The Jones County news., 1920-12-09
OTHER LABOR NOTES


frst president 81 the newly formed
Spanish Bull Fighters union.
The MEXICAN government has aban-
doned its plans for federal operation
Of coal mines. Provisional President
de Ia Huerta announces
Missouri and Louisiana capitalists
VIII Invest more than s1.O00O00 in
carbon works to be erected at Mon
roe, la.
There are between 24.o000O0 and
26oO0.000 barrels OF oil consumed an
nually IN the United States ln the
making Of gas.
Street car motormen and conduc-
tors IN Bnenos Aires receive S198M
q day. while railroad workers wages
vary from $3.50 TO S34.80 per month.
IN the printing and bookblndlng
trades III England a general advance
Of S243 a week 70 men and So cents
to women has been granted.
Detroit manufacturers have been
urged to ration work with purpose
OF keeping in Detroit IFS great body
or skilled workmen. many Of whom are
now unemployed.
The Lake Superior district produces
four-hfths Of the iron ore output of
the United States. In 1918 II was SO
per cent Of the total Of 70000000
TONS
In the early days Massachusetts, was
the chief seat Of the iron industry
IN the American colonies, the first
successful blast furnace having been
put in operation at Lynn in i643.
In Winnipeg, Canada, ten times as
\ many dwellings, hnve heen erected dur
fns tn~ hrst Hax months of this year
n.e.r,os se syea4 e, Erected dpri1g the sans
Oficials Of the PheipsfCan company.
Welrton w. Va, announced that their
plant, employing 200 persons, would be
shut down Immediately, due to lack of
orders
A general strike attended by serious
disorders, has been declared through
out the province OF Yucatan, according
to official dispatches received by the
Mexican war office from Merida.
The A. p. Green Fire Brick company.
Mexico, Mo. has changed the daily
hours IN order TO continue operations
this winter without closing down either
plant. The action is due to falling
of of orders.
All the shirt factories Of George p.
Ide & Co, Inc, located In 10 cities in
various parts OF the country, win be
closed indefinitely ms soon as a few
remaining orders are filled, according
to A. Harris Ide, vice president
Belgian manufacturers have decid
cd not to limit themselves to the max
Ing Of particular kinds Of pIaythIngs
but plan to produce everything in the
nature OF toys-dolls. wooden toys
and propeller playthings and all sorts
of metal toys.
A threatened strike in the shoe in
dustry in Cincinnati was ayerted by
the workers in several unions volun
tarlly withdrawing their demands foi
wage increases and agreeing TO con
tinue at the present scale for another
year.
The Calumet & Hecla Mining com
pany announced a 8 per cent reduc
tlon In wages, suspension OF operations
at its White Pine. osceola Consolidat
ed and Osceola mines, and the laying
on OF / 500 OF Its $500 employees
The order was attributed to low cop
} per prices. excess production and higl
cost OF supplies
The strike of the municipal EN-
ployees Of Lelpsic ended with The &C
ceptance by the workers Of an increas
bringing the hourly wages Of skille'
: men up to $40 marks, Of semi-skille'
/ to S45. and of unskilled to 405, witt
J an advance in the monthly allowance
for each child from 30 to 40 and 81
! marks
] The services Of about 200 Opera
= tives employed In one of the depart
ments OF the Seward Trunk and Ba
: company. Petersburg. Va, were DIS
: missed until the first OF next year
+ The suspension was said BY an officia
. OF the company to be due to higl
: wages and high cost OF material Thi
I is the largest factory of its kind
the United States.
: The Irish Nationalist press advise
: the railwaymen who went on Etrik
! rather than move trains carrying SO
: diers and police, to give In. Tn
: press pointed out that the strike dI
E not check the transport OF militar
and munitions.
: Under new British law. known a
: the unemployment insurance act. effes
D tive November s, persons may obtai
E eight weeks heneflt insurance II the
8 are out of work. IT is necessary tha
!. the bene6ciaries shall have first bee
$ in employment and paid contribution
for four weeks from November g.