The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-12-06
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

New Orleans has more than 1000
factories.
New Orleans has the largest ma
hogany manufacturing plant in the
world.
Members of the various labor unions
in Houston, Texas, have established
cooperative store.
Danish cooperative trade unions
have membership of 255,00O, an In
crease of 90 per cent in two years.
Most of the factories in Russia have
been transferred to the control of the
workers.
A salary increase of Is per cent has
been awarded $500 wreckers, con-
crete workers. excavators and huild-
ing laborers of st. Louis, it was an
nounced.
Seventy-fve miscellaneous union
men struck at the Champion Engineer
ing company's plant. Kenton. o., tying
up production. They demand union
recognition. The plant was picketed.
Charging that wealthy Chicago wom-
en- refuse to give their maids enough
to eat and make buffers work long
hours, housemaids and other domestic
employees took steps to organize q
union.
Demand that women be represented
equally with men mall future interim
tional labor conferences called under
the treaty of Versailles was made at
the international congress of working
women at Washington.
A strike by editors of the Barcelona
tSpain) newspapers is threatened. The
proprietors of some of the newspa-
pers have refused the editors demands
and the writer's affected are threaten
ing to walk out.
Prospects of labor difficulties, In
volving car men of the Washington
Railway and Electric company, who
some time ago made demands for n
pay raise, averaging 80 per cent, were
dispelled when the Employees union
announced that, for the time being. 1t
has accepted the 3 cents an hour in
crease offered by the company.
Only 60 per cent of the silver mines
of Mexico, once the leading producer
of silver In the world are being
worked, 1t is revealed In the report of
commission of mining men which
has assembled in Mexico City to con-
fer with the department of industry,
commerce and labor regarding methods
which may be employed to increase the
production of the metal.
The longshoremen's strike at New
York, on October % tied up 62j yes
sells. said by shipping men TO be the
largest number ever recorded in the
port on a single day. OF the $40
steamships. SO are passenger vessels.
some of them the largest liners afloat.
The daily cost of the tieup was esti-
mated at more than $1.500,000 in de-
murrage alone.
The Building Laborers' union. COM
posed OF 600 hodcarriers, was expelled
from the Denver Building Trades coun-
ell. and other union men of the coun-
ell were authorized to work with non.
union laborers until a new laborers'
union has been formed. Expulsion
was voted because the. laborers re-
fused to accept compromise increase
OF 80 cents day, the award of an ar
bitration board composed of the Build
ing Trades council and representatives
of the Master Builders association.
The men asked 81 day increase.
Fourteen thousand boilermakers
Joined the general strike of shipyard
workers, who have been out since Oc-
tober l. according to an announcement
Mt the headquarters of the Metal
Trades council at New York. The men
demand a 44-hour week and 81 an
hour.
About 200 clerks of the Maritime
Underwriting agency at New York
went out on strike. The men demand
80 per cent increase in salary, an
eight-honr day and the privilege of
smoking in office hours. Salaries are
said by the strikers TO range from $40
a week TO $40.