Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-09
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Hod carriers of Tulsa, Okla. have or
ganized under their international union.
lnsulators and asbestos workers in New
York City receive $3.50 a day OF eight
hours.
Two hundred thousand men are en-
ployed by the National Metal Tradss' As
ISOLATION.
In England the metal, engineering and
shipbuilding trades normally employ
100000 worker,s.
Massachusetts, State Council of wood.
wire and metal lathers' unions has been
permanently formed.
Labor organizations in North Carolina
have decided to nominate candidates for
State and county officers from their own
ranks
The New York Legislature of 1905 en-
acted ten of the bills proposed by the
Workingmen's Federation of the State of
New York.
Kansas City (Mo.) labor unions are
getting out union label bulletin every
month in order to keep members up to
date with all union labels.
The rival house painters unions of
New York City, which have been opposed
to each other for nearly quarter of a
century, have come together.
Machinists' lodges of New England
have begun an agitation to have labor
men nominated for the various elective
offices in every city and town.
| The total amount of benefits paid dur
ing the year 1907 by Cigarmakers' Inter
national was S473,27o.5S. The general
fund increased during that period $780,.
1919.
Walla Walla (Wash.) trade unions
have shown themselves to be public spir-
TIED through their activity in several pub
lie enterprises, particularly the city park
campaign.
| Some of the branches of the Amalga-
| mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
in England are advocating an ama'gama-
| ton with the Associated Shipwrights.
chiefly those in the shipbuilding centers.
Organizations of the railroad bridge
and building mechanics of the Boston and
Maine system are forming a system of
adjustment and arbitration board similar
to that of other big railroad brotherhoods.
The American Federation of Labor,
through a recent meeting of the execu-
tive committee, decided to further the
union labor movement by more extensive
advertising in the local papers, street cars
and daily press.
Chicago is to have a workingman's hos
pital. 1t is to be an institution man
aged comparatively by the labor unions.
in which free treatment and medicine
will be given the families of workingmen
in time of sickness.
| A child labor law was passed by the
Ohio Legislature which requires that no
boy under 16 or girl under IS can be
employed over eight hours a day. The
general age Limit for child labor Is ii
years of age A modified form of em-
ployers' liability law was also enacted.
Electrical workers have received in
formation from the executive board of the
| international Union Of the United States
and Canada that sit has voted to increase
the unions defense fund from 100000
| to 81 100000 and that it also proposes to
increase the death benefits for widows
| and orphans"
In Canada in 1902, the date of the first
record of labor organizations. 275 unions
were formed and tifty-four dissolved in
1904 there was an increase of forty-four
unions; in 1905 there were organized 103
unions, and 105 were dissolved in 1906
| 154 unions were organized, and s. dis
solved. In 1907 there were 232 new or
CARNATIONS and So were dissolved.
The number Of deaths from industrial
accidents in the United Kingdom reported
in the year 1907 was AGO. an increase Of
341 over the year 1906 and of 277 on the
average for the five years 1903-190T.
| With the exception of quarrying each
group OF occupations shows an increase
as compared with 1906. These increases
were most marked in the shipping and
mining groups.