The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The National Association of Laun- dry Workers has a membership of over 5000.
 Labor unions in the United States have a total membership of over B., 100000.
 The Blythe (Eng.) Soldiers and Sail ors' federation has refused to join the Labor party.
 Chemical workers wages in England have increased to a greater extent than the cost of living.
 Teamsters, chauffeurs, retail clerks and textile workers in Long Beach, Cal, have organized.
 Organized cap makers in New Ea- ven, Conn.,, have secured Q flat wage increase of $2 per week.
 Over 1O,OOO,OOO workers are repre- sented by the 500 delegates attending the big British parliament.
 Fire fighters in Macon, Ga, have formed a union with the idea of hay ing their wages increased.
 Three thousand flour mill employees in Mexico City are demanding an eight-hour day and higher wages.
 It Is estimated that 5000 people out of the 9OOOO now employed by the government as clerks will be retained.
 Miners of Nova Scotia were admitted to membership in the United Mine Works of America. The decision af- fects 12,0OO workers.
 Foremen in the Hog island ship building yard have accepted a compro- .of Svo instead of $6 which they demanded.
 Labor conditions for the near fu- ture will most likely be based on universal eight-hOur day in all cOun- tries, both European and American.
 The epidemic of child labor spread ing at alarming rate should receive immediate remedial attention, to off set future evil.-Schenectady Union Star.
 The strike of textile workers, which has been in progress eight weeks, in volving 13,OOO men and women and which resulted in serious rioting, was settled at a conference at Passaic, N. J.
 Wage increases of 10 per cent, with time and a half for overtime, and re- troactive to November 1, 1918, were awarded by the war labor board in the case of Brushmakers' Local No. 35 against the Chicago Brush Manufac- turing company.
 COnstitutiOnality of the Arizona act of 1913 limiting employment of women to eight hours a day was upheld by the Supreme court in disposing of ap- peals attacking the act on the ground that 1t discriminated between the en- plOyment of waitresses in railroad res taurants and other restaurants.
 The strike of 1000 white goods workers at New York was brought to a close when a mass meeting of girls in Cooper Union ratified an agreement conceding to them the 44-hOur work week. 10 per cent increase in wages, and the union shop. The agreement is to last two years. It was drawn up by Dr. Henry Moskowitz, who set tied the white goods strike of 1913.
 Three hundred German women fac tory workers, many of them wid ows of soldiers, have applied to the Third American army headquarters in Coblenz for employment claiming that with the ending of the war they had been thrown out of work.
 The United Cotton Textile factory Workers association in England has decided to recommend a scheme for 44-hour week. the present hours worked in the cotton trade being 551a a week. About 5OOOOO operatives are interested in the movement.
 That wages should not be reduced while the agreement between the gov ernment and the United Mine Workers was still in force, but that after March 31. when the agreement expires, they will be free to act as they wish, was the advice given by w. H. Armstrong, Alberta representative of the Canada fuel board, to the local coal opera tors.
 The Spanish government has issued q decree establishing an eight hour day in the building trades. This ac- tion, it is believed, will settle the lockout of the building contra ctors gAinSt their employees.
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