The labor standard., 1919-06-01
OF INTEREST TO WORKERS

The output of the coal mines in Great Britain during 1918 amounted to over 227, 1887 ,OO0.
 Thirty thousand Italian workmen are to be sent to France to work in the devastated regions.
 Great Britain has over 5OOOO boot and shoe workers, all of whom are now employed on full time.
 There is little opposition on the part of employers to the demand of horse shoers in Cincinnati for an eight-hour day. zs5>,- .l*.-.- 5-..-., .-:~ s.,~...-. .s
 Cereal mill workers in Cincinnati are being organized by the International Union of United Brewery, Cereal and Soft-Drink Workers. ..... ..s
 Oganized cooks, walters and wait resses in Fl Paso, Tex, have secured a new wage scale which makes no dis crimination because of sex.
 The average wages of laborers in the factories of India during the last year were generally somewhat lower than the wages of workers not in fac tories.
 Woman organizers of the State Fed
  cil in Seattle, Wash, have issued an appeal to workingwomen to join the trade union movement.
 A new shipyard will be established in St. Louis, employing about 400 per sons, to build the four self-propelled barges to be used by the government service on the Warrior river section of the Mississippi-Warrior waterways. The four barges will cost $1,OOO.OOO
 A wage scale of $e day for three years for 15O cutters and quarry men in the granite quarries at West Sulli- van and Franklin, Me-, was announced by the quarry owners. This is an ad- vance of $1.75 a day. The paving cut ters, who are paid for piecework, have not yet submitted their schedule.
 Both houses of the Iowa legislature passed bill reducing from ten to eight the hours of labor for children under sixteen years of age. Where part-time schools are established, the weekly limit is reduced from AS to 40 hours. The bill also provides that chil- dren must not be employed before 7 a. m. or after 6 p. m.
 The union printing pressmen of New York will make demand upon their employers for 44hour work week and an increase of 8 per cent in wages to become effective October 1, according to a decision made at the semi-annual conference of the New York State League of Printing Press men and Assistants unions held at Rochester.
 Equal representation for working men and women with their employers in the textile industries of Philadelphia is one of the basic policies of the new man-and-managemen textile council just organized in the Quaker city. The council was formed for the primary purpose of solving labor troubles, in- dustrial readjustments and employ ment problems. It represents indus tries in the textile groups employing fully 15O,OOO men and women.
 An eight-hour bill for all classes of Swedish labor is now ready to be in- troduced into parliament. Special leg islation will be necessary for seamen and for workers in mines. The pro- posals, if passed, will come into force June l, 1920, and lapse December 31, 1923. The immediate effect of the proposed bill is an enormous fall in the price of stocks, as manufacturers as sert that wages now being paid will make it impossible for Swedish fac tories to continue production. It is stated that the Australian coal mine owners have agreed to increase miners wages 221a per ceItt and that the commonwealth government simnl>