The Monticellonian., 1918-12-20
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Toronto airplane woodworkers have secured @ cents an hour.
 For every 100 workers in the fac tories in Sweden there are 23 women.
 l. ". w. printed matter will not be permitted to enter Canada from the United States.
 Utah state federation of labor con vention declared for women's mini mum wage law.
 Consideration is being given in Bos- ton to a proposal to close stores for an hour at noon.
 Women are now eligible to member ship in the Canadian Railway Mail Clerks association.
 Official Japanese figures list 597 electric railways and IS combined pow CT and railway companies in that country.
 The jewelry factories in Attleboro, Mass. are to be converted into insti- tutions where returned soldiers may obtain employment.
 Mems clothing in Austria Hungary now costs from $200 to $500 suit, while women's tailor-made gowns av- craze from $500 to $400 each.
 Owing to trouble between the long shoremens union and the shipping federation and a strike of coal han dlers. shipping at St. Johns, N. B., was tied up.
 Trade unienism has finally been off cially established in the Winnipeg. Canada. police system. The council, by vote of to 9, sanctioned the union force.
 Increased efficiency is reported as result of the operation of the eight hour law which became operative in the lumber regions of Washington January l, 1918.
 Both in Tokio and Osaka (Japam police departments a woman has been appointed to investigate the causes of Infant disease and to work out plans for the relief of poor women.
 Twenty years of labor by an army of 100000 men will be required to re- store northern France to it's pre-war condition, Stephane Lauzanne, editor or Le Matin of Paris, told an audience at New York. France will not furnish that army, nor will she supply the ma terial necessary to reconstruct the 350,- GOO buildings destroyed by the German invaders. Germany must do that, he declared.
 Unorganized strikes have broken out in several of the large plants around Berlin. They are wholly local in nature and are the result of de- mands made by the workers for fixed rate of daily wage instead of q piece schedule. Former workers in the mu- hilton plants are insisting upon the continuance of the ''prosperity' wages paid during the war, whereas the em- ployerS are now starting a peace pro- duction.
 When British girls at the beginning of the war became omnibus conduc- torettes they agreed to give up their jobs as soon as the men whose places they had taken returned from the bat tlefields Many discharged soldiers, former bus conductors. are now apply ing for their old posts and the con- ductorettes are gracefully making room for them. In many instances. it is said, the work has been too heavy for the girls, owing to the crush of pas sengerS.
 High schools all over the country have suffered from the demand for men of scientific training for service in intuition plants, the chemical war fare branch of the army and the like. The shortage of teachers of chemis- try and physics is particularly acute.
 The gigantic concrete shipbuilding plant operated for the Emergency Fleet Corporation at Mobile, Ala. by the Fred T. Layand company will be a permanent fixture, according to Gen. eral Manager R. c. Stadley. All con crete ships contracted for will be built and launched and will sail from this yard under their own steam. The output required of the soft coal mines between now and March 31 next is 12,134,000 tons per week. as compared with production of 10,503,- GOO tons per week for the same period of last year. This is an increase of approximately 1615 per cent.
 To counteract the increase in the | cost of living a bonus of 10 per cent of each employee's yearly salary has been announced by Swift X Go. Every l employee. from office boy to officer except the laborers who are not or | steady time. will come in for his | share. The total of the bonus vii amount to something like S750,000.