The Connecticut labor press., 1919-09-09
OF INTEREST TO LABOR

The great majority of women who replaced men during the war are un- organized.
 The meat packing plants in Canada l employ over 1,2O0 women in various 1 capacities.
 A machine for making stick candy has been invented that has a daily capacity of 5000 pounds.
 Practically 50 per cent of the total number of vessels launched in 1918 were built in the United States.
 The cotton mills in India employ nearly 100000 persons and pressing mills more than a third as many addi- tiona1 workers.
 The Sioux City (Ia.) Butchers union, with 5000 members, has voted to accept the award of a 10 per cent increase in wages.
 The average wage of the ordinary farm laborer in England has been ad- vanced during the war from $3.5O a week to $6.75 a week.
 The strike of 5000 workmen at the Los Angeles shipbuilding and Dry Dock company was adjusted and the HIGH F0Luruou CO WOrk.
 Brooklyn (N. Y.) returned soldiers who are roofers find it difficult to pay the union initiation fee of $75, and are allowed to pay in installments.
 The majority stockholders of the great OppeIn mine, at Oppeln, Ger many, have agreed to turn over it's stock to members of miners union at par.
 By a vote of the Haverhill (Mass.) Shoe Manufacturers association over 5000 women employees in more than 40 shoe factories are now working on a 54-hour-week schedule.
 Female labor in Switzerland has not yet been credited an equal footing with the male labor, even where men and women are doing the same amount, kind and quality of work in the same concern.
 As a result of the general strike in the building trades the Syracuse (Ark.) Builders exchange announced its in- tention of establishing an open shop on all contract work in the future and refusing to consider agreements with the unions.
 Although the Transport Workers federation in England has practically reached a settlement in regard to its claims for the lockers, the tramway men, canal workers and other sections, there are questions still outstanding in regard to the omnibus men.
 The Allegheny Industrial club, rep resenting 40 big Pittsburgh plants, is urging the pushing of public works, running of plants for manufacturers and bringing pressure to bear on legis- 1ative bodies to keep labor employed to prevent the spread of bolshevism.
 At a recent meeting held at Pitts burgh and attended by representative of nearly 100 trade unions it was de- cided to give every possible assistance in the campaign to organize employees in the steel and iron industry and to demand the right of free speech and free assemblage.
 The child labor section of the war revenue bill, placing a prohibitive tax on products of child labor entering in- terstate commerce, was declared Hn- constitutional by Federal Judge James B. Boyd, at Greensboro, N. c. Last year he declared void the original child labor act, which the United States Su- preme court annulled by a margin of one vote.
 An increase of $25 a month in wages and the introduction of an eight-hOur day for all men except those assigned to trains have been awarded the en- ployees of the Canadian Express con- pany by the arbitration board which considered their case. The increase in salary dates from May 1. Both the men and the company have agreed to accept the finding of the board.
 Twenty theaters of Buenos Aires were forced to close because of an actors strike.
 Nearly 10000 shoe workers in Brock ton, Mass. and surrounding towns will operate under a 48-hour week. Prac- tically every union in the trade at Brockton has accepted the proposal of the manufacturers for 48-hour sched- ule, and shoe towns in the district reported similar action. The factories have been running 50 hours a week, No reduction in wages is considered under the new arrangement. The unions had previously asked for A.