The labor standard., 1919-10-01
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

All work at the port of Brest, France, ceased. the employers having declared lockout because of the de mands of the lockers union.
 Three thousand members of the Boot and Shoe Workers unions of St. Louis have been granted a 44-hour week with the same pay as for the 5O- hour week now in force, by their en- p1oyers.
 Upon the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad east and west of Pittsburgh there are employed 1000 men of for eign birth, chiefly Italians, and of this number 25,7OO are employed east of Pittsburgh. rt~
 During the year ended September 30, 1918, 122 fatal accidents occurred in coal mines in Nova Scotia. The av- craze of 12,S23 workmen were en- ployed in the 23 coal mines for which the figures are given. ..-
 Ohio coal mines are operating from 65 to 70 per cent full time, as com pared with 45 per cent three months ago, when thousands of miners were idle, according to officials of the Unit ed Mine Workers of Ohio.
 Of the 139,5ss workers employed in the over 1,5OO establishments in Tennessee 21.4 per cent are women.
 Since the signing of the armistice un employment has been increasing among English women at an alarming rate.
 A car filled with strikers will be placed at the head of all railway trains passing over Portuguese railroads to guarantee their safe passage. Action to that effect was taken by the minis ter of war after a section of track was torn up by strikers near the station at Povoa, about twenty miles north of Oporto.
 Operations in the silver mines of Go bait, Ont, were suspended as the re- suit of a strike by virtually all miners employed in the district. The walkout followed refusal of mine managers to consent to adjustment by a board of conciliation of the demands of the men for increased wages, shorter hours and improved working condi- tions.
 Operations in the silver mines of Co., bait, Ont, were suspended as the re suit of strike by virtually all min CTS employed in the district. The walkout followed refusal of mine man. agers to consent to adjustment by a board of conciliation of the demands of the men for increased wages, short CT hours and improved working condi- tiOns.
 All mines of the Central Coal and Coke company in the Kansas field were idle when the strike order issued by the board of district No. IA, United Mine Workers of America, in conjunction with a similar order by the Missouri district officials, was put into. effect. About 1,4OO men were involved. The miners say they have been unable to settle numerous grievances with the company.
 Old age pensions, stock partner ships, and life insurance, together with an increase in wages and reduction in working hours, all of which benefits to employees will begin on August l of this year, were announced by off, cers of the Stakeholder corporation at South Bend, Ind. Some of the 5000 men and women will benefit under the grant, which is said to be one of the greatest steps in behalf of the work CTS taken by any American corpora tion.
 A cooperative movement by striking of Rock Island, Ill.,, and by the Central Labor Union, has for its object the buying of food stuffs by all union men there from Chi cago wholesale houses. The unionists | charge that too high prices are asked in Rockford.
 All the, employees of the Siemens- Schuckert company, one of the largest | electrical firms in Germany, went on strike. The strikers number 3e,OOO. | The Siemens- Schuckert men struck be- | cause of the discharge of 10000 of | their fellow workers at two other | plants of the company in Siemstradt. |