Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11

Cigarmakers at Mayagues, Porto Rico,
have formed union.
The Photo Engravers Union of North
America has adopted union label.
Wheeling CIV. Val car men have re-
ceiyed an increase in wages of one-half
and one cent on the hour.
The total value of the telegraph and
telephone line poles used in this country
during 1906 was $9,4T1,171.
The insurance agents of Wheeling, w.
Va, may organize labor union for
their self-protection in the near future.
Trade unionists at Walla walla,
Wash, have placed the president Of the
Trades Council as a candidate fer street
commissioner.
Negro iremen in Pittsburg, Pa, will
be organized and enrolled in the ranks
of the International brotherhood of Sta
tionary Firemen.
Strong efforts are being made by the
various printing trades in Washington,
ID. c., to have the Cuban census r,ports
printed at the government printing o'iice.
G. ii. McConaughy of San Francisco.
CAL, has been chosen third vice president
of the International Brotherhood of Flee
trical Workers, to succeed NJ j. Sullivan.
The South Wales Miners Federation
is again in ferment over the non-union
question. and the executive has given per-
mission TO issue notices to strike unless
the nonunionists toe the line and join
the federation.
In an effort to reduce accidents at
mines, for which money was appropriated
at the last session of Congress, plans have
been made by Secretary of the Interior
Garfield to oE.E in Pittsburg, Pa, the
first experimental station.
The new national Federation of Weav-
ers held its first convention at Fall River,
Mass, with twenty-eight unions repre-
sented. United Textile Workers Union,
from which the weayers' unions have
withdrawn, is opposing the effort.
As an expression of appreciation for
their faithful service and courtesy to the
travelling public, checks amounting to
$4,000 were mailed to 1,f53 conductors
and 2,61T porters by the Pullman com
pany. In each case the check was equiv
alent to one months pay. an average of
about S46.40
The West Virginia State Federation of
Labor continues to grow bigger and
stronger each week. President Welch is
confident that by the time Of the next
State convention the State Federation.
reorganized at Huntington last February,
will contain all the labor unions in the
mountain State.
The prospect of smooth working in the
labor world in Sweden is anything but
bright, and great deal of trouble is ex-
pected during the summer. The most
threatening feature is the conflict be-
tween the dock workers organization and
the ship owners, which is bound to drag
in all kinds of workers.
Railroad employees throughout Mexico
are planning organization of union
which will have for its sole aim the ex-
clusion of Americans from connection in
any capacity with the various roads. 1t
is said that 80 per cent of the men Of
the railroads are Mexicans. the other
10 per cent of the positions being held
principally by Americans.
When completed, Kansas City's labor
temple will cost nearly 100000, and the
union men Of Kansas City will not owe
one cent on the structure. The building
will be four stories high, and already TO
the third floor has been completed. TIE
labor people are furnishing the funds for
the temple, and are raising the money
among the local unions.
i
Mine Inspector PFC. Fenton OF the
Twelfth Pennsylvania district, comprise
ing eleven colieries employing 10000
men and boys, in his report for June has
clear record, save one non-fatal acci-
dent This is the first time since the
formation of the Twelfth district six
years ago that the monthly report did not
show at least one fatal accident.
After the popular disapproyal of the
arrest and Imprisonment of socialist
speakers on the streets of Los Angeles,
Cal, had reached the form of a public
gathering Of several thousand men and
women who thronged the City Hall and
Council Chamber, the Council ordered
the release of Rev. e. A. Cantrell of the
Pasadena First Unitarian church. Clouds
ley Johns. Mrs. Dorothy Johns and thir-
ty-fve other men and women imprisoned
for street speaking and repealed the orr
dinance under which they had been ar,
rested and sentenced.