Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-18


Thes American section of the boot aud
sh'fe workers international body now
has more than 100000 in it's emergency
fund, deposited and bearing interest
In Harrisburg, Pa, city ordinance
has been passed which prohibits the EN-
ploymcnt of foreign labor ON any mu-
nc'pal work undertaken in the future.
The only industries employing children
in large numbers are the glass. Shirts,
tobacco cigars aud cigarettes and the
textile Industries throughout the country.
\ reorganization of the building trades
unions has been brought about in Buff
falo, \. y. after many years of bitter
warfare. The new organization is a
branch of the building trades depart
meRt of the American Federation of La
hor, The Buffalo branch is highly pros
porous and has at present n membership
of about 10000.
The senliannual report for the Brick
layers and Masons' International union
Tor the term ending June 80. 1908.
shows total membership in gool stand
State Coal Mine Inspector Young of
Wyoming has recommended to the gov
erner of that state that the Hanna mine
at Cheyenne be sealed forever as q tomb
for the forty-nine miners buried there
in an accident last May The inspector
says the management violated the laws
governing the protection of underground
workmen.
The fourteen cases brought in the cir
cult court of Jefferson City. Mo. last
spring against the Missouri Pacific uil-
way by ]. q, Slate, prosecuting attorney
for violation Of the eight-hour telegraph
ers' law We're dismissed by the prasecu-
tors because the supreme court had le-
Gently declared the law unconstitutional
Printers are greatly Interested in
movement TO exhibit photographs and
literature of the Union Printers home
and tuberculosis sanitarium annex at
Colorado Springs, Colo, at the coming
worlds tuberculosis congress, which will
be held in Washington, ID, c.. during
the latter part of next month and which
promises 10 he of great Importance
Cooks, pastry cooks aud chefs of
Greater New York. to the number Of
800 and upward, have recently formed
a local union of the Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees International alliance
The 5000 or more cooks of Greater New
| York wcrh from fourteen to sixteen
hours a day in the fall and winter time,
but during the summer there liz little or
| no culHiuA lllHHl IuE tHtHi.
The carpenters at Virgues, Porto Rico.
have formed a new union recently,
| Penal and reformatery institutions have
inSested S1,500,000 in machinery used 10y
| convicts
In Alabama, Florid,,, Mississippi and
| Virginia convicts are so worked as to
| be source of profit TO the state.
The Marine. Long 4Noremen and Trans
4 port Workers ASIA, mton has decided
g increase It's per capita tax from to
is cents.
The recent Scottish Trade Union con
gress passed resolutions ia favor Of old
| age pensions and in favor of compulsory
intervention III labor disputes.
The eght-hour demonstration in Rris-
| hane, Australia. recently was marked by
the participation for the FIRST time 10 rne
I history of the day of organized women
workers.
The first annual report aud balance
sheet of the National Union of journal.
lists SHOWS that the union which twelve
months ago had not one formally con.
sttuted branch. has now Il lnrge num-
Der in England aud Wales. which en-
brace membership Of over 1000.
The movement for perfecting the ANAL
gaination of the various branches Of the
photographers unions into one central
bedy viii mean the merging of over
100000 members OF the Autograph
trades into one organization. which viii
have great strength throughout tbs Unit
cd States.
In Wheeling, w Va, there are more
than forty stOgie factories. All of them
are union shops. In them over 500 stogie
makers, oil union men. are employed,
and in addition to these between 100
and 600 apprentices. not to mention the
several hundred tobacco workers en-
ployed
With general resumption of work in
the coal mines of Indiana, the district
officials Of the United Mine Workers are
claiming n victory In their fight with
the operators, and that, too, after re~
jecting the proposition submitted by Ma
tional President Lewis at Il recent con-
Ference.
Gfie printing course established by the
Kansas State Agricultural college was
faY0raby commented upon in the cur
rent isgde Of The Typographical jour
nal. the official magazine Of the Interna-
tional Typographical union The coli
iege is located at Manhattan, Kan, and
the newly established course takes four
years.
The United Railway Mems orgauiza-
ton Of the state Of New York. which Is
a legislative body made up Of members
of the five railroad brotherloods, will
hold a special meeting shortly at which
resolution will be passed demanding
an amendment to the law creating the
state and city public service boards pro-
viding for the appointment of a repre-
sentative Of labor on both boards.
Every precinct in the city Of Chicago
will be politically organized ia the inter
est Of organized labor at the coming
election. If the plans Of the political
action committee Of the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor bears fruition. Reports
from union leaders in various sections Of
city Indicate that there il a strong SEN
tihent among members Of labor unions
in favor Of the policy suggested by Pres
ident Gompers. to defeat the opponents
of organized labor at the polls and 70
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