Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24


Unios printers throughout the United |
States nave contributed $4,000 to the
Amos Cummings memorial fund.
Ernest Mills has succeeded William !
ID. Haywood as secretary and treasurer I
of the Western Federation of Miners.
Florida has new child labor law
which prohibits the employment of chill
dren under II years of age, The |
women's clubs If the state were chiefly |
Instrumental in bringing it about.
The weayers' union OF Fall River, the |
largest textile union in America, has |
withdrawn from the United Textile !
Workers of America because of the in
crease in the per capita tax from 10
cents TO 10 cents.
The legislative council of Victoria.
Australia. has Excluded clerks. carriers
and drivers. stablemen, hrewood carriers
and other workers from the benefits of
wage boards
The executive council of the National
Trades and Labor congress of Canada
have decided to place several organizers
in the field. The province of Quebec
and the Maritime provinces are to re-
ce;ve more attention than formerly.
The diamond workers union of Am
sterdam has decided on the complete ces-
sation of work during the present month.
Ten thousand men are affected. When
work is resumed the union intends to de-
mand higher wages.
Denver is soon to have union labor
hospital accommodating $50 TO 400 10
be managed by the National Union
! Labor association. If the Denver ven
ture proves a success similar hospitals
are to be established in other large cities
During the year ending October 30.
1907. there We're II strikes in Connect
cut, involving 1890 employees and 96,610
days time was lost while the loss in
wages amounted to over $155,542.
The wigmakers of New York, or
gained under the name of the Human
Hair Workers union, recently won their
first strike. The union has a consider
able membership among the makers of
wigs, toupees and other products of hui
man hair.
Factory inspection and the health and
safety of employees have been the sub
ject OF legislation in thirty-nine of the
| states and territories. These include all
those states in which manufacturing or
mining employs any considerable mum
Der of persons.
| John Mitchell, retired president of the
/ nited Mine Workers of America has
announced that iii the future he will de-
vote his attention to a labor paper which
he will establish in Indianapolis The
| object of tae paper will be the promoting
of industrial peace between the miners
and the operators.
| The Boot and Shoe Workers Inter
national union makes claim that its sys-
| tenn of twenty-five cents week dues
saves it from fear of strikes. and in such
emergency does away with the necessity
Of calling upon sister crafts for financial
aid. The high dues also enable the union
/ to prosecute more successfully its cam
paign for the union stamp. The inter-
national union now has reserve fund
| in its treasury amounting to upwards of
100000.
Shop girls of Little Rock, Ark, are
forming a union to work for better
pay and shorter hours of labor.
The State Federations of Labor in
| Kansas and Tennessee have recently de-
clared in favor of woman suffrage.
There are now more than 100000
persons employed by the railroads of the
United States-twice as many as were
thus employed ten years ago.
Andrew Furuseth. secretary of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific, is to be
one of the fraternal delegates represent
ing the American Federation of Labor
at the annual meeting of the British
| Trade Union congress in Nottingham
next September.
The weekly rest day bill, which pro-
yides that employees of all classes shall
have one day of rest in the seven, was
recently approved by the Italian Cham
Der of Deputies and is expected to be-
come a law.
Labor organizations in New York
state have a membership of more than
one-fourth of the total number of votes
! The aggregate membership of the 2452
unions is HATS, including 12.515 wom-
| en-.
/ Minneapolis Typographical union No
II has taken the first step in a move to
raise fund from which to pay striking
members a sum equal to that received
while engaged in their regular occupa-
/ ton.
| West Virginia unionists have been
| lighting 10 secure the passage IN the
/ Legislature of "a bill making the EN-
ployer liable for the unlawful acts of
/ guards, detectives etc The claim is
made that the bred detectives arr. large
4 ~ responsible for the deplorahle coadi-
| tions that exist in and around the mines
| Women clerks in Pirtsburg department
! stores, who were warned that they would
nat be permitted in future TO wear high
| pompadnurs while at work have won
theic fight against the managers Of the
stores. and in the future they will wear
/ their hair any way they like.
| Some idea of what it costs to provide
| for the unemployed against want NAV be
gained by refccsnce 10 the amounts ex-
| pended by Typographical Union No 6. az
| New York, during the years 1906 and
| 1907 In the former year the benefit
board dispensed S53 SOL. 80: i'm the latter
year tive total was $34, S40.2T
The new federal law. limiting the
hours of railroad telegraphers to nine a
days was the cause. indirectly. o. putting
several hundred trainmen. who had been