Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-11-18
OTHER LABOR NEWS.


During the contemplating season
this year in Texas negro labor earned
as high as $50 per day.
Working. hours have been reduced
! from 81 to 80 a week In three of the
largest cotton mills in Lewiston, Me.
Missouri and Louisiana capitalists
will invest more than $1,OO0,OOO in
carbon works to be erected at Monroe,
La.
Ninety-nine per cent of the en-
plOyees Of the Liberty Motor company
of Detroit, Mich, are American citi-
zens.
More than so per cent of the for
eign commerce Of the United States
is now being carried in vessels flying
the American flag.
The average wage of wooden weav-
ers in Japan during the last year was
40 cents per day for men and 80
cents day for women.
India, with an annual production
of about 100000 bales, ranks second,
after the United States, among the
worlds cotton producers.
Canada is to have a 100000 match
factory which will be controlled by
four of the biggest match manufactur-
ing firms in Great Britain.
Sugar production in the Ukraine
this year is estimated at from 100000
to $4,000 tons, which is about one
tenth of it's prevwar production.
Approximately 100000 Italians are
expected to emigrate to the United
States during the coming three years,
Baron Romano Avezzanni, Italian am
bassador at New York, said prior to
sailing for Italy.
Wage increases of 81 per cent, al
lowed bituminous coal miners, did not
increase the cost Of mining coal in
May more than 81 cents a ton, or %
per cent, according to the federal
trade commission.
Ninety manufacturers of passenger
automobiles and 40 builders of mo-
tor trucks in thirty-two states, employ
ing $4,000, produced approximately
1,5S6,7S7 passenger cars and 305, 142
trucks in the last twelve months.
Two thousand moving van men, who
have been on strike at New York for
six weeks, returned to work. The EN-
plOyees accepted a So week salary
increase offered by the Van Owners
association. They had demanded in
creases ranging from So to So weekly.
WOmans participation in the organ
lied labor movement is not of recent
date. Fifty years ago, in 1870, the
National Labor Union congress at Gin
cinnati was attended by women who
were recognized as delegates, permit
ted to offer resolutions and make ad-
dresses.
On motion of Joseph S. McDOnough
of Brooklyn the Central Trades and
Labor assembly of New York and vi
cinity voted to bar all but American
citizens from Office in the organiza-
ton. Only one vote out of more than
600 was cast in opposition to the prop
Osition.
Five blind brOommakers who struck
at the state factory at st. Louis when
refused wage increase, have opened
an establishment of their own on CO.
operative lines. They invested about
$3.50 in the shop, they say, and esti-
mate their minimum profit when bust
ness is established will be approx
mately $18 weekly each.
The New York Building Trades
council was threatened with the revO-
cation of its charter in a letter re-
ceived from President DOnlin of the
National Building Trades Department
Of the Federation Of Labor. The
trouble arose out of the councils al
legged interference with the strike of
the Brotherhood of Painters in New
York when it recognized and admitted
new and rival local union ,of paint
ers.
The management of the Botany
Worsted mills of Passaic, N. j., an
nOuhced that hereafter it will operate
its mills but four days a week. The
Botany mills employ about 1000 men
and women. No explanation was Civ
en- by the officials for curtailing the
number of working hours, but 1t is
believed that business depression is
the cause. More than $4,000 men and
women are employed in the silk. cot
ton and wooden mills in the vicinity
of Passaic, and practically all of these
are operating on part time.
Locals in the Cleveland Federation
of Labor are assessing themselves so
cents per member to build up a "de-
Tense fund" for use in fighting open
shop campaigns.
In New York Russian and Turkish
bath employees have organized and es-
tahlished the nine-hour day. the fifty
four-hour week and a minimum wage
The agreement calls for union recOg
milton and permission to have a stew,
ard in each establishment TO look after
the interests of the union, which now
numbers more than 200 out Of a pos
aible 800 workers in this calling.