The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-06-27
IN FIELD OF LABOR

land to the employees on their Midland
(Can.) branch.
Civic employees and bakery sales
mems unions of Vancouver, B. c., voted
against a strike in sympathy with
Winnipeg strikers.
Out Of an estimated total of $4,000
persons engaged in all branches of the
textile trade in Austria, 100000 are
employed in three Bohemian countries.
Women form the majority of the
workers in the textile trade at Ian
cashire, England, and also form the
larger part of the trade union men,
bership.
After long fight the legislature OF
Indiana passed q workman's compensa-
ton law which provides for a SD
weekly minimum, but does not include
state insurance.
Edward T. Stotesbury, the Phila-,
delphia banker, is an honorary men,
Der Of the Machinists' union, while his
wife is an honorary member OF the
Boilermakers' union.
More than GO per cent of the iron
and ship workers at the merchants
shipyard at Bristol, Pa, are idle, pend
ing a decision regarding the recent de-
crease In their wages.
The Builders association Of Cleve-
land, O., had agreed to give ironwork-
crs so cents an hour when the decis-
ion of the war labor board giving them
only IS cents was received.
A reduction in working hours from
SO to As without loss Of pay was an
nounced at the plant of the General
Electric company, Lynn, Mass. The
plant employs about $4,000 persons.
The threatened strike of the Ma
sons and Carpenters union, which
would have paralyZed trades of Rock
ford, H., was settled at a conference
between representatives of the union
and contractors.
Resolutions adopted by the New Jer-
sey Association of Letter Carriers, that
81 800 a year maximum salary is in
adequate and that the maximum sal
airy should be $1,000 and the minimum
$500. was forwarded to the National
| Association of Letter Carriers.
At a meeting of high school teachers
| in the Central High school, Newark. n.
| J., it was voted to organize teachers
union which should be associated with
| the American Federation of Teachers,
| affiliated with the American Federation
! of Labor.
Toronto's general strike" in sym
pathy with striking metal workers,
ended when representatives of the va,
rious unions involved voted to accede
| to the request of the Metal Trades
| council that sympathetic strikers re
turn to work.
i The Cleveland Ladies' Garment
Workers union has appropriated $500
as a campaign fund to bring about the
| Americanization of the 1900 of theil
5000 members who are now non-citi
| zens of the United States. "One hun
dred per cent" American by fall is the
membership slogan.
| Dispatches from Rio Janeiro an
nounce the commencement of textile
strike. The workers are demanding
an eight-hour day and an increase IL
wages. The dispatches say that 80,
600 strikers were reported to be on
and that they expected the employees
In other industries to join in the move
ment.
The striking workmen In Bella, II
the province of Piedmont, Italy, hav
returned to work on learning through
the appearance Of agitations o. bol
shevist character which. however
passed off without incident. that an an
archistic minority was endeayoring t
take advantage of the general strike.
Fifteen hundred miners employed b
the Northwest Improvement compan.
which controls several mines in til
Ole Elum district Of Washington, ar
on strike, and, according to reports
there is likelihood Of others going on
The strike followed refusal of the con
. pany to continue paying the men fe
dumping cars, as had been done durin
the war.
The publishers of Buenos Aires al
; said to have joined in compact neve
, to admit another union printer to the
, shops. The principal newspapers hay
started linotype schools and are teacl
: ing prospective operators. 1t is a
. serted that the old employees on new
, papers will be given their jobs agai
r only when they resign from the prin
ers' union.
. The National Union of Boot ar
: Shoe Operatives in Great Britain nj
4 / now dismantled its machinery.
: The steel shipbuiIding plant of II
! Standifer company. Vancouver. Wasl
7 is closed, following strike of 2.0'
workers belonging to the BoilermakeI
5 ana other unions. The walkout Is sa
. to have been caused by the refusal
h the company to reinstate a discharg
s union foreman One thousand wor
: men remained at their Jobs when &
J. 200 unionists walked ont. but the ma
' agement decided not to attempt TO 9
1 crate the plant with the crippled for
i and closed the plant.