Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-28
LABOR NEWS NOTES.

| the Central Grain Growers association
| to place a capable man in the field 10 or
ganize Saskatchewan farmers into per-
manent society or association with a
| strong life membership fund at its back
| The Nebraska House of Representa-
/ tives. by the necessary tWo-thirds vote
| of 62 to "a. has passed the Howard
4 BILL submitting a constitutional amend
/ ment, permitting women to vote at elec-
tions of every kind.
An eight-hour day and several other
| important concessions to labor are pro-
posed in bill recently introduced in
| the Canadian Legislature by \. f.
l E'ripp, member elected from Ottawa.
] Ontario.
The turned shoe" workmen of Mar
| blehead. Massachusetts, are about TO
establish union school to instruct
| young men in the business, there being a
great scarcity Of men capable of work
! ing on turned shoes" in that town.
The Women's Trade Union league is
carrying on an active campaign in sup
port of the bill at present before the
| New York state Legislature, which pro-
| vides, among other things, for a state
commission on employment.
The union working women of Boston
| have organized a chorus TO sing the
songs of labor, 1t has fifty members,
| and is being constantly increased from
| the ranks of the women and girls who
| belong to the various trades unions Of
| that city.
There are now 1886 men employed
| in the mines and mills of the Goldfeld.
! New: district. At an average earning
| of S120 per month, this makes month
| ly payroll of $1S4,320. In many cases
| this average should be increased at
least 10 per cent.
The Italian National Providential
| Fund for Old and Invalid Workmen"
was initiated ten years ago, and in 1900,
! the first year of its actual operation,
| 900 persons became subscribers, since
which date their number has increased
to nearly 100000.
| \ district council of longshoremen for
! the city of New York and surrounding
| territory, representing about 5000 long
| shore workers and twelve local unions
has recently been formed.
BY a vote of 20 to 13 the Nebraska
state Senate on February % passed the
| Humphrey BILL which provides for the
election of United States Senators by the
According to the official figures of the
| commission on rural affairs, there are
in Russia 4j,432,S25 peasants either
without or insufiicently provided with
| land. To remedy this condition the gov
eminent has had recourse to the coloni-
cation of Siberia and the sale of crown
lands.
Berlin. Germany. has the largest in
dustrial school for women that there is
in all the world In this school. conduct
ed by the Lette Nerein, in a great build
ing containing more than 200 rooms and
the most admirable equipment, many
hundreds of young girls are learning
everything. from photography to fine
sewing. from French and stenogaph to
cooking, everything that will fit girls to
make their way in the world.
The Labor council of San Francisco
has taken up the matter of obtaining an
eight-hour day for the drivers of hos
pital ambulances
According to the report of the United
States commissioner of labor, women in
buying for the family spend from 90 to
20 per cent. of the total earnings.
Painters decorators and paperhangers
Carolina for the establishment of home
and sanatarium for their members
The unions at Red Wing, Mimi. have
begun preparations for the entertain
ment Of the delegates to the annual con
vention of the State Federation of La
Dor, which Viii meet in that city on
June II.
In rural Russia. the wages of farm
laborerS have advanced about thirty per
cent in the last twenty years. but the
average is still only 80 cents Il day. The
board of such Il worker is figured at
from to 10 cents a day.
The industrial death roll in England in
1908 is thus given by the home secre
tary: In mines, 1913; in Quarries, %:
i'll factories and workshops, 1912. Those
figures do not include the loss of life in
mercantile branches, the marine or on
railways.
y tract of one hundred acres. situated
just east of and Immediately adjacent to
the Union Printers home at Colorado
Springs, Colo. has just been purchased
for the proposed national sanatorium of
the National Letter Carriers association
The Journeymen Horseshoers' union
OF Boston. Mass. has completed the fif-
tieth year of its existence.
The San Francisco grocery clerks I'M
ion is taking measures TO organize all
the clerks in that city.
The grave diggers of New York have
recently formed Il labor union.
On May 30, at New York city. the
Steel Plate Transferrers' association will
hold its convention.
The Oldham. England. engineers will
oppose the proposed reduction in wages
in that district The employers had
amended their proposal to Is a week on
the wages and 2l2 per cent on piece
rates. The subject is, however. to be
put before a mass meeting of the mem
herS
The total membership Of the United
Mine Workers of America. according "a
the latest figures compiled at the ma
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