The Monticellonian., 1919-04-04
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

trade unionists.
 In the factories in Sweden there are 23 women to every 100 men.
 Women are employed as glassbioW- CTS and engravers in England.
 Over 2.5Oo girls were placed on farms last year by the Ontario labor bureau.
 Argentina Is threatened with q strike of tenant farmers throughout the re- public
 Toronto tcanada) street railway men have been granted an increase in pay.
 In some parts of England dogs wool is being spun and manufactured into garments.
 Nearly 6O.0oO people are employed in the various plants of the Armour Packing company.
 During the first ten months of 1918 2.O4S men were killed by coal mine accidents in the United States.
 One hundred thousand Canadian women are represented in the Feder- ation of Womens Societies recently formed at Winnipeg, Canada
 French postofice and telegraph workers have been granted a 200 per cent increase in wages Under the provisions of the bill women'S wages will he the same as men for the same kind of work.
 Fur manufacturers in New York have granted their workers higher wages and guarantee against slack season layoffs. The increase in wages amounts to ahout 10 per cent over the old minimum.
 Park Place colliery. near Mahanoy City, Pa, owned by the Lehigh Rail- road company. has been placed on a seven-heur schedule for m indefinite period. Over 500 men and boys are employed in the mine.
 The Welsh tinplate cancellation board at Swansea, Wales. has granted further increase bonus throughout the trade ranging from 15 to 20 per cent on present bonuses, which already amount to % per cent.
 To protect mineworkerS from DOS sihle injury by explosion in gaseous mines and to instruct new miners of underground danger. the anthracite coal industry has posted precaution. arN rules in and about the coal mines
 The tWenty-four international unions in the the steel industry have Il membership of over 100000 They cover the iron and steel industry in all ifs branches from the men who dlg the coal and iron ore to the men who load out the finished products at the plants.
 Tn order to take care of nnarnnlo,.od soldiers. the federal government of Anstfatia has appropriated $2. 300 nOO Tor ife construction of public works bending the completion of q Iorger iean scheme to provide work for inc nome coming Anzacs along more per. manent lines.
 Twelve hundred members of inc Railway Clerks union employed hv the Nashville, Chattanooga X Sf i.oulS railway went on strike al1oo. Ing unfair treatment of the union bv A. |. oftarSon, federal auditor for inc railroad administration. The entiro system is affected.
 FoiioWing shutdown for one weel, te torestaIl strike of ifs machinfsts the New York Airbrake co,unan,.,s pianf' NaterfoWn. N. Y. opened as an open shop. Estimates by union off. elalS place the number of men who TO turned at from 75 to 15O ont of a total of 1.500 union machjnists o,, PloNed at the plant. Company officials eiaim 4t6 machinStS returned to worl,
 l.. T. Lindeloff. secretary of ,ho painters district council. and I n Ris. Ing chairman of the wage committea announced at Chicago that an aoroo. menf had been reached cranting a raise or l212 cents an hour to pointars ana decorators. Mr. Rising safd tke Increase in spring rates fer all classas ol painting and decorating will he about h per cent.
 he Toronto RailWaymen'S union hos decided to accept the increase axeord ed them by the majority of the board ot eoneiliation, which was 21b cents an hour for ffrst-year men and 9 cents an hour for all other men.
 ofsaluzed carpenters in York Pa nave made demand for an incroosa ot wages from 90 to 55 cents an bonr fainters are also requesting an in. crease from 40 to 45 cents 2, hoaa and bricklayerS want their woeas tr creased from GO to 70 cents m bonr
 A haif-and-half profit-sharinc nlan with employees in all branches haa been announced by the Winys-over ana ana Automobile company. Over 1na 9oo emnloyes are affected bv tho ar. s..a s,ao ana some will receive as high as S4oV as their share Of the division