The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1918-11-07
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

There are 1900 union machlnsts In
Toronto. Canada.
Canada's railway trades represent
10000 workers.
Barbers at Kansas City, Mo, secured
ten-and-one-halfhou day.
White and colored shoe workers at
Mobile Ala. have organized.
San Diego (CaI) mill men have Sc
cured an eight-h0ur day.
A new union just formed Includes
all the retail grocery clerks in Fresno.
Gal.
AT Sioux City, Ia, the new printers
scale for day work calls for SGT and
$50 for night work.
. In England all private employment
agencies have been discontinued since
the Outbreak Of var. s-ssss"s>'~'
.~~1nr W1gG paid to the street cles1,
ers and scavengers Of Toronto is sis
per week. and they demand 500.
Two policewomen are employed by
Hendon (Eng.) district council to pa
troll me Streets and the public park.
I Tn the first year of the war possibly
100000 working days were lost by
strikes Of organized labor workers.
All enemy aliens engaged as hair
dressers in England have been ordered
to find work of national importance.
A favorable report was ordered by
the senate judiciary committee on the
bin authorizing dry zones extending
five miles around all coal mines.
That eastern Ohio viii not fail tc
meet General Pershing's demand for
100000 tons OF coal weekly from this
district was the sentiment expressed
at a conference of labor leaders and
operators called at Cleveland by Fue
Production Manager J. ]. Roby.
Man power in many of the mines In
the Westmoreland district In pcnnsyl
vania has fallen off Is and 20 pei
cent within the last year, but by work
ing six full days each week the mer
in the 200 mines expect TO keep ovel
a minimum production of 100000 tons
per week.
More than 1900 members Of th'
BoilernlalSers and Independent Ship
builders union quit work at Portland
Ore. In the shipysrds, taking Sstur
day half holiday as a protest sgsins
the failure of the navy beard TO an
nouDce its decision on wages AM
working conditions.
The strike of so plumbers an
steamfiIers at the government nj
trates plant at Toledo, o., fhrcatene
TO tie up all work at the institution
The men have been receiving the unloI
scale of 6S cents an hour with tin.
and half for overtime. They Dc
mand q fraction over 81 cents an houl
That labor unions must not. b
strike, interfere with the work 0
manufacturing war equipment. an
that the long-estabIished principle
TINT gave the unions the right to ca
strikes. cannot now be applied. Is tn
decision Of Justice Townsend Scudde
handed down in the New York 81
preme court.
AT meeting of the workers VIII
struck at the f. w. Bliss company
Brooklyn plant at New York. at whic
torpedoes and shells are manufacturer
1t was learned that the men wake
ont to support the demand of wome
employees for wages equal to those {
the men. Estimates OF the employe,
on strike range from 1900 to 400
Most of the men strikers sre OF dra
age and were given deferred classihc
ton.
Vancouver (B. C.) street car me
are 10 receive n minimum of 40 cen
an hour and maximum Of 81 cents &
hour. two years service to deterEliI
the maximum pay They receive Il
eight hour day and get time and ha
for overtime.
The 10000 shipyard workers In T
cifir coast states have been orders
to remain at work Saturday afte
moons by their respective iron trad
councils. despite efforts Of unions
some quarters 70 declare Il saturdi
hair holiday. Frank G. Miller So
rrrary of the San Francisco ir'
Trades council. announced.