The herald., 1918-12-19
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

The average rate Of pay paid women
time workers In England Is $6.08 per
week.
There are 1900 women employed
In the Paris offices Of the French war
department. ;
Wages paid in Germany in the leath-
er and rubber industries average about
S1.20 a day.
Congressman Mayer Of New York Is.
q member Of the United Hatters' union
Of North America. +,
The production Of copper in the
United States has increased more than;
e5-fold since 1880. /.
The Argentine Federation of Labor
controls $50 labor unions and railroad
md maritime laborers. {
At the present time there are 45i
state branches affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. 4;
Several women In the state Of Wash
lngton are working Is station agents.
on the various railroads In that stata.i
The London and Northwestern rail-
way of England has offered spare land
by the side Of its line for food plots
The pay Of the school teachers un-i
der control Of the London England,
county council will be almost $1,000
900 more during the coming year.
Joseph Malachick, a Uniontown
(Pa.) coal miner, walks two miles to.
and from his work every day, yet duH
Ing the month Of July he was able to:
make $500. e.
Winnipeg (Canada) was practically
without a fire department recently, 1D
6remen having struck because tn
council refused thy demands Of the
electricians and waterworks men.
Kenosha is the only city in WILSON,
sin where women are employed on
street cars. A large percentage of
these women are married and are do
Ing household work In addition to
their work as conductors.
Owing largely to big back payments
Of wage increases, the railroads under
federal control In June reached an ag-
gregate deficit Of $5S,959,OOO In rail-
way operating income as compared
with positive earnings Of o ,9O9,OOO
In June, 1917.
AT q meeting representatives Of the
four thousand conductors and motor.
men Of the Third Avenue New York;
railroad system voted to suspend
work" until the company was willing
to recognize their right to organize.
The question Of pay was not consid-
cred. i
Following the breaking OF Of nego.
dations between representatives of the
Pacific Coast Steel company and 1000
employees engaged on contracts for
tne Emergency Fleet corporation. a |
st1ke was declared. The workers de-
mand pay and working conditions SIM
mar 10 those In effect In the shipyards.
LONDON (Eng.) Omnibus drivers.
VINO were on strike eight days, decided
70 return to work. A conference last.
ing nearly five hours was held and the
parties to the dispute reached an an.
proximate settlement on the basis n
equal pay for men and women wort.
ers and no discrimination of anv kind
between them.
The British ministry Of munitions
ordered that the wages of woman mn.
milton workers be increased five shil-
hngs weekly after September l. Girls
under eighteen In munition plants win
receive an Increase Of half a crown.
Wage increases to all workers now
receiving less than 70 cents an hour
In Is plants In the munition and relat-
ed Industries Of Bridgeport, Conn, are
provided In an award of Otto N. Ed
litz, umpire chosen by the national
war labor board to decide controver.
sies between the companies and their
employees. About $1,000 workers are
Affected.