The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-02-27
MINOR LABOR NOTES

have been on a strike for a war bon
of SIPS a week.
Among the possibilities Of the flu
ture is the employment of women as
railway mail clerks.
The Railway Nail association .
composed of 100 nEals and has toA
membership of 1911.
San Francisco post office inspectors
department has it's first woman clerk
In its 40 years OF existence.
Queen Elena of Rally has given se~-
eral thousand dollars of her person.
funds to help women workers in lta0
Derbyshire (EnpAnd) Miners asno-
citation has invested 100000 VIII
Rotterdam corporation and $4,000 IN
war loan.
The minimum wage Of women m
mercantile establishments in Oregon
is S11.1O per week of not more thaa
fifty hours.
Power has been given to the agricll-
tural boards of Ireland to take pos
session of unoccupied lands and lanes
not properly cultivated.
The Yorkshire (Eng) coal STRIKE
came to an end, it was announced,
when the employers granted the de
mands of the miners, who returned to
work.
Officials of the department Of labor
complain that private contractors are
refusing to cooperate with the goS.
eminent in its plan Of securing AMI
distributing labor and as conse-
quence are disorganizing the labO
market.
The Topeka (Ksn.) Railway com
pany reached an agreement with its
organized motorma and conductors
Old rates of q ID 20 cents an hoe
during an eight-hour period have bes,
changed to a 26-ceat minimum and
31-cent maximum during a four-ye6
service.
Wage increases for the 1000 offs
employees of the Schenectady IN. "a
plant of the General Electric compare
were announced by company officials
to become effective at date to D
announced. Besides the 10 per cen
bonus, which is to be considered q
wages, an addition 10 per cent WI
be paid.
Employees of thu Northwest Ste<
company, one of the large steel shi1
building plants at Portland, Ore, haN
adopted two Belgtxa orphans. TIL
shipbuilders, Of when there are abou
four thousand in IL plant, will cor
tribute weekly fro0 their wages fo
the care, support and education OF tn
two children.
Four Sydney (Nbva Scotia) Co
iieries, with a daily output of 200
tons, are idle as the result Of a strik
of miners precipitated by the will
drawal Of four Of their fellow worl
ers from the Amalgamated Min
Workers. The men resigned becaus
, they had been promoted to official p'
, sitions.
A recent semi-monthly pay at Ind
ana coal mines was the largest In tn
.. history of the industry in the stat
: upward Of $1,5OO,OOO. It was for ii
coal mined in the half month endin
!. August 10, the pay always being whit
the miners call "a drag" Of half
month. There are $1,000 men in II
200 mines, but 10000 Of them are
one-fourth Of the 20
All one-time employees of the Yves
ern Union Telegraph company wi
were discharged because Of their at
liations with the Commercial Telegr
piers Union Of America during Il
recent difficulties between the col
: pany and the union before the COZ
pany was taken over by the COVER
4 ment will have the privilege Of r
instatement, it was announced by u
company.
Women employed in the munitiol
a factories Of Great Britain are col
= PEELED to wear khaki uniform.
Speakers from all sections Of WI
consin will participate In the progra
Of the International Association OF
. dustrial Accident Boards to be he
in Madison September 24-26. Me-
ings will be held in the ASSENT
> chamber. Upward Of 300 delegas
: representing the different accide
boards in the United States and O.
!. ada will attend the convention. Ff
u M. Wilcox Of the Wisconsin industr
commission is president Of the asso
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