Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-21
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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 a 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 a 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.)
Bricklayers' 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 filming 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 menace to prosperity,
while it does not decrease drunkenness.
Within less than decade there has
been a large increase in the amount of
Mexican labor employed in the United
States. but moro marked even has been
the increasing range of its distribution.
As recently as 1900 immigrant MeXicans
were seldom found more than hundred
miles from the border. Now they are
working as unskilled laborers and as sec
ton hands as far north as Iowa, WyOm-
ing and San Francisco.
Stationary firemen of Minneapolis and
St Paul are discussing a proposed State
license law for fremen, along the same
lines as the law controlling the station
arv 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 a pro-
! posed home for aged members of the
craft. The committee will examine sites
in Pasadena, Cal; Hot Springs, Ark.
| Colorado Springs and Denver, Colo.
Under the new pension law of the In
| ternational Typographical Union 4ls
| members are drawing 81 a week. 1t is
| estimated that there are some 600 en-
titled to this pension, and when these
| are all properly registered it will mean
an outlay of about S124S00 a year.
Leicester is a center for the manufac
ture of boots and shoes in England
| Many women are employed. The wage
| scale is based upon piece work: womer
filters and machine workers earn, usual
! IL. from 1915 to S4.I5 a week, but re
| Gently, because of short time III the fac
| tories. compensation has ranged from
S1.75 to $3.50 a week.
A large percentage of the members o
| tbe Photo Engravers' International UnioI
* afflicted with tuberculosis, and the in
| ternational intends to establish five sana
! toriums for their care in various sections
! of the country.
Times are hard in the world of actor:
and actresses Just now One prominen
theatrical man declares that there ar
10000 idle artists of this profession il
| New York to-day, and more than % pc
cent of these are women.