The Monticellonian., 1919-04-04
NEWS OF THE LABOR WoRln n
Happenings of Importance in This an. Other Countries During the
 Past Few Days.

The Highland Park. Mich, poStof fee has 13 women mail carriers.
 over 500.000 women acted as far,, managers while the war was in prog. ress.
 During 1918 the number of women factory workers throughout the conn. try nearly doubled.
 New York city has woman shoe sinner who is making a comfortable living from her enterprise
 Mrs. Mary s. Burnhan, of Port land. iS the first woman in Maine to he appointed q deputy sheriff
 Income tax reports have revealed the fact that chorus girls and cabaret singers in New York are earning from S2l t0 $75 a week.
 Buffalo women have turned their thrift Kitchen into q home bureau for information and cooked food center which it is expected will be self sun porting.
 All of the printing of the Canadian parliament was tied up by strike of 100 pressmen employed by the gov. ernment printing bureau. The men are demanding higher wages. 1 The reopening of six cotton=c cloth mills at Fall River. Mass, is an. nounced. These mills, which have been l idle for number of weeks, Will op- crate three days week for the pres. l ent.
 u,i.a .1nooSS of vnmGp in Cano,oI l hotel work. particularly in the clerical departments. has led many of the l fashionable apartment houses iii New city to install women as managers and superintendents.
 The plans of Henry Ford for his new company, which will produce a low. 1 priced automobile. contemplate the employment of 100000 workers when in full operation, the motor manufae- i tGrer said.
 The Amoskeag and Stark mills at 1 Manchester N. H., went on full time schedule affecting 5000 operatives l The mills have been working only 8 1 hours for q number of weeks. In l number of departments the 4ShOur week has been established i Under the leadership of Lady Lon l denderry the English domestic serv l ants recently employed in muniton 1 factories have been organized into i household section of the Nomen's ] league. which provided ambulance ] drivers. cooks and various other help CTS during the war.
 In December. 1918, the manufaetur- CTS of New York state expended for wages a sum larger than any which has So far been recorded This amount WAS per cent greater than Il similar one in November and 2S per cent larger than the total expenditure for wages in December. 1917.
 The street car employees Tt Baree- Iona. Spain. went on strike. and the minister of the interior announced that the men were at once mohilzed under government control. He de clares that the same measure will be l promptly applied te the employees of any other public utility corporation who go on strike.
 The Piano Workers union formally agreed to allow women tO replace men drafted into the army. but limited this i agreement for women as substitutes for the period of the war and provid, ed for readjustment conferences. These women received the same rate of pay as the men and worked the same mum. Der of hours as the men.
 Union men went again through the gates of the Shipvards of Seattle. Ia coma and Aberdeen to work on the big hulls that have stood in various stages of completion since January q, when strike closed the plants. AL though several thousand men returned 10 work, it will be several days be- fore full forces are employed again.
 The joint committee representing the unions involved in the general strike in Cuba which paralyzed business and l traffic for five days, voted to accept the proposal presented by President Menoeal as arbiter, thus terminating the conflict. The vote was taken after heated debate lasting eight hours The men returned to their places i'm medafely.
 Catherine Breshkovskaya, grand mother of the Russian revolution" re- gently went before the United States senate propaganda inquiry committee and pleaded earnestly that America send machinery and other materials l TO Russia, at once to aid in industrial reconstruction. which she said would result in riddng the nation of the bolshevik burden
 Charles F. Neill of Washington um- i pife of the anthracite cancellation board. sustained the contention of the engineers, firemen and cranemen of steam shoveis operated by the c. B, Markle company. Hazleton. Pa, that they are entitled to an eight hour day with 5 per cent wage increase. in stead of being paid a flat per cent advance on the basis of nine hours. ne award, retroactive to May 15, 19l5 carries with if thousands of dollars ln back pay due on wartime earnings, and applies to similar employees all over the anthracite field
 Five hundred delegates representing o9 school organizations of St. Louis recently took mp the question of pay Ing hlgher salaries to public school teachers. The general trend of opin ion was that salary of not less than Si,zoo should be given all teachers ot q