The Monticellonian., 1918-11-15
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Boston is establishing community markets in an effort to combat high prices.
 An advance of 8 per week and an increase of 15 cents for overtime has been gained by Kansas City (Mo.) Bakers union.
 Agricultural workers in West Glou- cestershire, England. are threaten ing 10 strike unless they are paid SIPS week.
 In Sweden the trade unions have increased their membership 45,334 in a year. Of 1S6, ,156 members, 14,402 are women and girls.
 Belfast shipbuiIders have achieved worlds record in completing an S,000-ton standard ship in 15 days after she was launched.
 Canadians are discussing the ques- ton of having aliens now in intern ment camps in Canada employed on the highways of Canada.
 A large number of the employees of the Londonderry X Loughswilly Gre land) railway went out on a one days strike as protest against eonscrip- ton.
 For the benefit of housewives who cannot leave their homes the Illinois food conservation department is us- ing visiting housekeepers to go to them to teach the use of new substi- ute Hours.
 Right of approximately 60O00O em- plOyees in shipyards controlled by the Emergency Fleet corporation to organ. ize trade unions and right of em- ployers to form similar organizations is recognized by the corporation.
 Desire for reform of the workmen's compensation laws of the state has led to the organization of smaller mine operators into the Arizona Mining Mems association, with Charles r. Reiniger of Tucson as president.
 Seventy thousand miners of the cen tral Pennsylvania bituminous coal fields have voted to work Sundays to overcome the falling off in production due to the Spanish influenza epidemic. Fuel Administrator Garfield an- nounced.
 Presentation of honor badges to g. 300 workers who made production rec ords in the building of the wooden cargo carriers Folsom and Tolo was a feature of the launching of the twin ships at the yards of the Foundation company at Kearny. N. J.
 Four large steel working plants that will entail an expenditure of $15,OO0,. GOO will be erected in Duluth, Minn., at the termination of the war. This results from recent conference be- tween Duluth interests and Judge El- bert H. Gary chairman of the United States Steel corporation.
 Believing that shuttle kissing in cotton mills, an operation performed by weavers every two minutes, spreads infection and Is largely responsible for the recent influenza epidemic, the Blackburn (EnglanO Viewers asso- citation has appointed deputation to wait on the medical officer of health to discuss the subject.
 Awards in controversies in the cases of ten street railway companies and their employees were announced by the war labor board. Wages were at issue in six cases, and in each in- creases were granted the men. The cities where increased wages were granted are Philadelphia. Kansas City, Portland. Ore, Dayton, O., New Or leans and Brooklyn.
 Employees of the Chicago packing houses are demanding minimum wage of 65 cents an hour. A confer ence of representatives of the work men with the packers has failed to bring about a settlement, but efforts are being made to adjust the dispute without taking the matter to the war labor board at Washington, it was stated at the office of the Illinois Fed eration of Labor.
 Approximately 450 Bay City employ ees of the Saginaw Shipbuilding com pany at Carrollton refused to go to work when the car which was to have transported them was late. At pro- test meeting In Wenonah Park the men voted unanimously to return to WOrk aIter they NtTe dppedleu to Dy William Brennan. national organizer of the Shipbuilders of America, and were promised by Herbert Armstrong, representing the company, that they would not hereafter be docked when late because of transportation difficult ties.
 Skilled metal workers In Leipzig, Germany, get 32 cents an hour. A few piecewerkers earn as much as 47a cents an hour.
 To work at some essential industry or to work for the city at the work farm is now the only choice of the unemployed sble-bodied men at Du- luth Minn. This is the notice served on the mayor and the commissioner of public safety by Judge J. F. McGee, state fuel administrator. through in- structions from the state public safety commission. The police began arrest ing men up to the age of fifty-five not employed in essential industries.
 A diamond factory for the employ ment of disabled soldiers has been opened at Brighton. England.