Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04

Insulators and asbestos workers in New
York City receive $40 a day of eight
hours.
Two hundred thousand men are en-
ployed by the National Metal Trades As
sociation.
In England the metal. engineering and
ship5uilding trades normally employ
100000 workers.
Massachusetts State Council of wood,
wire and metal fathers unions has been
permanently formed.
Labor organizations in North Carolina
have decided to nominate candidates for
State and county officers from their own
ranks
The New York Legislature of 1908 en-
acted ten of the bills proposed by the
Workingmen's Federation of the State of
New York
Kansas City (Mo.) labor unions are
getting out a union label bulletin every
month in order to keep members up to
date with all union labels
The rival house painters unions of
New York City, which have been opposed
to each other for nearly quarter of a
century, have come together.
Machinists' lodges of New England
have begun an agitation to have labor
men nominated for the various elective
offices in every city and town.
The total amount of benefits paid dur
ing the year 1907 by Cigarmakers' Inter-
national was S473,27O.5S. The general
fund increased during that period $780,
1919.
Walla Walla (Wash.) trade unions
have shown themselves to be public spir-
tied through their activity in several pub
lie enterprises, particularly the city park
campaign.
Some of the branches of the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
in England are advocating an amalgama-
ton with the Associated iShipwrights,
chiefly those in the shipbuiiding centers.
Organizations of the railroad bridge
and building mechanics of the Boston and
Maine system are forming system of
adjustment and arbitration board similar
to that of other big railroad brotherhoods.
The American Federation of Labor.
through recent meeting of the execu-
tive committee, decided to further the
union labor movement by more extensive
advertising in the local papers, street cars
and daily press.
Chicago is to have a workingman's hos
pital. 1t is to be an institution man
aged comparatively by the labor unions,
in which free treatment and medicine
will be given the families of workingmen
in time of sickness.
A child labor law was passed by the
Ohio Legislature which requires that no
boy under IS or girl under IS can be
employed over eight hours a day. The
general age Limit for child labor is IA
years of age. A modified form of en-
ployers' liability law was also enacted.
Electrical workers have received in
formation from the executive board of the
international Union of the United States
and Canada that lit has voted to increase
the unions defense fund from 100000
to 100000 and that it also proposes to
increase the death benefits for widows
and orphans"
in Canada in 1902, the date of the first
record of labor organizations, 275 unions
were formed and ffty-four dissolved: in
1904 there was an increase of forty-four
unions in 1905 there were organized 103
unions and 105 were dissolved; in 1906
154 unions were organized, and So dis
solved. In 1907 there were 232 new or
CARNATIONS and So were dissolved.
The number of deaths from industrial
accidents in the United Kingdom reported
in the year 1907 was 4,460, an increase of
81 over the year 1906 and of 277 on the
average for the five years 1903-1907
With tie exception of quarrying each
group OF occupations shows an increase
as compared with 1906. These increases
were most marked in the shipping and
mining rrounS