The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-31
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

trade unionists.
In the factories IN Sweden there are
% women 10 every 100 men.
Women are employed as glassblow-
ers and engravers in England.
Over $500 girls were placed on
farms last year by the Ontario labor
bureau.
Argentina is threatened with strike
Of tenant farmers throughout the re-
public.
Toronto {Canada) street railway
men have been granted an Increase In
pay.
4 In some PARTS OF England dogs wool
is being spun and manufactured into
garments.
Nearly 10000 people are employed
in the various plants of the Armour
Packing company.
During the first ten months of 1918
. 2,O4S men were killed by coal mine
| accidents in the United States.
One hundred thousand Canadian
women are represented in the FEEDER
alton of Women's Societies recently
formed at Winnipeg, Canada.
French postoff1ce and telegraph
workers have been granted a 200 per
cent increase in wages. Under the
provisions Of the bill women's wages
will be the same as men for the same
kind Of work.
Fur manufacturers in New York
have granted their workers higher
wages and a guarantee against slack
season layoffs. The increase In wages
amounts to about 40 per cent over the
old minimum
Park Place colliery, near Mahanoy
City, Pa, owned by the Lehigh Rail-
road company, has been placed on a
seven-hour schedule for an indefinite
period. Over 800 men and boys are
employed In the mine.
The Welsh tinplate Cancellation
board at Swansea, Wales, has granted
. further increase bonus throughout
the trade ranging from Is to 20 per
cent on present bonuses, which already
amount to 85 per cent.
TO protect mineworkers from DOE
sfble injury By explosion in gaseous
mines and 10 instruct new miners Of
underground danger. the anthracite
coal Industry has posted precaution-
sEy rules In and about the coal mines.
The twenty-four International
unions In the the steel industry have
. membership Of over 1,5O0 900. They
cover the iron and steel Industry IN
en its branches from the men who
dig the coal and iron ore to the men
who load out the finished prooucts It
the plants.
IN order to take care Of unemployed
SOLDIER. the federal government Of
Australia has appropriated 1880, 600
Tor the construction Of public works,
pending the completion Of q larger
loan scheme to provide work for the
nome coming Ansacs along more per
msnent lines.
Twelve hundred members of the
Railway Clerks union employed by
the Nashville, Chattanooea 4 st.
Louis railway went on strike, alles-
Ing unfair treatment OF the union bv
A. r. Ottarson, federal auditor for the
railroad administration. The entire
system 10 affected.
Following shutdown for one week
to forestall strike of its machinists.
the New York Airbrake company's
plant, Watertown, N. Y, opened as an
open shop. Estimates by union off,
cials place the number Of men who re- !
turned at from - to $50 out OF q
total Of 1900 union machinists EN-: $
ployed at the plant. Company officials
claim 400 machinists returned to work.
L. T. Lindelofr. secretary of the
painters district council, and ]. D. Ris- !
ing, chairman Of the wage committee,
announced at Chicago that an agree
nent had been reached granting a
'aise OF 1914 cents an hour to painters
md decorators. Mr.. Rising said the
Increase in spring rates for all classes
If painting and decorating will be
about Is per cent.
The Toronto Railwaymen's union has
decided TO accept the increase award
ID them by the majority of the board
If Cancellation. which was 2h cents
IN hour for first-year men and cents \
IN hour for all other men.