Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-26
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Tobacco growing is one of Para
guay's most important industries.
An average of nine days is lost in
illness for each worker in the United
States.
Enough sheets are manufactured in
Philadelphia each year to provide a
pair for every home in the United
States.
Kansas has flour mills with a ca
pacity of turning out sufficient flour to
meet the needs of about 100000
consumers annually.
Several of the numerous Industrial
plants located in Wilmington, Del,
have begun to cut down their working
forces, due to unstable conditions.
Several Paterson IN. J.) silk manu-
facturers have decided to sell their
goods direct to the public and many
have already opened up stores for that
purpose.
A new electric cloth-cutting device
has a thin circular knife which re-
wolves at a rate of 5000 revolutions
per minute and cuts through many
thtcknesses of cloth.
Experiments are being conducted at
the Textile institute at Leeds, Eng, in
manufacturing by chemical process
artificial wool from cellulose derived
from cotton waste.
Besides employing more than $4,000
men in the shipbuilding industry, Can
ada gives employment to approximate
ly $4,000 more in the manufacture Of
marine equipment and supplies.
Eighty-nine per cent of all the cleo
trochemical products made in the
United States are manufactured along
the Niagara river, where power from
Niagara Falls is available.
The average yearly output of coal
in Australia is about 100000 tons,
of which quantity over 100000 tons
are IHisel in New South Wales, the
only Australian state producing any
large quantity of coal
In 1915, when there were 1O3,976
people employed in the textile indus
try in Pennsylvania, the wages paid
them tOtaled $41, 971 300, and in 1919,
when there were 1854 employed, the
wages amounted to S79,S63, 100.
Pennsylvania employers who take
disabled soldiers or sailors under the
rehabilitation act for vocational edu-
cation are liable for compensation If
the men are injured while working
either for training or for small pay.
Fifty thousand men are out in a
strike that has spread from the
Reiachenberg district throughout Ga
blenz, Friedand and BOehmisch-Leipa,
tying up various businesses. One re-
suit has been the granting of the de-
mand that the food allowance be re-
stored to its former level.
A unique plan of prof1t-sharing
whereby employees are to receive $25
after having served the company for
six months has been adopted by the
Livingstone Mercantile company Of
Merrill, Wis. The plan does not obli-
gate the employee, as each will re-
ceive the sum for six months of con-
tinuOus service.
The six section hands employed by
the Leayenworth & Topeka railway,
sometimes known as the "Orphan,"
threw down their picks and shOvels
and declared a strike upon their de-
mand for increased pay being denied.
The men have been drawing 80 cents |
an hour and struck for 40. No effort
is being made to fill their places.
The pay rolls of the Maine Central |
Railroad company, including it's pro-
portion of the Portland Terminal COM
pany's operation, will be increased ap-
$2,3O0,O0O a year by the
wage award of $600,0OOOOO recently
made by the labor board, it was |
learned upon inquiry from the man
agement of that company. In addi-
tiOnv the award, being retroactive to
May l, will mean the payment in
back pay of approximately 100000.
One thousand machinists walked out
at Norfolk, Va, after notice by the
Association, a union Of
employers, that the "open-shOp" policy
would be inaugurated. This decree
a demand by machinists,
bOilermakers and allied ironwOrkers
for increases apprOximating 25 per
cent with a 44-hOur week. No discrim-
inatiOn against union mem will be at
association officials state. Re
pair work on vessels in port is serious
" affected by the strike.
Workers in the Cleveland (o.) wom-
EMS garment industry. numbering
about 1000, are to receive a guaran-
.eed wage for the annual period OF
They will also receive
4 weeks vacation each year with
,ay.
The National Brotherhood of Opera
i've Potters, with membership of
1000. submitted request to the Uni
ed States POtters' association for a
= per cent wage Increase for general
pottery workers. The present wage