Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-24

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Cigarmakers paid almost 100000 in
sick benefits last year.
The Plumbers international has in
creased it's membership from 1000 70
| 10000 in ten years.
Charles H. Miller, a barber has been
chosen as united labor candidate for
mayor at Seattle, Wash.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's revised rules for employees, just
promulgated, have caused consterna-
ton, because one of them prohibits the
use of tobacco in any form on passen-
ger trains.
The building laborers of Fresno,
Cal, have been organized into a union
of the international hod carriers and
building Iaborers of America and will
be affiliated with the GENITAL labor body
of that city.
Members of the Boston Cigar Max
ers' Union will not gain admittance to
the next meeting of the union unless
they wear hats bearing the union label.
Such was the decision of the members
of the executive board recently.
The International Typographical I'm
ion has recently lost two Of it's former
officers by death; one. Andrew j. Will
Jams, of st. Paul, Mimi twice presi-
dent, and the other, Major E. f. Nc
Intosh, at one time secretary treas
urer.
Secretary Nagel, of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, has announc-
ed that he will consider the sugges-
ton for creation of a bureau of investi-
cation of the condition Of workingmen
and working women in the United
States.
The strongest centralized union in
Italy is that of the railway men, with
44,961, mechanics and laborers in the
building trades with 41,732, printers
1880, textile workers 1000, govern
ment employees 5000, journeymen cigar
makers $500.
Many unions have declared in favor
of the formation of an allied printing
trades section of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Frank H. Mccarthy, New England
organizer for the American Federation
of Labor, will aid in organizing a new
Waltham (Mass.) central labor union.
Morris Biller, secretary of the Gar
ment Workers District Council, of Bos-
ton states that the high cost of living
has driven the men to a point where
they must seek an increase in wages.
He says that the wages paid now are
lower than five years ago.
A special convention of the Electri-
cal Workers International Union, regu-
lars and seceders, is to be held in
Binghamton during the early part of
May, to confer with the American Fed
| Grafton of Labor arbitrator looking to
a settlement of the differences between
the two factions.
A request has been sent to every
central body under the jurisdiction of
the American Federation of Labor
calling upon the officers to take action
toward having the State Legislature
pass an employers liability and work
ingmen's compensation act as recon-
mended by unanimous vote at the To-
ronto convention last November.
The exhibit which the international
Typographical Union had at the Alas
ka- Yukon Pacific exposition has been
turned over to the Washington State
board Of health and win be shown in
the larger cities of the State during the
remainder of this winter and next.
The printers of Minneapolis, Mimi,
have commenced an agitation for a
greater demand for the allied printing
trades label on all articles that should
carry it. Special committees have been
appointed to make house to house
canvass and talk with all who have
printing done on the subject Of not Civ
ing work to firms that do not have the
label.