Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-11

Japan's industrial workers now
number more than $4,000.
Vineland, N. J., is to have a CO.
operative store for wage-earners.
More than 10000 locomotives are
idle in the repair shops of Germany
All the shoe workers In Auburn,
Me, have been granted 10 per cent
increase in wages. Z
Piece workers in Chicago clothing
factories are caring as nigh as $l35
per week. ..e
The average wage in the railroad
shops in Germany is, at the present
rate of exchange, about e. cents
a day.
Between 1913 and 1918 male farm
servatns in Sweden received wage
increases amounting to l04 per cent.
In general, the present wage scale
in Belgium as compared with June,
1914, shows in increase, of from $50
to 200 per cent.
In Finland women are engaged IN
almost every field of employment.
Not only are they engaged at heavy
manual work in the fields and fac
tories, but they have become skilled
mechanics as we'll
All the stores and factories in
Malaga, Spain, have been compelled
to close down owing to the suspen-
sion of work by employees, pending
a settlement oftheir wage grievance.
Minneapolis -four mills now have
capacity of o6,6l0 barrels a\day,
(which will enable the mills to grind
100000 bushels of grain annually.
Ehe president of the American
Wooden company has notified retail
ers in Lawrence, Mass, that unless
they reduce the prices of neces-
saries, he will open store to supply
the companys employees.
AS result of an investigation of
the Canadian Department of Labor
it is shown that on January l, 1915,
299,503 workers out of total Of
6l2,3o8, or 489 per cent, were work.
ing eight or eight and one-half hours
Per day.
1t was an old complaint of the
mechanics in mills and factories, cx-
plains the consul, that they were
working an hour more per week than
the men in the shipyards and the
foundries for the same wages. The
lcvellng up of the hourly rate puts
an end to this grievance.
Workers in the engineering and
foundry trades in Great Britain re-
Gently put forward claim for an
increase Of $3.65 per week for men
and $1.82 for workers and appren-
tees under 18 years of age, but the
arbitration board figured that an ad
vance of SLIP per full ordinary week
was enough.
OF the $4,000 persons employed
in Great Britain and Ireland in the
wool textile trade, 100000 are EN-
rloyed by firms which are members
of the National Wool land allied
Textile Industrial council. Of the
remainder, a number are members
of trade unions affiliated with the
council.
In Little Rock, Ark, the Typo
graphical union is cooperating with
the city schools through an agree
:nent to employ boy apprentices TO.
part-time work in its shops. Six
half days the boy is engaged in prac-
iical work and FIVE half days he at
tends school, and combining this
learning and earning, he gets an
education and training he would
otherwise be unable to have.
The total average numbers Of
workmen employed in the coal mires
in Belgium before and after the war
were: January, 1914, 1898; Janu-
airy, 1919, 21,603; February, 1914,
1884; February 1919, 128.04o;
March, 1914, 151,l17; March, 1919.
1869; April, 1914, 1896; April,
1919, 139.l60; May, 1914, l47,45l;
May, 1919, 1868; June, 1914, l47,.
226; June, 1919. l46,24S.
In Los Angeles, CAL, the Contra
Labor union has perfected pre-
cinct organization that every wage
worker in the city may be enlisted
in the trade union movement.
Nearly 10000 names of trade union
lists living in the city's 744 precincts
have been filed, and when all have
been recorded, precinct captains will
arrange for agitation and organiza-
ton.
During October and November
agreements were signed by employ
ers and workpeople in the wooden
and worsted industry in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, England, pro-
viding for the periodic-adjustment of
wages in correspondence with varia-
tons in the cost of living. Arrange
ments of this character had previ-
ously been adopted in various other
industries.
By an award OF October IS, 1919,
to which the Society of Master
Calico Printers and the Federated
Board of English and Scottish Ma
chine Calico Printers are parties, it
is provided that the wages of ma
chine calico printers shall be in.
creased S cents per week for every
per cent in the cost Of living over
that prevailing atJuly. 1914. The rise
or fall in wages is to be operative
only once in every three months,
commencing from the first full pay |
week in September, and the arrange
ment is, to remain in force until |
September l, 1920.
Approximate percentage increases
in wape rates from IulY. 1914. to |