in ma gnitule anything
of the kind yet attempted in Canada.
The recently organized Master Bar
bers, ASSOCIATION at San Francisco has
promised 10 finance the BARRIERS union
in its efforts 10 put ali the shops in d
sanitary condition.
The Massachusetts supreme court has
Just handed down a decision declaring
that sympathetic strikes for the purpose
of preventing an employer from con-
Quoting an open shop are illegal.
The Washington State Federation of
Labor has declared the Alaska Yukon
exposition unfair, owing to the employ
ment of non-union men in the erection
of the exposition buildings.
The officers of the International Brass
Molders union of North America report
that since the establishment of the in
ternational in October. 1905. the mem
beFship has increased to 10000. The or
ganiZation pays sick and death benefits.
Two hundred school teachers in Gal
latin county. Ill.,. are reported to have
signed a strike order to become effective
next fall. They demand higher salaries
and declare that if these are not forth
coming they will not teach.
The International Association of Ma
chinists. which was organized nineteen
years ago Mt Atlanta, now has over 800
lodges in the United States, Canada
Newfoundland and Mexico and has
working agreements with 30 per cent. of
the leading railways of America.
At the last convention of the Cigar
makers international union in Philadel-
phia it was decided to build home after
the manner of the Union Printers home
at Colorado Springs. San Antonio. Tex,
appears to be the most likely site for the
institution.
At recent meeting in New York the
National League of Baseball clubs de-
cided that the 100000 tickets to be
used during the present baseball season
should bear the union label.
An effort to standardize the wages of
engineers employed by the various state
departments and institutions OF Massa-
chusetts is to be made by the Boston
Engineers union, working in conjunc
ton with the state branch of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
BY Il referendum vote the Stove
Mounters and Steel Range Workers In
ternational union has decided to hold a
vention will assemble in Chicago the
third week in July
The Austrian printers and metal work
ers are nearly all working nine hours
a day. The textile and food workers
have still longer hours. The women
work, as a rule, even longer hours than
the men, but this is supposed to be made
up by longer rest at noontime.
Cardinal Gibbons, the highest digni-
tary III the Catholic church in the United
States. urges the purchasing of union
labeled goods as the best and most
practical method OF abolishing sweat
shops. In 4 sermon to his congrega-
ton recently in Baltimore he urged
them to discriminate in making pur-
chases III favor of such employers as
treated their employees with justice.
To prevent 10000 italian workers in
the clothing trades from acting as strike
breakers against the United Hebrew
Trades there will be organized the Ital-
ian Central Labor union 1t will be
given full autonomy and no attempt will
be made by the United Hebrew Trades
to dominate it.
1t is reported that several cotton mill
managers in Mississippi are to make a
test of the Mcdowell child labor law,
enacted at the recent session of the
Mississippi Legislature and which be-
comes effective October l. The attack
on the law will be made on the ground
that it is in the nature of class legisla-
ton and is, therefore, unconstitutional
As an illustration of the demand for
farm labor and the good prices offered
for it. there has been made public the
labor scale for 1908, just issued by the
Farmers institute at Greeley, Colo
Regular help by the month will be
paid $50 and board Extra good men
will be kept over winter at $50 and
board. The rate for irrigators is fixed
ut $50 a month, with extra pay for
Sundays and holidays.
GOOD SKATERS.
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