The labor standard., 1919-03-01
OTHER LABOR NOTES

About One-fOurth Of the population in Hawaii are engaged in the growing l of sugar cane and the manufacture of raw sugar.
 Sixty industrial plants in Lima, Peru, have been compelled to cease work because of Valkout among the weavers and their sympathizers.
 More than three thousand Italian and Greek workingmen, wishing to as- sist in the support of relatives whose breadwinners were killed or disabled in the war, asked passports to sail for Naples and Genoa.
 The inauguration of an eight-hour day does not reduce the amount of pay received by employees under longer working day, the war labor board ruled, in an opinion rendered on previous decision in the news print ease.
 The great scarcity of labor in agri- culture and essential industries and of clerical help in government offices, banks, etc., has caused the issuance of viceregal decree in Italy request ing civilians to register for voluntary labor.
 
 are out of work in Berlin as a result of the coal shortage and strikes The coal famine has become critical. It is feared that many more factories will have to close, making additional thousands idle.
 Cotton mills in Biddeford and Saco, Me, and Woonsocket, R. l., were shut down for an indefinite time, and Brunswick (Me.) mills are closed, This throws about 6,600 more opera tivas out of work. They had asked for a 48-hour week.
 Wages, heretofore based on 26-cent copper, are to be reduced 25 cents day for each two cents reduction in the price of copper down to IS cents, which for the present will be the min- imum price for the purpose of deter mining wages. The five principal mining companies of the Butte (Mont.) district are posting notices at their mines announcing this reduction of $1 a day in wages.
 An award by the war labor board orders the Kansas City Railway com pany to restore to duty at once it's striking employees under conditions prevailing before the strike, and to prosecute diligently it's application for permission to increase fare. The board declared that the good faith of the street car company was question able in it's conduct during the contro- versy.
 At recent mass meeting in Chatta- nooga, Tenn, campaign was inau- gurated to put an eight-hour day into effect in the textile industry of the South. John Golden, president of the United Textile Workers of America, addressed the meeting. It is planned to hold similar meetings at all points where there are mills, and the union proposes to organize the industry thoroughly and then demand the short CT workday.
 One-third of the striking members of the International Ladies' Garment workers union, approximately eight thousand persons, returned to work at New York as the result of settle ment reached between the union and the Dress Contractors and Manufac- turers' association, officials of the striking garment workers announced. The association, composed of $50 of the smaller manufacturers and the Wholesale Manufacturers association, composed of jobbers, granted all the union demands, 1t was said.
 Large organizations of women the country over are cooperating with the government in attempting to find en- ployment for those women war work CTS now thrown out of positions.
 Delegates representing thirty lodges and 18,0OO members of the Brother hood of Railway Clerks will at once take steps through the national presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks at Washington to bring about better wages for the clerks. The av- craze pay of a railway clerk now is $125. national wage schedule rais- tng the pay $25 month was dis cussed at meeting of the delegates.