The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

Bricklayers in Baltimore now re-
seive 81 an hour and double pay for
all time over eight hours day.
Sweden has civil service retirement
legislation which provides means for
old employees after they have retired.
Leather workers Of Toronto, Can,
sre getting together and win organize
union affiliated with the trades coun-
Gil.
An immense plant for packing beef
and pork has been opened in South
San Francisco and win employ about
1000 workers.
The industrial upheaval In Peru,
brought on by the dissatisfied work
ers, has been amicably settled and con-
ditiOns are again normal
Employees Of the United States
Steel corporation who work over eight
hours day are paid for the excess
eme at the rate OF time and one
half.
Over 1900 textile workers Ia Man
chester, N. H.. are working on sched-
Ule Of Eve and One-Quarter hours a
day. They work from 6:45 a. IN. until
noon.
The harbor plant OF the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding company In Wilmington,
Del. maintains q night school for its
employees, who are taught shIpbuild-
Ing in all It's branches.
BoIlermakers, machinists, black
smiths, electrical workers, sheet metal
workers and car men employed In the
railroad shops In Salt Lake City, Utah,
have perfected a federation.
Metal trades workers OF Grays Har-
Dor, Wash. numbering approximately
1.2OO, voted to return to work at the
same wage conditions applying when
they went out on strike on January 21.
IL was announced
zecho-Slovakia, the worlds newest
republic, 10 the first country In Eu-
rope to adopt the eight-houP day by
law. It also has adopted means TO In
sure workers and demobilixed soldiers
against unemployment
A Brussels message says that Mr..
Robert Smillie and Mr.. Thomas Aston,
delegates OF the Miners Federation of
Great Britain. have made q gift OF ESQ.,
600 francs In the name Of their organi-
zation to the organization Of Belgian
miners.
The Merchant shipbuilding com.
pany. at Hartman, Pa, has completed
and opened Q $4,000 hotel for the
accommodation Of its employees. The
new hostelry Is said TO be the finest
connected with any Industrial plant In
the world.
The Missouri State Federation Of
Labor 10 attempting to have passed q
straight eight-hour law for women EN-.
ployed in sll phases Of work other
than domestic service. The state now
has nine-hour law applicable TO all
work other than housework and tele.
phone exchanges. II appears certain
that the bill II passed win carry many
amendments.
Settlement Of the strike Of 1900
Ehoeworkers In New York was effect.
| ed. and the men resumed work, II
was announced by q joint COMMITTEES
Of manufacturers and union officials
after q conference. It ia understood
that the manufacturers granted ths
workers demands for an eight-houl
day, and that their plea for q 40 PEI
cent increase viii be considered at an
ether conference.
The Uruguay law limiting the work
Ing day to eight hours has adversely
affected the large scale shoe industry
By reducing output and increasing
competition from skilled shoemakers
who prefer home work where theii
hours of labor are not subject to su
| pervision.
The Central Federated union o.
New York adopted resolutions call
Ing upon all other central federated
unions and labor organization
throughout the country to meet In con
vention at Atlantic City In June t.
consider calling a general strtk
against national prohibition.