The labor standard., 1918-05-01
PUTS AN END TO
 ;. LABOR TROUBLES
Railroad Adjustment Board Giv- en Power to Settle All + Disputes.
ALL MEN OF PROMINENCE
Body Will Have Confidence of the Country in Task That May Be Diff
 ffcuit-Generai News of ln- terest to Workers. ,


 tion's board of adjustment No. l, which will pass on disputes over rules of contracts and employment conditions arising between railroad arrangements and the four leading railway brother hoods. have been announced.
 The board consists of four repre- sentatives of railway arrangements and four officers of the brotherhoods, as follows: E. T. Winter, assistant general manager of the Pennsylvania lines, West. John G. Walber, secre- eastern railways. J. w. Higgins, exec utive secretary of the Association of Western railways. Dr. c. P. Neill, manager of the information bureau of southeastern railways. l.. E. Shep- pard, vice president of the conductors brotherhood. F. A. Burgess, assistant chief of the engineers. Albert Phil- lips, vice president of the firemen. w. N Doak, vice president of the train men. The boards decisions will be final except in case of tie vote. when w. s. Carter, labor director for the railroad administration, will decide an issues
 leading German manufacturer, writing in the Norddeutsche Allege- incline Zeitung, says: Out of 1,7O0 spinning and weaving mills only 70 are still running at high pressure, while in the boot and shoe industry 1,4OO factories have been aInalgamated into 300. In the oil industry 15 fac tories working at high pressure have been formed out of 72O works previ- ously existing. Tn the silk industry the number of spindles has been re- duced from 45.0OO to 2,5OO." Comment ing on this letter, the Tageblatt re marks. "This shows for the first time in statistics the great extent to which the closing down of factories has talk eh place in Germany"
 The British Seamens' and Firemen's union has decided that It's members shall refuse to sail on any ship convey ing delegates appointed to the inter- allied labor conference in the United States. An official of the union said : Our opposition to these men Is the same as that against Ramsay MacDon- aid. We will take no one who is op- posed to the doctrine that Germany must make compensation to depend ents of our murdered merchant sea- men,"
 Pennsylvania state department of labor and industry has issued letter and poster to all employers of women in Pennsylvania, calling attention to the growing number of women workers in the state, due to war conditions, and pointing out that in the present emer- gency the state laws relative to wOm- en's labor conditions and hours have not been changed. Mems wages are suggested as a fair basis of compensa- ton for the women.
 7 The house sof representatives pass ed bill granting permanent increases of from 10 to 20 per cent in the sal- aries of virtually all postal employees, providing for postal savings stamps" anpropriating $3OO.OOO for experiments in motor truck service, principally to transport food to the larger cities, and setting "A cents an ounce as the maxi mum price to be charged for delivery of mail by airplane.
 The United Mine Workers Jour nal declares that labor conscription Is still advocated by some who hope thereby to profit by underpaid forced labor. We serve notice here and now, if forced labor should be demanded by our government, no individual shall be allowed to profit therefrOm.
 Schoolteachers of Marinette, Wis. <~R sn T. arp-for the next school year, and in addition will be paid $35 more pro- viding they remain in service for an entire year. This plan has been de cided upon by the board of education.
 Five thousand employees of the Ma tional Tube Co.'S plant, Lorain, Ohio, will benefit from the 15 per cent wage increase authorized by the United States Steel corporation. The in- crease means an increase of $3,0OO in the daily pay roll there.
 The United States employment serv- ice has established offices in all states except Idaho, Kentucky, Vermont and West Virginia and arrangements for offices in these states are being made. More than 30 branches have been opened and state and national offices have been federated in 22 states. The service is now operating 141 labor ex- changes. 4s@ .
 Germany's much heralded boast that her labor standards are the highest in the world, and that her wOrkmen are the most satisfied, best treated and highest paid, has been shown by John A. Dyche, former secretary treasurer International Ladies' Garment Work CTS union, to be pure German propa- ganda.f
 The London Pail Mall Gazette says officially that labor leaders who have been conferring on peace terms pre- paratory to projecting discussion with the enemy have abandoned the scheme, regarding the time as un- .propitiOus.
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