Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-01
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Transfers at Emporia, Kan, have
formed a union.
Dye workers at Minneapolis. Mimi, re-
Gently organized
Operative Ilasterers' International
Union has joined the - f. of l..
Retail clerks at NgeAlester. Okla, have
obtained a reduction in working hours,
Albany On. Y labor unions have erect.
ed and opened tuberculosis pavilion.
The various central bodies of Orange
county, New York, have joined county
labor union
reorganization of the building trades
unions has been brought about in Buffalo,
n. L.. after many years of warfare
The labor unions of Sacramento, Cal.
are working theoretically for the erection
of building trades temple in that city,
1t has been decided by the leather work
ers TO make a universal demand for the
eight-hour day within the next two years.
United Brewery Workmen of America
have cash surplus on hand Of $97, G22 Al
and an investment in municipal bonds of
100000.
new labor law passed by the State
Of Oklahoma orders that all school books
issued to the children of that State must
bear tie union label.
Additional death benefits of $3.50 for
membership of seven or more years and
$500 for one of ten or more years have
been established by the brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers.
The Appellate division of the New
York Supreme Court, second department,
has decided that contract made by a
cooperation with a labor union, whereby
only union men shall be employed should
lie upheld as valid and binding.
Bakers and Confectioners International
Union has adopted plan to fully organ
ize all the large cities of the United
States, with the idea of having mem
bership OF 100000 within a stated time.
The present membership is Hosp.
Paper mills, of which there are eight
in India, employ 4,700 persons, but this
is not at present progressive industry,
as European wood pulp paper is largely
imported. There is prospect of the es-
adjustment Of wood pulp manufacture in
India.
The Women's Club Of Magnolia, Mass,
is said to be the only one of its kind in
existence. 1t has membership of some
thing more than 800, all women employed
as workers in the hotels, boarding houses
and residences of the summer population
of that resort.
In Russia, where over fifty men are
employed in one mine, it is provided that
every colliery must have a rescue corps
trained to work in irrespirable gases"
that "the number of men in Zach corps
must be equivalent to A per cent of those
engaged in the largest pit or shaft work.
and that the number Of completely
equipped sets of breathing apparatus at
each colliery must not be less than three"
The Australian Parliament appropri-
ated 100000 for the increase of the
teachers salaries, and the men teachers
attempted to get the whole amount APP
piled to themselves. The members of the
Woman's Progressive Association, all OF
them voters, did not see the logic of such
a division of the appropriation. aud OBJ
jected to it so strongly that the men were
forced to share the money with them.
There is movement in the East on
the part Of a number of labor unions TO
eliminate from their respective constitu-
tons the clause which bars the discussion
of politj 3 at meetings Of the organiza-
tions. fhe leaders in this direction assert
that they are moved TO this action by the
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demand that such a step must be taken
for the better protection Of organized la
boz.
The Cigarmakers' International UnioG
of America win not hold a convention
this year. An amendment to the consti-
tuition designed to make convention pos
sibIe has been defeated in the referen-
dun by the narrow majority Of 306
The validity of that se,.tion Of the labor
law providing that no workmen upon pub
lie work shall be permitted or required
to work more than eight hours in one
calendar day is upheld by the New York
Court Of Appeals. The court in substance
holds that violation Of this law is justi-
fcation for the Withholding Of payments
for such work from contractors.
A school for wives is the latest under
taking Of Chicago club women. Courses
viii be given in the making of clothes,
cooking. household economies and general
The idea is 20 make good
housewives and to make them through
and unified effort.
What promises to be the largest and in
many respects the most important annual
OF the American Federation Of
Labor is scheduled TO open in Denver on
Monday. Nov 8. 4 novel feature Of the |
program will be an excursion to Colorado |
Springs. embracing visit 70 the Union |
Printers Home rs the guests Of the In |
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