The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-10-03
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

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workers.
Canadian railway workers number
over 10000.
The total alien immigration in 1914
was 1,218,490; 1915, 26,700; 1916, $685.
826; 1917, pos, 5,403; 1918, 110,61S.
Louisiana has appointed a state COM
mission to Study the labor of women
and children, with a view to maximum
hour and minimum wage laws.
Wage advances affecting 5557, 900
British railway and engineering work
ers total $1o,591, 800 weekly; other
workers, $4,558, 500 weekly, making
yearly total of about $78O.00o,000.
Four thousand employees Of the
General Electric company plant at
Pittsfeld, Mass, started on a 45-hour-
week working schedule. officials of the
company said the curtailment was
made necessary by business conditions.
The Welsh Tinplate Cancellation
board at Swansea, Wales, has granted
further increase bonus throughout
the trade ranging from Is to 20 per
cent on present bonuses, which already
amount to 90 per cent.
OF the 3,348 locomotives built by the
Baldwin Locomotive works last year
60 per cent were for the United States,
France and Great Britain for war pur-
poses. The average weekly number of
men employed during the year was
1862, exclusive of the subsidiary com.
panies.
The Pacific Mills print works at
Lawrence, Mass, reopened. This plant
| employs over 1000 operatives, VINO
have been out of work because of the
walkout of the boiler firemen, who
are returning to work on the same
basis as before the strike. Seven soup
kitchens also were to be erected in the
city, the sum of $4,000 having been col
lected for this purpose.
Notice of a further reduction of %
cents a day in wages at the mines of
the Utah Copper company at Bingham,
40 miles west of Salt Lake City, was
posted. The reduction is effective
March /, according to the notice, and
is based upon a price of 18 cents a
pound for copper. - reduction Of 70
cents a day announced several weeks
ago was based on 20-cent copper.
A strike Of the employees in 85 shoe
factories in New York city, having
combined output of $4,000 pairs of
shoes, is on, according to Raymond p.
Morse, chairman Of the Labor Board Of
Shoe Manufacturers. Fifteen thousand
employees are affected by the strike,
Mr.. Morse said, although only 1000 be-
long to the unions, which are demand
ing a 40 per cent increase in wages.
Members of the Postal Employees
association who have been In conven-
tion at Saskatoon, Sask., have by reso-
luton placed themselves on record as
demanding the following: Right Of
free speech in its entirety; minimum
wage of $24 weekly; abolition of all
work in easements; abolition of
wooden mail cars; adjustment for
seniority and monetary losses; five day
week of six hours a day.
Judge John r. Mccall, of the federal
court handed down decision at Mem
phis Tenn, in the case of H. P. Coke
against the Illinois and Mississippi
railroads in which he held that switch
men were not entitled to pay on
basis of eight hours q day under the
Adamson act. Judge MeCall's decision
was based on the theory that only
actual members of train crews are en-
titled to pay under the eight-hour plan,
and that this provision does not in
clude those individuals whose sole
service is to throw switches.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Signal
Men of America, representing nearly
100 per cent of the signal men on the
Williamsport, Sunbury & Elmira divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania railroad, are
strongly in favor of government owner
ship of the rails.
Following considerable agitation, the
admiralty has decided that men in the
British navy should have higher pay,
and a committee has been appointed
to take evidence and report recon-
mendations. A substantial increase,
though not approaching the American
standard of pay, Is expected to be
granted.
Many Workers Needed.
Approximately $4,000 men viii be
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