Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23

Nurses at the Toronto (Canadal srr-
eral hospital have asked for an eight-hour
day.
Oklahoma has passed law empowering
the State Labor Commission to fix wages
in all industries
The Governor of Porto Rico has rec
commended to the Legislature a law Great
ing labor bureau on the island.
Wages of iron and steel workmen in
the northern and northeast British dis
tricts have been reduced 2l5 to per
cent.
Fifty years ago the wages of engineers
and artisans in England was only u cents
an hour: now casual laborers can demand
and get IA cents an hour.
There is movement to organize all the
alskilled workingmen of Montreal, Can.
into big federation along the lines of
the Knights of Labor, which existed in
that city about twenty years ago.
The Carpenters District Council of
Boston, Mass, has elected trial commit
tee. which will henceforth hear and adj
Indicate all trade matters that arise be-
tween the thirty-four affiliated unions Of
the council
The Operative Plasterers' International
Association is enjoying steady growth.
The latest report rom the international
body shows that there are now 246 unions
Under its direction in the United States
aud Canada.
At the present time the labor bodies in
Newfoundland have under consideration
two great projects--the establishment of
hshermen's protective union and the
federation of all the unions under one
supreme council.
The Bakers Union of San Francisco,
CAL, has appointed a committee to pre-
pare recommendation to the interna-
tional convention that is to meet in Octo-
Der to erect home for aged and disabled
members of the organization.
The Minnesota State Federation Of La
Dor will petition the prison board to dis
continue shoemaking at the State peniten-
tiary as soon as practicable, and repre-
sentatives of the Boot and Shoe Workers
Union are now preparing the appeal.
Under authority of the American Fed
ton of the International Alliance of The
atrical Stage Employees, enrolment has
begu in local to be known as the Pic
ture 4Iachine Operators of Greater New
York.
Labor unions were almost unknown in
Newfoundland up to 1892. Then the only
organization for the protection of the
employed was the Typographical Union.
Since then, and especially of recent years,
unions and societies have sprung up on
all sides.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress
passed resolutions in favor of old-age pen
sions and in favor of compulsory interven-
ton in labor disputes. The gathering was
very hazy about labor representation, but
wished labor policy for tie benefit of
work people.
According to Mrs. Henrietta L. Good
rim, secretary of the Woman's Educational
and Industrial Union of Boston, Mass,
the increase in homework wages in the
last five years, as shown by the records of
the Domestic Reform League, is as great,
if not greater, than in any other line of
work.
In the matter of factory inspection and
the health and safety of employees, legis-
lative action was taken in thirty-nine
States and territories last year. These
include all States in which mining or
manufacturing employs considerable
number of persons. In fourteen States
new enactments touching upon this sub
ject were written into the statutes.
In San Francisco, CAL, there is move
ment to organize all the laborers of the
several departments of the municipality
into a new union. The men of the fire de-
partment have asked the Labor Council
for information upon the subject of form
ing a union, to work on lines similar to
the various unions affiliated with the
council.