Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-09
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Operative plasterers at Ottawa, Cana
da, organized recently.
A printing trades council was recently
formed at Houston, Texas.
About per cent of the members of
the International Fur Workers are unem-
ployed at this time.
As result of their first attempt, trade
unionists at Davenport, Iowa, elected a
member of the State Legislature.
Fall River Mass union men expect
to reelected the present mayor, who is a
member of the street railway union.
Birmingham (England) tram commit
tee has decided to reduce tramway mems
weekly hours from sixty to fifty-four.
German steel-works are beginning to
use electric furnaces on an extensive
scale for handling large quantities of
metal.
st. Paul, Mimi, will be a candidate
for the 1910 convention of the Railway
Clerks and Freight Handlers Interna-
tional Union.
1t is estimated that the cost of super
annuation benefit alone to the Associated
Iron Molders of Scotland will amount to
S62, $50 for the current year.
A strong organization has been form
ed at Waco, Texas, to work for the ini
tiative and referendum in the next Legis-
lature. This organization has the sup
port of the farmers unions, as well as
the trade unions.
1t is alleged that the railroads of New
York State will fight the ssmi-monthly
pay bill which was passed last session of
the Legislature. Their intention is said
to be to carry it to the courts and have
the law declared unconstitutional.
On the charges filed with him by the
American Federation of Musicians, ae-
cusing amusement managers of violating
the alien labor law, President Roosevelt
has requested that Secretary Straus, of
the Department of Commerce and Labor.
investigate and make full report there
on.
A branch of the National Women's
Trade Union League has been organized
at St Louis, Mo-, and promises to be of
valuable assistance TO the movement in
that city.
The movement to establish a retreat
for aged. sick and infirm members of the
painters. decorators and paper hangers of
America is receiving the hearty indorse-
ment of the craft.
The Teamsters and Lumber Handlers
Union, Of Sacramento, Cal, has appointed
a committee 10 endeavor to have the ice
men and the truck drivers combine with
them and form one union.
The carriers strike in Dublin, Ireland,
shows no signs of termination. negotia-
lions for a settlement having fallen
through A partial settlement Of the malt
mems strike is announced.
The Municipal Ownership League.
which was organized by the New York
Central Labor Union, and which has been
permitted TO slumber since the election
of four years ago, is to be revived.
Now that the Washington Cd. c.
Central Labor Union has declared for
suffrage in the District Of Columbia it
i proposed BY certain leaders among the
workingmen that a suffrage league be
formed there.
At the last meeting of the Central Fed
Grated Union (Manhattsn) 1t was decid-
Cd to ask the various central labor bodies
of the other boroughs to cooperate in a
request that Mayer Mcclellan appoint
labor representative to the board Of adu-
cation from each Of such borough organi-
cations.
Union tailors are voting row on a prop
osition 10 change the place Of holdiAs the
general convention from Bloomington,
Ill. to Buffalo, y. 7. But ons interra-
tionai assemblage Of union tailors has
been held in sixteen years. There is
growing sentiment that the conventions
should be held annually, and this may b.
provided fof.