The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-10
OF INTEREST TO WORKERS

The output Of the coal mines IN
Great Britain during 1918 amounted to
over 227, 987, 900.
Thirty thousand Italian workmen
are to be sent to France to work in
the devastated regions.
Great Britain has over $4,000 boot
and shoe workers, all Of whom are
now employed on full time. D.
THERE'S little opposition on the part
Of employers to the demand Of horse
shoers In Cincinnati for an eight-hanr
day. '. H. r 3
Cereal mill workers in Cincinnati are
being organized by the International
Union of United Brewery, Cereal and
Soft Drink Workers.
OganiEed cooks, walters and wait
resses In Ell Paso, Tex, have secured
new wage scale which makes no dis
elimination because OF sex.
The average wages Of laborers in
the factories of India during the last
year were generally somewhat lower
than the wages Of workers not in fac
tories. e@-j ~al - ~.
Woman organizers Of the State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. and the labor coun-
Gil In Seattle, WASH, have issued an
appeal to workingwomen to join the
trade union movement. '-'s,.
A new shipyard viii be established
In st. Louis. employing about 400 per
sons, to build the four self-propelled
barges TO be used by the government
service on the Warrior river section
OF the Mississippi-Warr waterways.
The four barges VIII cost ST 100000.
A wage scale OF Sc day for three
years for $50 cutters and quarry men
in the granite quarries at West Sul1f-
van and Franklin, Me-, was announced
by the quarry owners. This is an adj
vance of $1.75 day. The paving cut
tiers, who are paid for piecework, have
not yet submitted their schedule:
Both houses of the Iowa legislature
passed bill reducing from ten to
eight the hours OF labor for children
under sixteen years Of age. Where
part-time schools are established, the
weekly limit is reduced from 48 to 40
hours The bill also provides that chill
dren must not be employed before Z
a. m. or after p. m.
The union printing pressrnen of New
York will make demand upon their
employers for 44-hour work week
and an increase Of %. per cent in
wages to become effective October 1.
according to q decision made at the
semi annual conference of the New
York State League of Printing Press
men and Assistants unions held at
Rochester.
| EQUAL representation for working
men and women with their employers In
the textile industries of Philadelphia
is one of the basic policies Of the new
man-and-managemen textile council
just organized in the Quaker city. The
council was formed for the primary
purpose OF solving labor troubles, in
dustrial readjustments and employ
tries in the textile groups employing
fully 10000 men and women.
An eight-hour bill for all classes Of
Swedish labor lis now ready to be in
troduced into parliament. Special leg
isIation will be necessary for seamen
and for workers in. mines. The pro-
posals, If passed, will come into force
June 1, 1920, and lapse December 81,
1923. The immediate effect of the
proposed bill IL an enormous fall in the
price of stocks, as manufacturers as
sert that wages now being paid will
make it impossible for Swedish fac
tories to continue production.
It is stated that the Australian coal
mine owners have agreed to increase
miners wages 22h per cent and that
the commonwealth government, stimuli
taneously, has sanctioned an increase
In the price of coal. The premier Of
New South Wales objects to the new
arrangement, saying it would cost New
South Wales $4,000 annually. Act
ing ~Premfer Watt Of Australia, how
ever, says the coal shortage is grave
and opposition by New South Wales
may result in the most serious dislo-
cation of the Industry Australia has
ever seen.
The executive committee Of Duluth
and st. Louis county readjustment
committee favored granting striking
bricklayers 81 an hour. Before the
war the men got S5 cents, and for the
past year 80 cents. The contractors
agreed to accept recommendations Of
the committee.
More than 5000 workers in cigar
factories at Tampa, Fla, were placed
OF half time to prevent them, accord
ing to the manufacturers, from rally
ing to the support of several thousand
wOrkmen in p other plants, who, de-
handing installation OF electric eleva-
tors, recently went on strike.