The herald., 1919-01-16
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST

Women are being employed in the
manufacture Of bricks at MittintOwn.
Women street cleaners in Mount
Vernon, ~ Y, wear official uniforms.
For every 100 workers in the fac
tories of Sweden there are % women.
Consideration is being given in Bos-
ton to a proposal to close stores for an
hour at noon.
Oakland (Cal) Typographical union
has secured a war bonus of 81 week
for it's members.
Miners in Arizona have organized In
an effort to have reforms in the COM
pensatiOn laws made.
The Alloa branch of the Scottish Ma
tional Farmers union has decided to
boycott the Irish harvesters.
A movement is on foot to call con-
yention of the labor interests of the
four western Canadian provinces.
The pay offered harvesters by the Hol-
derne@ (England) Agricultural club
is S16.S0 a week, with beer and tea.
When dock laborers at Cork Gre
land) were refused an Increase in pay
and shorter hours they went on strike.
Salaries of officials of the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and join
ers have been advanced by % per cent.
Glasgow, Scotland, was the first city
to Introduce women conductors and
motor operators on the street railways
system.
Approximately 10000 members in
good standing In the United Mine
Workers of America have entered the
service.
Metal workers at Winnipeg, Cana
da, are earning S37 to $40 week. In
two years increases have been from
SO to 80 per cent.
The Remington Arms company's
plant at lion, n. Y, engaged In govern
ment work, has been closed. At one
time $4,000 persons were employed.
Women clerks in the cities of Win
nipeg and Boniface, Canada, have or
ganized, with the result that they are
now receiving a minimum wage OF S12
a week.
A resolution passed by the South
Waterloo (Canada) Trades and Labor
council is being forwarded to the fuel
controllers in Calf, Preston and Hes
peler, asking that the cellars Of all
houses be inspected.
Last year 100 United States firms
were engaged in the manufacture OF
DIVES and chemicals from coal tar, as
against prior to the war. The total
production last year was 54,OOO,OOO
pounds, valued at S69,000,00O.
It is more economical and more ex'
pedient to spend five or ten minutes
in properly placing the new worker
than 1t is to spend two hours or some
times two days in trying to replace
him.-Employmen Service Bulletin.
To keep the workingmen in the al
lied and neutral European countries
Informed as to the true attitude Of
America toward the war, the Socialis
Democratic league is to establish com
missions at Milan, Paris, and othel
cities.
The number of shipbuilders EN-
Moved at Hog Island now is al
most as many as the total number OF
iron and steel shipbuiiders reported
four years ago throughout the entire
nation, when 33,50S constituted the ma
tional quota.
The fixing of the minimum wage FOL
female clerks In mercantile houses a
! 1928 week, as the result of thu
first sitting of the new minimum wag'
board appointed by the provincial gov
eminent, is meeting with hearty disap
proval from the Vancouver (B. G..
: council.
The Manitoba (Canada) minimum
wage board has set its first wage TO
working women in the province In tn
case of laundry workers. The boar'
has figured that $9.4S week is neces
sary for a girl to live decently, ant
for good measure an additional
cents a week Is added.
Employees Of the Lima (Ohio) Loco
motive works have organized for tn
, operation of cooperative stor'
, Eighty thousand dollars was mad
, available for the project. Goods wi
, be sold to employees Of this and othe
, industries at cost. The store will b
> opened within short time In dowr
town location.
. Eight thousand Cinnamon. destine
!. for sugar cane fields In Cuba, are b
, ing sent to that country through Flo
!. ida ports. Several contingents hav
o recently passed through Mobile. tn
!. greatest movement Of sugar from Cub
ever known Is expected next year.
i A page advertisement appearing
. a Butte, Mont, newspaper and signe
!. workers Council" appeals for Il
. establishment Of a workers common
. wealth In America. The article
a headed Down With Capitalism" an
o concludes: up with the gloriol
A commonwealth of the workers! Con
| al m tha working class I"