United labor bulletin., 1914-01-24
Events Worth Recording Gath
cred From All Parts of the
Civilized World.
COMPANY TO SHARE PROFITS
Manufacturers of Ford Automobiles
Plan Distribution Of $1o,ooo,ooo
Among Employes-Tin Plate
Mill at Gary, Ind, Re-
sumes Work With
Full Force.

rent year 1t will distribute s10.000.000
of its profits among it's employees. In
order that many men now out Of work
here may nave employment, the COM
pany will change its plan of operation
from two shifts of nine hours per day
to three shifts of eight hours. and
operate the plant continuously This
will give employment to about 1000
additional men. In all. about $1,000
employees will share in the profit dis
tribution. Nineteen thousand Of them
will be In the huge Detroit factory.
Between 1000 and 5000 men are en-
ployed in the branch plants of the
company. Boys and women will not
share unless they support families.
A minimum wage scale of IS per day
is established.
Gary, Ind.-The American Sheet
and Tin Plate company's plant, en-
ploying 1900 men. resumed operations
after being closed down for over ten
days. Before the plant closed the
men were given notice that unless
orders were received the mill would
be idle indefinitely. The resumption
of operations means that sufficient or
ders have been received to keep the
plant in operation for over month.
Conditions at the Gary plant of the
Illinois Steel company and the Amerf-
can Bridge company plant there are
better than they have been for the
past month with the booking of sew
eral substantial orders.
New York.-Many of the 500 barge
captains who went on strike in re-
sponse to an order from the Tide
water Boatmen's union had applied
for their old positions. and there
seems little likelihood that any more
will quit work. The principle reason
for the strikers return to work was
that the strike, If continued, would
have cost them their homes as well
as their positions. as their families
lived aboard the barges.
Washington. - The navy depart
ment's 1914 scale OF pay for navy
yard employees is announced as fol-
lows: Increases are granted at the
New York yard to shipsmiths helpers,
die sinkers, electricians, drop forgers,
galvanizers, moulders, packers, paint
tlop hOu5t BihAAlbIlo anu oWANNAAAAIAAs
The increase is about s12.500 a year.
and will benefit 200 men.
Sharon, Pa--Several thousand en-
ployes of the mills in Sharon and Far
rell who have been idle since the shut
down for the Christmas holidays have
returned to work. The plants which
resume operation are the tin plate.
Carnegie steel and wire, gate post and
fence departments, Sharon Steel Hoop
and Sharon Foundry. 1t is believed
that the plants will work steadily.
Trinidad, Colo.-One man was killed
and another probably fatally injured
when strikers. attacked guards Of an
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
bridge connecting mines at Radiant
and Cokedale, in the strike district
near here. One guard died from a
bullet wound and the other fell from
the bridge into an arroyo below.
New Haven. Conn.-Notice posted
In the car shops of the New York.
New Haven & Hartford railroad here.
make effective reduction of ten per
cent. in the wages of several hundred
employees. Machinists, boiler makers.
steamftters and car workers are In
cluded.
Stockholm, Sweden.-The Swedish
government contemplates providing
for the establishment of a social de-
partment. with FIVE subd departments
for collective tariff agreements. courts
of arbitration, protective measures for
the workers, sick funds and various
statistics.
Washington.-Wash society
women will start a school in which
young girls will have regular courses
In bookkeeping. housework. cooking
and laundry work, the pupils to re-
ceive pay during their period of in
struction as wage-earners.
Montreal, Canada.-Over 5000 main
tenance of way employees on the Cana
dian Pacific railroad from coast to
coast demand an increase in pay,
with better working conditions
Washington.-One-t of the wage
earners In the cotton industry In the
United States during the year 1909
were children under sixteen years of
age.
Toronto, Canada-A workman's
compensation law Will pTOOdDiy pass
at the next session of the Ontario
legislature.
Rochester. n. Y.-Rochester trades
and labor council has begun the pub
lication Of labor paper.
Seattle, WRsh.-There are about
100, 900 timber workers in the state
of Washington alone.
New York.-New York city has
about 100000 of its woman workers
organized into unions.
Washington.-Workers in sugar fac
tories in Russia average but $3.50 a
month.