Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-12
WHAT LABOR is DOING.

w Hal LABOh lS DUNG.
The hod carrieFs' international body
has 292 branches located ia various cit
les of he United States and Canada
The Labor Temple association of Seat
tie, Wash, has declared dividend Of
10 per cent ON the Investment.
The men employed ca the railroads ia
Kansas earn on an average SllS3.74 q
year, while II costs them $TT3TT a year
10 live.
The Nova Scotia government has APP
pointed a commission TO investigate the
question of an eight-hcnF shay for work
| ingmen. Tho commission will con-
menee work in August, aud visit all im-
portant industrial centers-
| The latter end of June representatives
of the various labor organizations of
| Massachusetts are 10 hold meeting ia
/ Faneuil hall 10 protest against the de-
! Feat OF the peaceful pbekeiing bill by
| the Massachusetts, SENATE
| Under the revised constitution of the
| international Carriage and Wagon
| Workers union denth benefits will be
paid tc the members of TINT organiZa-
tion in the future. The union has
| branches throughout the United States
and Canada.
A large number Of teiegraphers in In
dia have been on strike for SOME time
ana there has been 81 great delay in the
transmission Of messages. The Indian
government rs opposed to tue demands
made upon them.
An agreement has bes4s signed by the
/ Lab
employees which win ssifie all wages
matters until March I. 1910. The com
pany operates IN every lake port except
Milwaukee.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron,
steel and Tin workers, nj ias convention
held IN Youngstown recently, went on
record as favoFing "a new national labor
party to actively engag. ia politics.
Telegraph operators who .Yere put ON
a basis of eight hours day. to conform
10 the new law limiting their working
day to nine hours are said 10 be organic
ing to protest against IA cnl which. II is
said unofliciaily. win be made IN their
wages.
The Central Labor council OF Wash
ingtOu. ID, O., has given its unqualified
endorsement to the movement for the
passage Of law that shall prohibit the
United States from contracting for any
article manufactured by coHyicis.
The II. c. Frick company of Pitts
burg, a subsidiary Of the United States
Steel corporation, has ordered into effect
a new code of rules governing its mines
and miners. the MOST remarkable pro-
vision Of which In the prohibiting of the
companys miners from drinking whether
on duty OF of.
The superintendent 81 immigration at
Ottawa has issued a notice to the eff
feet that the emily CLASSES of immigrants
wanted in Canada al present nre expert
enced farm IabeFerss farmers financially
able to take up hDmestsaGis or purchase
lands. and female domestic servants
The demand for railway labor. says the
superintendent, is filed for the season,
Figures taken froxn tire annual report
of the state commissioner OF labor OF
Missouri indicate that in that state are
642 labor unions, of which 20s are in
St Louis SO in Kansas City. 80 in st.
Joseph and 300 outside at these cities.
Ia st. Louis there are 45,5YD members
of organized labor.
Mark Jardine, formev president Of the
United Brotherhood Ut Leather Work
ers on Horse Goods. and HOW mayor of
the city Of Rockford. III. has attracted
much favorable attention 81 lnte by his
activity in lettering ouT dishonest alder
men and bringing them to pnblic view.
During the year 1907, G4Bss new indus
tries were reported in ahe south, COM
pared with 64ti IN 1906. which was the
best record ever made. ,rbe leading
states were Texas. 1sS3; Oklahoma.
794, and Virginia. Tennessee. North
Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas, from
400 10 $50 each
A measure has been pnsgsed in Ten
nessee which makes il nDsasSfui 10 allow
any female child under aG years of age
to work ia any manufacturing establish
ment more than sixty-aws hours in any
one week In 1908. or FDUTe sbun sixty-one
hours in 1903. and after january 1,
1910, more than sixty hours