Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-14
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There are $1,000 quarrymen in Bel
gium.
Italy claims a trade union membership
of 10000
a State federation of labor will be
formed in North Dakota by spring.
Alberta, Canada. will pass a child la
Dor act similar to the Ontario act
About one-half of the population of
Greece are agriculturists and shepherds.
Headquarters of the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor will be moved from
Duluth to St Paul.
Owing to a wages dispute 1000 men
have struck at Larmorsate colleries,
Rhouddah valley. Wales.
An attempt to establish municipal
brewery in Berlin resulted in a dismal
failure. 1t did plenty of business, but
lost money.
OF ;0J deaths of sailors occurring in
the experience of an industrial insurance
company, 17.6 per cent were due to acct
dents.
The formation of womens auxiliary
unions in the labor movement is rapidly
btCOHllllS pOpuldT loI llS effect uu the
label propaganda.
a campaign is to be started in San
Francisco. Cal, in behalf of the women
employed as clerks in stores, with a view
to obtaining better wages and conditions
for them.
Wages are to be reduced in the north
of England manufactured iron and steel
trade by 6 cents ton on pudding and
2H per cent on other forge and mill
workers wages.
At the State building trade convention,
| to be held in Santa Rosa, Cal, commenc-
| ing Jan. II. each district council in the
| State and each union will be represented
| by one delegate.
According to the Industrial insurance
| experience, the fatal accident rate of cleo
| tricians and of electric linemen is ex-
ccsSive. OF 64J deaths of electricians,
| 14.T per cent, and of 240 deaths of line
| men, 46.1 per cent were due to accidents.
A conference of forty-seven delegates
| from traders associa tons in and around
London has just formed the London and
| Suburban Traders Federation, which
many local associations, representing
1900 tradesmen, have already joined.
| Some trouble is feared in the mining
| districts of New South Wales, Australia,
where the agreements as to wages ter
| inmate at the end of the year. 1t is ex-
| pected that the employers will seek a
reduction in wages, and the men in the
| Broken Hill district are on the alert to
| resist it.
| 1t has been recommended that a ma
| tional department of labor be established
| in England presided over by a minister,
with seat in the cabinet, charged with
the direction of that labor which has not
been absorbed in the ordinary course, and
| that a permanent unemployed board be
set up.
A comparison shows that as regards
wages, the rates paid in the United States
are startlingly higher than in Great
Britain. the difference varying from so
| TO POO per cent.
| In the recent referendum vote taken
by the bakers. a proposition to increase
/ the 4,mries of the international officers
| and make the payment of a sick and
death benefit compulsory, was defeated.
The management committee of the Gen
eral Federation of Trade Unions in Great
| Britain has issued a manifesto in which
all trade unions are advised TO instruct
| their members to refuse TO work overtime.
Women employed as ordinary day labor
erS in the construction of buildings mix
| ing the mortar. sitting and carrying
| bricks. and for unloading coal. are the
| usual conditions described a. existing in
| Prague and elsewhere in Bohemia. The
| women are paid from 81 to 10 cents
day. The working day for these women
is from 6 a. m. TO Is p. M. with an hour
| for dinner.
The initial step has been taken look
| ing TO the enactment c. law by the
| Minnesota Legislature requiring that all
| meat cutters be subjec- 10 an examlna-
| ton as to their qualifications before a
| board appointed by the State authorities.