The herald., 1919-01-30
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

United States by over 8 to 1.
Over $4,000 women are employed In
the factories of Osaka, Japan.
New York's public schools now teach
girls cafeteria work, manicuring and
shampooing.
The development Of the oil industry
in Wyoming is due largely to the ef-
forts Of women.
Over 10000 women were employed
In the British Royal Naval service dur
ing the war period.
A ministry of health is being de-
manded from parliament by the work
ing women In Great Britain.
While women physicians are not
numerous in japan, some of them
there have been eminently successful.
Fort Wayne (Ind) council has
passed an ordinance stipulating that
union labor shall be employed on all
municipal operations.
The Pacific Coast Metal Trades
council has voted in favor Of amalga-
mating all metal trades international
unions into one organization.
In Pennsylvania during 1917 the
number of lives lost through accident
per 100 employees was 3.55 in anthra-
cite and $50 in bituminous mining.
The output Of coal in Sheffield. Eng
land, has been seriously restricted ow-
ing 70 the ravages of influenza, which
attacked the workers In large num-
bers.
Fifteen hundred men are temperate
ly out Of employment in the Globe
(Ariz.) district through the closing OF
the Old Dominion and Arizona Com
mercial mines.
Since August, 1915, the number OF
women trade unionists in Great Brit
ain has more than doubled, and at
the present time there are nearly $780,
600 Of them organized.
Longshoremen at Baltimore will re-
ceive 65 cents an hour for their labor
and a dollar an hour overtime, the
national adjustment commission of the
United States shipping board decided.
Another battle between the strikers
and the government forces began at
Buenos Aires at the Vasena Iron foun-
dry. The strike movement is spread
| ing, and more than so unions have
Joined.
Premier Clemenceau told a delega-
ton from the General Labor confed-
Grafton that a plan to make an inter-
national labor day guaranteeing an
eight-hour day was viewed favorably
by the French government.
All constables on the Toronto (Can.)
police force are now working on an
eight-hour shift. PoliceDen on station
duty and attached to the ambulance
and patrols started an eight-hour day
recently. Previously they had been
working II hours.
Several persons have been killed OF
wounded in fighting between the po-
lice and striking gold miners at Cas-.
apalco, Peru, a town on the Oroya
railway. situated at an altitude OF
1900 feet. Troops have been sent
to the district to re-establish order.
Increase of ten cents ton in the
price of coal probably will result In
Chicago, 1t was said, from an increase
In the wages of coal teamsters award
ed by Mayor Thompson after confer
ence with representatives Of the Team
sters' union and the Team Owners
Contracting association. The mayor
who acted as arbitrator, fixed the in
crease at so cents per day more fol
drivers, chauffeurs and helpers and II
cents per ton more for the team own
ers.
Two thousand strikers reported fol
work at the plant Of the General Elec
tric company at Fort Wayne, Ind.
on word that the national war la
Dor board had taken charge OF
the situation. None Of the mer
went to work, however, officials OF
the plant making the announcement
that because of the short notice opera
ton could not be resumed in any de
partment. The workers walked ou
two weeks ago in sympathy with thu
employees Of the Erie (Pa.) plant
who demanded changes In workin,
conditions.