The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-04-04
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Happenings of Importance in This and,
Other Countries During the
Past Few Days.


Over 100000 women acted as farm
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 a woman shoe
sinner who is making comfortable
living from her enterprise.
Mrs. Mary S. Burnham, of Port
land, is the first woman in Maine 10
be appointed a deputy sheriff.
Income tax reports have revealed
the fact that chorus girls and cabaret
singers in New York are earning from
$50 to $50 n week.
Buffalo women have turned their
thrift kitchen into home bureau for
information and cooked food center
which it is expected will be self-Sup- |
porting.
All OF the printing of the Canadian
parliament wasM up by strike OF |
100 pressmen 9ysa by the Coy
eminent printing -4 ne men
are demanding hig8s ssaa
The feopening of six cottoSs>eioti'
mills at Fall River, Mass, is M
nounced. These mills, which have beenN
idle for q number of weeks, will OPP
crate three days q 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 inst9ll women as managers
and SuperinSddents.
The plans of Henry Ford for his new
company. which will produce low
nriccd automobile, contemplate the
employment of 100000 workers when
in full operation, the motor manulac-
turer said
The Amoskeag and Stark mills at
| Manchester, " H.. went on full time
| schedule. affecting 5000 operatives
| The mills have been working only IS
! hours for number of weeks. In
number of departments the 4S-hour
week has been established.
Under the leadership Of Lady Lon
dunderry the English domestic serv-
ants recently employed in munitton
factories have been organized into ii
household section of the Womens
league, which provided ambulance
drivers, cooks and various other help
.erS during the war.
In December, 1918, the manufacture
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wages sum larger than any which
has so far been recorded This amount
was 6 per cent greater than similar
one in November and % per cent
larger than the total expenditure for
wages in December, 1917.
The street car employees at BARGE
Iona, Spain. went on strike, and the
minister of the interior announced
that the men were at once modified
under government control. he de-
tlares that the same measure will he
promptly applied TO the employees OF
any other public utility corporation
who 20 on strike.
The Piano Workers union formally
agreed TO allow women to replace men
drafted into the army. hut limited this
agreement for women as substitutes
for the period of the war and provid
ed for REIMBURSEMENT 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
I 81 10, Nf
coma and Aberdeen to work on the
big huIls that have stood i'm various
stages of completion since January 81
when strike closed the plants. Al
though several thousand men returned
: to work, it will be several days be
: fore full forces are employed again.
The joint committee representing tht
unions involved in the general strike
! in Cuba. which paralyZed business ant
: traffic for five days, voted TO accep
! the proposal presented by PreSiden
, Menocal as arhiter. thus terminating
! the conflict The vote was taken aftel
t heated debate lasting eight hours
The mon returned to their places i'm
mediately.
Catherine Breshkovskaya. grand
} mother of the Russian revolution" re
/. Gently went before the United State
r senate propaganda inquiry COMMITTEES
: and pleaded earnestly that Americ;
send machinery and other material
TO Russia. ut once TO aid in industrial
. reconstruction. which she said woul'
: result in Kidding the nation Of tin
bolshevik burden
: Charles r. NeiIl Of Washington. um
' pire of the anthracite Cancellation
J board. sustained the contention of TIL
. engineers. fremen and c-anemen o
steam shovels operated by the G. r
Marilie company. HazletOn, Pa. tina
they are entitled to an eight-hour da,
! with 3 per cent wage increase. in
, stead of being paid fiat Z per cen
advance on the basis of nine hours
: The award, retroactive To May II, 1917
, carries with it thousands of dollar
: in back pay due on wartime earnings
: and applies to similar employees al
over the anthracite field.
. Five hundred delegates representa-