The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

eight-hour day and $50 u week.
Winnipeg. Canada. is prepared to
spend S276.OOO in building working
mems houses.
A large jewelry firm in New York
city offered the plant TO their EN-
ployees, but the latter refused to ac-
cept.
Settlement was reached between the
tobacco strippers' union and the cigar
manufacturers of Tampa, Fla. of the
strike which lasted three days.
In the New South Wales assembly
Premier Holman announced that the
board of trade had decided to increase
the living wages from S15 to S16.25
per week.
New York postal employees, testi-
flying before commission, say their
yearly expenses are S1,6iT, while their
average pay is S1.0i5 and the maxi
mum 81 800.
Four organizers of the A. f. of L..
including "Mother" Jones, were fined
500 at Pittsburgh for attempting to
hold IA meeting of steel workers with
out obtaining a permit
In consequence of settlements reach
ed in the strike work was resumed
generally at Brest France, in the ar
senal, in metallurgical plants and in
sundry ship building yards.
A strike of drug clerks for increased
pay md shorter hours was called at
st. Louis. Local officials of the Retail
Clerks international Protective asso'
citation asserted that 225 clerks were
out.
British Industries and British trade
are threatened not only by the extra
ordinary efficiency of very highly paid
American labor but also by the great
and rapidly growing ability of low
wage japanese labor.
Plasterers and cement workers at
!. East st. Louis returned to work fol-
lowing an agreement with the Builders
Exchange whereby they are to receive
50 day. 81 day more than formerly.
They had been on strike two weeks.
Employees of the Boston Elevated
railway have received their back pay,
amounting to $7720o0 dating from
May l, which they We're awarded after
their four-day strike this summer,
when all the traction lines of the city
were tied up.
The output of the ten largest lumber
mills in the Philippines rose from 3d.
000, 600 board feet in 1916 to 5O,OOO,OOO
in 1917, and 6O.OO00O0 In 1918. while
the sales for 1919 were 5,790.000 board
feet more than for the corresponding
period of 1918.
More than $500 New York bookbind-
ers were granted wage increase of
Sc n week of forty-eight hours by en-
ploying printers. The men asked for
S14 and a forty-four-hour week. The
agreement calls for inauguration of
the forty-four-hour week May l next.
New York's latest strike-that of
IL 600 members of the International
Brotherhood of Transfers, Chauffeurs
and Helpers-tied up the principal rail-
road terminals of the greater city. The
strikers demands include fiat in
crease of S25 Il month. an eight-hour
day and n weeks vacation every year.
There was no change in the river
front strike at New Orleans. More
than 5000 longshoremen and banana
workers We're out, and with the num-
ber of unemployed increasing because
of the check in unloading cars,
wharves are congested with freight.
Eight hundred boxmakers also are still
| out after strike of n month.
After conference between repre-
sentatives of the Cotton Manufac
turers association and the Textile
council, 1t was announced that the
strike of the loom fixers at the Beacon
mill, New Bedford, Mass. employing
| 1,5OO hands, had been adjusted and
that the men would return to work
provided the settlement plan was ap-
proved by the full Textile council.
According to German newspapers
10000 railway men In Frankfort-on-
the-Main recently demanded the right
for labor commission to take part In
the regular meetings of the railway
board of directors. Their demand, 1t
is stated. was agreed to, with the
reservation that the final decision
would rest with the government min
istry. Similar demands by the men
previously have been refused.
Packing house plants of Swift & Co.
and Armour & Co. were tied up at Jer-
sey City by strike of more than 1000
employees. A closed shop, recognition
of the union, and an increase In wages
from 46 % cents to 60 cents an hour
are among the strikers demands. Can
collation. of wage agreement made
by Federal Judge Alschuler of Chicago,
under which the men have been work
ing. and the substitution of an indie
pendent scale also Is demanded.
Demands for wage increases and bet
ter working conditions which will af-
feet union clothing workers all over
the country will be placed before the
National Industrial Federation of
Clothing Manufacturers, 1t was an