The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR

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day and board.
Nearly 1000 oil companies have been
organized In the north Texas fields as
= result of the b0orns of recent years.
The number OF persons killed on rail-
ways of the United States during 1918
decreased 30 per cent over the fatal.
tiles in 1917.
Proposed amalgama ton with the
American Federation of Labor was re-
tected by the Iowa State Teachers as
ISOLATION at It's recent convention.
Bank clerks IN Oakland, Cal. who
have been receiving $50 per month,
plan the forming Of M organization to
better themselves In the way Of
wages.
A recent study including more than
10000 women employed In factories
and stores In New York state reveal
ed that more than half work for less
than Sl4 week.
At Ogden. Utah. Roy Woodward,
business agent OF the Transfers union,
arrested as the leader I'm disturbances
on August %, was sentenced TO serve
ShlpbuiIders at the Fore River
shipysrds. Quincy, Mass, have applied
for charter for cooperative bank.
the stated purpose OF which Is 10 az
sist 10 intoxicating thrift and In estah-
fishing homes.
A delegation OF union men from
Waynesboro, Pa, paid the s2,492Si
ha
jail at Chambersburg. The strikers
80 days sentences having expired they
were released.
Eleven hundred longshorenen en-
ployed at ST. John, y. r.. accepted the
steamship interests compromise wage
offer of 20 cents an hour. The men
are now receiving 60 cents an hour
and they demanded so cents.
The strike of brichlayers ut the
West of Scotland Steel works nj Glas-
gov has collapsed, ballot Of the men
having resulted In vote for the re-
sumption OF work. The employers
sgreed 10 discuss the wage question
VIII, ti.s men within 4 ,vce.s sfscr-1~u-lz
has been resumed.
London Is to retain Its women ambu'
lance drivers Their retention was
hotly contested by labor members Mt
meeting OF the asylum's board, but
the chairman of the committee said
THAT women had faced danger In air
raids and we're entitled to due consid-
Grafton. His motion TO retain them
was carried.
Provisions In the district Of Column
bia poilcemen's pay bill to prohibit
other federal employees from belong
ing to organizations affiliated with la
Dor unions, employing strike methods.
were eliminated from the measure by
senate and house conferees. clause
prohibiting local policemen from strik-
Ing was retained.
The weekly report of tho department
~ labor lists seven new labor eontro-
versies brought 10 the attention OF the
department during the week ended No
veisber IS, as compared with IA and il
for the two previous weeks. There
are pending for adjustment Al strikes
and III controversies. -Four strikes
were adjusted during the week.
Fountain pen makers In nearly
every factory In Brooklyn went on
strike. general strike was declared
by 400 members Of the Hard Rubber
Turner's union. connected with the
American Federation OF Labor. The
Fountain Pen Manufacturers associa-
ZION has refused to meet union repre-
sentatires or grant any concessions.
A wage agreement retroactive to
Oct. ] last. and running to Dee !,
1920, providing scale of CD cents an
hour for motormen aud conductors
and Az cents for brakemen has been
signed by the Illinois Traction system
With its employees, traction officials
announced. The men were given n 10
per cent increase over the old scale
for August and September.
Increases OF 40 per cent in the pay
Of Massachusetts state employees re-
ceiving less than $500 year, and of
% per cent in the pay of those receiv-
ing from 81 POO TO 81 500 a year, are
asked in a petition presented by 800
state employees 10 Calvin Coolidge,
governor OF Massachusetts. The peti-
ton asserts that many unskilled labor
ers are better paid than state employ
.ees under the civil service.
A strike of employees of the sheet
mills of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel
company at conshohocken, Pa, was
settled by the strikers themselves. who
cook q vote TO return to work. The
company had promised to consider the
mems demands. but not until they first
returned TO their Jobs.
One department store employing 30
clerKs closed it's doors as result OF
the strike OF members of the Retail
Clerks union at Lynn, Mass. All
other stores were doing business as
usual, although some had new en-
ployees in the strikers places. The
union demands higher wages.