Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-25
CONDITIONS. IN
THREE INDUSTRIES
Waues and Hours of Labor OF
Cotton, Wool and Silk
Operatives.
WORK OF FEDERAL BUREAU
Shows That Low Wages Are Paid in
Each of These Lines of Production
Pennsylvania Railroad Making
Big Preparations for
Strike.


labor in the cotton, wooden and silk in
dustres, the federal bureau of labor
statistics gives the following average
full-time weekly earnings in 1914 for
the principal occupations: Cotton
goOds-HigheSt for males, Sl3.Oo;
highest for females, SS.91. Average
for eight occupations: Males, 500;
females, $S.45. Wooden and worsted
goods-Highest for males, $17.22; high
est for females, $11.06. Average for
eight occupations: Males, $13.27; fe-
males, $9.49R. Silk goods-Highest
for males, S1792 highest for females,
$1314. Average for nine occupations:
Males, $14.S5; females, $9.SS. These
figures cover Approximately $4,000 EN-
ployees in the cotton industry, 10000
in the wooden industry and $4,000 in
the silk industry. 1t is reported that
employment in the cotton industry did
not vary greatly, but that the silk in
dustry Showed some variations ut diff
ferent seasons" and that the wooden
industry "fel off greatly in the sum-
mer months"
The statement that $4,000 employees
would man the locomotives and freight
trains in the event of strike was put
out officially by the Pennsylvania rail
road. This reserve strength, it was
said, was brought out in the replies
received from campaign calling for
volunteers to keep the road operating
in case of emergency on the lines east
of Pittsburgh, on which $4,000 train
men are being polled for a strike to
force recognition of an eight-hour day
with pay and half for overtime.
A general strike of organized ma
chinists in Philadelphia and vicinity
was called by the International Asso-
citation of Machinists The union is
demanding an eight-hour day. No de-
mand is made for wage increases.
Sixty-eight concerns in Philadelphia
and vicinity employing machinists and
other metal workers, have published a
statement that they are unable to
grant a shorter workday.
A statement issued by the British
official press bureau says: give thou
sand five hundred engineers and allied
workers at VickerS, in BarrOwinFur-
ness, struck over the 'dilution of labor
plan. The strikers, repudiated by
their responsible leaders, We're threat
ened under the defense of the realm
and the war munitions acts. All pick
citing was prevented and the public
houses We're closed. A general re-
sumption of work with the diution OF
labor has begun"
The United States bureau of mines
reports that during the year 1915 the
number of killed among each 1000 EN-
ployed was 2.95. For the first time in
! the history of coal mining in the Unit
ed States the average of fatalities pei
1000 employed is less than three. The
, total number of killed was 2,266
, against 2,454 during 1914. The number
of workers employed in coal mining
during 1915 was 767 .554.
The wool combers' strike in England
affects $4,000 textile workers and is
, drawing in other industries, with re
sultant idleness on the part of hun
, dreds of other workers. There is tall
of government Intervention. The EN-
: ployers offered four shillings of thu
five shillings' advance demanded, ant
also made an offer of arbitration, bu
these offers We're rejected.
In statement Ebert II. Gary, chair
man of the United States Steel corpo
ration, asserted that the steel business
\ of the United States for domestic us,
and for export is better than ever il
its history. Production is larger, prof
it's are greater, and workmen are re
ceiving higher wages, Mr.. Gary added
| Close upon half million spindle
are now stopped in Manchester ant
adjoining towns of southeast Lanca
shire through enlistments. The posi-
ton is becoming more and more seri
Gus, and it is impossible to get female
to fill many of the positions.
Fer the first time in the history O
great lakes navigation. iron ore is be
ing loaded at the Ashland (Wis.) dock
into the steamer Cicoa by the aid O
giant magnets, thus doing away who'll
with the use of longshoremen's labor
The chaplain general of the Births
forces reported recently that Their
were over 500 Gas against the norma
| 9D commissioned chaplains devotin
their whole time to the troops, and Is
naval chaplains.
Dublin QrelanD Munitions Tribune
imposed fines of 60 cents each on 4
, carpenters charged with having take
part in strike While engaged on IN,
| milton work.
Los Angeles (Cal.) bricklayers hav
gone into business for themselves an
inside of 60 days secured contrac1
representing thousands of dollars.
August 6, at York, Pa, the Nation,
Association of Machine Printers an
Jolor Mixers of the United States wi
ZONE,
lifted mine workers have 2,59S |,
"a unions, with total membership {
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