The Jones County news., 1920-07-01
GENERAL LABOR NOTES

t"NhN" AINNt NNApN iNtiuhtiniii
exceeds 100000
New York city has about 1900
skilled shoe workers.
Since 1914 Industrial wages IN Den
mark have increased 33 per cent
More than $4,000 sawmills are nov
in operation III The United states.
Union bakers iu Yonkers. N. ". nov
receive a minimum weekly wage oi
sac.
The international Iron Molders Of
America now have membership OF
more Than $4,000
Ninety cents an hour Is The latest
scnie of wages granted to machinisls
IN Hamilton, ont
Stationary liremen employed IN Gin
cinnati Ice plants are now receiving
G7M cents au hour
Hotel workers IN Mlssoula. Mont,
who toll on Sundays and holidays are
paid double time
More oil has run TO waste in the
United States than ever reached the
refnerles.
BY 1921 the American Federation Of
Labor expects TO have membership
Of more than 100000
Chauifeurs I'M Buenos Ayres, South
America earn on i'm average Of $500
per month.
The greater part Of the textile in
dustry Ia New England is operated on
a basis Of "A hours week
II. ]. Mears who is rapidly coming
to the front IN England as an artist,
was formerly metal worker.
only Y out of every 100 women
wssgssss%rs ssss % N = ltps candy industry stay in
ch9id workers In The United Sfafes
between the ages Of ten aud sixteen
now number more than 100000.
Guatemala manufactures annually
about 100,00o00O cigarettes. worth an.
proNmately Sis5,OOO In American eur.
rency.
City officials IN Peoria, Ill.,, have
discontinued the manufacture of
brooms IN the Peoria work house as
result of the agitation of organized
labor.
During the first II months Of 1919
British worSmen received Increased
wages Of approximately S9.2S9 663
weekly. The largest number Of work
people affected was IN the engineering
and salpbuIlding trades-namely, ] .329.-
oon, or 2iO per cent--and the largest
wage advance was given to coal
miners, about 80s per cent of the
total.
In 1912 the steel Industry employed
10000 workmcn OF this number
la,500 We're employed IN iron foun-
dries, 1850 IN iron works and 10000
in steel plants. The per head produc-
tlou for The year was 255 tons Of pig
iron and 80 tons Of iron and steel prod
ucts
The average yearly wage paid TO
the entire number OF railroad workers
In the United States today is 81. .2S0.3O
for normal working year Of S06 eight
hour days.
The French iron and steel Industry
employed 1890 workmen in 1879
ii.400 In the production Of pig iron.
the production Of which IS estimated
to have been 1,3s2,Q00 tons, or 90 tons
per man for the year; and S8,500
workmen In the production OF iron
and steel products, producing $4,000 /
tons, or 2d tons per man for the year.
In 1893 the average production per
man for the year was 200 tons of pig
iron and 80 tons of iron and steel
products.
A railway strike has been called on
the Observation-Disclosures (Spain)
railway. A train driven by soldiers
met with an accident which was said
to have been caused by strikers. Sew
erd persons We're injured.
The American Woolen company. en-.
ploying $4,000 persons. announced II
win operate only four days week.
The fourday schedule is made neces
sary, Il is stated, because Of unsatis.
factory ard uncertain conditions pre.
railing in the trade throughout the
country, due TO large extent to the
'allroad congestion.
Owing TO the shortage of raw ma
erial, between 10000 and 10000 fac
ory workers in Detroit are out Of
york.
The labor agreement between en-
loyers and employees in the Belgian
eStile industries Of the verviers re-
ion has been signed, the wages Of
he workers having been Increased SOC
er cent over the 1914 figures, effective
anuary 1. The agreement covers OH
lasses OF labor both piece and day
ate. The eight-hour day takes efrect
une 1, with Sis hours up to the end
May.