The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-02-11
WORKERS HELPED
BY THE STRIKE
Conditions Improved Among Cop
per Miners Of Northern Mich
igan by Conflict.
HIGHER WAGES, FEWER HOURS
Secretary Of District Union No. 10 90
Reports-MInlmum Rate for Iron
Mill Puddlers During the
Months Of September
and October.


Hancock, Mich.-That the strike OF
copper miners In northern Michigan
improved the workers conditions was
the claim Of Secretary Hietala of dis.
trict union No. 16 Of this city. who
made this report at q recent conven-
ton OF unionists In Denver: Miners
who worked previous to the strike
from ten to twelve hour shifts now
work only eight and one-half hour
shifts. including lunch hour, lowering
into and hosting up from the mine.
Wages increased from s2.5o and s2.7o
to 81 and s3.2S q day. OF course the
oneman drill We could not get abol-
ished, but the work that was demand
ed previous to the strike has been
ightened. TANNERS work eight and
one-half hour shifts now instead Of
from ten to twelve hours per shift.
Wages increased from $3.50 to $3.50
and $2.75 after the strike. We might
say In q general way that all the ur-
derground workers now work eight and
one-haif hours q day instead Of ten to
twelve hour shifts. a. was done pre-
vious to the strike. with increased
wages and better working conditions.
Mill and smelter men who worked
twelve hours shift now work strictly
eight hours with the Increased wages.
Surface men who worked eleven hours
q day now work only nine hours q day
with increased wages"
Pittsburgh.-Wage rates for pud-
dlers in iron mills In the Mahoning
and Shenango valleys. for the months
Of September and October. will be $3.50
per ton, the minimum rate provided In
the yearly agreement, according to q
report made to that branch Of its mem
bers by the Amalgamated Association
Of Iron. Steel and Tinpiate Workers.
price Of bar iron during July and Au-
gust was s1.09 per 100 pounds, upon
which the rate 10 based. advances
yielding an increase. but the minimum
never descending below $3.50 per ton.
st. Louis.-The threatened strike of
trainmen on the st. Louis Southwest
ern railway Cotton Belt). was avert
ed by the acceptance on the part OF
the union officials of the Intervention
OF the federal mediation board, whose
good offices were requested by the
management Of the railroad.
Fall River. Mass.-Textile workers
In this vicinity are maintaining an
agitation for sanitary mills. and the
present month promises to record
changes because OF continued protests
by these workers. who assert that con-
ditions are a menace to health.
Melbourne. Australia.-In Victoria.
one of the states Of the commonwealth
OF Australia, where the minimum
wage law has been In force for seven
years. the inevitable tendency has as
serted itself for the legal minimum to
become an actual maximum.
Columbus, O.-Where Ohio employ
ers pay the state 81 In compensation
premiums, Massachusetts employers
pay $1.62; Michigan. s2.42; New Jer-
sey. s2.16: Minnesota. $3.50; Wiscon-
sin. $s.22; Illinois. 1924. and New
York. $3.50 to SO.
Berlin.-According to a law passed
In 1908, German women and girls may
not be employed between eight o'clock
In the evening and six In the morning.
while on Saturdays and days before
legal holidays they must be released at
8 p. m.
Trinidad, Colo.-The miners con-
vention voted to accept the proposal
indorsed by President Wilson for a
three-year truce in the Colorado
strike. The vote. which came after
two days debate. was SO to 8.
Houston. Textile Texas court of
civil appeals has declared unconstitu-
tional the state law requiring cities of
more than 10000 inhabitants to appoint
boards for the issuance of plumbers
licenses.
New York. The Niagara county
court has held constitutional the law
one day OF rest In seven for
in manufacturing and mer-
camille establishments.
Yuma. Aria number Of club
women have started a movement TO
compel managers OF department stores
to provide seating capacity for their
employees.
Paris.-of the 1.027.05s organized
workers In France only a round 400.- !
300 belong TO the free trade unions
md the French Trades Union fedora
ion.
London.-England has more than
ifty thousand girls in the textile In
iustry thirteen and fourteen years !
I'D.
Berlin.-Building trade unions m
Germany have rs per cent Of all wage
in the empire.
London. Government workers In
England demand an annual vacation
" six days with pay.
Madrid.-Spain has more than ave
thousand organised workers In the
Ifocery trades.
New York.-New York has "a labor
lnions composed exclusively Of WON
m and sirlA