The Ordway new era., 1918-06-14
OF INTEREST TO LABOR

of the Interior, has been appointed by
the shipbuilding labor adjustment
board as Its representative and exam
liner for the Great Lakes district, ex-
tending from Buffalo to Duluth. He
serves without pay, as do the repre-
sentatives Of this board In other dis
tricts. Under agreement between the
navy department and the Emergency
Fleet corporation and the officials of
the American Federation of Labor, the
shipbuilding labor adjustment board,
whose offices are In Washington, has
Jurisdiction over wages, hours, and
other labor conditions in all shipyards
having direct contract with the Emer-
gency Fleet corporation Of the navy.
Messenger girls must now be over
twenty-One years old In New York.
Governor whitman signed the Nicoll
bill, which requires the voting age for
feminine mercuries. and those past
twenty-one years old are to be allowed
to work at delivering messages not
more than six days of "a hours week
and not before seven o'clock in the
morning or after ten o'clock at night.
The same bill provides that messen-
ger boys under twenty-One cannot be
employed before five o'clock In the
morning or after ten o'clock at night.
1t applies only to cities of the first
and second class.
Two thousand recently organized
shopmen employed by the Elgin, Joliet
& Eastern railroad. owned by the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, voted to
ask an increase In wages. They now
earn minimum of 30 cents an hour,
| Increased In two years to 81 cents.
They are car repairers. blacksmiths,
boilermakers, machinists and helpers.
The Wichita Street car company
granted its men u new schedule fol-
lowing demands after a union was or
ganized. The new scale is effective
at once and gives two-men car opera
tors 90 cents an hour, with half-cent
increase each 30 days until they get
32k cents. One-man car operators re-
ceive 2 cents an hour extra.
Wages of railroad trainmen, conduc-
tors, baggagemen and switchmen In
Canada will be increased proportion
ately to the increase In wages for the
same class of work In the United
States within the next few weeks, 1t
was announced by NJ. H. Mcleod, vice
president and general manager Of the
Canadian Northern railway.
Employees of the National Tube
company at Lorain, o.. received their
first pay under the new wage scale,
which includes 10 per cent increase
for all day laborers. 1t Is estimated
the pay increase will amount to $2.-
100000 annually. The amount dis
tributed in wages by the local plant
in 1917 was $12.OOO.OO0.
Fifteen hundred molders In So Chi
cago brass and Iron fOundries re-
turned to work. This was agreed to
In Washington through the efforts of
the national labor war board. The
question of wages will be left to the
war board as arbitrator. The new
wages will date from the time the men
return to work.
An estimate that at least 80 per cent
of male college students will pass
their vacations this summer working
on farms. has been made by the de-
partment Of labor. The department
also announced that the youths will be
lodged for the most part in farm Ia
bor camps.
Striking ordnance-making employees
j of the Bethlehem Steel company, mum
, bering nearly five thousand, resumed
} work. They voted to return when tht
national labor board, headed by ex
. President Taft and Frank Il. Walsh
agreed to investigate their claims.
: The Toledo Shipbuilding compan!
, was forced to close when 1000 men
employed on construction of govern
: ment ships, walked out because the!
t were impatient over an adjustment o
= wages promised by the shipping board
3 New Bedford textile unions voted t
, reject offer of 12h per cent wage In
Q crease and to insist on 25 per cent. Fal
l River textile councils have asked 2
per cent increase.
The strike of the street railwa,
trainmen at Waco, Tex, on sine
March 8, was called Off by vote o
r the local organization of trainmen.
d majority of the strikers returned t
s work for the company.
y The Newfoundland railway strik
has been settled by the men resumin
y work with the understanding that
= revision of wages shall be made witt
e in month.
The grand totnl of Canadian trad
n unionis.s who have volunteered an
1t been accepted for overseas servic
a since the outbreak of the war Is 20
418.