The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-10-20
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Bricklayers in Harrisburg, Pa, re-
ceive S1.25 IN hour.
The blind basket makers Of London
struck for an increase in wages.
Since 1899 the United States has
produced 100000 automobiles.
OF the 225 shipping coal mines In
Indiana only IS are in operation.
Mayor Hylan of New York. is a
member of the Bricklayers' union.
Cotton textile unions in Great Brit
ain have 100000 women members.
There are at present 76O.1lO civil!
employees on the United States pay
rolls.
Rubber manufacturing companies in
Akron. O., employ nearly 100000
workers.
Before the war there were 213 sugar
factories in France, while now there
are only 81.
Building trade unions in Great Brit.
ain have a total membership Of more
than 100000.
Denmark has hut $500 textile work
ers, and more than 10000 iron and
steel workers.
The weekly rate earnings Of rivet-
ers ut the Philadelphia navy yard av-
erage S339.3S.
Cotton operatives in Lancashire.
England, demand an advance of 60
per cent in wages.
Many of the worsted mills in New
England are now working on Il FIVE
day-a-week schedule.
Seventy thousand men are idle In
South Wales, due to the shortage of
steel in that country.
Overtime work in Scandinavia is
paid for at the rate of 80 per CEN
over the regular rates.
The United States Steel corpor-
alton has the largest number of en-
plOyees as stockholders.
Under an agreement just signed
structural iron workers in New Or
leans will receive 81 an hour.
According to the records of the state
of Washington. there occurred in the
building trades industry 33S nonfatal
and So fatal accidents during 1919.
The average life of il machine file is
$4,000 strokes and to employ Il file for
more than the normal period of use
fitness more than doubles the cost OF
the work being done.
England is now raising funds at the
rate of 500. OON.0 600 monthly for the
promotion of housing schemes in thai
country. Plans have been approve,
so far for more thar cO0.WD houses
The International Typographical
union has purchased 100000 worth
of fourth Liberty loan bonds as a par'
of it's policy to encourage the safes
and most convenient method OF invest
ment."
LabOrers employed in the can,
fields of Barbados earn ON an average
of Sc cents a day, and women employ
ed in loading coal lighters, carryin,
the coal in trays or their heads, re
ceive about 4S cents a day.
Paper board will be manufacture
from southern pine at Hopewell, Va
by a Milwaukee firm, which has pun
chased 100 acres Of land. l"werhuust
steel building and other structure
used during the war lo- the manufat
ture Of powder.
Having gone into the shoe bushes
owing to the eXigencies Of the wal
the Italian government apparently II
tends to continue it's activities for tn
present, at least. From a compar.
lively small beginning it has increase
the number of factories working flo
its account until national shoes no
constitute nearly so per cent Of til
total domestic production. There al
1t the present time 81 firms, about 8
per cent of whose production, or 37,0
pairs per day is for the account Of tn
state.
The Federation of Union Worker
the most powerful labor organizatio
in Mexico. has. appointed a committ<
to take up with other workers orga,
ixations throughout the Republic Il
question Of uniting all labor organic
lions in Mexico into one confederate
In East Liverpool, Ohio. employee
and employed in the pottery indust
win establish a++iick, disability and Q
age pension SYSTEM The Nation
brotherhood Of Operative Potters b
1oined With Tie employers associate
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