The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
NEWS FROM THE LABOR. FIELD

Women constitute 245 per cent of
midas factory workers.
Representatives of organized labor
have asked the Canadian government
for stronger beer.
Bonuses paid to people out of work
In Leeds, Eng, amount to more than
S55, 600 a week.
A 10 per cent increase in wages and
a 44-hour week are being asked by
garment workers in Chicago.
Guatemala manufactures annually
about 100,O0o,0O0 cigarettes, worth ap-
proximately $135, 600 in American cur
rency.
Loggers and timber workers in
Vancouver, B. c., are organizing and
expect to have their organization 100
per cent.
The general strike inaugurated by
the Seattle Central Labor union was
an undertaking in violation of the
rules and regulations of the American
Federation Of Labor.
Unofficial estimates show 10000 IN
employed men in Minnesota. EST
mates based on government figures for
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth show
a smaller total, The situation is i'm
proving in the smaller towns. 1t is
stationary in the cities.
Most of the anthracite mines in and
about Scranton, Pa, are working only
half-time at present. Inasmuch as
there are some $4,000 men and boys
so employed working but three days a
nIy h.
and cents standpoint, that there are
approximately 1880 men and boys I'M
employed about the collieries.
An important meeting of the rail-
waymen of Paris and neighborhood
was held at the Bourse du Travail re-
Gently when demands were put for
ward which included q sliding scale of
wages, an eight-hour day, a weekly
holiday, and the naturalization of
railways. The meeting instructed the
executive of the Railwaymeh's fedora
ton to obtain these demands by a
given date.
An agreement in the waist and dress
strike, which lasted eleven weeks, was
effected at New York between the
manufacturers and International
Ladies' Garment Workers union, 1t
was announced. Benjamin Schlesin-
ger, president Of the garment workers
organization, said that the union had
won the 44-hour work week and in
crease in pay. averaging 10 per cent
and the right of union delegates with
representatives Of the Manufacturers
association to visit shops to see that
the conditions of the settlement are
observed.
Announcement was made of an al
lotment by George Eastman, president
Of the Eastman Kodak company, Roch-
ester, N. z, to older employees of the
company of 10000 of it's common
shares. having present market value
OF nearly 100000. This stock is to
be sold to employees at the par value
Of 800 share, on an easy payment
plan, the proceeds, amounting to ST.
100000, to go into an employees well
fare fund. The company itself has
agreed to set aside a like amount of
its unissued common stock to be sold
at par to the newer employees as they
become eligible through length of serv-
ice.
Details about the peace" activities
OF Krupps disclose the interesting fact
that their working staff rose from Co.
600 in 1914 to 10000 in 1918. The
number of employees in Essen itself
was raised from $4,000 to 5000. 1t
is claimed that the Essen works to-
day employs only $4,000 hands.
Saginaw (Mich.) miners, part of the
1890 strikers of the Michigan district
voted to return to work to permit ad-
justment of the matters under dispute
The district executive board will now
be given the assistance and support
of the international organization in
the settlement of the differences.
Eight thousand Cinnamon, dest1lSd
for sugar cane fields in Cuba, are be-
ing sent to that country through Flor
ida ports. Several contingents have
recently passed through Mobile. The
greatest movement of sugar from Cuba
ever known is expected next year.
Al page advertisement appearing in
a Butte, Mont, newspaper and signed
sfWorker's Council" appeals for the
establishment of a workers common
wealth In America. The article is
headed sDown With Capitalism !" and
concludes: "Up with the glorious
commonwealth of the workers Come
on Victory to the working class !"