Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-06

municipal meat factory.
It Is proposed to increase the pay
of Canadian soldiers to $3.50 day.
In France the women letter car
riers receive a dollar day.
New York city may release NUM-
cipal employees for farm work.
The Krupp munition plant in Ger
many employs $4,000 women.
Italy is depending upon her women
to till the soil of that country.
The new Labor Party in Rumania
is in favor of women suffrage.
Vancouver, B. c., City Council has
passed a three-dollar-a-day mini
mum wage ordinance for city
| laborers.
On July 21 at New York City
Association will meet in convention
Fifty. thousand disabled soldiers
! were placed in employment in Eng
land last year.
British women are taking the
places of lumbermen being called tc
the front for war service.
In Vancouver, B. c., 1900 womer
are enrolled as fruit-pickers and il
Victoria 500.
Kingston, Canada, separate schoo
teachers were given a bonus of So
because of the high cost of living.
The Union of Women o
France has over 1900 nurses distrib
uted in $50 hospitals.
All the woman organizations II
New York City engaged in war worl
are to be put under one head.
American Hotel Association will
organize a force of cooks to teacl
other cooks at American arm!
camps.
Newry, Ireland, carpenters ar
asking for an increase from IL cent
to IA cents an hour in their wages.
Laborites in the Australian Par
lament objected to a secret session
for consideration of the recruitin;
problem.
Successful experiments with cottor
growing have been carried on in tn,
Canal Zone by North Carolina man
British textile workers, after
conference at Bradford, applied foI
a 65 per cent. advance in wages OF
pro-war rates.
Food prices advanced 80 per cent
between April is, 1916, and April 16
1917, reports the Federal Bureau o.
Labor Statistics.
New York City Internationa
Ladies' Garment Workers Union has
asked its organized employees to raise
wages 20 per cent.
The system federation of the Wa.
bash Railroad has secured an agree
ment for a flat increase of cents
an hour and the eight-hour day.
It has been ruled in Ohio that the
widow of an unnaturalized citizen is
entitled to mothers pension, under
| the State law.
| The Illinois Legislature has
amended the workmen's compensa-
ton law by making compensation
compulsory for employers instead of
optional.
Tacoma (Wash.) Teamsters' Union
has Sc cured a one-year contract with
the Team Owners Association. The
union shop and increased wages are
agreed to.
Following upon various expert
ments carried out on a small scale
last summer, a league has been
founded in Berlin for the transfer
ence en- masse of town children to
the country for a prolonged stay to
work on farms.
In the metropolitan area of Berlin
Germany, there were on January
more than twice as many women and
girls engaged in industrial pursuits as
men and boys, the number being re-
spectively, 274,600 and 11S,9o1.
South Dakota has probably less OF
what is known as labor legislation
than any other State The only
statute of this kind that South Da.
kota has covers hours for the EN-.
ployment of women and sanitary
regulations.
During May there were "a strike,
in Canada, involving 1874 firms anc
10,955 employees. Twenty four oI
these strikes, involving 79 firms anc
1885 employees, commenced durins
the month. Seventeen strikes termi.
mated during the month.