Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-25
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Hungary has almost 10000 trade
unionsts.
Union tailors all over the United
| States and Canada are voting for in
ternational officers.
Preliminary steps have been taken
looking to the erection of labor tenn
| pie in Fargo, N. d.
| Organizers are at work in New York
| trying to form an international union
of typewriters and stenographers.
| A State federation comprising in it's
membership about 5000 mirers was or
ganized recently in Wyoming.
Machinists of the New England
| States will work for an increase of 20
per cent in wages between now and
next May.
More than 100 delegates will repre-
sent New England at the biennial con-
vention of the railroad clerks, to be
held at New Orleans.
| Believing in charity of definite and
helpful form, Memphis (Tenn.) Typo
| graphical Union has Incorporated in it's
| book of laws a provision that annually
an assessment of one-haif of l per cent
on the October earnings of its members
| shall be levied the sum realized to be
| divided equally between the day nur
sery and the founding home
| International president of retail
clerks reports that letters received
from different parts of the national
| Jurisdiction show that there has been
a great deal of activity in all the sub
| ordinate unions, and that membership
and finances are increasing at q rate
| that has not been known in the last
five years.
| Every law pertaining to or bearing
| on labor and in force in California at
| the present time has been condensed
| into one small compact volume by the
| State labor commissioner. This is to
meet a constant and increasing de-
mand for such a publication by law
yers, public officials and others inter-
ested in various ways.
II has been decided that the Massa
| chusetts Legislature be petitioned to
| enact a minimum wage law of s225 a
| day for all State laborers, and particu-
larly for those employed by the water,
sewer and park boards.
/
| can Federation of Labor convention.
renewed activity in the ranks of the
International Mill Employees Union has
resulted in the return to the union of
| five locals, that have not only paid up
| all arrearage s. but have been success
| full in obtaining the use of the union
label for their product.
| At the next meeting of the federated
trades council. of Sacramento. Cal. an
| effort win be made to amend the con-
stitution to the extent of making it OBJ
! ligatory for every delegate to wear a
/ union made hat
Twenty-Five editors. owners and res
resentatives of different labor pubIica-
lions were present at the Toronto cor
vention of the A. F. of L. and twent-
| of these signed a cali for meeting and
! agreed to join an organization. After
several attempts to perfect the organi-
| zation fourteen of the editors got to-
| gether and formed a permanent organ
| ization to be known as the Information
| al Labor Press Association
From returns received to inquiries
| addressed to each of the labor organi-
! cations in Colorado there have been
| complied for 122 organizations that re-
| ported figures relating to membership.
| wage each day. hours worked each
| year. The membership OF The organi-
| zations reporting numbers approx
rnately $4,000. The hours worked each
day are reported as eight by thirty
| three unions. as nine by fifteen unions.
as twelve by FIVE unions. and thirteen
by one union. as seven by three unions.
end as FIVE by three unions
A convention OF the International
Transport Workers Federation meets
In Copenhagen, Denmark. next August