Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
LABOR
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The British trade union congress this
year will open at Sheffield on Septem-
Der II.
Bakers International Union has de-
cided to start the siX-day working
week in New Orleans, La.
1t is reported that the union label
section of the A. F. of L., not yet a
year old, has a membership of 100000
The young women and girls employ
ed in the tobacco factories of Toronto
Canada, have decided to organize a I'M
ion.
In Sioux Falls, S. D., there are TWEEN
ty-seven unions, and Aberdeen, Lead
Huron and Deadwood are all well or
gained.
The average wages an hour of the
working classes in Belgium are little
more than half those of the same class
es in England.
The steam engineers have establish
ed and organized some fifteen new I'M
ions during the last month in the Uni
ted States and Canada.
In order to hold their fitting boy en-
ployes, three glass factory proprietors
hotel just for such lads.
The Labor party of Australia carried
the last general elections. That party
will have a majority in each house of
the commonwealth parliament.
At a recent conference of the $4,000
members of the Australian workers
(shearersO union, it was decided to
begin the issue of a daily paper.
The new Fit. Worth (Texas) labor
temple will be the headquarters of all
the local labor unions, having an ag-
gregate membership of six thousand.
The troubles which recently led to
the lockout of many thousands in the
Building Trades Council in Germany
have been settled for three years. The
Berlin industrial courts arbitration
award has been accepted by the un-
ions.
A labor party has recently been or
ganized in Toronto, Canada, and it in
tends to take an active part in the next
municipal campaign, with the expecta-
ton of getting a number of candidates
from the ranks of labor in municipal
offices.
International President George l..
Berry, of the Pressmen and Assistants
Union, has notified subordinate unions
that an assessment of one days pay
will be levied between the 22d and 28th
of next May, to be devoted toward the
building of a home for tuberculosis pa
tents and aged members.
Fred Bancroft, vice president of the
Dominion trades and labor congress for
Ontario, has been appointed a member
of the Toronto commission on technical
education dr. Bancroft represented
the workingmen Of Canada at the last
convention Of the American Federation
of Labor.
An effort will be made by the friends
Of organized labor at the forthcoming
constitutional convention of Arizona to
have a clause against the indiscrimi-
nate use of the writ of Injunction in
serted in the organic law. Another
measure which will be strongly indors-
ed by organized labor will be an eight
hour day for employees on State work.
The bill introduced in the New York
Senate so amending city charters as to
permit the boards of education to sell
in open markets the products Of vaca-
tional, truant, trade and preparatory
schools, has aroused the active opposi-
ton Of the New York State working
mems federation.
International President NJ. E. LIGHT,
head Of the retail clerks, is advised by
the local in Sacramento, Cal, that the
conditions in that city are better for
the clerks than in almost any other
,i+x II, The Tinted States The bo77-c
are shorter, wages more liberal, and
the large stores do not require the
clerks TO work Saturday nights.