The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-26
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The Cleveland fire department is now on an eight-hOur basis. All union labor painters and paper 1 hangers at Springfield, H., struck for higher wages. Ninety men were in- volved.
 About 21 per cent of the women en- ployed in the cigar and tobacco fac tories in New York receive $20 week or more.
 The strike of operators and other employees of the Buenos Aires Tele- 1 phone company called on March 13, was settled.
 The Pennsylvania wOrkmen'S com pensatiOn law covers about 90 per cent of all men. women and children en- gagged in gainful pursuits in that state.
 It was voted by the Massachusetts legislative committee on social welfare to report a bill limiting the hours of labor of women and minors to 48 In each week and nine in each day.
 The minimum wage board of the District of Columbia, created by an act of congress, has ruled that $16 week is the lowest amount any working woman can live on in the nations cap ital.
 The Tidewater Boatmen's union. one of the six organizations participating in the New York harbor strike, voted to accept an offer of a $11O monthly wage with the same working condi- tions as before the strike.
 joint meeting of representatives of the mill owners and work people at Manchester, Eng. decided to close down all mills in Lancashire that spin American cotton between April 10 and 29, in order to distribute more evenly the hardships of the present stagna- tiOn in trade.
 The governor of Wisconsin has ap- proved a bill providing minimum sal ary of 5000 for teachers In the Mill waukee grade schools. The language of the bill will be amended to over come constitutional objections. Mill waukee teachers have tried for years to get higher salaries.
 Organization of 13.OOO striking wool en workers was effected at Passaic, N. J., by delegates of the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers of America. The strikers have affiliated with that or ganization, they said, in an endeavOr to hasten a settlement of their differ ences with the mill owners.
 Amsterdam and several other cities in Holland are reducing the working day of municipal employees from nine hours or more to eight hours. Simul- taneOusly the wages of employees in Amsterdam are being readjusted on higher basis, the lowest annual pay for unskilled labor being $5OS.
 Less than three million laborers working on farms not owned or Op- erated by themselves, or in other words, hired men," are reported in the United States census for 1910. This number is strikingly small when compared with the total num- Der of persons engaged in agricul- ture, which the same census reports at twelve and a half millions.
 The printing and publishing industry in Washington, D. C.. employs AS women, of whom 25 receive less than So week
 More tlan 100000 persons have been placed in employment through the United States employment service since its reorganization in January, 1918, the department of labor an- nOunced. Approximately 3,OOO,OOO were men and women found for war industries up to the signing Of the armfstice. while the other million have been mostly soldiers. sailors and civ iIian war workers placed In peace-time jobs.
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