Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-29

zNfN

eCigarmakers paid almost 100000 II
sick benefits last year.
The Plumbers international has in
creased its membership from 1900 Il
10000 in ten years.
Charles H. Miller, "a barber, has beer
chosen as united labor candidate fol
mayor at Seattle, Wash.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's revised rules for employees, JUS
promulgated, have caused consterna-
ton, because one of them prohibits Tho
use of tobacco in any form on passen-
ger trains
The building labOreEs of Fresno
CAL, have been organized into union
of the international hod carriers anC
building lahorers of America and will
be affiliated with the GENITAL labor body
of that city.
Members of the Boston Cigar Max
ars' Union will not gain admittance t6
the next meeting of the nnion unless
they wear hats bearing the union label
Such was the decision of the members
of the executive hoard recently.
The international Typographical Un-
ion has recently lost two of its former
officers by death; one. Andrew .. Will
Jams, 0f St Paul. Mimi. twice presi-
dent. and the other. Major E. F. Nc
Intosh, at one time secretary treas
urer.
Secretary Magel. OF the Department
of Commerce and Labor, has announe-
ed that he will consider the suggex-
ton for creation of a bureau OF investi-
CATION of the condition OF workingmel
and working women in the United
States
The strongest centralized union in
Italy is that OF the railway men. with
44.96l. mechanics and iaborers in the
building trades with 41.7s2. printers
1880. textile workers 1900, 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.l 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 point where
they must seek an increase in wages.
He says thar the wages paid now are
lower t;ian five years ago.
A special convention of the Electro
cal Workers International Union. regu-
lars and seceders. Is TO be held in
RinghaInton during ths early part of
May, to confer with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor arbitrator looking 10
a settlement of the differences between
the two factions.
A request has been sent TO every
central body under the jurisdiction IF
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-P Pacific exposition has been
turned over TO the Washington State
board of health and will be shown in
the larger cities of the State during the
remainder of this winter and next
The printers OF Minneapolis. Ninn-
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.