The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-09-25
Industrial.

The press dispatches say that the
foll weevil has for the first time reach
ed the cotton fields of South Carolina.
An estimate by the United States
bureau of crop estimates places the ap-
pie crop for 1919 at 23.O72.OOO barrels,
or about 1.OOO.OOO barrels short Of the
average for the past several years.
Chicago's strike and lock-outs of
carpenters were ended last Saturday
night. after lasting more than two
months. during which time some
100000 men We're continuously idle and
S5O,OOO.OOO worth of building contracts
were held up. The carpenters Won
their demand for 81 per hour.
Eleven grave diggers organized the
first grave-diggers' union at Youngs-
town. Ohio. Sunday. and affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor
The men said they wanted union cards
so that they could pass the steel mills
(where strike started Monday with
out being interfered with by the strik-
ers. Youngstown is in the midst of the
steel mill district
movement to organize all employ
ees of New York City into one union.
including the firemen and policemen,
was we'll under way last week. 1t is
to be known as the Central Union, af-
tiliated with the American Federation
of Labor. The movement is to take in
all employees who have not yet joined
any union, and wage increases of as
much AS 65 per cent are anticipated.
The printers and boOkbinderS of New
York are threatening to strike unless
their demands for raise in wages
amounting to $14 per week and the re-
ductiOn of hours Of work for week
is made to forty-four. The employers,
Oh the other hand-152 of them
threaten to shut down their plants or
move them to Western cities where
they will not be bothered with labor
unrest!
Demands that farmers be given equal
representation with labor unions in the
economic conference to meet at Wash
ington October 9th We're embraced i'll
Il resolution adopted in st. Louis last
Thursday by the zone convention of the
Mississippi Valley Association. and ad-
dressed to President Wilson. The in
troducer of the resolution declared that
labor unions are to have fifteen dele
gates in the conference and farmers
only three.
New Workers are said by the dis
patches Of Sunday to he demanding Il
real campaign by the government to
reduce the high cost of living in that
city, having realized no benefit what
ever from the late efforts Of tile n;i-
tional judicial authorities in that way.
Mems hats at So (eachl, suits at
$125, and shoes at around $40 per pair
are some of the complaints. while
rumors Of cheaper prices elsewhere in
the state stir the Indignation of local
shoppers.
\ British business man i'll Cologne.
Germany. recently commented as fol
lows on American trade activity in Ger
many: american chambers of COM
| merce from all parts Of the world some
time ago sent Il delegation to Europe
which visited Cologne and Berlin and
departed with German orders in fabu.
lous amounts The goods are to be de.
liyered at once on three years credits
In this way the United States is secur-
ing the lions share of Germany's inl-
port trade"
Tittsburg. Pa. dispatches Of Sunday
. record the first trouble resulting from
strikes of steel workers initiated there
Clashes between police and strikers
We're frequent, but the principal event
was the charging by state troops of d
mass meeting Of strike synlpathizers
| and strikers at North Clarion, twenty
miles from Pittsburg. The mounted
| state police dispersed the mass meet
| ing, after using their clubs vigorously
The crowd offered resistance; Severa
were injured and nineteen were arrest
| ed, some of whom were lodged In Jail
| The mass meeting was broken up. al