The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-06-13
IN THE LABOR WORLD

Union workers at MODlie, All, nave
purchased labor temple.
Mine owners in South Africa are ex-
perimenting with a dust-laying prepa-
ration with molasses base.
The Boldt glass works shut down
at Cincinnati, the reason given being
the approach of prohibition.
Alsace-Lorraine railway workers are
to be affiliated with the French Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, dating from May 1.
The minimum wages of tank testers
in Canada is 80 cents an hour and
their helpers from At to 65 cents an
hour.
The average advance in pay per man
granted by the United States railroad
administration amounts to about $16O
per year.
About so per cent of the matches
produced in Norway are exported, and
the domestic product dominates the
home market.
Wilmington (Del.) carpenters are
demanding SIS cents an hour, but the
employers have declined to see them
anu TIE uucSllOhs
New South Wales labor members
proposals for submission to the inter-
state labor conference in June include
q 30-hour week for coal miners.
Nine hundred meat packers and
butchers employed at Montreal, Can.
have quit work with the idea of bring
ing about the recognition of their
union.
Eleven publishing houses at Kala-
maZoo, Mich, have granted the eight
hour day 10 pressmen and bookbinders,
where such were employed, with no re-
duction in wages.
Industrial accidents in Pennsylvania
during February claimed fewer vic
tins than during any one month in the
last three years of the operation of
the compensation act.
In the last IS months the meat cut
creased its membership from 5000 to
100000. In that time wages also have
increased so per cent.
First-year men employed on the
trolley cars at San Antonio. Te-, have
received an increase in wages of 50
cents day. while those employed for Z
more than year will receive an adj
vance of 80 to 20 cents.
Employees of the Uruguayan gov
ernment have been granted increases
in salaries amounting TO 20 per cent
for officials whose salaries do not eX-
coed SOL 20 a month; Is per cent for
those who receive more than $S2.T2 a
month.
Pay rol. of railway employees dur
ing government control in 13 months
Increased $7T.ooo,0t,o mp TO last jan
uary, when it had reached the enor-
nous sum of 1921, 100000. Number of
employees In the il months increased
li5,0OO.
Many of the small independent
iron mines in Minnesota have closed or
have announced their intention to-
close and the larger ones have re-
,luced their working forces 40 To GO FER.
cent because of the unsettled cendi-
tions In the steel market.
Union hricklayers in Milwaukee,
have been granted a wage increase.
The minimum wages were advanced
from $500 and $40 day to $7.20
a day; plasterers from Sc day mini
mum TO 81 minimum, and bod carriers
from so cents per hour to 50 cents.
The San Francisco labor council,
representing scores of building trades
crafts and thousands of workers. re-
fused after prolonged debate TO accede
TO petltion of the International Work
ers' Defense league that q strike be
declared on July in behalf of Thorn
rs j. Mooney and Warren X. Billings.
now serving life sentences FOR murder
growing ont of the Preparedness day
bomb explosion in July, 1916. The
vote@was i24 to 40 against an. strike
action.
Domestics employed In the best
hemes in Toronto. Canada, are reeeiy-
Ing wages ranging from $25 to $40 per
month. while good stenographers can
demand $50 a week.
About 80 journeymen tailors In
=tsdAC WOEk Dt-F
cnuse Of an attempt to reduce wages
30 per cent and TO increase the work
ing hours from eight to nine day.
An increase of $25 month in wages
and the introduction Of an eight-hour
day for all men except those assigned
to trains have been awarded to en-
ployees of the Canadian Express conI
pany by AN arbitration board
Twelve hundred employees struck
at the shipbuilding plant of Vickers.
Ltd Montreal. Canada. The action
was not authorized by organized labgl
The men lave been negotiating n
wage Increase. u.
The Automobile and Wagon - 8
e-s' council. affiliated with the ~
can Federation OF Labor, has ultsger-
taken campaign OF organizing The
automobile and wagon mechanics and
helpers at Philadelphia and vicinity
for the phrpesc Of increasing wages,
shortening hours and improving the,
general conditions under which they
are employed