The Connecticut labor press., 1919-03-29
OTHER LABOR MATTERS.

neering and metal workers.
 Boilermakers employed in the gov
 ernment navy yards receive $6.40 8
 day.
 Locomotive engineers in the DOmini'
 can republic receive from $25O to $d
 day.
 Competent female stenOgraphers in l Toronto, Canada, can demand as high
 as S25 week.
 Trade union membership in Switzer- 1 land has increased over 15 per cent
 in the last two years. l Switzerland has an unemployment
 fund which pays unemployed skilled
 workers 68 cents a day and unskilled
 workers 5S cents a day. ] The National Federation of General Workers in Great Britain, representing
 nearly 100000 men and women, is
 making a strenuous fight for a 44hour l work week.
 1 Nearly all the ship yards in England, 1 Scotland and Ireland were made idle,
 owing to workmen leaving their places until they are granted shorter hours 1 and improved working conditions 1 The managers of the Burden iron mills in Troy, N. r., announced that the plant would close for an indefinite i period. Lack of orders was given as the reason. The mills employ 5000 hands.
 The strike of employees of slaughter houses at Paris, France, has been de- clarNd off. the men being satisfied with measures being taken by the authOri- ties to remedy conditions of which complaint was made. Closer cooperation is being brought about between the Regina (Canada) Great War Veterans association and the Trades and Labor council by the granting to the veterans of five seats on the labor council.
 The British and Allied Chefs and Employers union recently formed in London, for the purpose of keeping out enemy aliens who might spoil their business has decided to admit domestic servants into full member ship.
 The'Internationa1 Granite Producers association cancelled it's order by which all plants in the country would be shut down. The plants will continue at work pending a conference with granite workers regarding wages and working hours. A shutdown would af- feet New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois.
 Notice was received at district head quarters of the United Mine Workers in Hazleton, Pa., from Frank J. Hayes, international president, that he called meeting of the policy committee Of the union in Indianapolis on March Is. The meeting will consider wages, un- employment and other issues growing out of the reconstruction period. Rep resentatives from every district will be present.
 Superintendent Gang, of the Derry mills, York, Pa. the employees of which are on strike for better conditions and recognition of union labor, refused any conference. In consequence those em- plOyees who had not affiliated with the strikers handed in applications and, with almost 400 more, formed a local OrganiZa tiOn, which is now associated with the American Federation of Labor.
 A new law will soon become oper- alive in Switzerland compelling em- ployers to provide strike pay for en1- plOyees. A London business man who owns a factory in Switzerland employ ing 25O persons stated his manager had reported the law would compel the factory to set aside s12,OOO annually to the workers unemployment fund. The fund is collected and controlled by the state.
 By the terms of an award made public hy V. Everitt Macy, the umpire selected hy the National war labor board to pass upon the demands of the MnU'ine Workers utilization of New York, all harbOr and marine transport workers in New York are granted the eight-hOur day with time and One-halr for overtime. The demands of the men for higher wages and that the award be retroactive to December 1 are denied.
 The federal government of Australia has taken measures to prevent the landing of bolsheviki and other unde- sirabIes. The government has dis missed 500 Shipbuilding employees on COckatOO island. owing to the men's Ego slow policy"
 The Strlke or port "oFheTS at BuenOS Aires. which has been in prog rpss for 46 days, has prevented G0O,0OO tons of cargo from entering Ruenos Aires. Thirty refrigerator steamers which were Shunted to other ports after starting for BuenOs Aires could have carried away 100000 tons of Argentine meat.
 Of the 317 strikes occurring in Pennsylvania during the last year there were 1O0 in the metal trades, 51 in the building trades. 90 in mining. 31 in textiles, 2S in public utilities, If in clothing trades and the remainder in various other classficatiOns.
 Demanding the establishment of 44-hour work week in their industry and increases in wages, 10000 white goods workers. most of them girls, went on strike at New York. The strike is consequent on the failure of negotiations between the White Goods Workers union and the Cotton Gar ment Manufacturers association.