The labor standard., 1919-10-01
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

Ten thousand walters went on strike at Paris, France, for an eight-hour day and an increase in wages.
 Two hundred and fifty members of the British parliament signed proc lamation opposing naturalization of industries. A new drastic scheme of rationing is said to be forthcoming soon.
 Employees of the Vulcan Louisville Smelling company of North Chicago, numbering 15O, went on strike because the demands for 55 cents an hour were refused. They were receiving 46 cents. The men also demand time and a half for overtime.
 By vote of 2 to 1, the delegates to the eleventh district convention of the United Mine Workers of America, rep resenting 3O,OOO coal miners of Indi- ana, voted against asking congress to recognize PA per cent beer as non intoxicating beverage.
 While British union leaders were discussing the governments demand
 
 called in the coal mines for three months, 15O,O0O miners struck in the Yorkshire district. Thirteen hundred miners have struck in Kent.
 Striking candymakers at Chicago voted to go back to work. The man. ufacturers refused to allow them a "closed shop," but did give them 44-hour week with pay at the rate of 53 hours, time and one-half for over- time, and double time pay for Sundays and holidays.
 Elevated, subway and street car ser vice in Boston and it's suburbs was completely paralyzed when 7,SOO men and women employees of the Boston Elevated Railway company went on strike. Over a million and half peH sons were left without street railway transportation service.
 At the Pennsylvania Railroad Sys- tenn federation's convention the dele gates went on record as indorsing the strike of 5000 workmen of the Willys- Overland automobile plants in Toledo. w. F. Hershey of Pitcairn, Pa., presi- dent of the blacksmiths' organization, said the federation pledged itself to support the Toledo workmen in their demands for an eight-hour day and recognition of the union.
 A shrewd blow has been struck at the "One Big Union" scheme by the federal council of the Australian Workers union, one of the most pow erful in Australia. In a manifesto is sued to members of the A. w. U. the federal council states that, having dealt exhaustively with the "One Big Union" scheme the executive council of the A. w. U. has unanimously re- jected it.
 An agreement for a new wage scale mine and smelter employees of the Anaconda Copper Mining company at Butte, Mont, and at Great Falls and Anaconda, was reached at a confer ence between c. F. Kelley, president of the company, and representatives of the employees. The agreement, if ac- cepted by the labor unions, will be- come effective as of July l last, and restores the wage scale in effect prior to the wage reduction of last Febru- ary. It would remain in effect for one year.
 The corner stone of the new build ing of the International Association of Machinists at Washington was laid by officers of that organization short time ago.
 Re-educating Porto Ricans.
 The federal board for vocational ed- ucation is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to find every disabled sol dier who may, if he so desires, receive re-education from the government. In Porto Rico there are at present no soldiers disabled in the service who should be beneficiaries of the rehabili- tation law. The special agent of the board in the island is Interviewing these men with a view to their future vacations. Porto Rico has no trade schools, but training and placement may be made in shops and industrial establishments for those who desire %ho