Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
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Toronto (Canada) shoe clerks have or
gained a union.
All the 40 lamplighters in Boston.
Mass, belong 10 the Lamplighters' Union.
The Drug Clerks Union of San Fran
cisco. Cal, has opened an employment
bureau for clerks.
The Trades Urionist of Washington. D.
&, has been taken out OF the receivers
hands,
Lynn (Mass.) building trade unions are
getting together for one central council
that will include all.
The recent Scottish trade union con-
gress passed resolutions in favor of old
age pensions and in Hvor of compulsory
intervention in labor disputes.
The coopers' local unions will vote on
a proposition to do away with conventions
and adopt the initiative and referendum
system in conducting the affairs of the
organization.
Machinists of San Francisco, Cal, and
those of Oakland have under consideration
a proposition to form a district council
of lodges of machinists of the bay coun-
ties.
At a meeting of the United Hebrew
Trades Union of New York City, it was
decided to affiliate with the Workmen's
Circle, the national Hebrew labor fed
Grafton.
The Journeymen tailors' general execu-
tive board has interpreted the law relat-
ing to sick benefits to mean that no such
benefits can be paid to any member
while outside the United States or Can
ada.
As a result of complaints made by the
Vallejo (Cal.) trades council orders have
been issued by the Navy Department to
observe the provisions of the California
child labor law in employing boys at the
Mare Island navy-yard.
An agreement. which it is said will
end the differences existing between the
Boston Mass roofers and sheet metal
workers unions for many years was
signed by Representatives of both organ
izations.
By referendum vote the Poster Ar
fists Association of America has de
cided to affiliate with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. The union has passed
its tenth anniversary, and there are 10
Gals in every important labor center of
the country.
Outside of the American Federation of
Labor, the largest labor organization in
this country are the great railroad
brotherhoods. six in number, witch in
clude something like a million workers,
divided up into thousands of local
unions
A period of twenty years in France
and Belgium has not materially changed
the tonnage output a miner employed, but
the German miners have reduced their
output by twenty-one tons in that term,
and the British miners by no less than
thirty-four tons since 1887.
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 a considerable
number of persons. In fourteen States
new enactments touching upon this sub
ject were written into the statutes.
Sixteen British trade unions, with a
membership of 100000, are supporting a
movement to establish a 1-cent eight-page
daily newspaper in the interest of labor,
Its title will be the Morning Herald. The
parliamentary committee of the trade
union congress will manage the venture.
The suggested capital is 100000.
The law in Spain which already fixed
the maximum working hours for children
between the ages of ten and fourteen
years, limiting them to six hours in mills
and other industrial establishments, and
to eight hours in shops and Offices and
which further prohibited them from being
employed on night work, has until now
made no regulations against the employ
ment of women and children in certain
harmful branches of industry.