Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26

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Transfers al Emporia, Kan, have
formed a Union.
Dye workers at Minneapolis Mimi, re-
Gently organized.
Operative Plasterers' International
Union has joined the A. T. of L.
Retail clerks at McAlester, Okla, have
obtained a reduction in working hours
Albany IN. y labor unions have erect
ed and opened tuberculosis pavilion.
The various central bodies of Orange
county, New York, have joined county
labor union.
A reorganization of the building trades
unions has been brought about in Buffalo
\. Y. 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 a cash surplus on hand of $97. go. II
and an investment in municipal bonds of
100000.
A new labor law passed by the State
of Oklahoma orders that all school books
issued to the children of that State must
bear the 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
corporation with labor union, whereby
only union men shall be employed should
be 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
bershiD of 100000 within a stated time
The present membership is 1852.
Paper mills, of which there are eight
in India. employ 400 persons. but this
is not at present a progressive industry,
as European wood pulp paper is largely
imported. There is a 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 81 membership of some
thing more than 300, 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 rescue corps
trained to work in irrespirable gases"
that 1.-THE number of men in each corps
must be equivalent to 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. and OBJ
jected to it so strongly that the men were
forced to share the money with them.
There is a movement in the East on
the part of a number of labor unions to
eliminate from their respective constitu-
lions the clause which bars the discussion
of politics at meetings of the organiza-
tions. The leaders in this direction assert
that they are moved to this action by the
changed conditions in the country, and
demand that such a step must be taken
for the better protection of organized Ia
boz
The Cigarmakers' International Unio1
Of America will not hold a convention
this year. An amendment to the consti-
tuition designed to make a convention DOS
sible has been defeated in the referen-
dun by the narrow majority of 3O6.
The validity of that section of the labor
law providing that 10 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 a violation of this law is justi-
fication for the Withholding of payments
for such work from contractors.
A school for wives is the latest under
taking of Chicago club women Courses
will be given in the making of clothes,
cooking. household economies and general
housekeeping. The idea is to make good
housewives and to make them through
organized and unified effort
What promises to be the largest and in
many respects the most important annual
convention of the American Federation Of
Labor is scheduled to open in Denver on
Monday. Nov 9. A novel feature of the
program will be an excursion to Colorado
Springs, embracing a visit to the Union
Printers Home as the guests of the In
ternational Typographical Union
The discipline fire drill prevented a
panic among $50 school children the other