The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-02-13
IN THE LABOR WORLD

Store workers and pottery workers
In Germany receive S1.07 day.
For every 100 workers in the fac
tories in Sweden there are % women.
The total membership of over 1000
unions in England is put at nearly
100000.
All the mines in the great coal fields
In Yorkshire, England, were made idle
as the result of general strike.
After being out for ten days, strik-
ing Job printers at Vancouver, B. C..
have been taken back to work on
their own terms, raise Of 10 per cent.
In Alaska the employment of any
person in underground coal mines, I'M
derground lode mines and in placer
mines shall not exceed eight hours
within any twenty-four.
During 1918 the average wage per
employee for the army OF about
275,OOO workers in the service of the
United States Steel corporation is es-
timated to have been approximately
$500.
The Paterson IN. J.) Silk sssOcia-
ton sent to every manufacturer the
official resolution Of its labor commit
tee recommending the rejection of all
demands of silk-mill employees for an
eight-hour day beginning February 3.
The demand was made by about 10000
textile workers.
Amoskeag mill at Manchester, N. H.,
employing $1,000 textile workers will
be operated on schedule of 5h hours
day, according to official announce
ment. The mills will open at 6 AS a.
m. and close at noon. General trade
conditions, due to the readjustment
period, were given by officials as the
reason for the curtailment.
According to official information
reaching Washington, President Car.
rama proposed to the Mexican con-
gress Just before II adjourned recent
" an amendment to the constitution
providing that any industrial estab,
| lishment which closes an account OF
strikes or demands Of laborers shall
be taken over and run by the govern
ment. There was no information as
to what action was taken.
Factories of the members OF the
Dress and Waist Manufacturers asso
citation at New York were picketed by
representatives of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers union fol
lowing a deadlock ON the issue which
| caused $4,000 members Of the unior
70 strike. The strikers, composed
chiefly of girls and women, demand
44-hOur working week and permission
! for a union official to inspect facto
ries to determine whether they are
sanitary and safe places Of employ
! ment.
Ending of the three months strike
of $1,000 garment workers, engaged il
making mems and boys clothing, ant
the granting of 44-hour week wa:
announced at the New York headquar
tiers of the Amalgamated Carmen
Workers of America. Meanwhile tn
strike of $4,000 ladies' waist and dres
makers. who also demand a 44-hou
week. was still in progress. Settle
ment of the government controvers,
was effected by conference commit
tee. representing the war policie
of labor and the manufacturers ant
employees.
The Butte (Mont.) Carpenters uniol
voted to withdraw from the Trade
and Labor assembly, giving as a rea
son that this central body ID now cor
trolled by radicals with bolshevist ter
denotes. The Carpenters union is tn
second largest organization In Butte.
A strike was declared at the new I
& O. engine rebuilding shops, whic
were put into commission at Cumbel
p land, Md, January.1, after an expend
ture of 100000. Over 200 skille
mechanics, including plumbers, ele'
tricians and pipefitters, who were be
ing paid 60 cents an hour, struc
for 81.
The Manufacturers Council of Me-
Jersey, composed Of over two hui
dred manufacturers, has pledged
refrain from cutting wages until tn
purchasing power of the dollar sha
have increased materially.
Between $4,000 and $1,000 member
: of the Metropolitan Trades unions
. Seattle, Tacoma and Anacortes WEI
|, on strike, paralyzing the major porto
of washington's shipbuilding industr
/, Another 5000 woodworkers employe
In shipbuilding may be forced oil
through inability Of the yard to o.
+ crate without the metal trades worl
ers, their leaders say.