Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-15

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Cloth hat and cap makers at st. Louis
recently organized
Holland now has an estimated union
labor membership of 10000.
The Trades Unionist of Washington, ID.
c., devoted to union interests. has been
taken out of the receivers hands.
Engine drivers in Germany, woh have
run their locomotives for ten years with
out accident are rewarded by the govern
ment.
The Iron Molders' Union Of North
America is planning to celebrate its fifth
eth anniversary next year in an appro-
pirate manner.
On Sept. l there were 1872 subordinate
unions affiliated with the Bakers and Con-
fectioners International, and the numer-
ical increase during the last term was
1888.
A bill to provide for a State tax to be
used for the aid of injured miners snd
families of men killed in the mines will
be presented to the Pennsylvania State
Legislature.
The next convention of the Building
Leborers' International Protective Union
will be held in Boston, Mass, the date
to be decided upon by the international
executive board
Coal forms So per cent Of the mining
output Of Germany. Other minerals are
salt. iron ores. copper. lead, zinc. pyrites.
gold. silver. manganese, arsenic, saltpeter,
vitriol and alum The workmen number
about 100000. and the companies about
1000.
The production of finished iron and
steel in Pennsylvania in 1907 involved the
employment Of 1871, 712 people, who earned
sol ,413. :3S4 during the year. More than
one-half of this product, or 80 per cent
was manufactured in the county Of Ale
~heny.
Nominations for officers Of the Cigar
makers international Union are now be-
ing made. and the election will be held
In December. international elections are
held every FIVE years.
Public employ ment bureaus, whose ser
vices in placing laborers are sratuitons.
exist in the larger cities and towns OF
Alsace-L Lorraine, as well as being more or
less developed all over Germany.
A new regulation in Spain prohibits
women under . and all children under
16 working in trades wherein there is
danger from poisonous fumes and dust,
or risk from fire and explosion.
The organization of new lodgeT Of the
brotherhood OF Railroad Clerks at Hart
ford and New Britain. Conn.,, is reported.
Two more are in process of formation OF
Torington and WATERBURY. With these
organizations the clerks will have twenty
locals on the New Haven system
A leading publicist basing bis argu-
ment on German official statistics, has
reached the conclusion that the German
yrorkingnan is now in a position 70 spend
from 10 to - per cent more for necessi-
ties and pleasures than in 1880. lie as
sorts that A similar investigation in the
United States shows an advance OF
per cent in the same period.
In the American Federation Of Labor
there are now affiliated III national and
international labor unions, representing
approximately 1900 local labor unions
The number Of State federations OF labor
i thirty-six, and there are oil central Ia
bor unions. In tts aggregate about 2
OOoooO men are members Of the body or
are affiliated with Y
+, 1907 the aggrsxais time lost by la
t,or disputes in proportion 70 population
was less than quarter Of s day head
az the Whole Industrial popnlauon Of the
United Kingdom, exclusive Of seameu and
agricultural laborers. these not being in
cInded in the records Of disputes kept
BIZ the department Of the Board Of Trade.