The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-26
IN WORLD OF LABOR

Six thousand Welsh miners went on strike as a protest against the action of the coal inquiry commission in not making a favorable report on all of their demands.
 The Russian soviet government, says wireless dispatch, is institutIng a system of registration preparatory to enforcing the principle of compulsory work for all.
 Advices from Barcelona, Spain, state that the recent solution to the strikes there appears to be merely of a pro- visional nature and that the present calm in that city may prove transitory.
 Refusing to work under the super vision of a newly appointed general foreman, more than 1000 shipwOrkers at the Merill-Stevens Shipbuilding yard, near Jacksonville, Fla, went on strike. Work in the yards was practt- cally suspended.
 More wages and shorter hours will be asked for 10000 railroad telegraph CTS of the Pennsylvania lines. The ex- ecutive committee of the Railroad Photographers association, in meeting, decided to take the question to the railroad administration.
 The secretary of the loomfxers' union has received word that the war labor board had granted the demand of textile workers in the Blackstone Valley (R. I.) for a 15 per cent in- crease which will date back to July l and affect about 10000 employees.
 More than POO granite cutters de clared a strike at Milford, N. H., claim ing that manufacturers failed to keep an agreement made recently relating to a proposed increase in wages. The wage increase was held up by the Ma tionaI Granite Manufacturers associa- tiOn.
 Approximately $1OO,OOO,OO0 will be spent in road building in Pennsylvania in the next four years. A bill authoriz- ing the state to issue bonds up to $5O, 100000 is going through the legisla- ture. In addition, the state will re- ceive federal aid, and the counties are expected to expend many millions of dollars for road purposes.
 Employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, which operates the subways, elevated lines and many of the surface lines in that borough, de- cided at a meeting to submit demand for new working conditions to Lfndley M. Garrison, recently appointed federal receiver of the company.
 The Boston & Albany railroad inau- gurated a five-day working schedule for it's employees in the railroad shops in West Springfield. Mass, the plan to continue until business improves. The plan was adopted in preference to laying off any of the skilled workers. Between $50 and 600 men are affected. The men are said to be agreeable to the plan.
 The national committee of the Gen. eral Federation of Labor has decided to placard the walls of France with an appeal to workers and to public opin- ion generally. A protest will be made against armed intervention in Russia, the incomplete character of the inter- national labor charter and "the ab- sence of guarantees in the league of nations covenant, which does not full fill the conditions set forth by Presi- dent Wilson's fourteen points," 1t is said.
 Mems clothing workers affiliated with the Amalgamated Workers of America, involving two locals, were called out on strike at Cincinnati by Sidney Hill man, New York, general president. The demands are said to be for 20 per cent increase in wages, a system of collective bargaining, time and a half for overtime and a division of work among employees in slack sea sons. Recently the men were granted a 44-hour week. Approximately 1000 men went out.