The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1918-11-07
Dissatisfied shipsuilders Go Back to
Work and VIII Wait fer Adjust
ment Of Claims

Plumbers at Burlington, VI, have Sc
cured $1,000 for a 44-hour week
Union BARRIERS at Seattle. Wash,
have been granted increased pay.
Wages average Sl.3S day in Ger
many's engineering Industries.
Socialists and Hebrew trades union
lists are planning to assist the negroes
to organize into a vast labor union.
Women at ordinary work in n
French munltion plant earn from TO
II francs day.
There are 1900 women employed
In the Paris Offices OF the French war
department.
British Columha's lumber mills can
produce about 2.00o.oo0.00o feet OF
lumber each year.
jamestown IN. W electrical work
ers have secured 60is cents an hour
and union shop agreement
Apprenticeship in his majesty's dock
yards has been reduced from six to
FIVE years
Derry Ureland) bricklsyers have
gone on strike, demanding 30 cents an
hour
1t is estimated that there are 10000
private employment agencies through
out the United States.
Rabbit trappers In Penbrokeshlre,
England. are reported to be making as
much as SIS daily.
Girls employed in the British NUM-
ton works in some districts cultivate
the waste ground around the hostels.
Sheerness. England. has followed the
example OF Canterbury, Gillingham
and Strood In employing women scay-
engers.
Fuel Administrator Garfield ap-
proved recommendations by the de-
partment of labor for increased wages
for miners in the anthracite coal fields.
All Canadian locals OF the Brother
hood of Carpenters will be asked to
make an effort TO have ne rate 60
cents an hour by May ], 1919.
More coal WIS mined from April !
to September % than ever before in
gny half year period in the. history of
TIE AMERICAN coal industry
Dissatisfied with the wage advance
recently granted them, 500 laborers ut
the Chicago & Alton railroad shops in
! Bloomington, H., struck,
Planning mill workers In San Fran
cisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San
Mateo and Santa Clara counties We're
granted an increase in wages rang
Ing from 80 cents TO S1.25 per day.
The city Of Paris has opened IL
municipal butcher shops in the hope
of lowering the price, of beef. They
have met with great success and Will
soon begin to sell mutton as well.
Boiler1nakers in the Oakland and
Alameda shipyards refused to work
when they We're refused double pay
because OF its being a holiday. The
other employees Of the yards worked Il
full day.
Increasing demands that children be
included in the industrial mobilization
for war brings the announcement from
Felix Frankfurter. chairman of the
war labor policies board, that no mat
ter what the exigencies of war ths
government win not resort TO chiif
labor.
Digging coal is profitable work II
these war days. The last pay checi
handed Charles Fogle at Moundsville
W. Vn., for II days work amounted t.
$3.50 50 On one Of these days he load
ed 80 tons and 100 pounds Of coal
thereby earning $500 for eight hours
labor.
Virtually every large industrial es
adjustment in the metropolitan dis
trict OF Philadelphia one Of the great
est centers of war activities IN th'
world has been affected more or les
seriously BY the epldem,c Isogsa1d
Of employees 10 The Delaware Rive
sldpyards have been stricken With in
iiuenza,
, Demands for nm eight-bour day an
{ a wuge of 81 an hour, with 81 an'hou
for overtime, were presented TO th
: national labor adjustment conniite
at New York on behalf of 1900 iont
; shoremen engaged in overseas shiE
. loading at ports from Roston 10 MOI
T folk. The present agreement betwee
the men and their employers, lncludin
, government agencies and STEAMSHIP
$ lines, expires at midnight Accordin
\ to members Of the committee, IT call
/. for a nine-hour day ana wage seal
Il of 80 cents an hour, with 70 cent
a for night work and 81 at meal hours c
+ on Sundays. r. Y. O'Connor delegai
$ from the international Longshoremen
}. association, said before the conferenS
I began that the longshoremen la
l. agreed TO abide by the decision of II
committee.
n A strike of workmen at the Hartfor
$ City Und) paper mill has been Sc
n tied, the management g-anting the d
.. mands of the employees for an !
r. crease In pay amounting Ia from 30
II Is cents d day.
REIMBURSEMENT of the wages Of ljt
l. 600 mine workers In the anthraci
d fields with on increase along lines tn
r Will he agreed on by the mine owne
= and mine workers has been approve
n hy Fuel Administrator Garfield. III
) action Is the ontgrowth of conference
e. extending over four weeks which Do