The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-11-14
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Canadian railway workers NUMBER
over 10000.
Janitors in Poland want ten-hour
day, with the front doors closed at 8
o'clock In the evening.
General wage increases ranging from
Is to 20 per cent are being asked by
railway workers In Havana.
A board Of conciliaton win investi-
gate the dispute between the police
men and the city Of st, John. n. B.
Ciyll servants In Ontario are to re-
eeiye war bonus amounting to $500
for married men and 500 for single
men.
II the coal miners In England are
granted an increase of 80 per cent In
pay the price of coal viii go up 81
q ton.
Because Of the high price of steel
the large rolling mills In connection
with the Canadian steel foundries have
been closed.
The United States government has
sent to England an employers COM
mission to study labor conditions and
governmental policies.
The Canadian government has prom
ised the miners federation that a bill
will be passed IN parliament giving the
surface men an 81z-hour day.
The French government has decid-
ed to wind up the armament (muni-
tion) department and transform it into
department Of industrial reconstruc-
ton.
The Motion Picture Players union,
recently organized In Los Angeles, Cal,
is the first of It's kind In the country.
1t is affiliated with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
Shopworkers and maintenance men
employed by the Boston Elevated
company are now receiving advanced
wages under a new schedule approved
by the war labor board.
The San Francisco Labor council,
which has an estimated membership
OF 10000, adopted a resolution express
Ing opposition to national prohibition
and urging that the prohibition amend
ment be defeated by referendum.
Differences of opinion as to whether
the seamen should appeal to the peace
conference for a settlement of interna-
tional wage and working conditions re-
suited in split In the international
seafarers' conference at London, Eng
land.
A three-year agreement, providing
for daily wages, ranging from $3.50 on
March / to $3.50 on April l, 1921, in
the monumental granite industry OF
the country, was announced by the
conference Of producers and granite
cutters at Boston.
There are still no signs OF settle
ment of the Buenos Aires port tie-up
The government shipping agents and
the labor unions are exchanging notes
but no move has been made for the
men TO return to work under the
government decree Matchmaking the
port services. The port has now been
tied up 81 days
The present scale OF German wages
indicated by an agreement reached
with the Berlin building trades, gives
apprentices 420 marks month as ini
tial wage. Skilled workers are to bC
paid proportionately higher and are
to be given 25 per cent overtime and
30 per cent for night and SUNDAY
work. Eighteen days vacation are t.
be given annually with pay.
John P. Murray of Jersey City, 8
member Of the New Jersey board of ed
ucation, declared that unless a mini
mum wage was granted to teachers
they would form unions and strike fol
higher pay. Mr.. Murray spoke at .
meeting Of the board called to discuss
teachers wage bill. Commissioner
John g. Van Dyck Of New Brunswick
predicted a union of farmers to meet
after-war conditions, and then the
board president, Melvin A. Rider Of
Red Bank, suggested a union Of tax
payers.
More than 1000 women took tn,
places Of men on six steam railways Ii
and about New York city; 2,080 went
to work In munition factories, while
nearly 5000 were employed in similal
factories In the Eastern states, all be
tween the spring Of 1917 and that o.
1913.
More than 5000 Chicago girls pre-
sented demands for a 10 per cent In
crease In wages, double time for over
time, the 44-hour week and recogni
ton Of their organization-the Waist
Skirt and White Goods Workers