Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-01-04

question of negligence arose. The case
was based on the superintendent eff
forts to induce employees to trade at
the company store, but the court finds
that plaintiff failed to establish case
which would support judgment.
Wage increases of from 10 to 20 per
cent were recommended for about 1000
mates and pilots, deckhands, engineers,
oilers and fremen employed in New
York harbor in an award made by the
government arbitration committee ap-
pointed by agreement of the Marine
Workers affiliation and the owners OF
water craft transportation companies.
The award is not effective until ratf-
fed by each side to the controversy,
which threatens to bring about gen.
eral waterfront strike. AS each side
agreed, at the time of the proposed ar
bitration, to abide by the committees
report the decision settles the ques-
lions of wages and hours for some time
to come.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, it is re-
ported, may accept the invitation Of
British trades unionists to visit Eng
land. The invitation was extended in
Buffalo at the close of the conventions
Of the A. F. of L. and was brought by
John L. Hill and Arthur Hayday, fra
ternal delegates from the British Trade
Union congress. While the Americans
labor leader did not give definite an
swer, it is known that for some time.
he has been eager to 60 to England and
make study of labor conditions that:
have been created by the war.
So that it may be known where it:
stands as to men for keeping the war
wheels turning, the government prob
ably soon will undertake a national
census of the labor supply. Such a
census would definitely locate labor
which could be shifted from one Sec
ton to another, and would provide g.
basis for supplying pressing needs in
many vital Industries.
The miners convention at Saginaw,
Mich, adopted the new wage scale,
providing an increase of 10 cents day
for miners and a $1.4O increase for
other laborers. The penalty clause pro-
vides that if the workers cause a sus-
pension Of work each miner must pay
81 day as long as the mine is closed
If the operators are at fault they must
pay similar sum.
Fifteen hundred men at the Trail
smelter, Victoria, B. c.. out on strike as
a protest against the enforcement Of
the military service act. They refused
to present themselves at tribunals. The
employees of the shelter, most Of
whom are aliens, at a meeting decided
not to subscribe to the victory loan and
a number of them made bonfires of the
loan literature.
The New York street railway strike
in August and September, 1916, caused
a loss in patronage of 10O,OO0,OO0 pas
sergers, equivalent to $5O0O,OOO in
money, according to a compilation pre-
pared by DR.. A. r. Weber, chief of the
bureau of statistics and accounts Of
the public service commission.
Telegraph operators and station
agents on the Mohanoy and Hazleten
division of the Lehigh Valley railroad
have received advances in wages rang
ing from 81 to $40 per month. The in
crease went into effect on November
I, according to an announcement made
by the company.
The committee on resolutions of the
/ A. r. of L. convention favorably report
ed resolution submitted by Florence
Etheridge of the National Federation
Of Federal Employees on woman suf-
frage and the convention unanimously
approved the committees report.
The government has awarded a $780,
100000 war contract to the Standard
Steel Car company of Hammond, Ind,
to run two years. Ten thousand addi-
tional workmen will be employed on
the order, 1t is said, and an 800-foot
addition made to the plant.
Work on government contracts held
by the Morse Twist Drill and Machine
company, New Bedford, Mass, was vir-
tually at standstill as result of a
strike Of a majority Of the 1900 en-
ployees for rs per cent wage in
crease and shorter hours.
Demand for a so per cent advance
in wages was embodied in resolutions
passed at joint meeting at Toledo,
O., Of post Office clerks, railroad mail
clerks, letter carriers and rural mail
carriers.
Montgomeryshire (Wales) education
committee has decided to give war
bonus of f12 los. to teachers earning
f55 or under, and Els to those earn
ing over E55.
Port Glasgow (Scotland) school
board has agreed to allow all full-time-
female teachers ESQ per annum whose:
present salaries are less than that
amount. !