The herald., 1919-02-06
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The total membership Of over 1000
unions in England is put at nearly
100000.
A Sheffield (England) firm which has
been making shells for the army will
make files and springs.
Newark (N-J) carpenters have been
granted an increase of ten per cent
an hour, which brings their daily wage
up to $640.
Up to October 1 aid had been in
voked from the war labor board in
521 controversies. involving more than
100000 workers.
During October alone, over $4,000
women were placed in Jobs by the
woman's bureau Of the United States
employment service.
An eight-hour day and 44-hour week
with no night work for women Is be-
ing demanded by the National Wom-
ans Trade Union league.
The United States industries use
practically 100000 pounds of bronze
powder annually, and 35 per cent Of
the total consumption was formerly i'm
ported from Germany, but is now made
In America.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany announced that during the pres
ent period Of curtailment when many
mines are closed, 1t will give prefer
ence to men with families and to re-
turned soldiers.
The Italian labor commission which
is touring America for the purpose Of
making stronger the ties between
American and Italian labor, left San
Francisco for Kansas City, Mo-, after
a weeks visit.
The Japanese government has decid-
ed to place the development of the
Chinlingchen iron mines in the hands
of the mining department Of the Shan.
tung railway instead Of concluding a
contract for this purpose with pri-
vate concern.
A woman testifying before the Unit
ed States war labor board claimed
that she had been employed in Vir-
ginia factory at wages of liz cents
an hour at the beginning and later
received $40 per week for work SINH
lar to that for which men were paid
SIS per week.
More than 1000 women took the
places of men on six steam railways
in and about New York city; 1000
went to work in ten munition factor
les, while nearly 5000 were employed
In similar factories In the Eastern
states, all betweet the spring Of 1917
and that Of 1918.
As a result Of the bi-monthly set
Element between the Bar Iron asso-
citation and the Amalgamated Associ-
alton of Iron and Steel and Tin Work
ers, sheet-mill operatives will receive
a wage advance of ~ per cent for
January and February over the last
two months of 1918. The wages Of tin
mill hands will remain as before.
While the Amalgamated Society OF
Engineers of Great Britain does not
admit women to its membership, it has
since the early days of the war had
an informal alliance with the National
Federation of Woman Workers, In
whose ranks it helped to organize the
women who poured into the various
branches Of the engineering trade.
Lumber workers in Bend, Ore. re-
ceive better wages and have better
conditions to work under than in any
other of the yellow-pine districts. This
result has been brought about by the
strong organization among the men.
Four thousand men will be idle in
the Youngstown (O.) district as re-
suit of suspension by the Republic
Iron and Steel company of all its finish
Ing mills. It's Atlantic blast furnace
at Newcastle, Pa, has been closed for
an indefinite period. Lack of orders is
signed as reason for the suspen.
sion. Other steel plants are slowing
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