The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-11
Weeks Most Important Happen
inqs in This Country and
Elsewhere.
WOULD KEEP LABOR BOARDS
Association of Machinists Makes Tsd
fer Their Retention-Recent wage
Increases Granddaughter
Cotton Operatives Are
Back at Work.

YORK.
The convention went on Tecoru as
Iayoring. among other things the NC
Kcllar-Kcating retirement OIL anu
the retention by the government VI
81 labor boards having tn DO WIN 'he
adjudication of labor disputes, par
ticrIorIv the national war labor board.
Congress was urged in resolution
o., continue the housing plan deter
mined unon and started by the nous
ING bureau of the department OF Ia
nor before the signing of the arms
tice.
4 closed shop, with 4S-hour work
ing week and wage increases totaiihE |
81 n week, and granted to employees
of the Gem Metal products corpora
,iou of brooklyn, y. Y, is an award
by the war labor board. The cloSeu-
shor principle is applied because the
nlant was operating under closed
/ shop agreement prior to the entry Vi
America into the war. y wage scare
. of S5TJ and the basic eight-hour daE
vere granted to mOlders of Elizabeth
/ City, y. J.
The striking English cotton opera
tiyes held a mass meeting and de-
cided to return to work at once. The
operatives accepted the terms OF an
agreement by which they will receive
an increase of about 80 per cent IN
wages.
Two thousand new wOrkmen's homes
ere 70 be built in Portland, Ore.
Four factories in DenmarN now are
manufacturing binding Irvine from
paper.
To release men for other work, Hog
Island ship yards now employ women
chauffeurs.
Women engaged in munition work
throughout the countries at war num-
Der 1,3O2,O0O.
The worlds richest iron mine, in
Iapland, has been equipped with cleo
! trical machinery.
, Women are now eligible to member
: shin in the Canadian Railway Mall
: Clerks association.
:. A Sheffield (EnglanO hairdresser
q who volunteered for muniuon WORK
In one week of So hours earned over
f $50.
O chimney sweep told the Seven
@ Oaks. (EnglanO tribunal that his aver
e age. earnings were $50 week. anu III
$, made. "A little profit on SCOT.
Is Modern methods of mining an'
e. smelling have made it prohtaDie u
n reonan nickel mine in Norway ina
Sc was abandoned half century ago.
IN More than one-half the national for
al ests in the Oregon-Washington dis
ne trict have made use of the services
nd women as lookouts, patrols ant
rs. in nursery work.
in Ten thousand girl servants at Slut
an CART. the capital of Wurttembers, wer
th' mobilized recently to help unload raj
pit road freight cars. Each has to Civ
III one day or two half-days a week
oh this work. They are paid mems wage
On Half fare street car tickets II
ne. working people during certain hou
OF of the day must be issued by Il
oh Dubuque Electric company. Jud:
luS Reed ruled in federal court The col
ish pany, Delaware corporation
I'VE tempted to abolish the half fare.
zap After three hours debate Il
Tic Youngstown (O.) railway union ra
le fed new wage agreement with Il
ieu Mahonirg- ShenangO Light and Pow
company. The men will receive fro
con 43 to 4S cents an hour. During I
10" ratification meeting all cars were II
- tionless but the strike was called
and schedule resumed.
80. Representatives of the French Gt
'na eral Federation of Labor presented
W. President Wilson when he landed
=. Brest an address declaring that
.. workers of France welcomed him j
fully. The address said that the pr
ident's proclamation of his IA pes
- points was an epoch in the hist
80, of the world, shedding light in
.,nn night of blood"
S The Toronto (Canada) police w
called out on strike following an
e.. night meeting. They demand the
-, instatement of union officials, all
one of whom were dismissed, and !
IGNITION of their union. Mayor Chu
-, objected to the dismissal of the
- Gals without avail. A mass meet
- followed. at which the men voted tC
GA on strike.
hren, -, po,I,,
pany voted to accept the PROPOSE
of President Stanley of the comp
uue that ne would dismiss $50 woman
'nat ductors by March l. The men
lnder -, ,,,or,, Tho voman have
apse' employed since September l.
nii!ar The largest single call for Labor
lor ceived at the headquarters Of
the United States employment servic
1 tiie New York since the armistice
u py signed came from the Pennsylv
anu Railroad company, which asked
$500. men. More than half of
~ total are wanted for skilled work
- ~. Members of the Montreal Police
Firemen's union issued an ultim
oii'I to the city that their strike wou
anu resumed unless three officials, v
= 'l. they object to, were dismissed.
left the force.
yin Six hundred ship workers al
south plant of the Baltimore Dry