The Ordway new era., 1919-11-21
IN OTHER FIELDS OF LABOR

arm NDlh'lS III NShhh'"
an average of S617 yearly.
One of the largest industries OF
Sweden is the wood pulp industry.
Masons, briclSlayers and carpenters
n Canada receive rs cents an hour.
Soap-making takes a leading place
n the industries of the Netherlands.
Hosiery manufacturers in convention
1t Atlantic City said there is not pros
,ect of any decrease in prices.
Exclusive of officials salaries, the
United States Steel company paid out
,ver S45OOO0.0OO in salaries during the
past year.
Housewives In Honolulu are con-
ironted with strike of their Japanese
nelp. The servants are demanding
higher wages.
Under a bill passed by the house
members of the District of Columbia
police force would be forbidden to join
labor organizations.
The British railway workers hope
20 substitute "self-governing com
munity of railway men" for the pres
ent system of railway control.
Glasses for foremen are at present
being conducted in Detroit under the
supervision of the board of education
Of that city and of the University of
Michigan.
New York harbor boat men. port and
terminal workers agreed to accept the
terms of the railroad administration.
and ferry boats, tugs. and lighters re
sumed operations.
About two hundred longshoremen
went on strike at Boston. They re-
fused to unload the steamship Scindia,
which they claim was diverted there
because of the strike of longshoremen
in New York.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger states
that auxiliary forces of skilled work
men are being formed to combat
strikes in gas, water and electrical
works. and In the transport of food
and other vitality important services.
Grave diggers In Youngstown, Ohio,
have organized and affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. The
men contend they desire union cards
so they can pass the steel mills on
their way to work without being mo-
Tested.
Settlement with motormen and con-
ductors of the Illinois Traction system
was effected. and there will be no
strike. The new scale calls for an
Increase of cents an hour, dating
back to Aug. 1. and 10 cents an hour.
or 60 cents. after Oct. !.
Eighty cents an hour. or $6.4O n
day. is the minimum living wage of
street-car workers, w. Jett Lauck. rep
resenting the Amalgamated Associ-
alton of Trolley Employees. declared
In closing the case for labor before
the federal railway commission.
Unemployment increases at an
alarming rate in England. Manufac-
turing concerns that could otherwise
keep going are being forced to suspend
for lack of coal. Applications for un-
employment donations increase by
tens of thousands week.
More than dozen lumber operators
were affected by the strike called by
Lumber Workers Industrial union, No.
800, In mills and camps of eastern
Washington, northern Idaho and west
ern Montana. 1t was estimated that
additions constantly were being made
to the early estimate of 1,600 men out
The work which is undertaken by
the British National Alliance of En-
ployers and Employed In harmonizing
the relations between capital and labor
is making rapid headway. Over 25,0O0
Industrial firms and 25O0,0O0 workers
have attended 100 Industrial confer
ences which have now been held.
The strike of Pennsylvania railroad
shopmen. which started in Altoona, Pa.
and Hollidaysburg few days ago, is
ended. The decision to call off the
strike was reached at a meeting at an
hour too late to get word to all the
men in time to start at the usual hour
next morning.