The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Happenings of Importance in This and Other Countries During the
 Past Few Days.


 Over $500 women are employed by banking institutions in Canada.
 The Highland Park, Mich. postof. fee has 13 women mail carriers.
 Over 5OO,O0O women acted as farm managers while the war was in prog ress.
 During 1918 the number of women factory workers throughout the coun- try nearly doubled.
 New York city has woman shoe living from her enterprise.
 Mrs. Mary s. Burnham, of Port land, is the first woman in Maine to be appointed a deputy sheriff.
 Income tax reports have revealed the fact that chorus girls and cabaret , singers in New York are earning from S25 to $75 a week. Buffalo women have turned their thrift kitchen into a home bureau for informat tion and cooked food center, which it is expected will be self-sup- 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.
 The reopening of six cotton-clOth mills at Fall River. Mass, is an nounced. These mills, which have been idle for a number of weeks, will op- crate three days week for the pres ent.
 The success of women in general hotel work, particularly in the clerical departments, has led many of the fashionable apartment houses in New city to install women as managers and superintendents.
 The plans of Henry Ford for his new company, which will produce a low priced automobile, contemplate the employment of 100000 workers when in full operation, the motor manufac- turer said. The Amoskeag and Stark mills at Manchester, N. H.. went on full time schedule, affecting. 5000 operatives. The mills have been working only B hours for a number of weeks. In number of departments the 48-hour week mas been SSLaD1lSQou.
 Under the leadership of Lady Lon donderry the English domestic serv- ants recently employed in intuition factories have been organized into a household section of the Women's league, which provided ambulance drivers, cooks and various other help CTS during the war.
 Tn 1O1Q %ho Toonrfo cfur- 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 similar one in November and 2S per cent larger than the total expenditure for wages in December, 1917.
 The street car employees at Barce- Iona, Spain, went on strike, and the minister of the interior announced that the men were at once mobfliZed under government control. He de clares that the same measure will be promptly applied to 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 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 num- Der of hours as the men.
 Onion men went again through the gates of the shipyards of Seattle. Ia coma and Aberdeen to work on the big hulls that have stood in various stages of completion since January 21, when a strike closed the plants. AL though several thousand men returned to work. 1t 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 traffic for five days, voted to accept the proposal presented by President Menocal as arbiter, thus terminating the conflict. The vote was taken after q heated debate lasting eight hours The men returned to their places inn mediately.
 Catherine Breshkovskaya, grand mother of the Russian revolution."re- gently went before the United States