The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-05
NEWS OF THE LABOR WoRLD D
Happenings of Importance in This and Other Countries During the
 Past Few Days.

Over 5OO,O00 women acted as farm l managers while the war was in prog. ress. -..-.....
 During 1918 the number of women factory workers throughout the coun. try nearly doubled.
 New York city has woman shoe sinner who is making a comfortable living from her enterprise.
 Mrs. Mary s. Burnham, of Port land, is the first woman in Maine to be appointed a deputy sheriff.
 Income tax reports have revealed the fact that chorus girls and cabaret singers in New York are earning from $25 to $75 week. r
 Buffalo women have turned their thrift kitchen into a home bureau for information and cooked food center, which it is expected will be self-sup- porting.
 All of the printing of the Canadian parliament was tied up. by strike of 100 pressmen employed by the gov ernment printing bureau. The men are demanding higher wages. ..-
 The reopening of six cotton-cloth mills at Fall River, Mass. is an- nOunced. These mills, which have been idle for number of weeks, will Op- crate three days week for the pres ent s..j
 The success of women in general hotel work, particularly in the clerical departments, has led many of the fashionable apartment houses in New city to install women as managers and superintendents.
 The plans of Henry Ford for his new company, which will produce a low priced automobile. contemplate the employment of 100000 workers when in full operation, the motor manufac- turer said.
 The AmOskeag and Stark mills at Manchester, N. H.. went on full time schedule, affecting 5000 operatives The mills have been working only B hours for a number of weeks. In a number of departments the 4S-hour week has been established.
 Under the leadership of Lady Lon tlonderry the English domestic serv- ants recently employed in intuition factories have been organized into a household section of the Women's league. which provided ambulance drivers, cooks and various other help CTS during the war; .s--eS.
 In December, 1918. the manufactur- CTS of New York state expended for wages sum larger than any which has so far been recorded. This amount was per cent greater than similar. one in November and 2s per cent larger than the total expenditure for wages in December, 1917. E- ...- r. The street car employees at Barce- Iona. Spain, went on strike, and the minister of the interior announced under government control. He de clares that the same measure will be promptly applied to the employees of any other public utility corporation who go on strike. ' E
 The Piano Workers union formally agreed to allow women to replace men drafted into the army. but limited this agreement for women as substitutes for the period of the war and provid- ed for readiustment conferences. These women received the same rate of pay
 
 Der of hours as the men.
 !. Union men went again through the gates of the shipyardLs Of Seattle, Ia coma and Aberdeen to work on the big hulis that have stood in various stages of completion since January 21, when a strike closed the plants AL though several thousand men returned to work, 1t will be several days be. fore full forces are employed again.
 The joint committee representing the unions involved in the general strike in Cuba. which paralyzed business and traffic for five days. voted to accept the proposal presented by President Menoeal as arbiter, thus terminating the conflict. The vote was taken after heated debate lasting eight hours The men returned to their places inn mediateIy. -s~ ~
 Catherine Breshkoyskaya, grand mother Of the Russian revolution" re gently went before the United States senate propaganda inquiry committee and pleaded earnestly that America send machinery and other materials to Russia. at once to aid in industrial ACAOlSLA uSIlOus WHICH Sif0 Sdtur WOutu result in ridding the nation of the bolShevik burden.
 Charles P. Neill of Washington, unl- pire of the anthracite conciliation board. sustained the contention of the engineers. firemen and cranemen of steam shOvels operated by the c. B. Markle company, Hazleton. Pa, that they are entitled to an eight-hour day with 3 per cent wage increase, in- stead cf being paid a hat per cent advance on the basis of nine hours. The award. retroactive to May 15, 1915. carries, with it thousands of dollars in back pay due on wartime earnings, and applies to similar employees all over the anthracite field s*'e
 Five hundred delegates representing 59 school organizations of St. Louis recently took up the question of pay ing higher salaries to public school teachers. The general trend of opin- ion was that a salary of not less than $1.200 should be given all Teachers of the state and that an increase should be made in all departments,
 The Spanish cabinet decided to grant an eight-hour working day to the build ing trades throughout Spain. wages to be fixed by committees of employers