The herald., 1919-01-16
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

; Toronto airplane woOdworkerS nave
secured IS cents an hour.
!, British trade union membership in
creased over 25O,OO0 last year.
, CANADIAN munition workers have
been granted the right to organize.
Total membership of the Brother
hood of Bookbinders is almost $1,000.
: Journeyman tailors and women
helpers at Ottawa, Cam, ask increased
pay.
In France women are working II
hours a day, with two hours recess at
noon.
L. W. w. printed matter will not be
permitted to enter Canada from the
United States.
More than 5000 French and English
girls are now acting as chauffeurs in
the Red Cross service.
Coalville (England) trades and labor
council passed a resolution urging the
abolition of warehouses;.
The British Columbia Employers
organization has been established to
| cooperate with organized labor.
The Dominion and the province of
Ontario are to cooperate in the matter
of settling Canadian soldiers on the
land.
At Seattle, Wash, unskilled labor
ers, who never before made more than
$40 or $1S a week, were paid $65 to
.$75 week in the shipbuilding yards.
Sixty per cent Of the work on ship
is in constructing the hull and the re-
manning 40 per cent Is installing me.
chanical parts, deck furnishings and
! other equipment that goes to make the
finished vessel.
The North Dakota state council OF
defense Is solving two problems-the
food problem and the surplus labor
.problem-by putting workmen on I'M
used farms in order to stimulate croI
production in the northwest.
Every day that one coal miner stops
work on strike there results loss In
production Of 25 3-inch shells. The
recent strike in Wilkesbarre, Pa
caused loss of coal sufficient to supply
1900 families for the winter.
The 1000 employees Of the Western
Cartridge company, Alton, ILL.,, were
notified by J. L. Donnelly, secretary
that the plant would cease operation
temporarily until the future work Of
the company could be determined.
A standard low-heeled boot is nov
worn by women in the English ship
yards, introduced by the management!
because Of the many sprained ankles
that resulted from the clumsy, high
heeled shoes that were first worn b!
the workers.
Official announcement has bee
made by the United States war de
partment of the fact that woman mes
sengers in the Rock Island (Ill) al
senal are using roller skates to "spee
up" on their errands around and be
tween buildings.
Samuel Gompers has recommended
that medical examination Of worker
,be made one of the functions Of tn
government labor recruiting agencie
as a measure which twill greatly aug
ment and help to maintain the healtl
iof our industrial army"
, Six hundred employees Of the Wei
: sster Manufacturing Co. at Tiffin, 0, pal
! ticipated In a bonus ranging from
J per cent Of their yearly income for me
, who have been at the plant year {
2 per cent for men who have bee
J there three months. Checks GOVERN
: the bonus totaling over $4,000 wer
issued to the men.
Because Of their efficiency there
an increased demand for women worl
ers in British shipyards, and anon
their achievements has been the buil'
ing OF a temporary railway and tn
laying of concrete platforms to n
. ceive the keels of ships.
The strike of the Toronto municip'
/. police force to enforce recognition {
? their union was called of as the r
: suit of an agreement reached at
. conference Of the police commissions
= and representatives Of the men. III
!. policemen returned to duty and all Il
questions at issue wild be arbitratt
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