Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-02
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A Vienna cooperative society with
700 members operates an immense bak-
cry.
Stage hands of Marysville, Cal, have
organized a local of the theatrical en-
ployes.
Newarks locked out painters receiv-
| ed 1928. They asked 1854 and turned
down 1882.
In Australia the federal elections re-
suited in a complete victory for the
Labor party.
Cleveland Lake Shore Railway boil
| ermakers obtained an increase of 215
cents an hour.
Since the adjournment of the Cali
fornia State Federation of Labor in
San Rafael, last October, thirty three
unions have affiliated with the fedora
ton.
The present San Francisco (Cal)
Building Trades Council was organized
in 1896, with six unions and member
ship of less than 1000. The present
membership is above the 10000 mark.
The Montreal (Canada) Trades and
Labor Council desires to have all en-
ployment agencies in that territory
abolished and have one general office
established under the control of the
government.
The State Federation of Labor of
Texas has decided, by a large major
ity vote, that hereafter all officers Of
the federation are to be elected by Sc
cret ballot, and in that way eliminate
politics from that body
The Bakers Union at Mayaguez,
Porto Rico, is on strike to enforce by
gienic conditions in bakeries there. it
is affiliated with the International I'm
ion of Bakery Workers and the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
The strike of Bradford England
wool combers came to an end recently,
an agreement being signed between
the masters and the men. The chief
points of the agreement are that a
joint board is to be framed to deal
with wage questions and other dis
putes; an advance of II cents a week
to all receiving less than 1918 a week,
and % cents to all receiving 1915 a
week and over; two stops Of haitian
hour each for night workers.
Monthly returns from 100 represen-
tative trade unions in New York in
which 10000, or nearly one-fourth Of
the organized wage earners in the
State, show that at the end Of the year
the percentage of idleness was 20.6, rs
compared with $50 at the close Of 1903
and 1927 at the end of 1907. Returns
as to earnings of organized wage work
ers in the third quarter of 1909 from
all unions in the State show an aver
age of 1898 for 319,754 men reporting.
In the corresponding months Of 1908
the average earnings for 288,181 men
reporting was only $207.
The metal workers union in Ger
many had 373, 349 members at the end
of 1909, and has already increased this
year by about 1900. This huge or
ganization had an income in 1909 of
S2,595,00 In the first quarter Of 1909
s325,O 900 was paid for unemployed re-
lief.
The photographers of Europe have at
this time three representatives in the
United States studying the conditions
of the trade with a view to preparing
a plan that viii result in the adoption
of a working agreement between the
organizations of the two countries to
the end that mutual aid may be rem
dered in case Of any trouble.
If the French chamber Of deputies
accepts notifications in the Workmen's
pension bill just passed in the Senate
by a vote of 2S0 to 8, practically all the
workers of France will be able to draw
pensions from the State treasury after
they have reached the age of s. years,
or have spent thirty years in toll.
State employees now are guaranteed
pensions, as are railroad employees,
miners and seamen.
There are now ninety two labor IN
ions in Lon Angeles, Cal, all housed in
the seven-story Labor temple recently
dedicated. In 1887 there were only two
labor organizations in that city, the ty-
biographical and carpenters.