Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-05

The Germans have established the best
trade schools in the world.
The woodworking trades of Russia
comprise union membership of 1927.
Electrical workers at Halifax. \. s.
have received an increase of $3.50 week.
Union labor in the leather trades os
Russia has reached the number of Il. O86
Nearly 5000 organized women ia Ger
many are employed as printers assist
ants.
The British National Union of Clerks
has decided to hold its 1908 convention
in Birmingham.
Needle making and file cutting seem to
rayages of consumption.
Chicago, Ill.,. has twenty-five locals Of
the International Freight Handlers aud
Railway Clerks Union.
A big campaign has been instituted for
the organization of boilermakers and iron
ship builders at Buffalo. n. Y.
Nottingham (Engiandl miner has
patented a safety pit cage. which is said
to be great advance on all others.
The members of the Federation of Ger
man Seamen. 10000 strong, are still on
strike, having gone out May 20 last.
Unions in many of the larger cities of
Minnesota are raising funds on their own
account with which to pay organizers
Gas filters are among the best-paid
mechanics in New South Wales. They
receive higher wages than the plumbers.
San Francisco (Cal.) Laundry Work
ers Union has decided to begin an agi-
tation against japanese and Chinese laun-
dries.
San Francisco (Cal) Brewery Work
ers' Union is discussing proposition to
procure a site for the erection of brew
ers' hall.
Granite cutters at Maisonneuve, Que
bee. have obtained an advance from $3.50
to 50 day and the adoption of the eight
hour day.
An effort is being made to have all ce-
ment workers unite under the jurisdiction
of the American Brotherhood of Cement
Workers.
Boston (Mass,) Cigarmakers' Union
has levied local assessment to increase
the out-of-work benefit for the unemploy-
ed of the craft
More than $1,000 members were added
to the rolls of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists in Massachusetts dur
ing the last year
Central Federated Union OF New York
is carrying on an earnest campaign to
obtain the construction of ships in gov
eminent yards.
During 1906 forty-one of the sixty-four
unions affiliated with the General Fedora
ton of German Trades Unions at Berlin
paid unemployed benefits.
Affiliated to the general federation of
trade unions in Germany, the bricklaycrs
and masons are among the strongest, with
| 1S3,747 members at the close of 1906.
| Toronto, Canada. is the place. and jan
uary of next year the time selected for
holding the next annual convention of
the Custom Cutters Association of Amer
| lea.
Nine hundred foundrymen at Camelon,
Falkirk. Scotland. are affected by lock-
| out. which originated from a strike due
to the employment of several men not in
the union.
Measures for the better payment of
school teachers, the better registration Of
vital statistics and provision for old age
pensions are forecasted in the Nova SEQ
tia Legislature.
| w. r. Trotter member of the Typo
graphical Union in Winnipeg. has gone
to Great Britain as the representative of
| tha nom;nio1 fradaS eonoraac in itnni-
| grafton matters.
Minneapolis Typographical Union No.
| AZ has taken the first step in move to
raise a fund from which to pay striking
members a sum equal to that received
while engaged in tSeir regular occupation.
A bill is now pending in the New York
Legislature which provides for the semi
monthly payment of oil railroad employees
in the Suite The brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen end Enginemen has been
most active "a pushing the bill
The new federal law, limiting the hours
Of railroad telegraphers to nine a day,
was the cause, indirectly, OF putting sew
eral hundred trainmen, who had been
carried as extras to work, besides about
5000 additional operators on the various
roads Of the country. The extra expendi-
ture by the roads will probably reach
about $1000O,0O0 annually.
Leaders of labor unions in San Fran
cisco are laying the foundation for a
movement that will lead to a close scru-
tiny of all persons who are to become can
didates for national, State and judicial
offices. Those who have the matter in
hand declare that review of the past
shows that in the judicial lines the wage
earners have not received the considera-
ton to which they have been entitled.
Labor has two representatives In Con-
gress who hold membership cards in the
Telegraphers' Union. One Is Representa-
tive Carey of Milwaukee. a Republican.
and the other Representative McDermott.
Of Chicago. Democrat These labor
men are working hard 10 obtain The pas
sage Of labor legislation. and since the
recent decision by the Supreme Court in
the Hatters' Union case have been seek
ing to have enacted an amendment to the
Sherman antitrust law that will exempt
labor unions from its provisions.
The Trades Union Congress of Great
Britain, through its parliamentary com
mittee, is about to go into the daily news
paper business. Sixteen unions. with an
aggregate membership Of 100000. art
pushing the movement, which they pro.
pose to capitalize at 100000.
Some idea of what it costs to provid,
for the unemployed against want may be
gained by reference TO the amounts ex-
pended by Typographical Union No. . Of
New York, during the years 1906 and
1907. In the forEoer year the benefit
board dispensed S53.651.75; in the latter
year the total was So, S40.27.
RELIGION AND REFORM.