Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-10
FROM THE LABOR FIELD.

Charities and the Commons.
FROM THE LABOR FIELD.
/ Fred Huehns, agent of the Lake Sea-
| mems union at Milwaukee has been re-
| elected agent for the port of Milwaukee.
Inns is the third season that he has act
| ed as agent.
\ strike of brass workers in Kenosba
was settled in that city Tuesday through
the efforts of Frederick Brockhausen,
/ secretary of tie State Federation of
Labor who returned to this city Tues
! day evening.
The Minnesota State Federation OF
Labor has decided to take an active part
III state and municipal politics this year.
More than fifty labor unions in Massa-
/ chusetts have recently passed resolutions
/ IN favor OF woman suffrage.
Among the organized women workers
IN Germany, nearly $4,000 are engaged
IN the metal trades.
Statistics published 10y the committee
OF the first Russian trades union CON
gress show that 652 unions, with 246,-
~ members, existed in Russia in 1907
The international Association of Fur
! Workers of the United States and Cana
da is to hold its ANNUAL convention in
Toronto early next month.
Miss Jean Gordon, state factory in
spector of Louisiana, places the average
/ wage OF the working woman of that
state at $3.50 a week and the children
at $2.50.
Members of the Order of Railway
Conductors and the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen have voted to postpone
the demand for general wage increase
in the east.
Henry Fischer, who died recently Mt
| his home in Louisville, had been presi-
dent of the Tobacco Workers Interna-
tlonal union continuously since its or
ganization in 1895.
e The French government pensions the
| employees of its tobacco factories after
twenty-five years service, the men re-
celving u pension of $3.50 and the wom-
en- one of 500 year.
| Union farmers of Florida will this
year place the union label on their cot
ION anu Oh the crates OF IFult ana veg
etables shipped to northern markets.
Several thousand union farmers in In
diana are likewise using the union label
on their products.
A conference of employers and en-
ployes recently held in Melbourne, Aus
tralia. attributed the breakdown of the
/ apprenticeship system TO the establish
ment of the factory system and the de-
velopment of machinery. with the result
ing subdivision of labor.
| Cinnamon in Wellington, New Zealand.
| have formed a union for their mutual
protection.
An ordinance requiring the fortnightly
payment of city laborers was recently
passed at Concord, n. Fl.
The labor union of Kansas City hope
! to be able to occupy their new labor
temple by next Labor day
Wilfrid Paquette, general president
and one of the founders of the Canadian
| Federation of Textile Workers. has re-
signed the presidency of that organiza-
ton.
Makers of false teeth in New York
have formed a union and have been as
Federation of Labor under the name of
| the Dental Mechanics union.
The demands of the English potters to
| be presented to the manufacturers at the
| joint conference set for March %, are
likely to meet with much opposition as
the operators declare it would be impos-
sible to grant the asked for increase Of
10 per cent.
The Kansas State Federation of
/ Labor, which was organized last August,
is making gratifying progress. 1t now
| has affiliated more than 100 organiza-
tions, embracing a membership of about
! 6500.
All the electricians employed by the
| NevadaCalifornia Power company, in
Goldheld, New, went on strike recently,
refusing to accept the new wage scale of
So day offered by the company.
A movement has been started in Chica-
20 to arouse a greater love of art among
of informal lectures with this end in
view are being given by painters and
sculptors each week at the Art institute.
/! Friends of Walter Macarthur. editor
of the Coast Seamen's Journal, are try
| ing to induce him to become a candidate
for Congress against Julius Kahn of the
Fourth district Of California, in case
the latter should again be nominated.
Thomas 4. Davis of Maysvile. who
was recently appointed labor inspector
for the state of Kentucky, is one of the
veteran members of the international
Typographical union. He joined the or
ganization at Louisville more than fifty
years ago.
Employees of the Dominion Coal com.
pany in Nova Scotia will receive an az
| gregate of $4,000 more in wages each
/ year as result of the award recently
/ handed down by the board of conciIia-
ton appointed to investigate the cues
| tons at issue.