Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26

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For the last fiscal year, although sur
rendering eleven charters and issuing only
eight, the Cigarmakers' International
Union gained 200 in membership.
The cooks and chefs of Toronto, Can,
have decided to send for an A. f. of l..
charter to Washington so that they may
become part of the great army of labor.
In Paris, France, there is special
school for walters. Students are taught
four languages, geography, artistic deco
ration and dancing, as well as minor ac
complishments.
The Painters Union of Sacramento,
Cal, has appointed committee of three
to obtain consideration by the next Leg
islature of legislation needed by the craft
Of painters throughout the State.
The Bricklayers and Masons' Interna-
tional Union has notified Boston (Mass.)
Rrieklayers' Union No. 3 that it will
finance an appeal to the United States
Supreme Court of the recent decision of
the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which
enjoined the union from fning several
members for refusing to strike, declar
ing the union had no such right.
National labor union war against local
option was planned at a meeting of the
Central Federated Union in New York
recently. An appeal to all central and
national labor bodies in the United States
to fight the movement was agreed upon,
on the ground that local option had al
ready thrown many thousands out of en-
ployment, and is n menace to prosperity,
while it does not decrease drunkenness.
Within less than a decade there has
been a large increase in the amount of
Mexican labor employed in the United
States. but more marked even has been
the increasing range of its distribution.
As recently as 1900 immigrant Mexicans
were seldom found more than a hundred
miles from the border. Now they are
working as unskilled laborers and as see
ton hands as far north as Iowa, Wyom-
ing and San Francisco.
Stationary fremen of Minneapolis and
st. Paul are discussing proposed State
license law for firemen, along the same
lines as the law controlling the station
AIRY engineers and the St Paul union, at
its last meeting, unanimously Endorsed
the proposed law.
A committee has been appointed by the
international Association Of Plumbers,
Cash Filters, Steam Filters and Steam
Filters Helpers to visit sites for pro-
posal home for aged members of the
craft. The committee win examine sites
in Pasadena. Cal: Hot Springs. Ark.
Colorado Springs and Denver, Colo.
Under the new pension law Of the In
ternational typographical Union Alb
members are drawing 81 week. Ii is
estimated that there are some GOO en-
titled to this pension, and when these
are all properly registered 1t viii mean
an outlay Of aboiit $124.S00 year
Leicester is a center for the mauufac-
ture of boots ard shoes in England.
MANY women are employed The wage
scale is based upon piece work; women
filters and machine workers earn. usual
Il from s.. IS to S47J a week. but re-
Gently. because Of short time IN the fac
tories. compensation has ranged from
s1.TJ to $50 week.
A large percentage Of the members OF
the Photo Engrayers' international Union
is afflicted with tuberculosis, and the II
ternational intends to establish FIVE sana-
forums for their care in various sections
of the country.
Times are hard in the world of actors
and actresses just now. One prominent
theatrical man declares that there are
10000 idle artists of this profession in
New York to-day. and more than 10 per
cent Of these are women.