The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-07-16
OTHER LABOR NOTES

Ut6En LApOn NO Ed
Linen wear workers in Germany
number more than 10000.
Eighty per cent of the shoes worn In
Chile come from the United States.
Organized labor in Huntington, w.
Va, has gone on record as being OPP
posed to the overall fad.
More than 10000 workers IN Vienna
have suspended work until they are
granted more wages and better work
ing conditions.
In 1918 agricultural implement fac
tories in Canada paid out f0,282, ,6S9
in wages. These figures cover the op-
erations of 84 plants.
Another nationwide steel strike is
scheduled for August, the exact date
to be determined later, according to
information obtained at Pittsburgh.
Tt is estimated that more than 2OO,-
coo Mexicans of the laborlng class viii
cross the border in the near future TO
take up work In the United States.
Wage increases which will total
S250,000 a year have been granted
street car employees of the Utah Light
& Traction company, and the company
is now seeking permission to advance
the fares from to s cents.
Notices were posted in the mills Of
the Pepperell Manufacturing company,
Biddeford, Me, and the York mills In
Saco announcing to its 5000 hands q
wage increase of approximately 10
per cent, effective May 81.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal.
mer telegraphed the Hartford, Conn,
Chamber Of Commerce that the strike
of railroad switchmen In the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
yards there would be investigated.
Governor Smith of New York vetoed
the Mclaughlin bill, designed to ex-
empt women employed In printing or
publishing establishments from the
provision Of the labor law prohibiting
night work for women in factories.
The board of education of Saco,
Me, has voluntarily advanced the sal
airy Of the teachers $125 annually.
This is the second advance this year
and Will make the pay of part of the
staff 1925 yearly and the balance $3.50.
The recommendations of the Brit.
ish industrial court Of inquiry into
the dockers' claim for a minimum
wage OF 16s a day on the basis Of a
A hour week, and for the decasuall-
cation Of dock labor, were read at a
sitting of the court and will be pre-
sented to the ministry Of labor.
Canada's shipbuilding industry now
employs about 25,000 men. and ap-
proxlmateIy another $4,000 are en-
gagged in the manufacture of marine
equipment and supplies. 1t is claimed
that the Industry represents an invest
ment of about $50,000OO0 of capital,
and that more than 90 per cent OF
this progress has been achieved within
the last four or five years.
Decision by the French miners
union In the departments of Nord and
Pas de Calais to resume work was
ratified at a meeting Of miners dele
gates. and information Of this action
telegraphed to all mining centers 10
France. Railway workers In the
south Of France and employees of
transportation companies at Marseil-
les also decided upon an immediate
resumption of work.
Members of the Machinists' union of
Lawrence, Mass, vent on strike, when
their demand for a minimum wage Of
90 cents an hour was refused by the
employers. The union officials state
that the request for q conference with
the employers, at which was to be
discussed the wage increase, met with
a fiat refusal, and In one instance
lockout. Prior to the strike, officials
of the union said that machinists wero
paid anywhere between 45 and rs
cents per hour.
With the one Big Union demanding
an increase of 81 per day for the min
ers' scale in the SLOGAN British Co.
lumbia) district and with the mine
operators mutually pledged not to con-
cede the increase asked, the prospects
are for a general suspension Of min
ing operations in this great silver dis
trict which has been looking forward
to year Of banner production. The
demands Of the union are for SO for
miners and $3.50 for muckers, with
free blankets white sheets and pill
low slips. The existing scale is S5
for miners and $3.50 for muckers, with
80 cents additional In each case In
wet mines Some Of the metalliferous
mines IN the West Kootenay now pay
the wages embodied in the new scale.
Members of the Machinists' union OF
waterbury, Conn, nave mailed to man
ufacturers a request for 35 per cent
Increase in wages and "A hour week.
Street car service at Peoria, H., was
at standstill as a result Of the ac-
ton of employees of the Peoria Street
Railway company In voting to strike
for an Increase In wages Of nearly 80
per cent. The men ask that their
three-class wage scale Of Al, A and
Al cents be increased to 80, SO and
85 cents. The company asserts IL
cannot operate and pay higher wage
on the present 6-cent fare basis.